Judge, 1916-06-03 · page 27 of 28
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This is primarily **advertising content**, not satire or political commentary. It promotes Eugene Christian's "Science of Correct Eating"—a early 20th-century dietary system claiming that improper food combinations cause 90% of illness. The page features: - **A testimonial format** listing satisfied customers endorsing Christian's lessons - **Appeals to authority**: Christian is presented as a "noted scientist" who recovered from stomach trouble through dietary study - **Pseudoscientific claims**: The assertion that food *combinations* (rather than individual foods) are "poisonous" and responsible for most sickness - **A mail-order course offer**: 24 pocket-sized lessons for $3.00 (substantial money then) **Context for modern readers**: This reflects early 1900s popular health movements that preceded FDA regulation and nutritional science. Such "food combining" theories were widespread but lack scientific basis. The testimonials and dramatic recovery narrative typify health advertising of this era—before modern consumer protection standards existed.
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Stop Eating Poisonous Food Combinations! Noted Scientist Shows How Certain Combinations of Good Foods Are Responsible for Over 90% of All Sickness, While Others Produce Sparkling Health and Greatly Increased Efficiency WENTY years ago Eugene Christian was at death’s door. For years he had suffered the ag- onies of acute stomach and intestinal trouble. His doctors—among them the most noted specialists in the country—gave him up to die. He was educated fora doctor but got no relief from his brother physicians, so as a last resort he commenced to study the food question in its relation to the human system, and as a result of what he learned he succeeded in literally eating his way back to perfect health without drugs or medicines of any kind—and in a remarkably short space of time. Today Eugene Christian is a man §5 years young. He has more stamina, vitality and physical endurance than most youngsters in their ’teens. He literally radiates mental energy and physical power. 23,000 People Benefited So remarkable was his recovery that Christian knew he had discovered a great truth which, fully developed, would result in a new science—the Science of Correct Eating. Without special foods, drugs or medicines, he has up to this time successfully treated over 23,000 people for almost ev kind of non-organic ailment known and has greatly increased the physical energy and mental power of as many more who were not suffering from specific troubles. : After his twenty years of study and practice Eugene Christian has come to the definite conclusion that 90% What People Say plainest possible manner, ai many. times. thelr’ pele O need this ui I believe w months T have bee fo" Berane for many Cook, Galt Hotel Co My busband surprised at the our health already have just lived up to your rules for the past V- Sr. Kenny was always C distressed aft s. I would not take $2 ‘course if L could not repla —Mrs. F. A. Hallman, Chestnut Street, Irwin, Pa. land ©. “1 am well pleased with the “Tt is a pleasure to read the hook. One does not need lege education to understand it Wha. 5. Cramblot, Wenatchee, , e been troubled with id intestinal disorders information years, course Is looking for for succeeding where all else have WW. M.. Corregan, failed.”—Harold Walrath, Con- . Canada b chronic for five neaut. Ohio. “Your course is worth all it costs just for ting thank him for his Kindness to mankind, Cass, Unionship, N.Y. Please allow me to compli- ment you on this great work. It is In my estimation the greatest d most necessary book ever itten."—A. Lazar, Louisville, “It Is like a hand reaching down to one stumbling in the darkness in misery and ignorance, And leading them upwards to the Ught of health and safety."— kK Freund, 154 Nassau Street, New York City. “They are’ written in the “TL have oniy read to the tenth lesson and it has helped me won- dertully. Gained four pounds in last three weeks. Have not had to take @ physic of any kind as I did betore about every other day. 1 was 0 that I could take about half 'a cup of salts or about four to siz teaspoonsful at a dose. think so much of the course that T could not help telling you about it.” —G. B. Simmons, Urban, On have been troubled for the last year or more with my stom- h. ‘The doctors did not seem to know what was the trouble. T began at once on this treatment and after the second day I began to see great improvement T never felt better in my life. Your course fs worth many times its _price.”"—J. L. Buckner, La- donia, Texas. of all sickness is due to wrong eating. He says we are poisoning ourselves through our ignorance of food values. Many good foods when eaten in combination with other good foods form a chemical reaction in the digestive tract and are converted into the most dangerous poisons, from whence come most ills. Many scientists have long recognized this, but until now all their efforts have been directed toward removing the poisons after they had formed, while Christian removes the cause by preventing the poisons from forming. Little Lessons in Correct Eating 24 Pocket-Size Booklets in Leatherette Container Send No Money—Only $3 if You Keep Them Christian’s Course of 24 lessons is written expressly for the layman ineasy-to-understand language. It doesnot, however, merely tell you why you should practice correct eating and what the results will be. It gives actual menus curative as well as corrective, covering every condition of health and sickness from infancy to old age, and covering all occupations, climates and seasons. To follow these menus you do not have to upset your table —nor eat things you don’t enjoy—in fact you will enjoy your meals as you never have before. Vigorous Health—Increased Efficiency It has been the almost invariable experience of those who follow Christian’s simple suggestions that they en- joy a new type of health—a health so perfect that it can only be described as a kind of super-health. Christian’s ideal of health is to be literally champing at the bit with vital physical energy and mental power—not once in a while—but every momentof the day and every day of the year from youth to deferred old age—and that is what he gives you through these little lessons. There can be no doubt of the increased personal efficiency that this will develop. The better you feel, the better work you can do. And greater material prosperity naturally follows. SENT FREE The price of the Christian Course of 24 lessons—con- taining rules, methods and actual menus which are literally priceless—is only $3.00. We will gladly send you the course without deposit for five days’ free inspection. Merely mail the coupon or write a letter and the complete course will be mailed you at once, all charges prepaid. Then if you decide to keep the course, you can send the money. If not, mail the books back to us; no obligation will have been incurred. If the more than 300 pages contained in Christian’s Course yield but one single suggestion that will bring you greater health, you will get many times the cost of the course back in personal benefit—yet hundreds write us that they find vital help on every page. Tear out and mail the cou- pon now, before you forget, as this announce- ment may not appear here again. Corrective Eating Society, Inc. 476 Hunter Ave., Maywood, N. J. City State Do You Know? How poor foods rob you ‘of mental efficiency? What foods cause ner. ousness? What causes _constipa- ton and how to avoid it? What produces acid stomach? What is one great cause of rheumatism, gout, lumbago? What makes your liver complain? How much starch does| r system require? happens when you overeat? What should be eaten ether for digestive mony? to keep warm in ter and cool in ummer? foods establish by removing causes of dise What to eat and omit for all stomach intestinal disord. How many different ‘things should you What “combi food are not foods but potsons? How should vegetables bbe eaten? What causes fermenta- tion? Why the appetite can- not, be trusted as a guide to what to eat why some foods act ally “explode in your stomach? What foods build f When is water ficial; when is It in- jurious? These are only a few of Ith Builds| nd me the -ittle Lessons remail it within five days or send you Mail to Corrective Eating Society Inc. 476 Hunter Ave., Maywood, N. J. comicbooks.com