FLETCHERISM: WHAT IT IS HORACE FLETCHER'S WORKS THE A.B.-Z. OF OUR OWN NUTRITION. Thirty-fourth thousand. 462 pp. THE NEW MENTICULTURE; OR, THE A-B-C OF TRUE LIVING. Fifty-third thousand. 310 pp. THE NEW GLUTTON OR EPICURE; OR, ECONOMIC NUTRITION. Eighteenth thousand. 344 pp. HAPPINESS AS FOUND IN FORETHOUGHT MINUS FEARTHOUGHT. Fifteenth thousand. 251 pp. THAT LAST WAIF; OR, SOCIAL QUARANTINE. Sixth thousand. 270 pp. FLETCHERISM: WHAT IT IS; OR, HOW I BECAME YOUNG AT SIXTY. 240 pp. [Illustration: THE AUTHOR] FLETCHERISM WHAT IT IS OR HOW I BECAME YOUNG AT SIXTY BY HORACE FLETCHER, A.M. _Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science_ NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY _September, 1913_ THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION ix PREFACE xi I HOW I BECAME A FLETCHERITE 1 II SCIENTIFIC TESTS 15 III WHAT I AM ASKED ABOUT FLETCHERISM 32 IV RULES OF FLETCHERISM 51 V WHAT IS PROPER MASTICATION? 64 VI WHAT IS HEAD DIGESTION? 73 VII CHITTENDEN ON CAREFUL CHEWING 84 VIII THE THREE INCHES OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY 91 IX QUESTION PRESCRIPTION AND PROSCRIPTION 104 X WHAT CONSTITUTES A FLETCHERITE 116 XI ALL DECENT EATERS ARE FLETCHERITES 126 XII FLETCHERIZING AS A TEMPERANCE EXPEDIENT 138 XIII THE MENACE OF MODERN MIXED MENUS 158 XIV THE CRUX OF FLETCHERISM 170 XV FLETCHERISM AND VEGETARIANISM 180 APPENDIX 197 INDEX 221 ILLUSTRATIONS The Author _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE The Author Testing His Endurance by Means of the Kellog Mercurial Dynamometer 16 The Author Undergoing a Test at Yale When He Made a World's Record on the Irving Fisher Endurance Testing Machine 28 The Author Feeling Himself to Be the Most Fortunate Person Alive 70 Horace Fletcher in His Master of Arts Robes 98 The Author, on his Sixtieth Birthday, Performing Feats of Agility and Strength which Would Be Remarkable Even in a Young Athlete 100 INTRODUCTION Fletcherism has become a fact.