The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-17

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A few minutes rest before eating
plenty of time and jokes and laughter
while eating, and then again few min
utes' rest, and we believe you might
laugh AZ 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
II sleepy, heed the sign: You are either
overtaNed and need rest, or YOU hav,
eaten too much-you are the best Judge.
as to that.
A five minutes nap is often better
than half hours sleep, because you dc
not wake up with that half-dead feeling
which some people complain of when VT
urge them TO rest-and the sleepiness j,
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 unheedful OF the time.
have sat up till it is late. They cannot
sleep-nature is calling out Tor more
fuel; they long for something TO eat.
But You know it is very unhealthy 10
eat at So late an hour"
'Oh! is il? 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; restlessly you will turn
and toss; you will strive to quell the hum
ger fit by draught of water; but that
won't do it; and at last, in despair, you
give up the hope Of sleep. A cracker or
small piece of bread would have hinder
ed all this, and you would have fallen
into sleep as sweetly rs a little child does
after taking its milk.
Why don't you keep the baby awake
after feeding it, if it 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 pre-
tend it is unheathful to sleep after the
days last meal? Is not man an animal?
Do not animals without exception sleep
after eating? Do we not feel like sleep
ing after each days last meal? Evident
ly the body yearns for sleep. Exercise
Immediately after eating is pernicious;
rest is healthful. What rest can oom-
pare 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. No sooner
have they supped than they 90 to bed.
Look at the actorsi There was Rur-
bini, who dined at three; went to his
dressing room in the Italian opera house,
and slept until the theatre opened its
doors Atmidnight he supped heartily,
and went straight to bed; he died of sheer
old age
"You know Monsieur Thiers habit
The moment his dinner was ended, he
stretched himself out to sleep, and slept
an hour.
"The truth is, if you look around you,
it will be found that the great majority
of men 90 to sleep Immediately after
making their best meal; and you certain
ly never saw healthier, stronger wo-
men than those Of the great markets.
What is their life? Dinner, and to bed.
Take another, the very opposite class
They keep late hours;
their best meal is when the stars say good
night, then they 20 to sleep. Do you
ever hear Of an astronomer dying under
a hundred?
'The majority Of mechanics and SER
wants 50 to sleep Immediately after eat
ing their best meal. They are right;
they obey natures voice, which always
gives judicious counsel"
"Good! Good" we felt like exclaim-
ing when We read that.
What the writer says is true, we be-
lieve, of any country but America.
Americans only 60 to bed with empty
A lady said once that eff we want the
brain to stop working give the body
to do" 1t is only reasonable,
if thoughts are whirling
through your brain at night, and you
cannot stop thinking, give the stomach
a cracker Or piece of bread.