The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-04-16

How to Cure or Prevent IL.

A few minutes rest before eating,
plenty Of time and jokes and laughter
while eating. and then again few
minutes rest, and We believe you
might laugh at dyspepsia.
/ You might rest while wedding your
garden, training your vines. playing
with the children or dipping into
some bright work Of poetry Or fiction.
But. if sleepy. heed the sign: You
are either Overtaxed and need rest, or
you have eaten too much-you are the
best judge as to that.
A Eve minutes nap is often better
than q halthour's sleep. because you
do not wake up with that half-dead
feeling which some people complain
Of when We urge them to rest-and
the sleepiness is gone.
Some people find, after going to
bed, that they are hungry. They had
a light supper early in the evening /;
they have been out driving or walking !;
have been reading aloud. or singing.
perhaps talking . good deal, and un-
heedful of the time, have sat up till ii
is late. They can not sleep-natnre
is calling out for more fuel they long
for something to eat.
"But you know it is very unhealthy
to eat at 80 late an hour"
"Oh! il it? Then. by all means,
don't yield to the demands of your
stomach, however long you lie awake.
What fudge! Are the English a
race Of dyspeptics, They often have
very heavy suppers just before retiring
The hungrier you are the faster
your brain will work, and the harder
will throb your head. restlcssly you
will turn and toss, you will strive to
quell the hunger it by q draught Of
water. but that wont do it. and at
last, in despair. you give up the hope
Of sleep. A cracker or small piece Of
bread would have hindered all this.
and you would have fallen into sleep
rs sweetly as a little child does after
taking its milk.
Why don't you keep the baby
awake after feeding it, If j; is injurious
to sleep on full stomach? We are
tempted to quote from an article We
saw the other day "Sleep following
supper"
! "Nothing is more absurd than to
pretend it is unhealthful to sleep after
the DAVIS last meal. Is not man an
animal? Do not animals. without
exception. sleep Immediately after
eating? Do We not feel like sleeping
after each days last meal !? Evidently
the body yearns for sleep. Exercise
Immediately after eating is pernicious,
rest is healthful. What rest can
compare with sleep, which reposes the
mind, the lungs, even the heart:
See the peasants! No persons
enjoy better health than they do.
supper is the best meal of the day.
! NJ sooner have they supped than
they 60 to bed.
LOOK at the actors! There was
Rubini, who dined at three; went to
his dressing-room in the Italian opera
house. and slept until the theatre
opened its doors. At midnight he
supped heartily. and went straight to
bed he died Of sheer old age.
| "You know Monsieur Theirs
habits The moment his dinner was
ended, he stretched himself out to
sleep. and slept an hour.
The truth is. II you look around
you. It will be found that the great
majority Of men 60 to sleep immedi-
ately after making their best meal !;
and you certainly never saw healthier.
stronger women than those Of the
great markets. What is their life :?
Dinner, and to bed. Take another,
the very Opposite class-astronomers.
They keep late hours, their best meal
is when the stars say good-night, then
they 60 to sleep. Do you ever hear
Of an astronomer dying under q
hundred +?
The majority Of mechanics and
servants 60 to sleep Immediately after
eating their hest meal. They are
right they obey natures voice. which
always gives judicious COUNSEL
Good! Good" we felt like ex.
claiming when We read that.
| What the writer says is trne, We
believe If any country but America.
Americans only 60 to bed with empty
stomachs.
A lady said once that IF We want
the brain to stop working give the
body something to d." 1t is only
reasonable, therefore. If thoughts are
whirling through your brain at night,
and you cannot stop thinking. give
the stomach a cracker or a piece of
bread, and try that remedy.
ACase In Law.
Some time daring the past summer
. case in law Of considerable interest
came up and was tried before Justice
L., in an Eastern village.
at seems that the orchard Of one
Of our honest old farmers had been
at different times visited, and many of
the best trees robbed of their fruit. |
Of course Farmer E had quite a |
curiosity to end out who was in the |
habit Of appropriating his apples. So
cautiously concealing himself in the
shadow Of the fence. he discovered q |