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She Had Visions -And Found A New Food
I PRESENT the bizarre story of a religious
practice to which almost every family in the Western World has been converted since 1900. A practice which the children, above all, devoutly observe.
I refer to the practice of eating cornflakes for breakfast. Did you watch your family munching away this morning? Did you watch your boy groping for the plastic toy inside the carton?
There may not have seemed anything very religious about it all to you. Yet it was a religious sect-oddly aided by believers in dress reform. spiritualism, and free love-which started that big gay cardboard box on its journey to your break- fast table.'
The story is now told for the fast time laton enthralling new book, Title: CORNFLAKE CRUSADE, by Gerald Carson.
It begins with pump, square- juwed Inte wonta kneeling on the floor of a turn- house in Michigan.
The date was 1863. Staler Filen White, lendlag Seventh Day Adventist, was hy the midst of her encsi remarkable trance.
Angel's orders
At open-air meetings of that revivalist
Sister While's
preaching voice would be heard for a mile, But now she muttered. In the trance her lips noved.
For an hour she passed on the Instructions which she could hear an angel giving her,
The angel was almost exclu- sively concerned with diet. Through Sister White the Adventists were faid to uɛi cnly two meals a day, to avold meat eating (on the grounds that it ensuraged animal luste,) to rely on fruits, vegetables, and ceronis.
The angel's ideza, mlzst you, were not entirely new. Fus years in America meat-eating had been denounced
kinds of reformers, including even the advocates of tree love But Sister While spread * the ideas with new vigour. Soon she had the Adventists chewing al nuts and cereals,
Ami soon Visicut The keel was instructed. to set up a sonatcriun at Battle Crook for Uret Adventists who would benellt from the new diet
the batter
At the anterium the Adven- thats were greeted with all the They Intest progressive cures.
water were plunges in cold baths.
They were stuffed with
etmesi pudding.
Sister White also saw a vision of a new sort of bloomers which God withed Adventist Indies to wear. Sho sold patterns for the inspired design út a dollar coch.
She also hnd visions about her rivals inside the Adventist movement. In chapel uhe day she declared: "That who sat down a short timo since near the door clans that God has called upon her to preach. She is travelling with a young men. God has shown to
That she and this mon are guilty of violating the Seventh Caminandiment."
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ROBERT PITMAN
patiente happy on The old vereal dishes, Porridge was not suitable JET the Michigan climate. All he could offer was elber hardi biscult or mush. After monthx
experiment with rollers end heating mo
esses, he at last produced erlap wheat Bakes,
Enter Mr Post
At this poluta
- putera the story,
Charley Post.
second man
His nume
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 1959.
FOR MEN-THE GOAL IS FITNESS ON A GOLDEN BEACH
Would you like to become
a new man in four weeks?
• What sort of a.figure will you cut on the beach this summer? Will you be the slim, lithe, and fit man every girl on the beach will look at? Or, plump and flabby, will you spend your time skulking shamefully behind a rock? If so, never despair. Begin today the China Mail doctor's course that will lend to zestful living. The course lasts four weeks. At the end of it you will see a new image in your shaving mirror.
DON'T move! Stay
are!. just as you This is April-the wild, mild month of spring.
We
The point is what posi- tion are
in? Sitting straight-backed in an up- right chuir breathing scien- tifically and elegantly through the nose,
Or and dare you deny ... lying elbow deep In an arm-chair, a cal's cradle of Himp Amba,
Yet we are the people who, when we clean our teeth to- Just came to Battle Creek as night, will flinch at the mirror a patient with stomach trouble, fover the' washbasin and avert 1ẹ had been in business, leeur eyes from the slightly cog- had invented a patent kind of shaped reflection' in the full- trees. But because of length looking-gins in the benih he was broke. While he .bedroom as we go to bed. stayed under the doctor's care his wife peddled Post braces to maintain the family,
The doctor
as a
did not confer health in Pest, but he gave him wak up inspiration. Charley healer himself. He also set up spiritualian sod set up
a small factory in Battle Creek which turned out not only braces but also a cereal mock- coffea of a type which he hed scen Kellogg making.
Post called 14 Festum. By massive advertising he cun- vinced millions that would save them from ness and debility induced ordinary coffee.
Martia
Lying elbow deep in an arm-chan, a cat's cradle of timp limba ...
for
man who cald: "I never stand It is easier to set your alarm' Apart from the spect with
sit clock back to half past when I can sit, and never
seven which your lungs will recover when I can lie down," is asking instead of eight o'clock if you from the shock of fresh air for trouble-kidney stones, example,
can fix in your mind the image there is a handsome reward to of tho lean-hipped, brood- be able to say at your office: "It was splendid on the water shouldered man you really under that trivial conting of this morning." fat.
