Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1841-07-29

NNts no N''toib n'oh'hl w ''""' w.
IN the world, and there must always be d
cciiain number 81 people who are hum
bugs.d by il. if say noveily Is started f,
NO matter how pre- iosierous, 1t will for u
tiaH, gam converts. Somebody announ-
crs that he has discovered perpetual mo
iior, and forthwith they are agog after it,
ill they fnd that this discovery is no dIs-
covery at all. Just at this time Animal
Magnetism IS aIl the 90, although The
most wise aud learned and intelligent
men of the world have shown iha, it is Il
mos, arrunt humbug. Yet some people,
otherwise intelligent, and IN other res
poets sensible, by some strange inlaiua-
iion are led to believe that Il person IL
sleep can see through u wall ten feet
thick; cnh describe furniture or any other
things IN a room ten thousand miles oil.
when common reason and conrnn sense
would tell them at once that they were
believing impossibiliiies that it is no
more in the power OF any one to describe
things on the opposite side of the globe,
~ oven beyond the ken Of human vision,
than il is 10 tell what sort Of people in
habit the moon.
This iaodcrn nonsc nse has even extern
ded 10 the domestic affairs Of families,
and has undertaken TO bring about a
revolution as regards articles of diet. -
The Lafayette Chronicle has an excel
lent article on the subject, and shows vi
ih..a would be reformers IN style pccu-
liar to the good sense of the witty editor
oI that excellent paper. In his article
he extracts some sensible remarks from
smother well edited paper, the New York
Mercury.
Speaking oflhe Grshmites aud Alcot-
tites the Chronicle says:
ln the first place be it known, that we
are all poisoned ! and horrible TO relate,
have been slo~ y poisoning ourselves,
from the moment we were old enough TO
iii al the table In The second place
they teach Us "ihat il is necessary 10
study books and hear lectures be(urc
We can be sure that IL is saie to eat
rotate CT suck asparagus"
Bot, says the editor (what temerity y
'ii was enough for our grand fathers and
" t'u" ''''hNH
.h.r food, and they never thought of
opening their mouths by rule, or wag-
gIng their jaws by the pendulum of n
clock, or weighing their bsead by half
ounces, or philosophizing upon fried pan
snkes and roasted pigs tails, or smelling
alcohol in cider, or snulhng poison in II
cup of c"tire, or cogltatlng upon the
gastric juice, digestion, Qualification;
nod docieIing and eorsei,ing and codd-
ling their stomacEs IN the ten thousand
delightful scientific ways that modern
system mongers have invented. They
lived to ninety and never suspected that
they had been poisoning themselves all
tncr liyes
But all this was aw ful-rosi,ively aw-
fal. Men rould die when they had no
BUSINESS 10 do -, and very few people
lived to nine nine. Professor Graham
and DR. AIco,i thought and pondered and
scratched their heads about it for kong
tiur, antl attcr much travail, a new
hght broke in upon ihem-a icas FAT hat
Gid To them 1t appeared us clear ns
mud, that fat beel-mllk, butler, ale, md
in fact almost every thing we ate or
drank was rank poison. Tkcn came
Lectures and pamphlets, and papers out
ef number, showing people to their en-
tire satisfaction, that they need not die
al all But might dry up and eventually
blow away if they chose it. But we
leave them TO the tender mcrcies Of the
sa,iri,i.
"To enlighien the unknowing on the
dangers Of s,uffing, n newspaper, called
Tho Sawdust Journal, is to DO started,
wherein we shall be shown, and it will
be proven, that eating is n very danger.
Gus business, although praciIset TO a
great extent in this community and at
Sweeny's. Ii is astounding the amount
of roast beef, mutton broth, ox-tail soup,
aud such like -iow poisons that are daily
consumed in Ann street md Park row.
A thinking man wonders to find himself
sllvc: he puts his hand upon his stomach,
and strmghtway becomes fully convinced
that he ought TO have died long ngo."
Here is a slap at the Graham boarding
houses "a number Of young ladies' living
al Mrs. Nippum's boarding house have
excellent soup made Of pebble stones,
and boiled in clear spring water, which
they sometimes strain through cullen
der Of lurnip tops; but this the doctors
call high living How beautiful they
look the young ladies; and their strength
Is 80 much improved by this Diet, that
they have no occasion for exercise, and
reyer feel the least desire to walk about.
Indeed says the Sawdust correspondent
ihis H"nid be hsznrdous, for one Of them
being abroad on windy day, last week
g., nrcIdcn'sily blown against the side Of
newly panied house, where che stuck
tiii somebody came H. her relief
Would that these relormers could be
made 10 understand the true meaning nf
ihs word -iempsraHss. Under its ban
aer, those meat aud drink u,irds nre COM
ai'iing all manner Of ridiculous absurdi-
ties.
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