Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-02-04
Meals and Moods.

1t is curious to see how much fullnes and
emptiness of stomach have to do with moods
A business man who has been at work bard
all day will enter his house for dinner as
grabbed as a hungry bear Grabbed because
be is as hungry as d hungry bear The
wife understands the mood, and while she
says little to him, is careful not to have the
dinner delayed. In the mean time, the
children watch him cautiously, and Do n t
tease him with questions. When the SOUP
is gulphed, and he leans back and wipes
his mouth, there is an evident relaxation,
and his wife ventures to ask for the news
When the roast beef is disposed Of, she
PREF umes upon gossip and possibly upon Il
jest and when. at last, the desert is spread
upon the table, all hands are merry, and
the face Of the husband and father which
entered che house 30 pinched and savage
sharp, becomes soft and full and beamipg
as the face of the round summer moon.
ChildI en- are very sensitive to the inhu
euce of hunger ; and often when We think
thai We sre witnessing some fearful proof
Of the total depravity Of human nature in
a young child, we are only Witnessing the
natural expression Of desire for bread and
milk.
The politicians and all that class of men
who have axes to grind, understand this
business very thoroughly. If a measure is
to be carried through and any man wishes
to secure votes for it, he gives a dinner
If a man wishes for a profitable contract.
be gives dinner. If he is up for fat
Office, he gives a dinner. If it is desirable
that pair of estraDged friends be brought
together, and reconciled to each other, they
are invited to dinner. If hostile inter-
ests are to be harmonized, add clashing
measures compromised, and d;verginc for
ces brought into parallelism, all must be
effected by means of dirner.
a good dinner produces gnod mo dat
least, il produces an impressible mood
The will relaxes wonderfully under the in
fIeuce of iced lemonade, and c~nvas-
backs are remarkable softners of or. iudice.
The daughter of Herodias took Herod at a
great disadvantage when she came in ard
danced before him and his friends at his
birth day supper, and secured the head Of
John the Baptist. No one, presume, be-
lievss if she had undertaken to dance before
him when he was hungry she would had
the offer OF gilt equal to the half of his
kingdom. 1t is more than likely that, IN
der any other circumstances, she would
hav5 been told to "sit down and show less. -
It is by means of food and drink, and
various entertainments Of the senses that
moods are manufactured, and used as media
OF approach b the will which il is desirable
to bend or direct
This subject find to be abundantly pro.
life, and SEQ that have been able to do
hardly mere than to hIut at its most prumi-
nent aspects. 1t seems to me that mnvds
only need to be studied more, and TO be bet
ter understood, to bring them very much
under the domain Of our wills \ great
deal Is learned when we know what mood
il, and know that we are subject to varying
frames of mind, resulting FROM CAUSES
which affect our health. If I know that |
am impatient and cross because am hun
cry, then know how to get rid of nv
mood, and how to manage it until ! do get
rid Of it, If feel unabl; to labor, not be-
cause am not in the mood, then | have the
mood in my hand to be dealt with intell,
gently. If my reason tell me that it is only
mood that hides me from the face of nv
Maker, my reason will also tell me that nv
first business is to get rid IF my mood and
that my viii must approach the work, di-
rectly or indirectly.
We are always and necessarily in some
mood o. nind-iu sumo condition OF pass
ion or feeling. Lei the Naturalization and
the dominant influence of moods that ara
70 be guarded against or destroyed Mood,
are dangerous only when they obscure -ea
son, they destroy self control. and disturb
the mental p0ise, and become the media Of
false impressions from all the life around
US and within us.-Dr. j. G. IL Hand.