The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-12-19
Hearty suppers.

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that We recently read the death Of ;
brother editor. whose excellent monthly
seldom failed Of some extract from, or
kindly notice of this journal. He died
in the very prime of his life-not thirty
-in the midst Of usefulness, and 10 the
enjoyment Of usual good health, until
within twenty four hours OF his decea.e.
He vas IN able preacher, and e ne bellies
lettre scholar. He was ON a journey on
the Masters business, and died from
home. He has made up the copy for his
September issue. Two of the articles
were from our August Au,nber: one a
plea for women, the other for children
So many good people loved him and looked
up to him In less than three lines the
whole story is told. "He travelled al
day, ate in the evening a hearty supper,
walked up IN the morning with headache,
became unconscious, aud died at s o'clock
in the afternoon of an apopletic disease"
Eating heartily in an exhausted or even
in greatly deblliaied bodily condition, is
dangerous q. any hour. Many man has
fallen apopietic, at the close Of hearty
dinner; but the danger is greatly incress-
ed by going to bed soon after; for the
weigh. Of the meal, pound or two rests
steadily on the great veins of the body;
arrests the flow of the blood, as . con-
tinuous pressure Of the food on the hose
pipe will more or less completely stop the
flow Of water along it. This srrestment
causes damming up of the blood in the
vessels Of the brain, which at length cant
longer bear the distensions, and bursts.
causing efusion there, which is instant
sometimes, and certain death always.
There is scarcely reader, Of middle
age, who has not more than once been
aearer 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 food is about to overwhelm him
but 10 spite of every effort, he cannot re-
move himself fast enough; the enemy
behind is increasing upon him. and at
length, in agony Of sweat, he is able. af
ter desperate effort, to set the streams
of life in motion by uttering some sound.
fearful to the heart, or only to save him
self from falling into some fathomless
abyss by convulsive and desperate effort.
In cases where there is no power TO cry
out, or no effor, can be made, the person
is overtaken, or falls and dies Eating
hearty meal at the close of the day is like
giving laboring man full days work to
10, just as night sets in, although hs has
been toilng all day. The whole body is
fatigued when night comes, and the sto-4
mach takes its due share, and to eat hearth
ly at supper, and then 60 to bed, is giving
all The other portions and functions Of the
body repose, while the stomach has
thrown on itself Eve hours more labor, al.
ter having already worked foar or five
hours TO dispose of breakfast, aud a still
longer time for dinner. This ten or twelve
hours of incessant labor has nearly ex-
hausted its power, it canno: promptly
digest another full meal, but abors for
hours together, like an exhausted galley
slave at . newly imposed task.
TIE result is that by the unnatural
length of time in which the food is kept
in the stomach, and the imperfect manner
in which the exhausted organ manages it.
it becomes more or less acid; this gen.
crates wind this distends the stomach
this presses itself up against The more
yielding lungs, con6ning them to large.
ly diminished space; hence every breath
tax is insufficient or tie wants of the
system, the blood becomes foul, black and
thick, refuses to flow, and the mao dies
or in delirium or fright leaps from win
dow or commits suicide, Is did Hugh nil
ler and multiiudes Of others, aud of " hon
the coroner's jury has returned the nom
committal verdict, ''Died from some caus
es unknown" If not impiously stating
taDied by the visitation of God"
Letany reader who follows an inactive
life for the most part, try the experiment
for week, of eating absolutely nothins
after two o'clock dinner. and see if
sounder sleep and more vigorous appe
tite for breakfast and a hearty dinner, ar
not the pleasurable results, to say nothin
of the happy deliverancc from that disa
greeabe fulness, weight, oppression o
acidlity which attend over eating
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