Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-03-03
How to Eat.

From a Tract Published BY the Ladies' Sanitary
Association, London.
WE should never eat when we have Just
come from tatigIlng work, or from long
walk The stomach sympathizes with the
rest of tho body, and cannot enter on its
work of digestion until it has had some
rest Fatal consequences are sometimes
the result of boiling" meal after ex-
cessive fatigue. If we can sit or lie down
for ten minutes only, let us do So and a
half hour of rest is still better.
Second. We should be particular in the
mastication of our food. Persons who
have good teeth need only little patience.
Those who have not should cut their food
as small as possible, so as to initiate masti-
cation. 1t should be known TO every one
that the saliva acts very important part
in digestion. 1t should be mixed with the
food in the mouth and swallowed with it.
Some persons have habit of splitting out
This saliva every few minutes, and especial
ly before they speak. This is an unhealthy
and offensive habit, to call it by no other
name.
Thirdly. We should eat slowly. And,
in order To be able to do this, il our labor
presses us, IL is better 10 eat only a light
luncheon III the middle of the day, and take
one hearty meal after the days work is
done. Then we are at ease we have time
to laugh and talk over the days doings
while we take our food we are not obliged
to finish at any given minute and hurry
away TO work.
Children need to eat oilen-oftener
than we do-because they have not only
to repair the daily waste, like ourselves,
but to accumulate the means Of increased
growth. Children are also superfluously
active, and waste strength in that way.
They should have rs much TO eat as they
want; not as much as you think best, be-
cause you do not know how much they
want or need. Your own appetite Is
good guide for you so 1t is for your chill
dren. Do not tell them that bread and
butter is not good for little boys, and that
sugar spoils their teeth.
Light bread and sweet butter are very
good for them, and as they generally dis
like fat meat, you must allow them oil the
more sugar. A chemist will tell you that
both fatty substances and saccharine or
sweet substances are eventually oxidized
in the body. Sugar is the form to which
many other things have to be reduced be-
fore they are available as a Matchmaking
food and the formation Of sugar Is carried
on in the body. 1t has been proved that
the liver IL factory in which other con
stituents of food are transformed into
sugar Now, II is probable that your boys
really need sugar TO make and keep them
well, and 1t is fortunate that most children
are fond of sweets Children are very
fond of vegetable acids ripe fruit, If they
can get it if not, they will seize on un-
ripe fruit,
The use of ripe fruit in bowel Difficult
ties is quite important. Where the bowels
do not act freely, it is often sufficient to
give, not dose of rhubarb, which the boy
hates, but saucer Of ripe berries or a
ripe apple before breakfast, which he does
like. Some child, being asked, "What
was wrong?" answered, Everything |
want to do" And it does sometimes
seem as if parents were occupied much
more in denying than in gratifying their
children's appetites. This is neither
necessary nor fair. They get as tired of
bread and milk as you would do. And
what comes of III Simply, that, as soon
as they have an opportunity, they indulge
their love for fruits and sweets to excess.
Then you think that it is the fruit and the
sweets that do the harm, whereas, 1t Is
only the excess. Let your children eat
what you do, and as much as they want,
and, as you mean to eat only healthy food,
they will be quite safe.