Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-11-13
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And yet the Best Way Of All.
1t is necessary, in these changing times,
to devise means for feeding and clothing
our bodies, as well as sustaining our estates
aud preparing for the world to come
Many useful pieces of advice have appear
ed, under the head of ECONOMY in your
journal-to most of which | heartily SUBJ
scribe, and all of which probably may be
Of decided advantage TO some one or more
Yet think the most important and at
tainable improvement has not been pointed
out, either by your contributors, or in your
selections. 1t is alleged that we Ameri-
cans are the most wasteful yet highly ia
vored Of nations. Our own physicians
admit, what all accurate observers from
the Old World agree in declaring-that
no people under heaven are so improvi.
dent, in food, as the Americans that We
eat too much, of the richest food, in the
most extravagant forms, with the least
benefit from it, and waste the most
Gricvous accusations, truly and true as
they are discredtable
The various ways in which food may be
more preserved and better cooked, shall
not attempt to point out. 1t is question
of details, with which am not familiar,
but which is worthy of study by every
housckeeper and cook.
One thing is certain. We eat too much
that is, more than is necessary, if pro-
perly taken, to secure US health, strength
for labor, and elasticity of mind and body.
DR.. Benjamin Frankliu's advice was !:
"Edt not to .tulaess." Stopping while the
appetite is yet good, affords most enjoy
mcnt, and does not oppress and overload
the stomach. Too much eating tends to
physical and mental dulness, aches, ,fevers,
constipatious, and various other forms of
disease.
We eat too fast. We sit down at our
tables in hurry, "bolt' our food in a
hurry, and hasten to our work or business,
perhaps compelled to drink too much IL
quid at the same time in order to "wash
down" our hasty meal. This is all wrong.
We should rest short time, both before
and after our meals, for the good of diges-
ton. We should eat slow, that the juices
prepared by nature to mingle with our
food may have time to perform .heir Office,
and aid in swallowing without resorting to
any liquid, the use of which while eating
is nowhere advised.
We do not cher our fool sufficiently.
Whatever we eat should be reduced to the
finest particles, in order to secure its vir.
tues. Our teeth were given US to cut up
and grind our food to atoms. We do not
secure the full benefit of food, until We
chew it completely, and thoroughly incor-
porate the gastric juice with every particle.
There are those who swallow meat, bread
and vegetables in large pieces, or almost
whole, who thus throw burden upon the
stomach which it was never designed to
bear, and thus lay the foundation for dys-
pepsia and other diseases. A little food,
properly cooked and masticated, is more
nourishing and hcalthful than much food
merely "dcvoured."
have taken up room enough in pre-
sentiDg few plain facts which all can un.
dcrstand and reduce to practice. Would
we all adopt the old-cOuntry fashion of
making our simple meals daily family
reunion, where, eating slowly and making
the most of our food, cheerful conversation
should be kept up, We should all promote
health, economy, and happiness. Try it,
and prove it, every one. PHILOS.