Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-09-30


who goes to bed sober with couple of glasses O
grog, often rises in the morning with an intoerablt
headache, which continues all the day. lis whole
system has been debitated by the subtle poison
His legs are weak, bis arms weak, bis brain is
irritatsd. Hehas lost, perhaps, week in night
and be will never recover it. 1t is like spent mon
ey--it never comes back to the purse. A man who
is never guilty of such a folly, is man who econo-
mizes life The body always tells us when we have
drank too much, or what is not beneficial and we
should follow its advice. Surely no language can
be palmer than headache. A man who cannot
understand it must be Ounce, and requires med
ical man, who is merely respectable sort of keep
er to one who is not in his right mind. 1t is not so
easy to discover what is good bad in solid food,
nor is it easy to change it when We make the dis
eovery; but whenever food rises in the stomach the
stomach is speaking to us, and we ought TO listen
or we shall certainly suffer. In due time, head
aches will be the result; the liver is oppressed and
cannot fulfill its functions. We have introd uced
more into our bodies than can be con yeniently dis
posed of. Every part receives some Of the unwel-
come and obtrusive matter 1t is forced into the
absorbents, which would rather be without it.
The bl cd is unwillingly compelled to take a part
oft: the brain feels the effect of the gross and
poisonous infusion; the circulation is impeded the
heart feels it, and abors harder to do its allotted
work. The whole system is enfeebled We pro-
duce the effect of old age by persisting in this hab
1t, and the consequence is, that we shorten life
Instinct teaches the lower animals to abstain from
food in such circumstances. But instinct is weak
in man, and he may live thirty or forty years be-
fore he discovers by reason what cat learns by in
stinct in month.
Excess has its opposite; too little has its symp-
toms as well as too much. The body flags for want
of stimulus; it loses warmth it loses energy; and
we find that more food restores both and brings
comfort, then more food is wanted Coraro, by
dint of constant attention TO the condition of his
body, and by subjecting his appetite for food to
his appetite for health discOve red that twelve
ces of solid food and fourteen ounces of wine were
better adapted for his constitution than any other
measure. His friends long urged him to take more
and at last he yielded, and increased the quantity
to fourteen ounces of food and sixteen ounces Of
wine. But he says, "This augmentation of food
was so injurious to me- that from being very cheer
full became sad and disprited; everything vexed
ME; got angry at trifes, and no one could live
with me. At the end of twelve days had vio-
lent pain in my stomach, which continued twenty
four hours 1t is unnecessary to ask if they des-
paired Of my life, or if they repented the advice
they had given me-" The solid food consisted of
bread, soups, yolks of eggs and meat But Cor
nalo had no heavy labor to perform, and this por-
ton for him is not portion for all. Every man
should endeayor to discover his own maximum and
minimum allowance, and adhere to it. He will
find bealth in 80 doing.
The younger rnan is, the more he may eat at
time, and the less frequently. Coruaro ate twice
day in youth; in old age -four times. This is wise;
there is labor in digestion. Old age Is exhausted
with full meals they excessive labor and exer-
else. To eat as the birds eat, little and often, s
best for very young and old people; they are both
weak in digestion. But certain regularity is
suitable for man; he is constitutonaly fitted for it.
Even birds take rest, and children go to sleep in
the daytime, Man makes a compromise, and estab-
fishes system of routine which serves the same
purpose. The quantity is not alone to be consd-
cred, but the mode and the time of taking it.
COrnaro always avoided extremes of heat and
cold; be never took violent exercise; he abstaned
from late hours; he never lived 10 places where the
air was bad; and be constantly avoided being ex-
posed to violent winds, and to extreme heat of the
sun. He was a prudent, calculating man. who liv-
ed by rule We cannot say that We admire him
as 8 model, nor DO Ne relish the idea of bondage
TO weights and measures of food and beverage; but
a good lesson from his experience; and if long life
is learned from his experience; and if long life is
garded as blessing it may be enjoyed by pursu-
ing course that approximates to his. Mere long
life is less TO be desired than the health that con-
tributes to It. Luther said he would not live even
fifty years longer for the crown of the German en-
pire; and there are very few men whose relation
ships are such as to make life pleasant prospect;
but death is always an abhorrent fact, and health
is always pleasant and death is always easy in old
age which lives in the spiritual world before it en-
ters itdeath at last being merely the continuation
and fixture of the last dream. Longevity has al
ways been regarded as a blessing; and were the
health well preserved by prudence, aud the body
well provided for in a comfortable home it would
always be blessing. But in modern competitive
city life, it rarely is even the rich are burdened
the poor arc neglect d. and old people are in the
way of the young, who want their money if they
have saved any, and their room if they have saved
nome Rent-that modern word rent that an cas-
tern patriarch could not understand-grudges an old
man his little bedroom ten or twelve feet square,
aud the poor dependant feels, that however, much
he breads the final wooden box, it might be better
for all parties if he were transferred to it. 1t is
time to 60 when we are of use to nobody. But
Cornaro was a merry old fellow, and these alone
are the fellow to whom olds age is a blessing
what am going to say exeaims the old man,
"will appear impossible, or hard to believe; moth
ing, however, is more true; it is fact known to
many persons and worthy of the admiration of pos
terity. l have attained my ninety-ffth year, and
find myself as healthy, merry, and happy, az if
were but twenty-five This is as it should be,
and as it will be when the world is young again.
In the rich prophetic descriptions of the regenera-
ted EARTH it is particularly stated that the old men
will fill up the measure of their days, and even
join in the dance with the young men and maids.
They will be wise then they will not have wasted
themselves either with excess Of eating and drink
ing, or of mental and bodily labor; they will have
stndied health as well as wealth. and discovered