Litchfield enquirer., 1831-10-06
No. l7.-WHoLE No. 277.

EIcSn that has been long salted, dried hams. beef, 6Cc. are less easily digcsted and less
 nutritive than fresh meat.
 4. Farinaceous and vegetable food gen. erally, is slower of digestion than animal.
 but 1t is less heating many kinds of ve- getable food are very nu;ritive.
 | 3. Solid food, or food of certain fibrous or Pulpy conscience, is more fitted for di- geStion in the stomach than rich soups. iel-
 lies, aud all highly concentrated sauces.
 Inc latter are rendered more digestible bv
 the addition of bread. 1 0. Fish are not SO nourishing as the flash ot land animals, and with many stomacbs entirely disagree. The white fish. when in
 season, are generally lighter, and less ant
 to disagree with the stomach than the red.
 z. In summer the food should consist principally of vegetables; in winter. lar- ger amount ofanimal matter may be taken. especially by the laborer.
 .. 5. Boiling renders food more tender and dlgestible, but it deprives it of consider able portion ot its nutritve principle, 9. Animal food should not be over boil. ed-vegetables should be boiled until ner. ! fectly tender.
 10. Roasting dissipates less of the nntri- tive parts of the meat. Roasted meat is. therefore, more nourishing than boiled, but much more stimulating.
 II. Bread constitutes a wholesome ad- ditlon to all our meals. 1t should be por. fectly raised, fully baked, and one day old. 12. Salt, and on occasions, a very mod crate quantity of repper, are safe and grateful additions to our food. Beyond this, however, all seasoning becomes jniu- rious.
 13. Eating of a number of different dish es at one meal, expresses the stomach and interferes with digestion. This is not to be understood, however, as condemn;nv the proper admixture of animal and vese- table food at the same meal.
 IA. All excess in eating should he avo;d- ed' but the quantity of food proper to be taken at one time depends entirely on the constitution, age, habits, degree of health, best guide is to be found in the calls of :. healthy appetite.
 10. Health. and strength of body, de- pends upon the health of the stomach, and consequent Rerfse!iqn ua Q6 Q66pdbh bhAt Athe qaanti- ty or even quality of the food taken. 16. Water is the most wholesome drink. Toast and water-sweetened water, or wa- ter with slight addition of a vegetable acid, are useful diluents during tho sum- mer. S
 ". Distilled and fermented liquors ina pede digestion; and, when drank to any extent, invariably destroy the tone of the stomach, and of the system generally.
 IS. The stomach ought not to be over distended with fluids during, immediately preceding nor after A meal
 19. When the stomach is weak, very lit- tie fluid should be taken during or after eating. Dry solid food requires more di- gestion than that which is juicy or fluid.
 20. Exercise should be used in the inter- vals between meals, but not mmedia tely before or after them.
 Cure for the Rheumatism and Infam- mGtions.-BURDocK, plant very common- ly known, has been found, by the experi- ence of several persons, an excellent rem- edy for the rheumatism, or any wandering pains about the person. The mode of ap- plication is, to place tho leaves next the skin in several layers over all the parts af- fected: also on the feet and ancles. The effect is not painful, but the pain is remov: ed sometimes in few hours, and certainly in two or three days. The remedy for that painful disease is offered to the public by an aged person who has experienced it's beneficial effects, with the hope that they may be induced to use it and escape the painful bleeding. blistering. and mustard draughts usually applied, aud which he has l experienced sometimes without producing the speedy and complete relief produced by the Burdock leaves.
 | l A teacher one day endeavoring to make pupil understand the nature and applica- ton of passive verb, said to him, ca pas- sive is expressive of the nature or receiv- ing of an action, as Peter is beaten. Now what did Peter do 7'' The numbscull paus- cd moment. and scratching his head by way of aiding thought, with the gravest countenance imaginable, replied, "Wsll | don't know, without he kogleYed r' l Absence of mind.-An old woman who sold ale, being in Church fell asleep during divine service. and unluckily let her old fashioned clasped Bible fall, which making great noise, she exclaimed. half awake. so you jade, there's another jug broke." 1 An IriskmGn's rsply.---An Irish soldier ipassing through a country village. large | .~. "A A:.~n and hn ~aahh1A <h~ l~m.