THE FIDDLERS
For we are the fiddlers while Rome is burning. We are the minuel dancers on the eve of Waterloo.
One more suggestion of a heat through wave and we will be wondering how we will ever have
the nerve to lie three-quarters naked and unasimmed on a bench again.
summer
this
HITE
But it is not necessary to go arms stretch, whoop, knees bend, doctor-It's killing-me routine to avoid such
THE REWARD illness.
how First,
old *are you?
What do you do with these Remember.
strength vital thirty minutes? musculos reaches its zenith by the late twenties. That's why people over 35 should refrain from very energetic exercises unless
they do the regularly for years, and are in training for them.
So forget the knees bending and the arms stretching.
Do something you can boast about,
The battle against middle age is on. We are all involved in 1; Postum It's either lurking round the blind-corner, slapping us on the back, by or has moved in permanently,
tag, baggage, and double chin. For the net notkel he used up his raw craterials for This the time of year whén ali make our ineffectual a breakfast food which still wo
We collect cur harking on Adventist religious counter-atinek. themes-he first called Elijah's puny strength to battle with the Marins.
bedroom window, breathe as Instantly there were cries of deeply as we dare without In- sacrilege.
Post
changed the ficting any real pain, stumble name to "Post Toasties."
a skipping-rope, secretly over Within acten vears he was
and quarrel with the walter been extra dollar millionaire.
cause there is dressing
on the morning. green salad.
The boom town
a
The effect on Battle Creek was sensational,
What a waste of time it isf In your mind's eye is still the image of a slim figure, the dashing blade of the tennis. courts, the Gun-golden, tireless sprite of summer.
Companies poured into the health town to cash in on the eereal boom. A hundred brands -Mall-Ho. Strawing, Frullo- And yet the first pretty girl Cerro, Tryabita-rase and died. we meet on the beach this A Mr Stevenson, father of mammer will take one glance of But in Battle Creek, Sister Adlai Stevenson, fried
the battlefield of our waistline, White had a further inspiration market a cereal
"Don't coffee called avert her eye and ask: which has changed the tastes of Javril. His woriamented to you find it rather quiet here in all of us. Her sanatorium was camp for lack of houses,
the evenings?** doing well. But she decided. What of Dr. Kellog? that it could do better. She
to
wheat
realised that it needed a quali- Though he marketed fled medien man in charge, and corn Bakes in a modest way, big business was not for eterni zabtange Her shelge fell upon a youth him. But i emphatically was
fran Battle Creek. His father, for his young brother, W. K. a brush maker, was 60 ardent Kellogg.
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дп Adventist that for semo
years he did nat bother to
For years quiet, bespectacled educate the boy at all--ôy the W. K. had been kept working grounds that the Lord's second hard at a small salary by the appearance
due so sven docter. Sometimes, when the
WAS
that there was tile point in doctor went cycling for дотога learning 10 read or exercise, write.
behind But Sister White teok the boy moles.
ho made W. Kra him to take dictated But now, in his forties, in hand. She had him sent to W. K. strode out. He persuaded medlet) nchool, He became a the doctor to set up a separate proficient doctor and surgeon, cornflakes company, then edged
Then he came back to run him out of control.” Battle Creek's Sonatorium.
drama.
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Soon W. K. Kellogg with
His name was Jolin Harvey his signature, not the doctor's, an Kellogg.
Let us new turn to young Dr the comfake boxes — was a Kellogg himself, the second millionaire several times over. character in this extraordinary And so the instructiods of Sister White's angel bore golden The doctor quickly had the fruit But Port did not Lasto sanatorium running most it for long. Despite all his utireedive Ira. So attractive health foods, the atomach pains that railroad kings and other which first brought him to new millionaires were num- Battle Creek, drove him to what bered among his patients.
clearly sensed to be suicide by For health purposen ho Bad shooting. laughing seesions in the sans- As for the Kelloggs, they did not leave all the baser BËJennĂ
torium yet."-
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* THE QUESTION
long among into un again
That is what will happen so middle age lil-trained, unarmed and uninspired.
Now, when spring is almost here and the summer is already on your holiday list, Is the time to fight.
Follow a few simple principles and four weeks from now Yo can have fought and won,
Just four weeks ... that's all it will take.
ato moment
First of all catch your doctor when he's not muttering about the flu epidemie and get à check over.
It is almost certain he will tell you that you are a fine example of your generation... short of breath, on inclination towards ovalily und
a slight muddy tinge overshadowing the rosy complexion of youth.
Once ព Thanksgiving, hotincte behind with meat and what sort. On one
bearded
Complete with the surely that you are plain, normally
unft, you are ready for the battle,
And the first thing is exercise.
The question is how much served mock-turkey made an eating. They hated each other. got left, must not be allowed to hond muscles, the few you've nuts and cereals.
