A health & counsel bureau / by Eustace Miles.

  • Eustace Miles
Date:
[between 1900 and 1920]
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Credit: A health & counsel bureau / by Eustace Miles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thank you very much for the suggestion : my wife and I have often thought of this, but the objections have been :— (1) The difficulty of organising a correspondence society, and the time which the work would need. We could hardly hand the work over to any one else. (2) Class-prejudice. I do not mean merely snobbishness, but the reluctance of the working man, for instance, to come in his working clothes to meet society people. I do not think that most of my Health Pupils would have the least objection to meeting any one in a class outside their own class. The reluctance is rather on the part of those who are less well-to-do ; and without them the Club would be incomplete; and if they had to “ dress up ” specially to come to the meetings, there would be something unnatural in these meetings. (3) I do not want “ followers ” ; I want each person to become independent and self-active, writing to me for suggestions, of course, but deciding each for himself or herself after studying the arguments for and against, and then, later on, after judging by the actual results. (As an encouragement, I am going to issue upwards of a thousand testimonials.) Meanwhile 1 hope there has been, and is, and will be, free exchange of ideas through the columns of “ Healthward Ho ! ” (I2Q) cutting off meals The strictness of diet, which we are given now, seems likely to result in leaving us no meals at all. Doctors have advised me to eat nothing after 5 p.m., on account of (129) Cutting asthma. “ Healthward Ho ! ” then suggests oil Meals, doing without breakfast. I tremble now for my midday meal, which may have to go next. And then, as afternoon tea is sure to be forbidden, the last straw will have been added, or rather removed. I do not eat meat: may I not even have the chance of eating “ Emprote ” ? —T. P.
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