The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-05-30
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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 too much food equally disturbs,
while the rare golden mean keeps it in
n althy change from rest to work, and
back again, and makes it in turnkeep the
100 900 strings of body and mind in
the incest tension. A man who should
p 1t iron bars, ST cZs or dirt into piece Of
ceiy finished machinery would be count
e a TOOL or a mailman; yet men who en-
TO- trusty grooms and engineers to take
the incest care of their horses and steam
englnes-as well as many who own Meth
ca OF these cOnvcnlences-treat their ami
NAL bodies in cruel manner which should
arouse Mr.. Bergh to speeches. wrath
They rudely awake their stomachs from
rest to feed them when not hungry; they
pour down duids when not thirsty; they
swallow things half masticated, as if the
stomach could perform the functions of d
gizzard; they cram their stomachs, they
burden them, they overwheim them, they
insult them, humillate hem, make enemies
OF them, and force them into an alliance
with an unrelentlng inquisitor bearing the
name of dyspepsia.
There Is not much practical use in tel
ling people so. however, Tor they will all
declare the statement very true, and then
guip down an ogre s dinner. for quantity
washing it into their stomachs with a
rivulet of whatever fluid pieases them
selves and the community they live In
Not many things are so common and pop
ular as SulcIde-sometlmeS effected de-
hDerateiy and consciously. but usually
otherwise. People are all the while tap
ping away at the walls of their own bod
les; bending the springs frequently to
test their temper; loosening the screws
and fastenlngs thrusting in levers of
their own to reverse the machinery and
make it move another way and exercis
ing upon it to the full their ignorance.
maddlesome curiosity, and disposition to
do just as they please with their own
property-for it is their own, MIR. Win
wood Reads says-so that the durability
OF the machine is really its most wonder
tul characteristic. And so, through some
OF the little pinholes which have been
made. Death comes at last and thrusts
little pin-farewell
DIR. bio Lewis, well known as ateacher
Of gymnastics, thinks that 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
physicians and others, who set forth the
injurious effects of stomach-stuffing. His
remedy, which he emphasizes with cap
itals, and declares that he has seen put
Into successful practice, is this rule 'sBe
fore you take the first mouthlu, place
upon 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 service in representing over eating
the rest is worse than none, provided a
person eats all he puts upon his plate,
and it is useless if he does not. For if
person takes seat at the table, and,
without having eaten, fills his Plate, his
eyes will very surely. in the country
phrase. ''be larger than his mouth, that
is to say, his eager appetite, and not his |
Judgment Of quantities. will WELD the |
- ""d the knife. SO that he will load |