. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . d been heated in theoven and then saturated with butter. The nightbefore he had opened a can of sardines, — as he said,to see what he could eat, and after the mush he atea few of them. Then the maid brought in bacon andfried eggs and coffee, and he did justice to he wondered why he was troubled with indigestion,and his poor wife sent w^ord down from her bedroomthat she regretted she could not see me again as shewas suffering severely with one of her regular sickheadaches. My own breakfast consisted
. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . d been heated in theoven and then saturated with butter. The nightbefore he had opened a can of sardines, — as he said,to see what he could eat, and after the mush he atea few of them. Then the maid brought in bacon andfried eggs and coffee, and he did justice to he wondered why he was troubled with indigestion,and his poor wife sent w^ord down from her bedroomthat she regretted she could not see me again as shewas suffering severely with one of her regular sickheadaches. My own breakfast consisted of a smallquota of mush, some of the hot bread (there was noother), and some cold milk. I felt well and happyafter my frugal meal, while he confessed not only tofeeling heavy and logy, but unsatisfied with whathe had eaten —- a clear proof of an abnormal appetiteand a disordered digestive system. 134 THE INDIAN AND EDUCATION Now, is it to be expected that with our teachersthemselves so ignorant of the first principles of healthydietetics our students should know any better? Our. AN AGED COAHUILLA BASKET THE INDIAN AND EDUCATION whole system of eating is wrong. We eat anythingand everything our tastes — often perverted and de-praved — demand, and we never ask ourselves thequestion as to whether the food is good, or our methodsof eating it wise and proper. In my chapter on theIndian and diet I discuss this question more thor-oughly, but I refer to it in this connection as one of thegreat defects of our educational system. 2. My second proposition is, that we keep ourstudents indoors all the time, — as a settled, estab-lished custom,—with occasional short periods out ofdoors, instead of reversing the matter and keepingthem out of doors all the time, with occasional shortperiods indoors. Why keep children or university students indoors.^While in the winter climate of the East outdoor lifeis not as possible as it is in the balmy West, therecertainly can be muc
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