The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-08-08
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
a. FL. ROBINSON,
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.


HaiPs journal Qf Health contains the
following information.
f,3rcat caters mover live long. A voraoi-
ous appetite, 20 far from being n sign of
health, "a certain indicntiOn Of disease
some dyspnpiics aro always hungry. and
ieei best when they are eating; hut as soon
~ they have finished eating thew endure
torments so distressing In their nature as
10 make the unhappy victim wish for death.
The appetite of health Is that which in
cilnes moderately TO cat when eating time
comes. and which, when satisfied. leaves no
unpleasant reminders. Multitudes meas
ure their health by the amount they eat;
ana uut OF ten persons, nine are gratified
81. nm Increase Of weight; when In reality
any excess ol tatnesg IL, in proportion. de
oisivc proof of disease showing that the
abaorbcnts OF the system are too weak To
discharge their duty, and the tendency To
latness. TO obesity, increases until existence
. u burden, and sudden death closes the
history.
Particular inquiry will almost unvnry-
inglV elicit the fact that Fat pCrsons how
ever rub'"und aud Jolly, are never wen,
ano yet they are rnvied While great cat
ors never live to an old age, and are never
iur 6iuge day without some 'svmntomp.'
some feeling Sufficiently disagreeable 10 at
tract the minds attention unpleasantly,
small Catcr.--thosc who cat regularly of
pain toud--usually have no spare flesh
arc W,ry and enduring, and live to an ac-
tive old age. Remarkable cAcmpincations
"i 'llrse statements are tound in the lives of
Cehtenariaus OF past age. Galon, one of
Oh" most distinguished among thc ancicnts.
lived very srarngly after the age of TWEEN
Y-eighL and died in lis hundred and for
uet,i ycdr c'igrcn, vino never tasted
SiiriiS or wine. ana worked hard all his
life reached "a hundred and eghty-fivc
years.
"Jcnkius, a poor Nors hire fisherman.
who lived uu She cuar-est diet, was one
hundred and ~iNty-niup wears old when h,,
died, Oh. P1ry lived tu he one hundrrd
Wa hny-thrcc; his diet being milk. whey.
ima beer lud coarse bread The faNoriir
d.'. %. Henry Francisco. who lived to be
one uua"cd and forty wa, tea, bread and
hW Ter aud baked lapplcs Ephraim Pratt,
pc Nhutc bury Mass, who died aged one
hundred aud seventeen, lived chiefly on
mix, and cVUn that IN small quantities. his
son Michael by similar means, lived 10 he
one hundred and three years OF agc. Father
WctuI. "a Methodist cle gymen, died last
year al the age Of one hundred and five.
TIE M N diet of his liie having been salted
sw'nes iesN bacon and bread OF Indian
meal. From these statements, nine general
readers out OF ten will iUmp to the conclu-
ion .3at milk y healthy, MS are baked an
pies and bacon.
"Thcsc conclusions do mot lcgitimatcly
follow. The only Inference thar can be
safely drawn is from Inc only fact run
ming through all these cases-that plain
Iood and q life of steady labor tend to a
great age IS to the lealthfulness and
life projecting quality of any article of
diet named, nothing can be Inferred. for no
two OF the men livud on the same Kind of
food; all chat can be nationally aud safely
inferred l. either that they lived SO lone in
spite of tue quality Of the food they ate, or
that their instincts called for Il peculiar
Kind OF food, and the qualification of that
Instinct, instcad of its pervcrsion, with
life of steady labor, directly caused hcath-
tulncss and great length Of days. We must
not cApe.t 70 live long by doing any one
thing which an old man did. aud omit nil
others; hut ny doing all he did. and hat is,
work steadily, rs well rs eat mainly a par
tictilIr dish ~