The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-24
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A Warning Voice from the Stomach.

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We take the following from An article
in style something after the "Caudle Lee
tures," from Hutching's Californian
Magazine. 1t is highly suggestive to
those who suffer from diseases Of the
stomach, and we Recommend them to read
it with attention:
The stomach suggests :-"I have gent.
ly limited that THIS don't suit me. and
THAT don't please me: that THIS comes
too late and THAT too soon that you give
me too little Of this, and too much OF
that; and, rather than complain without
cuuse, have worked off load after load,
time after time, until l can bear it no
longer-and / won't. l hate to complain
as much as you hate to hear me but if
you take me tn he a sausa, ,e mill. and able
to chew up anything-from rat to sea-
lion. or from sheet-iron beefsteak to India
rubber cheese-I say. again, that you are
mistaken. Now, l want to ask you, in
all candor, what you take me to be? A
s'omach-a stomach to digest food-to
make whatever you choose to give me in
to good healthy blood, so that YOU nay
have materials for building up vigorous
and healthy body, and which my neigh
Dor, the heart. can receive, and circulate
to every part of it. for that purpose .
Now, let me ask you why-knowing me
to be stomach, and STOMACH only
will impose upon me the duties of the
TEETH! Would you like to do another's
work, when it is quite as much as YOU
wans--and perhaps little more-to do
your own? No; I know you wouldn't.
Then. why do you seek to compel ME .
You dent compel me? But l know you
do; at least, you leave me but one alter
native-to digest whatever you like to
give me, in whatever shape it comes, or
nass it +" nv neiehbor for him to work it
off; and rather than DO THAT, l Lave many
tim es cast mp my accounts and Mroacn up
the contract; and l want you to un ler-
stand that If We are your servants, We are
not your slaves-or, at least, we ought
not to be-and IS we are fellow.servants,
we do not wish to be 50 mean as to shirk
our Fart Of the labor-to put it on the
shoulders of the next beneath us-and it
is YOUR fault that the teeth don't, and
THEY are not to blame. You haven' time 4?
Shame on you! Have you time ?-time
to suffer all the pains that we necessarily
inflict upon you? You find time to loll
about; time to pick your teeth time to
smoke cigars, to chew tobacco in short,
you find time to do nothing, yet everything
you shouldn't. Then again, do you sup
pose that I can make good blood out Of
anything, or everything. or nothing p
Yoa don't snpposeIs One would think
that you did suppose it, by the vast varie-
ties Of odds and ends you give me, but
which, often, your dog would not eat =
l want to be a reasonable kind
of stomach. and good servant, and il
may be possible that, if you are willing
to do what is right by NE. may do my
best to s,rve you; do not want to be all
the while grumbling. and giving you
headaches, cholic, dyspepsia, and, in
short, nearly every disease to which men
are subject, but wish to Lad peaceable
life with you as well as with my neigh.
bors.
The stomach then throws out" few
suggestions as to how it considers j,
ought to be treated, some of which, Ger.
tainly, seem very reasonable and proper
GAS soon as you are out Of bed give me
a glass of good water. In about half an
hour after that suppose YOU'LL wan,
your breakfast, and I some work to do
as I don't believe in working with an empty
stomach any more then you do, when
am well, You sit.down, than, to break
fast. aud give me something tender and
nutritiousas meat, and something liyht and
wholesome as bread; and suppose Yor
would like cup of coffee. but l don,
NEED anything Of that sort. Be sure te
be very moderate. Do not. as the head
of the firm, keep importing cargo, because
there happens to be plenty, nor keep stoso
i~g down AS ifthe warehouse were made o.
India-rubbar ; because ii you do, l have
no alternative but 70 put it in some place
that does not belong to me, or unship il
by the way it came; neither of which il
very pleasant either to yourself or to me
I At dinner, also, be very moderate. Soup
if good, is rot amiss, rs | prefer this to
cod wafer for the reason that cold Of any
kind lowers my empera ure, so that can
no: work willingly until | an warmed uT
again. Then, after soup, take something
that can do something with. Don'l
load me wi h all sor,s illnesses and mix.
;, lures froom all parts of the world. merely
because you would appear Of importance
TO those who may be on Il visit so YOU
| am. in such case. and at such time,
of much more importance to You than car
possibly be your guest, and wish you to
remember that; and the moment | begin
to be felt let nothing tempt you to Civ.
ing me more, for have then as much as
l know we'll what t" do with. AT supper
be most careful, for as the day draws to
a close, l, as well as other members Of the
firm. am weary with my days labour. aud
do not like to be taxed with additional
work when shonld be at rest, therefore,
give me something verp light to do, and
something tina. does not want steam ap'
Piled for it's transit, that l may not tor
inent you with horrid dreams, or tossing
{ and unrefreshing sleep. What l have