Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-04-13


nardships. When not engaged in fight
ing by sea or land, their cheif business
was hunting fishing, or little agricul-
ture. With such hardy, exposed, out
of-door life, they were better able to par
take of the strong, stimulating, blood
heating, animal diet, which, as in the
case of the Scandinavian, consisted of the
flesh of. wild and domestic animals. in
Guiding that of both the horse and swine.
Their drinks were beer and mead, the
worst Of which was at least eighty per
cent. better than the distilled liquors
which we drink. Men of the present
day make fearful mistake when attempt
ing to live upon the same strong diet. In
those days the times demanded nothing of
the people but robust health, great powers
of endurace, stout limbs, and stalwart
frames. AS the old sages say;-
Then it was beauty to live heavy to die"
We not only need the same bodily Wig
or, but must possess other qualities which
our present state of knowledge and civili-
zatiou renders essential. Muscular devel-
opment alone, with strong arms and swift
feet. would noa0 hardly make the man, or
give him any but low position in the
social scale How to unite well-cultiva.
ted, healthy bodies with strong, clear, and
vigorous minds is the problem before us.
They are mutually dependent upon each
other. >"For my part, exclaimed Thorn
as Hood at one time, if God would but
grant me stomach only want health
and strength! !" And yet he. constantly
overworked his brain until great bodily
prostration followed; then he resorted to
stimulants, and died at the carly age Of
forty -sjx--died, because he did not know
how to live
" Where mind is renowned, there a body's dys-
peptic--
Even in youth Julius Caesar made HIS epileptic. {"
= Must the mind in its strife give, the body no
quarter,
And where one would be saint, must the other
be martyr?"
In treating of the diet of artists and
literary men, those who are given to
head-work and sedentary occupations, a
writer says:-- ~
A well-baked bread and lean meat,
combined with young vegetables and
such roots as are easy Of digestion
and contain considerable proportion of
sugar, form wholesome diet for thinkers
and poets; large quantity of legumin-
ous seeds. like peas and beans. heavy
bread. rich gravy, and greasy meat, Gre
ate those irritable, morose and almost al
ways slender statesmen, who have permit
ted gloomy thoughts and gloomy imagina-
tions to eclipse all happier views of life in
them, or that they have come to consider
rods and fetters us the most important
promoters and protectors of civiliza-
tion."
Concerning the clean meat" it were
better not to eat that, at least in any con-
siderable quantities Nopan can eat an.
imal flesh without running great risk,
which it is not we'll to take. In many
instances it is a poison, deadly in its eff.
fects, al,oays detrimental and disease pro.
ducing. Since the pleuro-pneumonia, Oh
cattle-disease, first appeared in Massa
chusctts, the attention of all stock breed
crs has been given to stay the further
spread of the terrible contagion, and al
investigation into the causes and results
of the disease, as it affects both man anc
beast, has brought to light many interest
ingly important facts, the needing 0
1
which is but the part of wisdom anc
prudence.
In the British Isles it is estimated tina
ten millions Of dollars worth of cattle di'
annually with the pleuro-pncumoDia
Much Of this diseased meat is exposed
for sale in the market, aineteen tons be
ing found in London in one week
"'rhese are startling facts, says Secretar.
Flint, in recent letter to Governor An
drew, Of Massachusetts +" but they do no
represent the whole truth. They fall ia
short of it, for we must consider tn
contamination Of the animal foo
and Of the dairy product of th
kingdom, and the almost universal dc
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