The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-05-30
VOL. XIV. NO. 81.
The Rationale OF FeedIng
From the Courier JonrnoII

He HsiOnAie OF Feeding
! From the Courier Journal.
Among. the peculiar stories which
Baron MURonAUsEN related 10 his
friends over the bottle, that giving an
account oil The inhabitants of the moon
contains some especially interesting
and suggestive particulars: Said the
Baron: :" None of them are less in
stature than thirty-six feet; they are
not called the human species. but the
cooking animals, for they all dress
their food BY fire, as we do, but lose no
time at their meals, as they open their
left side. am place the whole quantity
at once 10 their stomach, then shut il
again till the same day in the pext
month, for they never indulge them
selves with food more than twelve
times year, or once a month. All
but gluttons and epicures must prefer
this method to ours"
We have no doubt that large num-
Der Of Americans would welcome such
q changassp t8e methoa-ef feeding, f@r
as far as cur observation goes the sole
object Of lhe average American, when
he gets his feet under he mahogany.
is to make the food disappear as rap
idly as possible. This is especially the
ease with most business hen. who
never seem to imagine that they must
for sanitary reasons at least, take time
to eat. The method Of inserting
bushel basketful of dinner in the left
side once a month would 20 doubt
afford many men great relief, and en-
able them to do twice as much business.
The truth is, the system Of leisure
ly feeding and communicating ideas
at the same time does not Lave the
place it should in American domestic
economy. The plea is that there is no
time. Time, however, should be taken.
Saint SIMON showed once by an adroit
calculation that four hours of labor
each day are sufficient to provide
every man with the means of living
and even to enrich him. While we are
not inclined to adopt this view, it is |
certainly true that there is great deal
of unnecessary work done, and that
one meal out of the two or three eaten
should be period of entire aban-
doument TO case and ins0Hctance. Wei
do not mean that people should dailyl
indulge in.
IA MoDIsH FEAST
with amorous song and wanton
dances graced," after the fashion of |
the Romans. or a boisterous sympo-
SUM, Grace more, but a quiet. dainty,
lettering, lingering way of abs orbing |
food, which will indicate to casual !
observer that the food is not the object |
of ones session at table, but only the
incident of his sojourn there. The
one is a purely animal method of deal
ing with food. The other is the
method of dual nature, in which the
animal is least in volume aad under |
control. The railroad eating house is a
place where man can be studied as
feeding animal to advantage. No den
of fanishSa -ila animals TO whom !
meat has been thrown, is more repul-
sive. Here men, whom you observed
as sedate and thoughtful citizens in
the cars short time before, have be
come transformed iuto voracious
brutes Their eyes flash; they slash
right and left with knife and fork;
they extend their bodies over the
table reaching after coveted titbits;
they are seen cramming the ruins of
chickens, pigs and beeves, down their
remorseless throats; cups Of boiling {
coffee and tea go hurtling down to
heir stomachs, and aboye.all is heard
he roar, rattle, catter and hiss of
.rashing jaws, spinning plates and
fishes and brandished weapons of
demolition, together with the agoDized
ramp aud Shufa, Of the walters feet
Ipon the floor Such feeders apoplexy
generally claims, and until the reason
BILE method of dining on the cars is
pIacticed, human lie Will
ontinuc to beishortened by such gorg'
ng. When PLATO returned to Ath-
ms from his travels in Sicily ne was
sked what he had seen abroad thar
7as most curious, and he replied: l {
ave beheld a monster in its nature a
man who ate two full meals in day."
f this appeared to be a shocking c
abandonment to gluttony in the eyes a
f Plato, what would be cay to the ]
sual American three meals day
ystem, with solitary "snaks " between,
nd to the widely prevalent American
a5it of has ty eating? 1t is not the"two
ull meals day" which is objection
BILE, but the manner in which those
meals are taken. We are pot sure but
that the Roman tricliniun1 was most
dmirably adapted to promote conver.
alton at meals, facilitate digestion, and
hus vanquish those enemies of the
tomaeh which lie 10 ambuscade among
be dishes of hightoned "spread."
.eisureiy and temperate eating is
irtue and sanitary agency, and since
t may be safely said that nearly all
uman beings eat one fourth more
han they ought to eat there would
ppear to be an urgent necessity for
eform, for economic as well as sanitary
easons. Everybody, however, has bis
wn standard of rectitute not invari-
bly, "rectitude"
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