The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-01 00:00:00

• HOLYDAV InsE.6.stPlotte 4fouNo PEOPLE.
*tem Tan FAMILY onAct.e.
• " Christmas comes only once a year.". trait; and Easter
awl blidanintner also come only once a year ; but .in that
once, youth, heedless fronaschool,and revelling in enjoyment
and holvday indulgence, may foie their constitutions for
I..fe,and bring upon themselves some dangerous or fate)
complal nt. It behoves parents and gnardinns, theiefore, to
watch carefully over the watch less, and not permit him to
drink the cup of pleasure to the dregs, hut wisely reserve
it pottion for manhood and old age. We are no advocates
for severe restraint. Yonng people require, and Will be the
Letter foe, a moderate degree of indulgence in the feast
and frolic of the holydays; but this most always be
ithin the bounds of doing themselves injury. A nice
irk plain pudding, or a Christmas pie, is a temptation to
e4rge the stomach beyond its three pints, which few holy-
shy youths can withstand, but which TAY speedily bring
• feVers or •iollanunations which nothing will subdue.
These good old Knglish dainties, indeed, are exceedingly
111 adapted and very prejudicial to the young as well ss to
the invalid, ito,vever much they may suit the. uninjorable
stomach of a fanner or a fox hunter, or of scientific ems.
. tetirs of goqd living, like ourselves, who know how to
enjoy good cheer, and come off harmless. Now we advise,
by way of

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of 'evil, that only a measured portion, according to the
most waryjndement of the carver of the pndding, should
he allowed to each holyday plate, which is on no account
1.4 .he replenished a second time; and. in the second place,
we prohibit ;di wine or punch to he taken, it being a gross
mistake that it aids in the digestion of the, pudding.—So
f ir•from aiding. it will certainly retard and mar the diges-
tion, by hardening-the piadding,• and crisping the coats of
aba Stomach, and of course preventing the proper flow of
the digestive fluid, while the appetite will be whetted into
liainger for a fresh helping, and good nature may be in-
dived to grant it, contrary to Sound jnilgment, and with
infallible •iiijory to the health. No wine or pitch, there-
fare.-for holyday folks and invalids, unless (lie it under-
stood) they give up an ounce of their roast beef or plum
ioiding • for every glass of wine or lmat. In that eine,
the quantity of gastoir juice diminished by the wine, will
late lees biter or pild,4int: to dieest, snil the ca.e will stand
niochthe same as with the larger portion of heel and pud-
dieg oithont the wine. Thirdly, we pr.iiiibit all romping,
*rstiming. or violent-exercise, for at least three hours after
tlineer, ihouali we have no objection to " laugh and be
Gt."- to jesting, qnizzine, or soap dragon.
What will our 'lacer bottle friends say to the following:
On thin important point (qnoth our Ortirk,) it may he
neredettry just to reprav,• that the stomach tic hold only
three pints; and_ whorvor imports mere *hail this
quantity. must lay his account with finding a glut in the
market.' _ _ _

On the effect on the liver of too much artificial lie.it, we
are told that " the wretched epicures of the continent,
when they want a nice turkey's liver, eultrged by Aware
to gis lime% its natural hulk, nail the poor creatures feet
to a hoard, to prevent it front using any exercise, place it
Fiefore a hirer fire, and feed it on grain, mixed with hot
spires," It is not, howev, r (adds our Orcv.le), to he com
iioithiri, !fist insit)l are no less barbarous to themselves than
ttei epicates are to the poor turkeys,--rxercising. their
limiss no more than if they were nailed ; whit." they live in
I.Ut Worn., k-ep late hours, aid feast on spiced meats and
st•ong tiq"urs. Who can wonder that the livers of such
. will, like that of the turkey, rapidly enlarge by disease, and
bfftlit them at lath to oppressive dropsy, and a .premature
'rave ? . •