Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-05
Light and Digestion.


the sun and digestion Digestion and as
i sifnilation become weak and imperfect il
the man or animal is not daily exposed to
the direct rays of the sum- Mr.. p, one of
our merchants, came to see me about his
stomach. Dyspepsia was written all over
his face, was shown in his movements, was
heard in his voice. The conversation be.
tween us was essentially the following:
! Mr.. p. Doctor, if you will excuse a
/ street yulgarity, am played out Ican't
digest, can't work, have lost my cour
age, fear must stop" 80
1 - Tell me about your Diet 1asatf
1 If you will excuse me, / know that is
all right Ishave studied the subject, and
know that my food is all right"
How about your exercise!" ~.fss
i have little gymnasium in my store,
and exercise an hour or two every day. /
1 sometimes tire myself out with these ex-
! ercises"
How about your Sleep" q
| why, Doctor, i go to bed every night
with the chickens. At any rate / am al
| ways in bed by 8 o'clock, and rise by G
o'clock in the morning, take a bath. a
! plain breakfast, and go to my counting
room, Once in the forenoon and once in
the afternoon exercise in nay gymnasium
half an hour or so, but am getting worse
all the time. Isn't it curious? My wife
! thinks must have cancer in my stom-
ach Nothing seems to help me. i live
the most physiological life, but my diges-
| ton grows worse" si
! About your counting room; is that
light? Is it sunny?
| "NO, that is one nuisance we have in
| our STORE The store is every way pleasant,
| only that the counting room is SO dark that
| we have to use gas all the time"
'"That's 1t, Mi. p, that explains your
| cancer."IoH - % s3 h
'"Of course, you don't mean that; but 1
suppose it would be better if the counting
room were sunny"
Why, NIP, no plan. nor animal can d.
gest in the dark. Try it. Plant potato
in your cellar. Now watch it carefully. II
there Is a little Tight the potato will sprout
and try to grow But surround it with the
best manure, water it, do the best for it,
only you shall keep it in the dark, it can
not digest and grow. See how slender and
pale it is. Now open window in another
! part of the cellar, and notice how much
the poor hungry thing will stretch that
way. Or give the stalk little twist and
see how It will lie down. It has no strength
| to raise itself again No matter how much
of the best food and drink you give it, it
can't digest. The process of digestion,
| the great function of assimilation can't 60
on without the sunshine
Why, sir, with your excellent habits, If
your counting-room We're in a food of sun
light, you would be better in week, and
well in month Mr.. p, did you ever 60
into the country late in the summer? OF
course you have been. Well. did you nev-
| er notice where grain is growing in the or
chard that the part under the tree is small
err than that outside and away from the
trees? The land is actually richer there.
| For years the leaves have fallen and de-
cayed under the trees, bnt, Notwithstanding
this, the wheat is only half size and never
fills we'll. Now what is the difficulty?
The sun shines upon it more or less. Yes,
that is true, but that under the trees does
not receive as much sunshine as that away
from them That which is thus partly in
the shade can't digest so well. Why, sir,
Fif you will move your counting room up
stairs, in front, and stand where the sun
can have chance at you, even though 1t is
only three or four hours day, you will
begin to digest your beef better within
three days. "3f' AFaS ~"
Have you never noticed that the only
grapes that become perfectly ripe and
| oWCSt, eIdt thO OiiIJ PSoSiASo t'"o
those beautiful red cheeks, and offer that
luscious sweetness, are those that are. on
the outside, entirely uncovered by the
leaves and perfectly exposed to the sun
Gods laws are the same in the animal
world. 1t Is just as true that the only
girls with red cheeks and sweet breaths,
! the only girls who become fully ripe and
sweet, are those who baptize themselves
freely in Gods glorious sunshine.
! Don't you see good many pale girls in
your store, girls with a bloodless, half
baked sort of face, whose walking, whose
voice, whose whole expression is devoid of
spirit and forceg Those girls are in the
green state. Look at their lips and cheeks;
/ they are not half ripe. Send them cut in
! the country, let them throw, away their
parasols, put on their little Jockey hats,
and i've out in the sunshine three months,
and would give more for one of them in
any work requiring soul and spirit than for
a dozen of those pale things that live in
the shade. A pale woman! She makes a
very good ghost, but not much Of a
woman. - Talks about. Peoples StOmachs
/ A How Rain Is Formed.
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