Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-12-29

AMERICAN DIET.
an, becoming more and more convinced that
the diet here is unwholeseme and is not suited
to the climate, which is hot and stimulating.
They eat hot bread for breakfast, as well as
many fat and heating dishes, besides roast pork,
sausages, omelets, and such like. In the evening,
especially at all suppers they cat oysters stewed,
or as salad, and peach preserve or peach iced l.,
Oysters, cooked in every possible way; these,
and The other articles have mentioned, are
difficult Of digestion, and highly injurious to
weak stomachs.
THE AMERICAN IDEA.
The Americans idea Of happiness seems to
me to be-, marriage and home, combined with
public activity. To have wife, his own house
and home, his own little piece of land; 10 take
care Of these, and to beautify them, at the same
time doing some good to the State or to the city
this seems to me to be the object of human
life with most men; journey to see perfected
cities and--ruins, belong to it, as a desirable
episode.
DYSPEPSIA.
1t is a dsagreeable, poisonous, nsduously
serpentlik disease-a vampire which approach
es man in the dark, and sucks away the pith
and marrow of body nerves, and even OF soul.
Half or two thirds of the people in this country
suffer, or have suffered in some way or other from
this malady ; and with them. The fault lies
in the article of food, in their mode of life, in
the manner of warming their rooms, all of which
would be injurious in any climate, but which in
one so hard and exciting as this, is downright
murder The great quantity Of flesh meat and
fat the hot bread, the highly spiced dishes, pre-
serves in an evening, oysters made dishes--we
could not bear this in Sweden, 1--WE, indeed, will
never roast our meat with anything but good
butterY and here they ought 10 be put in the
Litany--that they ought and so ought also the
furnaces as they are called that is, sort OF pipe
which conveys hot air into room thaough ar
opening in the floor or the wall, and by which
means the room becomes warm, or as it were
boiling, in five Or ten minutes, but with dry
close, unwholesome heat, which always give
. me q sensation of pain as drowsiness in tn
head. Tho small iron stoves which are in US
here are not good either they are too heating
and TOO extreme in their heat; but yet they ar
, infinitely better than these furnaces, which al
sure have some secret relationship with the fier
furnace of hell. They seem to me made o
purpose to destroy the human nerves and lung
!. Besides these, they have in their drawing-roou
the heat Of the gas lights and when we add
this the keenness and the changeableness OF tn
atmosphere out of doors, it is easy to expai
why the women, who in particular are, in tn
j country, so tboughtless in their clothing, shou
be delicate and out Of health, and why consnm
:, ton should be OH the increase in these Mort
eastern States.
a THE AMERICAN CHARACTER.
,e Yes, my sweet Agatha, | cannot tell wheth
}. I rightly know the American character; but
At this am certain, that what | do know OF 1t
nt more beautiful and more worthy to be low
IN than any other that am acquainted with in
d. world. Their hospitality and warm heartedne
a when their hearts are once warmed, are rea
overhowng and know no bounds And as sot
H. sycers see and make noise about their "a