NEWSLETTER & ADVISORY--II!
DO 190
12/72
CARE OF YOUR TEETH
1. My Father had taught us from childhood to ALWAYS RINSE OUR MOUTHS THOROUGHLY WITH WATER IMMEDIATELY AFTER EATING OR DRINKING ANYTHING SWEET & to eat as little sweets as possible, as they not only rot your teeth but also rob your bones of calcium, the building material with which your body tries to repair those cavities! See what the Bible says about honey, even.
HEALTH CARE & SAVING LAUNDRY & WATER
2. Take better care of the TEMPLE God has given you to dwell in & serve Him in on the planet Earth, meaning your BODY! Remember that this starts with a GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP of at least six to eight hours unbroken slumber in a quiet, not too warm room. If possible, hang your CLOTHING, particularly your under-clothing, up to air for the night before donning again in the morning, including your socks. This helps them to dry out & freshen & stay sanitary by killing germs & odors--& anything else you may have! Believe it or not, LIGHT & AIR ARE GREAT PURIFIERS!
3. This also cuts down on laundry bills, as you'll be able to wear your clothing longer without changing.
4. A hot bath opens your pores & removes essential body oils which keep you warm in Winter, & can cause you to catch your death of cold by getting chilled afterward, so the fewer baths you take in Winter the better.
5. This is also probably why some have such tremendous heating & water bills: They're taking too many baths in too much water & using too much hot water doing so! You can take a very good bath in only TWO TO THREE INCHES OF TEPID WATER (barely warm, not hot) in the tub or in about FIVE MINUTES OF THE SAME IN THE SHOWER, not more than once a week, stay healthier, catch fewer colds & save thousands of Dollars' worth of hot water for God's Kingdom! Try it! It works!
6. We used to enforce this rule in some of our Homes & it really saves health & wealth & a heck of a lot of time that some people spend singing in the shower or dozing in the tub when others are standing in line waiting--so it SAVES PATIENCE & TEMPERS TOO!--And watch those laundry bills go down! Some of you gentlemen of the cloth could also LEARN THE SIMPLE BUT USEFUL ART OF WASHING YOUR OWN dirty socks & underwear in a small washbowl of WATER & hanging them up to dry with your own dear hands!--And you dear ladies are already supposed to be proficient in this fine art of fabric fullering lest your fellows go philandering! So please don't let hand washing become a lost art! Such an art is plain common sense & good business! So brush up on it!
HEALTH CARE IN COLD WEATHER & SAFE HEATING OF HOUSES!
7. And don't forget to put on plenty of clothes when you do get out of that bath, it's going to be such a shock to your system!--Or you'll soon find yourself getting chilled & down with pneumonia as the ancients did! For the same reason, DON'T GET ALL HOT & SWEATY IN AN OVER-HEATED ROOM & THEN RUN OUTSIDE INTO THE SNOW TO COOL OFF before putting on plenty of heavy clothing, coat & hat, to keep you plenty warm despite the wintry blast!
8. Try to keep at least comfortably warm at all times, indoors or out--not too warm & not too cold. Either is dangerous & the combination of both is a killer! TRY NOT TO DO YOUR WITNESSING FOR HOURS IN THE COLD or you may kill both yourself & its object before he's had time to make a decision!
9. Every cold country Home should have a warm place in which to witness where you can keep your mind on the Lord & the lost instead of your lungs, larynx, lumbago & freezing limbs! You should either have a coffeehouse of your own or use somebody else's--or your LIVING ROOM or theirs or a SCHOOL CLUBROOM, MILITARY BASE DAYROOM or CLUB or the heated HALLWAYS of those giant apartment complexes or housing estates; or hotel or theatre lobbies or BUS OR TRAIN STATION WAITING ROOMS, AIR TERMINALS, subway tunnels or underground tubes or the buses or TRAINS themselves. In either New York or London & some other big cities of the World, you can ride all day or all night for only one small fare by just not getting off, or changing trains in such a way that you don't have to go out the gate! Just be sure to take your lunch!
10. Either that or go South! There are plenty of still-sunny climes just waiting for your witness in the warmth! But if you can't make it, BE SURE YOUR HOUSE IS WELL WINTERISED & WARMED with either central heating or vented room heaters WITH PLENTY OF FRESH AIR VENTILATION. You don't want to come in out of the cold only to die in your sleep at the suffocating hands of a silent killer named ASPHYXIATION!--Especially if you use open oil, paraffin, gas, kerosene, coal or even wood stoves or heaters or an open fireplace or grate. These flames not only eat up your oxygen but also give off suffocating CARBON DIOXIDE fumes or deadly CARBON MONOXIDE gas & other poisonous gases which can kill you in a few minutes in sufficient concentration or make you very sick or very dead in your sleep during prolonged overnight exposure to them in even minor quantities! SO BE SURE THAT STOVE, HEATER OR FIRE-PLACE HAS AN OUTSIDE VENT, stovepipe or chimney, or its nice warm heat may kill you cold as well!
