The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-11

Don't we ali eat too much.
The late Sidney Smith. divine as eminent
for wit as piety, once wrote to friend that he
had made an estimate of the food he had eat
en- duriDg thetirst thirty years Of his life and
found that be had in that period unnecessarily
called on bis patient stomach to digest meat
and vegetables enough to fill twenty seven
wagons. at o cost of about twenty five thou
sand dollars. He added, with words of re
gret, that. bad he been more abstemious at
the table. he would be worth in hard cash so
many more dollars than he was, and that BY
o1er-feeding be had been guilty of "a double
Iinjury-frsfly to himself and secondly to so
ciety for, had. he eaten less, he would have
enjoyed better health, and Others wonid have
Ithatto sustain and nourish them which he had
wantonly wasted.
Sidney Smith is not the only person who
has had reason TO accuse himself of excess at
the table, The fact is we all eat more than
our stomachs can well digest, and for it we
are duly punished. sooner or later. When the
stomach is imposed on 1t sooner or later reb
els, and disease is the consequence-diseasei in
/ its most disagreeable form. dyspepsia.
Gould we restrain our appetites-could. we
teach ourselves the important lesson that it is
better to- eat to live than live to eat-how
much better of we all would be. Could we
rise from the table with an inclination to eat a
little more. instead of gourmaudizing to the
full, the general health would be thousand
times better than it is. and soon would we rid
our bodies of diseases which now seem to be
almost natural TO US! 5t - ~
People complain of the hardness of the
times. >. the r-'dearness of food the doctors
bills.P sbd of sickness and yet they possess
the means within themselves of removing all
these standing complaints by exercising lit
tie self control over their appetites. Eat less
/ and you will have more is an old adage, and
although homely one. it is not without its
grain of wisdom. ,.5..s..s.. -
Drinking is not the only intemperance that
is indulged in. There are more people who
destroy themselves by eating than by drinking
alcoholic stsmuants. Alcohol, it is true. is q
/ very bad thing 10 take, into the stomach, fol
/ the reason that the fumes thereof fly to the
head and induce intoxcation; but what shal
we say of the stomach debilitated by its con
4 tinued efforts to reduce the enormous masses
i of food, half masticated. that are forced int
it for a momentary qualification? Can w
ask the blood to be pure or the stomach SCUM
Z that is treated three or four times every da
with unhealthy, il digestible trash. If 20,
I want to stupefy brilliant mind, stuff tn
(, stomach; but if you want it to do work s.
that it's corruscations may be seen of men, lie
J, the body be nourished with light pIeasan
Z food, that is thoroughly masticated before
. is finally deposited for assimilation.
4 Expressive Silence.
e When the patriot Lafayette visited thi
I country many years ago, he was received wit
S distinguished applause and parade wherever b
k went, the citizens of every city aud villag
t through which he passed exerted tbemselvt
q to the utmost to do him honor, and the cou
1t try resounded with the merry ringing of bel
d with the trumpet OF jubilee, and with, t!
it booming cannonade. But the greatest COZ
,r pIiment paid him, and that which affected h
1t noble heart most deeply. was in a little cou
'g try village, in which there was no band of m
IT. sic. no firing Of guns no soldiery, no parat
~ but at the entrance of which the inhabitar
llf met him with. uncovered heads and wavi
is handkerehiefs as he passed under the ar
X, they had erected over the road, and which be
i'm this inscriptions 1zE ggsE
al b"coms thsn Expressive Silence muse his praise
Us To Whom the Sin Belongs. ~sgs1 EJs
ut Rev. Ell. Chapin, an eloquent New Yo
by divine, in preaching sermon recently from
he text Neither do condemn thee; go and
ne, no, more,'r gave the following rebuke to
in practice that goes farther, perhaps, to foste
his certain vice, than all other cloaks for evil
ed Said he: s'.5fsa "a SER s
nd The refined woman recoils with virtu
scorn from her fallen sister, but often '
comes him by whom she fell. We are.
:9 that Christ.said to the woman's accnsers
~ that is without. sin among you, let him c
the first stones but. lsmitten by conscel
lLp6y WCuI Oub OuC 1duu WIZ ID
he'd in some, way allied to this great guilt? ]
hos factoof common weakness should at least m
the US merciful. 1t is not just thatupon the
the man alone should fall the blot Of shame
the The text is great lesson of charity and d
,oer cy, and it is q great lesson of Justice alst
and There is neither justice, honor nor delicac
w.av wav our modern custom, which scarcely frowDs
,ou. on the guilty man, while pouring out all
bles. walls of wrath upon the guilty woman.
,xie may or may not be true, as some insist,
tents this foul cancer in society can never be Ell
ched Gated; hut we ought at least to insist upc
,rdiy faat the shame shall be fairly divided that
teri shining MAD shall he branded as. deehiy al
!, the SHINING woman. Suppose every guilty
sbad bore the mark of shame in his face ir
She market, or at church. how long would the
n os continued, But the meanness of man
ion thrust the whole shame upon woman
- Il, 92Anl Incorporate patient makes cruel
.slnas tor. @ .4laI ta
~. An obedient wife commands her hush
aodl Covetous and envious men are never at