Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-07-12

Besides eating badly prepared food, and
at wrong times, many persons eat too
much; yet the stomach is not travelling
bag which can carry all that can be stuffed
into it, but delicate machine which too
little and too much food equally disturbs,
while the rare golden mean keeps II in
healthy change from rest to work and
back again, and makes i, in turn keep the
ten thousand strings of body and mind
in the incest tension. A man who should
put ircn bars, sticks or dirt in nicely fin
ished piece Of machinery would be count
cd a fool or q mailman; yet men who
employ trusty grooms and engineers to
take the incest care Of their horses and
steam engines-as well as many who own
neither of these onveniences-treatt their
animal bodies in cruel manner which
should arouse Mr.. Berg to speeches.
wrath. They rudely awake their stomachs
from rest to feed them when not hungry;
they pour down fluids when not thirsty;
they swallow things when not half masti-
Gated, as if the stomach could perform the
functions of gizzard; they cram their
stomachs, they burden them, they over
whelm them, they insult them, they hu-
initiate them, enrage them, make enemies
Of them, and forces them into an alliance
with an unrelenting inquisitor bearing the
name Of dyspepsia.
There is not much practical use in tel
ling people so, however, for they will all
declare that the statements are very true,
and then gulp down an orgre's dinner, for
quantity, washing it into the stomach with
whatever fluid pleases themselves and the
company they live in. Not many things
are so common and popular as suicide
sometimes effected deliberately and con-
siously, but usually otherwise. People
are all the while tapping away at the walls
of their own bodies bending the springs
frequently SO test their temper losing the
screws and fastenings, thrusting in levers
Of their own to reverse the machinery and
make it move another way and excrcis-
ing upon it to the full Of their ignorance,
wholesome curiosity and disposition to do
just as they please with their own proper
ty-for it is their own, Mr.. Winwoode
Reade says-so that the durability of the
machine is really its most wonderful char
acteristic. And SO through some Of the
little pinholes which have been made,
death comes at last and thrusts little
pin, and-farewell.
DIR. Dio Lewis, well known as a teacher
of gymnastics, thinks he has devised a
remedy for the particular vice Of over
eating and he writes to the Independent
what it is. He quotes from number of
phycisians and others, who set forth the
injurious effects of stomach stuffing. The
remedy which he emphasizes with caLi-
tails, and declares he has seen put into
successful practice, is this rule: Before
you take the first mouthfnl, place upon
I your plate all you are to eat, and eat but
twice day. The last direction is good
in its way; but not calculated to be Of SER
vice in depressing over eating the rest is
worse than none, provided person eats
sll he puts upon his plate, and it is useless
if he does not. If person takes his seat
at the table, and without having eaten, fills
his plate, his eyes will very surely, in the
country phrase, be larger than his stom-
ach,' that is to say, bis eager appetite, and
not his judgment Of quantities, will yield
the spoon and the knife, so that he will
load his plate first, and his stomach next.
There is better rule yet-the only
natural and effective rule-which may be
told in two words, eat slowly. Animals in
their natural state seldom gorge them
selves, except the larger snakes for which
this is natural. Nature gave guide
which would be always ready and safe j
it were not spoiled by abuse this guide
is persons own appetite, and the abuse
Of it is rapid eating. If only food be
slowly eaten, slowly and thoroughly mas
ticated, and mingled with the secretion O
the salivary glands. which in health are
always equal to their task unless the ust
of tobacco has oversti aimed them, safety
will follow appetite at the precise momen
when enough Of food has been taken. AMI
good digestion will follow both. But rap
idly boiling half masticated food fills thu
stomach long before it satisfies the appe
tite, and shortly after eating comes tn
anaconda like feeling of fullness and tor
por, in which men appear as animals, AM
3 to very poor advantage even as such. ]
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