The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-05-09

4 ANNe SaD"H OuNty PEtRAlN
food. aud st wrong times, man
people SAT too much; yet the stou
ach is not q travelling bag whic
can carry all that can be stuffed II
10 II. but q delicate machine whic
too little snd too much food equal
disturb. while thsrars golden mea
Keeps II 10 healthy change froI
rest TO work and back.sgain, an
makes Il In turn keep the 1000
strings" Of body and mind in th
nicesttsusion. Amanwbo shoul
put iron bars, sticks. or dirt into
piece of nicely-furnished machine
Try would be counted . fool or
madman, yet men who empio,
trusty 'grooms and engineers I
take the nicest care Of their horse
and steam engines--as we'll ss man,
who own neither Of these conven
iences-treat their animal bodies /
q cruel manner which sho'd arous
Mr.. Bergh 10 speechIoss wrath
They rudely awake their stomach
from rest to feed them when no
hungry; they pour down huid
when not thirsty; they swallov
things bali mastieated, as it tn
stomach could perform the func
tions Of q gizEard; they cram thei
stomachs, they burden them. the.
overwbelm them, they insult them
humiliate them, enrago them, max
enemies Of them, and force then
into an alliance with an uDrelent
ing inquisitor bearing the name o
dyspepsia.
There is not much practical us'
in telling people so, however, fol
they will all declare the ststemsntl
very true, and then gulp down at
ogre's dinner, for quantity, wash.
ing it into their siomachs with 4
rivulet of whatever fluid pleaseI
themselves aud the community they
live in. Not many things are sC
common and popular as suicide
sometimes effected deliberately and
consciously, but usually otherwise
People are all the while tapping
away at the walls OF their owI
bodies; bending the springs fro
quently 10 test their temper; loos
ening the screws and fasteniugs
thrusting in levers of their own Il
reverse the machinery and make
it move another way; and exercis
ing upon it 10 the full extent Of
their ignorance, meddlssome curl
osity and disposition 10 do just al
they please with their own proper,
ty-for it is their own. Mr.. Win.
woode Resde says--so that the du-
rability Of the machine is really ia
most wonderful characteristic. And
so through some one of the little
pin holes which have been made,
Death comes at last and thrusts O
little pin-.farewell!
DIR. Dio Lewis, wcll-known US q
teacher of gymnastics, thinks he
has devised u remedy for tho par.
ticular vice of over:eaing. and be
writes TO the Independent what il
is. He quotes from q number o.
physicians, and others. who Sci
for tn the injurious effects of stom-
ach- -stuf6ng. His remedy, which
be emphasizes with capitals, and
declares he has seen put into sue
cessful practice, is This rule: BE.
fore you take the first mouthful
place upon your plate all you are
to eat. and eat but twice q day.
The last direction is good in itf
way, but not calculated to be OIL
service in repressing over eating
the rest is worse than none. provi
ded person eats all he puts upor
his plato, and it is useless il be does
not. For if q person takes a sea
at table, and, without having
eaten. fills his plate, his eyes will
very surely, iu the country phrase
"be larger than bis stomach" thai
is 10 say, bis eager appetite, aud
not.his judgment ofquantities, will
WELD the spoon and the knife, &C
that he will load his plate first and
his stomach next.
There is better rule yet-tht
only natural and effectaal rule
which may be told in two words
eat slowly. Animals in their nat
ural state seldom gorge themselves
except the larger snakes, for which
this is natural. Nature gave a guide
which would be always ready and
safe if it were not spoiled by abuse
this guide is q persons own appe'
lite, and the abuse Of it is rapid cat
ing. If ooly food be slowly eaten,
slowly and thoroughly masticated
and mingled with the secretion Of
the salivary glands, which in health
are always equal to their task un-
less the use Of tobacco has over.
strained them, safety will follow
at the precise moment
when enough food has been taken
and good digestion will follow
both. But rapidly boiling half
mastica!cd food fills the stomach
long before it satisfies the appetite
and shortly alter eating comes the
anaconda.like feeling of fullness
and torpor, in which men appear
as animals, and TO very poor advan'
tage even as such. lflhe greatest
epicure, the man with the most
prodigious appetite, and the man
who lives to eat, would but follow
this simple rule Of abstemiousness
thoy would in the end be able tC
eat a far greater quantity Of toot
by being able to live longer TO eat
-New York Gazette,