Uncooked Foods & How to Use Them - Soil and Health Library

EMANCIPATION OF WOMAN.
IF the study of the natural or elementary food question had for
its object no other purpose than giving to the human family
their birthright of health and years, and aiding their mental
faculties in reaching a higher development, it would be of
sufficient importance to justify the most profound attention of
every woman in a civilized state. But when it is considered
that its final solution may not only accomplish this, but
emancipate her from the slavery of the kitchen and the cook
stove, it becomes one of the most important questions that
can possibly engage the minds of intelligent people.
We believe that nature has provided a diet that can be
selected and eaten without changing its form or chemical
properties by the application of either heat or cold, and which
will be perfect. We have proven that if correctly used it will
in all cases bring natural results, which are always healthful
results. We have been led to these conclusions by information
gained from the school of observation and experience at our
own table, as well as by seeing the most obstinate and chronic
diseases gradually disappear from members of our own
family and others under the magic effect of proper feeding,
until perfect health was the result.
Aside from the effect of a natural food diet upon the
health and happiness of people, its most important feature is
that it promises to solve for woman another most perplexing
question, namely, the struggle with the servant.
When the house is provided, and the woman who has
dreamed of a true home is settled therein, it gradually dawns
upon her that instead of being a queen, she is an imprisoned
vassal. She finds that she must stand over a miniature furnace
for an hour in the morning and breathe the poisonous odor of
broiling flesh, and spend another hour among the grease and
slime of pots and dishes, instead of occupying that time
walking in the life-giving sunlight and drinking in nature's
purifying air.
She soon realizes that the fires of the morning are hardly
out until those for the noon are kindled and the labors from
luncheon often lap over into the evening, and those of
evening far into the night. The throne over which she
dreamed of wielding the queenly sceptre has been
transformed into a fiery furnace, gilded with greasy pots and
plates, blood and bones, over which she has unfurled the
dish-rag, and by the common custom of her country, it waves
over her helpless head as an ensign of her rank and
profession, under which she is really a slave.
The home of which she dreamed has laid upon her a
confinement and labor but little lighter than that which
society puts upon the criminal who has violated its laws, and
whom it has deprived of his liberty.
The picture of a husband and wife growing old together,
walking hand in hand up to the noon of life, and turning over
the hill and marching down toward the evening of old age