The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-01-21
FOOD.

The human machine probably COM
menced With an average duration OF
twenty years. Sta tistics show that the
average period Of human life has
doubled in the last two hundred years.
The OK of to-day attains magnitude
unheard of in the middle ages. The
race horse Of to-day is capable OF de-
gree Of speed which was never dreamed
Of in Styling Childer's'' time. The
average Englishman of to-day, cannot
wear any one of the suits Of mail in the
Tower of London; and the average
Enelishman's hand will not enter the
covered handle of the ancient swords
in that Museum of armor.
4 There is every reason to believe that
, under favorable circumstances the du-
ration of human life could be increased
. form the "three score and ten Of the
prophet, to one hundred years.
The first great requisite is proper
+ food supplies. Barbarous races are Ill
fed races: nomads and hunters are al
' ternately gorged and starved, like the
t wolf and the jackal.
r Food should be plain and simple, and
l. in reasonable variety. There are many
e diseases which result from imperfect
observation-disclosures of debility, such
A. as consumption, catarrh, &c. On the
n other hand, there are some diseases
y which are created or aggravated by toe
r; much food. But, as rule, it may be
ne said, that there are one thousand who
e. do not live at their period Of life be
is cause Of too little food, for every ont
he hundred, who shorten their days iron
is too much food. Within REASONABLY
limits Napoleon rule to "always ris
no from the table hungry" is good one
Mt Variety in ones food is of great I'M
nj. portance. We have talked to old hur
i've tiers who had lived for months excl'
sively on venison; and they expresse
hat the loathing with which they came
n n last to regard that very delicious inca
the A friend of ours was one OF part
ak who, years ago, were showed in ON tt
col north shore of Lake Superior, and su
the sisted for months on white fish; al
'use the result was he took such disgust
tect that delicate game fish that he cou
never afterwards bear
rm- even look at one. The
urn facts explain to some extent tn
ray greed the Indians have for Hour.
ties. supplies elements craved by the syste
han A good many cases Of dyspeps
'tile spring from lack Of variety in
IN a food. The labratory of the stom'
and cannot find the exact materials "
are which to repair some weakness or br:
the in some part Of the system, and hel
men result disturbed function and impair
the digestion. This is the reason why
CUES change obtained by travel IS SO be
The fetal to health. The old farm.sd
Tue expresses it-"change Of pastures ma
fat calves" The farmer who Ii
~. continually in one spot, eating the 50
s an kind of food and drinking the same X
hence of water, suffers not only mental r.
,i,sn, but he is laying up the seeds Of debi
nom N his system.
oSes' Our farmers do not travel beca
sons, they cannot afford to do SO; they
es, OF driven to the severest economics
E the can live at home for month upon v
e late it would cost them to take trip
n the week. They are driven to these ec'
ought mics by high taxes and hard time:
:. both largely due to nisgovernm
'nien Thus the very health Of the peep
- connected by subtle ties by the b
box; and thus We see that in .
Nc BE- government the length Of life of tn
which dividual depends upon his intelli
dr;1i appreciation of the politics Of the c
Are the try. And SO we trace all things;
IAniza- to the school house and the ballot
lrpose, The people should cultivate
neces- pleasant interchange Of social col
xS;ch sizes. We will only be upon this p
black once, and we should make our
= az: visit agreeable to ourselves and p
.lso, of able to our neighbors. Selfsl
rigade- sometimes isolates men and fan
ers az. A wiser and moro enlightened selfisl
blacks, will perceive that we need some
- n gu. more than to take root and veg
it was We need society. And 50. fri
'an .ne bring forth the carriage or the '
,r and visit your neighbors- The
bt.ntial viii always meet you with the fac
my Air present to it. If JON are morose
= ~. - surly, your fellow men viii 500
you m return. If You look the
IN the face with . laugh. it will
10 inst back at you. There IS . vast n
.ssen IN Of goodness and kindness m the b