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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: with clear heads, you will need to bring empty stomachs into this lecture-room. Why you are to do this will be gradually unfolded during our morning talks. It will be a trying experience for a few mornings, but it will only worry you while you are getting ready for those fresh-air walks ?once on the way and all sense of habit- hunger will disappear. LECTUEE II. Listening To Lectures With Empty Stomachs- Reason Assigned?Strikes?None In Home InDustries?Long Days And Short Nights?No CUT IN THE HOURS OF THE HOME-MAKER?DAYDREAMS Of Health Regained And Maintained By Automatic Health-habits?Germs?A New Scheme Of Living?Origin And Development Of Disease?Hereditary Weaknesses?Firts Steps Of Disease The First Loss Of The Physiological Balance From Indigestion. My Friends the Women: I invited you to appear before me this morning with empty stomachs. The idea was startling to you because for years you have not felt like doing the least thing until some hot drink or a light lunch could relieve the faint, exhausted, all-gone feeling that seemed to hold physical and mental effort in a state of general paralysis. You went to your beds last night to dream a little ofbrighter times to come, and when you arose this morning there was not quite the exhaustion that has been yours for so many years, and the sun, as it arose, seemed for the first time to send its rays within to lighten those chambers of the soul that have been so heavily curtained through all the weary years. At first you felt that my admonition could not be carried out, you would faint by the way, or that those violent headaches like an enemy in ambush would pounce upon you; but you were brave, persistent, and so here you are, and are not in a state of general collapse, and though some of you have had hints of the nea...