W. K. doapland his izother's Then a coop was brought in taste for publicity
work to that point of fatiguo (it any which does harm. cantakding a live turkey,
the old goal- and advared age.
On the other ther should not inscribed "A thankful fuckvey,"
man sprinted ; and Asked the dector', 'passionately: éveidd to and
beporne so klababy that they can- fro is while not do extra work when sum, "How can you eat a thing that kickers and white pith hemmoned to do so. looks out of eye?”
to, ingirus Prus photo. graphora). They engaged in all sorts of minor alimentic low-sults gainat each other to lumbago, broaitis, even chest. the mid.
Da panina, abdominal "'erampe, /znd Which you may think is slipped dias, may be traced to bother recommendation for the years of muscle inactivity. vicence book than au thọ pin Dungeon," "don's rush, people But Kelloge alsu 'know how, toya gat dcmethods
out of both after an operation difficult. It was to keep : kala London Express Servium, – pass for the plesatire of it. That
To prove that carnivorce on be healthy without moat, the docter reared dogs on cereals. Heven tried, without success, to convort, a well towego tarianten.
IT'S EASIER
All those things you have planned to do and have never found the time for.
Arrange with your nephew to. bomow his bicycle, or fix with stable to have a docile, brow- en horse waiting so that yes can go riding.
If you can go rowing Preferably wear a touch of something light or dark bluo and when you flost past the first early morning spectators say First, you want your battle- clearly (voices carry easily at That consista of just that time of the day): "Never ground.
hour every could get the hang of these half an
fixed seats."
FOUR D. JONES
ALL IS QUIET...... THE TIRED WORKERS SLEEP PEACEFULLY... VOHILE THE GRIGNETS PLAY AMONG THE ASSER...
FERDINAND
BRICK BRADFORD
Colleagues who have never seen you nearer water than the tiny drop in your whisky, wül be completely unable to resist the sparkling Ideas that etme to you with the sunrise.
And if you get seasick or get hay-fever from homes then you. can get it in your own
backc
and for a small sum.
Buy a load of rough wood. Emulate the professional boxers and start sawing.
WALKING, TOO
In four weeks' time your blisters will have gone, you will have the handshake of a wrestler,
And does it really matter if your wite complains that she can't see the trees for the wood?
AND THE KLAMATH PREPARE FOR THE ATTACK,
"RIGHT KID}" THEY'M ALL ASLEEP. KRYŽ SET CJMLIPO,
-READY:
WHILE BRICK LAND IN THE HOBITAL, YEYEL
PLAYS. BACK THE RECORITING ORHER INTERVIEW WITH HALLA - -
HE WAS TELLS A TIME-VRUTH AT OUR 'PIROT MEETING.
JUST SAY THE WORD
[CHIEP),
HAN ADURABLE QUALITY... HONESTY, HE HAD MANY ADHARAMUR QUALITIES,
ONE KAB HEARD THESE TWARDE BIT
解鼴
THINK ILL
LISTLE.
CHARGE!
DOWN WITH D
WORKERS
Digging:
grass cutting.
JACOBY BRIDGE
South's Squeeze Study Benefits
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Flam
"I saw 12 top tricks and only na squeeze could produce the 13th for me. West's opening lead indicated that he probably would be long in diamonds and
early morning swim-it "doesn't matter what you do so long as you get your creaking lungs and Hubs Into action.
In four weeks' time you win be years younger.
But that is not your only exercise for the day.
For the next four weeks you
must spend one hour in every 24 walking. It doesn't matter where or when, but until you have com to regard your cur or a bus iith contempt you might as well face the fact int you are prematurely. middle- eged.
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In four weeks' time the extra small change you have to carry around might Inconvenience you and the fact that the local bus has been taken off because of lack of trade might bring in the Indolent: some abuse from
but does this concern you, com- pared with the joy of matching back the squandered years?.
Reorganise your office.
the
Instead of making the office boys climb the staing and Executives ride in the lift, be
like
ilish, think of yourself and unfine the stairs to men yourself who have so much jose.
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And that's just the beginning. In four weeks time you wil be as dit as you' look."
There is no modern drug br
treatment to bring the fresh air body. Only back into your exercise can do it.
Exercise by itself is boring
and
no intelligeni man will land being bored. He would rather have an extra half hour in bed.
But give yourself something to swank about on the way to work. You may well become
those impossible to all
pasty- faced chometers about you, but how bentable you will be to your family on holiday this year,
NEXT WEEK
How to be happy-and healthy
-London Express Serulco,
by MADDOCKS
By Mik
By Paul Norris
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hang on to his tour hearts.
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to keep the ten of diamonds. Dummyfa
ven of diamonds had dong its work, I threw it away and mace the last three tricks with the nee, king and four of spades."
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