The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-27

Saving Af the spIggOt and Wasting
at the Rung---An Appropriate Crit
1cIsm.
the Brooklyn, n. Y, Union, reports
Henry Ward Beecher as having uttered
the following In one of his recent Sun
day evening discourses:
You cannot tell how much you waste
in .'drippings''-of time mean; those
little odds and ends of hours, those little
nbetween intervals" when you wonder
what you can do instead of setting
about to do 1t. When 1 returned last
fall from my summer vacation, began
to reflect that between the two courses
OF my dinner there were perhaps ten
say should devote them to "intellec-
tual or social intercourse" Well, L
tried, and found didn't talk much,
and as to "thinking," show me the man
that does much thinking between meat
and pie! Idon't. I'm too full for ut
terance. Well, 1 concluded that L
would begin reading those spare min
utes. So have been in the habit OF
either sitting back In my chair, or else
reclining on q lounge, and dipping into
"Froude's History of England" felt
I had no time else to devote to II, be-
cause what with preaching and writing,
and what not, discover my hours are
find otherwise, were you in my place
to-day. have just seen have by
this method finished the first two vol
umeS and am twO-thirds through the
third. 1 believe, too, remember and
have stamped on my mind the events
therein so graphically related more
thoroughly than by any other method
could have pursued. commend
this course, not for exact imitation, but
to suggest how much may be got out OF
little time when you culmulate the
days together.
Thes New York Commercial -AdUs-
Liser comes down upon the foregoing
remarks after the following fashion:
We utterly dissent from the philoso-
ply of the foregoing. A man owes 1t
to himself that he do nothing at dinner
which shall prevent good digestion"
from "waiting on appetite" and the ex-
ample set by Mr.. Beecher in choosing
the close of meal as a proper period
for the study of history, is one OF which
his knowledge of physiology should
make him ashsmed. There are ht hours
for work, and hours for meat and rest,
and he who recommends, by precept
or example, carrying the shop" with
one wherever his steps may lead, Is en-
titled to high rank as member OF the
Society for the Diffusion of Dyspepsia.
1t may be that Mr.. Beecher's physique
can stand the double drain thus made
by simultaneous brain work and
stomach work, but wo to nine-tenths of
the clergymen or lieterGteurs who are
Induced by his example to "go and do
likewise" Any doctor can tell Mr..
Beecher of the mischief an over-worked
or worried brain plays with the stomach
through the pneumo-gastric nerve, de-
praving the secretions and upsetting
things generally.
1t is false economy, also, that in
sists on a mans working during all
available moments of time. The pres
ent gain of such a procedure is more
than balanced by future loss. For 1t
must be remembered that all men are
not endowed with the exuberant ener-
giles of the Brooklyn pastor. The aver
age clergymen will expend more pow
er in days brain work than his fee
BILE stomach can replace in three days
when the brain Is at rest. And, If he
endeavor to keep up continual intel
lectual effort by utilizing" such spare
moments as occur "betweeu dinner
and pie," he is as certain to shorten his
period OF earthly usefulness as dark
ness is to follow sunset. We are sur
prised that Mr.. Beecher's conduct
should require an admonitiou of this
kind. Let him heed Thackeray, and
Respect his Dinner"