If one knows how to interpret these symptoms and knows what to do he will at once start to calk the little leak by a housecleaning and correction of the dietary mistakes that are the chief causes of such things.

This is self-applied prevention, helping one's self to help one's self, and it is this very thing that this little book proposes to teach.

We do not need to be self-analytical, critical of all our feelings and states, for we need only know what makes us less than 100 per cent efficient, and knowing this to do the things necessary to correct it, with the utmost confidence and wholly without fear.

Once this thing is changed there is a striking alteration in one's whole viewpoint, for the mind is freed from the continual depression of this accumulating waste, and there is perfect poise and equanimity where before there was the opposite. There will be geniality where before there was grouchiness; there will be energy where before there was languor, happiness in place of depression, cheer instead of gloom.

What a wonderful world this would be if no one had the blues! And why should any one ever have the blues?

Every case of the blues is merely an accumulation of the acid end-products of digestion and metabolism, just as every disease is, for all are from the same cause.

With the cause controllable because understood then why should one have the blues, fatigue, disease, old age, death?

The late Senator Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, was once known as "Pitchfork Tillman," because of his irascible temper and his willing' ness to fight at the drop of the hat.

He had high blood pressure, what he called "Congressman's disease." Whether or not he knew of this, he at least did not know that he would suddenly drop on the steps of the Capitol building with apoplexy when but sixty-three years of age.

He was picked up for dead, but it was soon discovered that he had suffered a very serious stroke of apoplexy.

He was kept for a time at his quarters in Washington, then sent South to die at his home.

But dying was not on his program at that time, and with his head recovered he looked himself over, and found one side of his body completely paralyzed, not one finger could he twiggle, nor one toe.

Believing what the doctors had told him, that there was nothing known to medical science that could help him, he started in to study his own condition, sent for literature on foods and exercise, and began regular systematic exercise of the one side that he could use, at the same time so modifying his diet as to allow the body to unload the excess formerly stored there and to end its future manufacture.

Soon motion slowly returned to the paralyzed side, and this too was put to work, and after a few years Senator Tillman was returned to the United States Senate in better health than he had known for many years.

His first official act was to secure the privilege of the floor and to apologize with tears streaming down his face for all his former acts of violent temper.

His explanation was that he had long been a sick man and did not know it, suffering from "Congressman's disease," and warned his fellow senators that many of them were headed in the same direction from the same causes, which he blamed on the universal custom of banqueting.

It was not the hard work, the intense application of mind during heated debates, that were to him the motivating causes that led to his ruin, but the banqueting, and he was from this final appearance in the Senate till his death, at nearly seventy years, known as the health mentor of the Senate.

Had he known when first irritable, tired, or confused just what, this meant, he could have avoided all that followed, for undoubtedly he was a sick man for years and did not know it, just as he said, and so are many others who do not know it.

The world demands of us efficiency with a smile, and when we cannot give this we are at a disadvantage with those who can deliver it.

Who cares for our aches and pains, our discouragements, our causes of depression and blues?

Our friends will soon tire of hearing of these things, for most of them have similar troubles and find it difficult to get a sympathetic hearing.

May something speed the time when sickness will be considered a personal disgrace, when each will know why he is not well and be under suspicion of laziness or inertia if he allows himself to get into such a state, or if in it to stay there long enough to feel that he has a just complaint against the great dispenser of things for being short changed in the distribution of gifts.

It is magnificent to be able to restore the dangerously ill to health, and such is real service, but it is much better, in a much broader way, to influence thousands that are not now sick to take stock of themselves and correct the little beginnings so that sickness will never occur, and this is just as possible as the other, and more easily so.

The proof that this does work is that chronic organic disease does get well even after having been passed up by every specialist in the country.

Many hundreds of such cases have passed through the writer's hands, many thousands through the hands of others using similar methods of treatment, cases that had already developed serious organic disease, but who were willing to make permanently those changes in their way of living that were necessary to stop forever the formation and accumulation in the body of this acid waste, who recovered a high degree of health and maintained it at this high level for years.

Many of these report that they are enjoying life as never before, are actually enjoying the pleasures of the table as keenly as when a child, so these people are not giving up any vital pleasure in life by conforming to a non-acid-forming habit of living; rather they have broadened their opportunities for enjoyment and accomplishment and service, all of which go to make of life a greater success than before.