The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-06-25
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HOW To EAT.

States In both town and country, in city and
village, among old and young, rich aud poor,
is rapid eating, when the stomach, like a dark
bottle which is attempted to be filled with fun
mel, gets full, and overruns before one knows it.
There are two i'll effects from hasty feeding; the
food expands considerably, both by increased
warmth. and by its being divided and liquifed,
so that If the stomach is not full when ceases
to eat 1t will be full enough in u very few min
utss by the heating and liquefying process thus
1t happens when person is called from the
table, he may fee! if he could very easily have
eaten more. but it detained very few minutes,
he comes back feeling that he does not want to
taste another particle, and ofttmes expresses
himself impatienty about his dinner being
spoiled" when the truth is his food has been
enlarged in bulk by the necessary preparation
which it has undergone, thus making the stom-
ach full enough for all healthful purposes, and
full enough for comfort If meal is eaten with
great deliberation, this expanding, heating,
iquefying process begins and keeps pace with
the meal, and man does not feel like a gorged
anaconda. The English people thus eat, as a
nation; they give themselves time to enjoy their
food, to experience the pleasure of its taste. and
make eating Il qualification while we Ameri.
cans i'll rnultitudes of cases, look at it as thing
to be gotten through with task which has
to be performed, and the quicker the better.
HOW MUCH TO EAT
The answers to the question how much to cat
depend SO largely on the circumstances of age,
sex, season, latitude and employment that it
would be impracticable to name any amount AS
applicable to the ma orty of any class OF persons
In fact, 1T Is one OF those questions which each
man should aim to answer tor himself that
answer being founded on his own close obserya-
ton and sound Judgment. The following rules,
however, will perhaps meet all cases as to general
habits: ...
l. Eat at regular specified times, and at NO
others
2. Hard workers, especially those who are most
OF the time in the open air, should eat as much
as they want at breakfast and dinner.
8. Those who are indoors most of the time, az
women. literary men and STUDENT, should never
eat full As much AS they want. This would be
safe rule for all sick persons also.
SPRING DISEASES.
ed to keep the body warm. We, in our blind.
ness endeavor to keep up the same heat, to burn
AZ much internal fuel in July as in January. If
we do eat rs much. the system cannot appropriate
it: 1t is rejected, it is cast out: but in making
the effort to cast it out natural force is expend-
ed which ought to have been saved, weakening
ourselves unnecessarily, while we were weak aud
ianguid before; and these were the very feelings
which prompted to be doing thing to
dition and to increase our strength The means
we used were to force upon the stomach much
larger amounts than were craved, thus imposing
on that much abused orRNN the additional labor,
not only to expend the strength of the system
unnecessarily, but to cause irritation and fevers
and nfammations which bring wreck and ruin
to thousands every spring and sumner-the
deaths i'll the warm months being nearly double
those in the cooler or October and Novem-
Der. Health Increases in the autumn. The
health, and strength, and bodily enjoyment of all
communities increase as the weather begins to
cool in the first days of October; the appetite
gradually improves, because Nature that AZ
the weather Is getting cooler outside there must
be more fuel consumed within, and she nstnc.
lively calls for more food ; and the strength in.
creases proportionally.
LET THE CHILDREN ALONE.
Let your children alone when they gather
around the family table; it is n cruelty to ham.
per them with manifold rules and regulations
about this, and that, and the other. As long as
their conduct is harmless to others encourage
them in their checriness. If they do smack their
lips, end their suppings of milk and other drinks
can be heard across the street, it does not hurt
the street-let them alone. What if they do
take their soup with the wrong end of the fork
it is all the to the fork-let them alone.
Suppose Il child does not sit straight a
slips through its little fingers and deluges the
plate of food below, aud the goblet is smashed,
and the table-cloth is ruined, do not look thous-
and sCowls and taunders, and scare the poor
thing to the balance of its death, for it was
scared half to death before; it didn't 90 to d.
it." Did you never let u glass slip through your
fingers since you were grown! Instead of send.
ing the child away from the table in anger, if
not even with threat, Tor this or any other lit
tie nothing be "a generous as you would to All
equal or superior guest, to whom you would say,
with more or less obsequiou smile "its of no
possible consequence" That would be the form
OF expression even to stranger guest, and vet
to your own child YOU rcmorselessly, and revenge
fully aud angrily mete out IL swift punishment,
which for the time almost breaks its little heart
and bei.tics you amazingly The proper and
more efficient and more Christian method of
meeting the mishNps and delinquencier aud i'm.
proprietes OF your children at the table is either
to take notice of it at the time, or to go fur.
ther, and divert attention from them at the very
instant, If possible, or make kind apology for
them but 0fterward, in an hour or two, or bet.
ter next day, draw the child's attention to the
fault, ii fault i was, IN friendly and loving
manner; point out the improprety IN some
kindly way. show where II was wrong or rude,
and appeal to the chi!d- selt.r.-pect ar manl.
ness. This is the best way to correct all tamil,
errors Sometimes 1t my not succeed some.
times harsh measures my he rrquir";; but try
the deprecating OF the kindly l,,,hot with p.r.
feet equani'nity of mind, aud failure will l.. ii
rare occurrence.-iIaiCs H,M bg G~1 Liring.
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