The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-28
Best Food for Best Bodies.
from the New York Tribune.l

DR.. Everett delivered her lecture on tn,
"Best Food for the Best Bodies" in the FRS
Baptist Church yesterday. She began t.
dissect the manikin, an object evidently sc
uninYiting that she very naively remarked:
Beauty is, after ELL only skin deep. We
would all resemble this were our cuticle re-
moved. You will observe that the manikin
the Venus de Milo and not the Venus de
Medici is the standard for beauty If a
woman stoops- all her organs acquire in
| time a morbid position. If the chin ma
| turally prOtrudes, learn to draw it in. WO-
men who stOOp and do not carry their heads
erect seldom bear life's burdens heroically.
Women should be five feet six inches high,
m. n six feet high.
In New. York, sad to say, thrOngs of
women may be met on Broadway only five
feet in height, or a little over: some even
OF more dimnutive stature. The Lacede-
monians fined one of their kings for marry
ing short woman. Little women should
go out of fashion. This physical diminutiye-
ness can be avoided by right methods in the
use of food. Although Harvey discovered
the circulation of the blood, he did not
dream of the wonderful circulating appa-
ratuS belonging to the stomach, pancreas
and liver. All the blood in the body is cir
culated through this portion OF tine system
from three to four times in twenty-four
hours. l will indicate the spinal column
because it connects with the brain, and food
must be chosen with reference to the brain.
Notice the multitude of muscles in the
back. There are seven Tor keeping the head
erect. Pains in the neck and the spinal
column can be obviated by eating brown
bread. As one-halt of nervous matter is
food must tend to produce
l must ease my mind on the question of
teeth. Children under sixteen years of age
should be reared largely on brown bread and
milk; then they will possess pearly teeth,
brilliant eyes, healthy compilations. Condi-
ments are denominations. Mustard, vinegar,
and catsups should be discarded, and salt
INDUCED in sparingly. Sugar and molasses
come under the head of condiments. Al
though some chemists and psychologists ad-
vocate sugar as an article of food, vet as the
body makes sugar from the starchy food eat
en-. the pure article is unnecessary. Neural
,ia is an indication Of deteriorate blood,
and should be cured by eating brown bread,
oatmeal, porridge-anything containing
much bran
No variety of wine should be drunk. Ever
since the world was sreated women have
been mems tempters, and SHOULD avoid en-
them in the use of liquor Women
who in any sense of the word indulge in al |
,oholic stimulants seem to lack refinement |
md true wOmanliness. Perhaps, because of
ny Quaker education, hold this idea. In |
he good old time coming, when women shall |
i've sensibly, dress sensibly, eat sensibly,
morally speaking, they will have more influ-
,nce over their husbands. Perhaps, could |
We look into the remote causes of the late
panic, the fanlt would be found to lie with
hose women who did not feed their hus-
lands sensibly. For speculation, for thought,
or business, men need the proper kind Of
God. Let women feed their husbands on
,at meal porridge and apples.
Food should be chosen with reference to
he season. In the spring, vegetables, and
n the summer, fruits should take the place
# heartier food. Men do not wear we'll in
lew York; they are at their prime at thirty
light, instead of fifty, because thier eating
S not properly regulated. If dinner must
,e served at six, seven, or eight o'clock, let
t be light, and the heavy meal eaten in the
morning. l am not vegetarian. Vegeta-
1ans are often from necessity goemandizers,
because they must eat so much in order to
btain sufficient amount of >nutriment. /
,elieve in an occasional piece of good roast
,eef. Fish is an excellent article of food
nut oatmeul is the food par excellence. The
scotch, possessing the largest brains, the
highest degree of intellectually, and fine
hysique, are a nation of oatmeal eaters.