11. Plastic sheeting the windows, insulating, weather-stripping or caulking the cracks & crannies may prevent heat loss & economise on fuel, but it may also prevent sufficient ventilation of fresh air & cost you your life! So watch out! Always KEEP AT LEAST ONE WINDOW DOWNSTAIRS & ONE UPSTAIRS SLIGHTLY OPEN TO CREATE CIRCULATION of fresh air throughout the house, if it doesn't already have plenty of large cracks under the doors or windows or even in the walls to give adequate ventilation. This is essential to your health & life!
EAT GOOD FOOD IN A WELL-BALANCED DIET!
12. Eat plenty of good, wholesome food in a well-balanced diet. It doesn't have to be fancy or expensive in order to be nutritious. Consider the sheep in the pasture & the cows in the corn--all they've got is grass & vegetation, a completely vegetarian diet, but fresh, living, raw & uncooked so the vitamins are unkilled & unprocessed with poisons! But you yourself can approximate God's healthy creatures' God-given diet of ample healthful ingredients by making sure each of your meals contains a PROTEIN, a STARCH or CARBOHYDRATE & MINERALS & VITAMINS. Proteins can be either a simple inexpensive meat, fish, eggs, milk, CHEESE, BEANS, peanuts or even PEANUT BUTTER or natural WHOLE GRAIN CEREALS or whole wheat bread. The latter, WHOLE WHEAT BREAD & grains, contain all the necessary nutrients, & a GLASS OF MILK (powdered or skimmed milk) or some fruits, such as BANANAS, ARE A WHOLE MEAL in themselves. THE MOST WHOLESOME STARCH IS POTATOES, but you could also use spaghetti, macaroni, RICE, noodles, white bread etc. Then you must have some kind of FRUIT OR GREEN OR YELLOW VEGETABLE, cooked as little as possible to make them tender enough to be edible, but no more, or raw, if possible, such as lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, cauliflower, carrots, cabbage, pickles etc.--Or a combination of these can be made into a HEALTHFUL SALAD for your vegetable, containing all your needed minerals & vitamins. Whole grains are whole food, but store in a dry place!
FARMING & REFUGE COLONIES--DANGERS OF GRAIN STORAGE, MUSHROOMS, ETC.
13. We've heard that some refuges have been attempting to store whole grain cereals IN PLASTIC BAGS BURIED UNDERGROUND, but we certainly wouldn't advise this because you're apt to dig up nothing but rotting garbage when you'll be needing this food in some emergency! Instead, whole grain cereals should be stored in a wellventilated cool dry place, even in the original burlap bags they usually come in, such as in your attic or the upper lofts of the barn or a regular grain storage room, preferably as far above ground level as possible to prevent rats, rodents, varmints or various other farm animals from getting at them, as they too know they are a delightful health food. Large METAL GARBAGE CANS or metal boxes or even glass jars or bottles can be used to protect these grains from both moisture & predators. They should have loose lids, not air tight, & the more light there is in their storage place the more it will discourage the destructive molds & rots which thrive on warm, damp darkness, like many evildoers!
14. Which also reminds me, it would be far better for you not to eat any mushrooms at all, if you don't really know your mushrooms, rather than have you accidentally or unwittingly get ahold of even one member of the immense variety of painfully or deadly poisonous saphrodytes which could quickly bring your service for the Lord to a sudden painful & untimely end! Let the pickers beware! It may kill!
15. Agriculture & animal husbandry are actually extremely complicated sciences which it usually takes a lifetime & even several generations to learn well! So don't think you city jakes can dash off to the country & immediately tell Farmer Brown how to run his business! The reason there are so many jokes about country farmers cracked by city jakes is because the city slickers would have to spend a lifetime on the farm to even begin to understand Farmer Brown or his very delicate & intricate scientific work!
16. Animals in particular need a lot of tender loving care, but many of these same animals do not always respond very tenderly nor lovingly to such care, however well-intentioned it may be! A shepherd or herdsman must win the confidence & faith of his sundry charges & establish genuine communication with them before he will ever have much success in soliciting their cooperation. In fact, some of them you will be positively convinced are virtually demon possessed--& you may be right! So it may not only take a lot of knowhow, but also a lot of genuine prayer!
