The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-15
OVER-EiTING.

Besides eating badly prepared food,
and at wrong times, many people 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 to much
food equally disturb, while the rare
golden mean keeps it in healthy change
from rest to work and back again, and
makes it in turn keep the 10000
strings" of body and mind in the incest
tension. A man who should put iron
bars, sticks, or dirt into piece ofnicely-
finished machinery would be counted
fool or madman; yet men who en-
ploy trusty grooms and engineers to
take the incest care OF their horses and
steam engines-as well as many who
own neither of these conveniences-
treat their animal bodies in a cruel man
ner which should arouse Mr.. Bergh to
speechless wrath. They rudely awake
when not hungry; they pour down
fluids when not thirsty they swallow
things half masticated, as if the stomach
could perform the function of a gizzard;
they cram their stomachs, they burden
them, they overwhelm them, they insult
them, humiliate them, enrage them,
make enemies of them, and force them
into an alliance with an unrelenting in
quisitor bearing the name of dyspepsia.
There is not much practical use in
telling people so, however, for they will
all declare the statements very true,
and then gulp down an orge's dinner,
for quantity, washing it into their sto-
machs with a rivulet of whatever fluid
pleases themselves and the community
in which they live in. Not many things
are so common and popular as suicide
sometimes effected deliberately any
consciously, but usually otherwise.
People are all the while tapping awad
at the walls of their own bodies; bend
ing the springs frequently to test their
temper; loosening the screws and
fastenings; thrusting in levers of their
own to reverse the machinery and make
upon it to the fnll of their ignorance,
wholesome curiosity and disposition to
do just as they please with their own
property-for it is their own, Mr.. Win
woode Read says-so that the durabi
lity of the machine is really its most
wonderful characteristic. And so
through some one of the little pinholes
which have been made, Death comes at
last and thrusts a little pin-farewell
DR.. Dio Lewis well known as teach
er ofgymnastics, thinks he has devised
remedy for the particular vice of over
eating, and he writes to the Z'adepe'e-
dent what it is. He quotes from num-
Der OF physicians, and others, who set
forth the injurious effects of stomach
stutfing. His remedy, which he EN-
Phasizes with capitals, and declares he
has seen put into successful practice, is
this rule: "Before you take the first
mouthful, place upon your plate all you
are al, to eat, and eat but twice day"
Inc last direction is good in it's way,
out not calculated to be of service in
l[epressng over-eating; the rest is worse
tnan none, provided person eats all
ne ne puts upon his plate, and it is useless
II ne does not. For if person takes a
seat at table, and, without having eat
en-, nils his plate, his eyes will very
11arety' 1are.oy' IN the country phrase, " he
b;s 1h Ills stomach, that is TO say, |
,,ent ms eager appetite, and not his judg-
1t and ~ ol quantities, will WELD the spoon
nIota .a 'te y knife, SO that he will load his
PM Tt nlSt and his stomach next.
notr tnefe Is better rule yet-the only
a.uiaI ba ana etectual rule-which may
ma1S ne toiu IN IN two words, eat slowly. Ami
thama a,S IN Their natural state seldom gorge
wbinh bIi:a1hselves, ives, except the large snakes, for
on;Sa l9i tnis Is natural. Nature gave
suS sOiue e y winch would be always ready
a th;s sale II it were not spoiled by abuse;
and th sulae Is PERSONS own appetite,
onlv L '4,e ne abuse of it is rapid eating. If
thoyyom"GSd, ,oGd be slowly eaten, slowly and
with bEniy Elny masticated and mingled
glands e secretion of the salivary
equal 70 Mnich th In health are always
bacco " .helr task unless the use of to-
haS OVerStPaipo1 tlo.S.