Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-01-11
HEARTY sUPPERS.


Eating heartily in an exhausted, or
even in a greatly debilitated bodily con-
ditlon, is dangerous at any hour. Many
a man has fallen apoplec.ic, at the close
of hearty dinner; but the danger is
greatly increased by going to bed soon
after; for the weight of the meal, pound
or two, rests steadily on the great veins
Of the body, arrests the flow of the blood,
as a continuous pressure Of the foot on a
hose-pipe will more or less completely stop
the How of water along it. This arrest
ment causes damming up of blood in the
vessels Of the brain, which at length can
not longer boar the distension, and burst
causing effusion there which is instant.
sometimes, and certain death always.
There is scarcely reader, of middle
life, who has not more than once been
nearer death than he imagined, from this
very cause. A man feels in his sleep as
If some terrible calamity was impending,
some horrible beast is after him, or some
fearful flood to overwhelm him; but spite
Of every effort, he can not remove himself
sufficiently fast; the enemy behind is
upon him; and at length, in an agony of
sweat, he is able by desperate effort, to
set the stream of life in motion by utter
ing some sound, fearful to be heard, or
only saves himself from falling into some
fathomlcss abyss, by convulsive and
desperate effort In cases where there is
no power to cry out, or no effort can be
made the person is overtaken, or falls,
and dies! Eating a hearty meal at the
close Of the day, is like giving laboring
man full days work to do, just as night
sets in although he has been toiling all
day. The whole body is fatigucd when
night comes, the stomach takes it's due
share, and to eat heartily at supper, and
then go to bed, is giving all the other
portions and functions of the body repose,
while the stomach has thrown upon it five
hours more Of additional labor, after
having already worked four or five hours
to dispose Of breakfast and still longer
time for dinner. This ten or twelve
hours Of almost incessant labor has nearly
exhausted its power; it can not promptly
disgest another full meal, but labors at it
for long hours together, like an exhausted
galley-slaves at a newly-imposed task.
The result is, that by the unnatural
length of time in which the food is kent
in the stomach, and the imperfect manner
which the exhausted organ manages it, it
becomes more or less acid this distends
the stomach presses itself up against
the more yielding lungs, confning them
to larger diminished space; hence every
breath taken is insufficient for the wants
of the system. the blood becomes foul,
black and thick refuses to flow, and the
man dies, or in delirum or fright, leaps
from the window or commits suicide as
did Hugh Miller, and multitudes of others
as to whom the corners jury has returned
the non-committal verdict, "Dicd from
causes unknown if not more impiously
stating, "Died by the visitation of God"
Let any reader who follows an inactive
life for the most part try the experiment
for week, of eating absolutely nothing
after two o'clock dinner, and see if
, soundcr sleep and a more vigorous appe-
, tite for breakfast and dinner, are not
the pleasurable results, to say nothing of
the happy dcliyerance from that disagree
able fullness, weight, oppression, or acidity
: which attends over-eating The greater
renovation and viyacity which long,
! delicious, and connected sleep imparts,
, both to mind and body, will of themselves
; more than compensate for the certainly
: short and rather dubious pleasure, of eat.
, ing a supper with no special relish
: Halls Journal Of health.
gB' The true secret of living at peace
with all the world is to have an humble
opinion of ourselves. True goodness is
, invariably accompanied by gentleness and
humh mindedness Those naonla yvbo