The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-07-06

LIGHT. AND DIGESTION.
BY DIR. do LEWIS.

BY DR. do LEWIS.
| Very intimate relations exist betwee
{ sun aud digestion. Digestion All
], sinilation becomes weak and impeI
L ct 1.-THE man or animal is not dali
: posed to the direct rays of the sun
r. p, one Of our merchants came to sc
Il about his stomach. Dyspepsia wa
itten all over his face, was shown II
/ movements and heard in his voice
j conversation between US was essen
lily the following:
I Mr.. P.-"Doctor, If you will excus
street vu'garity, am played OUT
!. MT digest, can't work. have los
I courage. fear I must stop"
, Tell me about your diet"
/ IF you will excuse me, I know tina
!, all right. have studied the subjecs
, know my food is all right"
J How about your exeroirffi my store,
b have little gyuror two every day.
!. d exercise. ~ myself out with these
{, ,omst!."'
flow about your sleep:"
I"Why, Doctor, I 20 to bed every
:, ght with the chickens. At any rate,
/, am always in bed by Q o'clock, and /
re by o'clock in the morning, take a
: IN, plain breakfast, and go to my
uniting room. Once in the forenoon
I'd once in the afternoon, exercise in
! gymnasium half an hour or 80, but
am getting worse all the time. Isn't
b curious? My wife thinks must have
i cancer in my stomach. Nothing
ems to help me. I live the most ply.
4 illogical life, but my digestion grows
,rse and worse"
|, about your counting-room;i is that
! .ht ? is it sunny"'
/ mo, that Is one Nuisance we have in
IT. store. The store isevery way pleas
It, only that the counting room IL SO
|. .rk we have to use gas nearly all the
J me-"
"That's it, Mr.. p; that explains your
I .ncer."
"Of course you don't mean that; but I
oppose it would be better If the count.
groom was sunny"
why, Mr.. p, no plant or animal
IN digest in the dark. Try it. Plant a
atato in your cellar. Now watch it
. .refully. If there is light, that potato
| ill sprout and try to grow. But sur.
>und it with Tho best manure, water it,
the best you can for it, only keep it
the dark, it cannot digest and grow
es how slender and pale it Is. Now
pen q window in another part of the
ellar and notice how the poor hungry
ming will stretch that way. Or give
ne stalk . little twist and see how i,
7ifl lie down. 1t has no strength t.
aise itself again. No matter how much
the best food and drink you give it;
can't digest. The process Of digestion
he great function of assimilation, cant
20 on without the sunshine. Why, sir
With your excellent habits, if youl
counting room were in = food Of sun
light, you would he better in q week
md we'll in month. Mr.. p, did 80,
.ver go into the country late in the
summer? OF course you have been
Well, did you never notice where grair
growing in orchards that the par
lnder the trees 10 smaller than that out
'ide and away from the trees? Tn,
and is actually richer there. For year
he leaves have fallen and decayed, bu
Notwithstanding this, the whea: is onl,
lalf size and never fills well. Now
what Is the difficulty? The sun shine.
Tpon IL more or less. Yes, that II true
eut that under the trees does not receiv,
As rruch sunshine a. that away from
hem. That which is thus party In tn
shade can't digest SO well. Why, sir, /
you will move your counting room up
stairs, in front, and stand where the SUI
can have a chance at you, even though
it is only sbsee or four hours day, yol
will begin to digest your beef bette
within three days. Have you eve
noticed that the only grapes that become
perfectly ripe and sweet, that the only
peaches that take OH those beautiful re.
cheeks, and offer that luscious sweet
ness, are those that are Oh the outside
entirely uncovered by the leaves ane
perfectly exposed to the sun? Gods law
are the same in the animal world. 1t il
just as true the only girls with rec
cheeks and sweet breaths, the only girl
who become fully ripe and sweet, arr
those who baptize themselves freely il
Gods glorious sunshine. Don't you Sc,
good many pale girls in your store
girls with a bloodles, half baked sor
of face, whose walking, whose voice
WHSLE expression is devoid Of spirit ant
force? Those girls a'e in the greer
state. Look at their lips and cheeks
they are not half ripe. Send them on
in the country, let them throw ava.
their parasols, put on their little Joke.
hats, and live out in the sunshine three
months, and would give more for OH
of them in any work requiring soul ant
spirit, than for dozen Of those pal
things that live in the shade. A pal
woman! She makes very good ghost
but net much of woman. "-Fions talk
about Peoples Stomachs.
A Temperance Revival.