17. Horses, cattle & pigs can be particularly dangerous & quickly land you either in the hospital or your grave if you don't know the dangers or how to handle them. Shetland ponies are especially cantankerous & we've had some dangerous spills, bucks & kicks from them, as well as painful bites from their very mean teeth! Other cattle & horses can also kick, jump, buck or come to a dead stop with unexpected suddenness & you may take an unexpected flight catapulting you with surprise into Heaven! DON'T FOOL AROUND WITH ANIMALS UNLESS YOU KNOW HOW!
18. Pigs are another proposition. They can dig their way in or out under almost any known fence, break down the side of the barn or the storage shed to get at the feed, learn to lift the latch of the barn door with their snout to raid the grain, & then when you catch these clever thieves at their dirty work & try to challenge or get them out, the hefty ones can charge you with such speed & ferocity as to knock you for a loop & rip off an arm or a leg with a flash of their razor-like teeth which can crush bones at one chomp! They've got weight & teeth you can't cope with, so don't try it! They make good garbage disposals & are real money makers, but they're filthy as sin, mean as Satan & stink like Hell! So DON'T RAISE PIGS UNLESS YOU KNOW HOW!
19. Another danger on the farm that is fairly common is often the water supply. The old farmer himself may have drunk from that spring, brook or well all of his life & has built up a resistance, like inoculation, to its dangerous germs. But one swig of that delicious, clear, cold elixir of life from the same source may mean near death to you or at least very painful stomach & bowel cramps & a severe case of the runs until you yourself get used to it--if you live that long! SO IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS ABOUT YOUR WATER, BOIL IT AT LEAST TEN MINUTES BEFORE YOU DRINK IT, or use it in foods that are cooked at least that long before you eat them, or PRAY WITH FAITH!
20. Even chickens, rabbits, dogs or cats can be dangerous! They carry almost every disease known to Man & can transmit them to you by means of their own lice, fleas or excrement, who are not particular whom they bite or contaminate!
21. So you see, farming can really be a very dangerous business if you don't know how to handle it. It can also break you up in business if you don't know how to make it pay.
22. Another farm danger that can be a killer is home canning! Unless you know exactly how to can, which is also a very scientific process, you'd better forget it! Because the BOTULISM or PTOMAINE POISONING of POORLY CANNED OR CONTAMINATED CANNED GOODS CAN KILL YOU IN AGONY IN ABOUT THREE MINUTES FLAT! This is why you should NEVER BUY CANS THAT ARE SO SEVERELY DAMAGED THAT THE CONTENTS MAY NO LONGER BE STERILE, as is often evidenced by the puffed ends of a can, caused by gas from these germs. So DAMAGED CANNED GOODS CAN BE DANGEROUS!
23. Horses have the most ravenous appetite of any animal on the farm! They don't eat like a pig--they eat MORE than pigs & consume valuable grain, grass & feed that can cost you a fortune! They never seem to know when to quit unless you limit them in their grazing area or ration their food to them, & it's not at all unusual for a horse to overeat, then overdrink & swell up & die! So horses are a real problem, costly to keep & ALSO DANGEROUS TO MANAGE OR RIDE UNLESS YOU KNOW HOW.
24. And if you have to buy him, get an expert friend to do it, because horse trading can be the next most crooked business to a used car lot of anything in the World! Don't look a GIFT horse in the mouth, but thoroughly CHECK THE CHOMPERS of some old nag you're about to BUY for evidence of their extensive wear & tear: It's the surest way of telling a horse's age & remaining usefulness--don't take the so-called friendly seller's word for it! And even though he looks beautiful & sounds like a bargain, he may turn out to be as MEAN AS THE DEVIL & BITE LIKE MAD or KICK LIKE HELL the minute your back is turned or throw you through the roof the minute you try to ride him! I've had'm bite through a heavy leather jacket & several layers of clothes & carried the tooth marks of one old nag on the back of my neck for several days who always tried to bite us every time we turned our heads, or sneaked a clever little side kick at us every time we threw a saddle on her!
25. Let the experts do the job, scrounge for your eats & just use your farm as a definite refuge in time of genuine emergency--unless you have one of those great & rare geniuses of all experts, a genuine farmer in your group! Otherwise, you'd better limit your farming to a few animals & crops you know how to handle, or that your friends & neighbours can show you how to handle in a few easy lessons!--Or you may find yourselves, as we once did, spending all your time trying to learn how to farm for the rest of your life instead of witnessing & winning the lost!
VISITING & WRITING PARENTS
26. Speaking of home, go home for Christmas if you can--just be sure your folks foot the bill! We've always encouraged you to go home for the holidays to witness to your loved ones, improve family relationships & even receive a few Christmas gifts which might be helpful. If you're too far from home & can't go, why not at least send the home folks a Christmas card with your love & a kind word: It could be a blessing to both of you! Loved ones means just that--LOVED ones!
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