Physical culture . t. Enlarged tonsils areoften removed by surgery (fee $)both operator and victim being in seem-ing ignorance of the fact that they aredepurating organs and would not beenlarged had they nothing to , laryngitis and kindred ail-ments, the result of local inflammation,are, when not caused by over-work,signs of a wrongly-fed system—of stimulating, irritating foods long contin-ued. I maintain that a rightlvfed person need not fearthem, and I invite con-firmatory evidence fromthose of my readers whoare philanthropically aswell as artistically in-clined. Unfo
Physical culture . t. Enlarged tonsils areoften removed by surgery (fee $)both operator and victim being in seem-ing ignorance of the fact that they aredepurating organs and would not beenlarged had they nothing to , laryngitis and kindred ail-ments, the result of local inflammation,are, when not caused by over-work,signs of a wrongly-fed system—of stimulating, irritating foods long contin-ued. I maintain that a rightlvfed person need not fearthem, and I invite con-firmatory evidence fromthose of my readers whoare philanthropically aswell as artistically in-clined. Unfortunately thesinger is, no more thanothers, exempt from thetryanny of the M. his supreme facto-tum, the specialist. Hehas been taught to be-lieve that he must takesomething for hisvoice; he eats unspar-ingly of ill-assorted foodsat ill-appointed times,along with his equally ill-advised friends, and re- Photo Copyrighted by Pach Bros. lies Upon the beguiling Signor Antonio Scott*, the Great Operatic Baritone. 232 PHYSICAL CULTURE your diet will consist of just enough ofgood pure food to rebuild the everydaywear and tear of functional processesand mental and physical activities; andsuch an amount will seem, in compari-son to what you are now eating, ridicu-lously little. I wish now to take up the direct effectsupon the singer and his voice of over-eating and wrong eating. I care not what may be your systemof breathing—abdominal, diaphragma-tic, clavicular, a combination of any orall of them—shortness of breath willalways follow a too full meal. Thereason is, of course, apparent and re-quires no scientific elucidation—thereis simplv no room for even the notabnormal breath that singing requires,nor can there be ease in controlling stomach should crowd neither theabdominal wall in front nor the dia-phragm above. None but gluttons haveprotuding stomachs and consequentshortness of breath. Nature is notniggardly. She gave you ample roomfor both food and air. See th
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