Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-11-22
TAKE CARE oF YOURSELVES.

of life. Of long experience, and who hHd
quite acute power. ofobseryation in re-
gard to the physique Of bis guests, was
quite positive that there bad been drvel-
opcd of late better form wnnlankind.
II know OF no reason Ia toaccOInt tor this
/ improvement, "said he. ethan by ad-
vanciug the idea that women and girls
are better ted i mss those stooping.
wan faced women and girls OF former
times who had no Stamina Once they
were in the majority. Delicate hands
snd feet were, OF course. to be found, but
liz was accompanied with dropping head i.
NJ breadth of chest, and general debility.
| do not know if it arises so much on nc
count of more exercise, 5ut rather from
the fact that food, such d. women use, j..
better cooked and more pleniuljy given
to them than in he time Of our m0thers
and grandmothers. There used 20 be an
d. fashioned school which WA founded
on s,nting. Ii was uuladyliSe fora girl
10 eat hearty meal. Our sisters used to
be half starved. Cravings FOR that solid
food which was absolutely necessary for
growing girls were sati,fed with cups OF
I tea or thin slices Of bread and butter on
which Il little preserves has been spread
n Nv. .,ou may thiak bat little ofmy e1
perieuce. but sen side resort is exact :
the place whore iair Judgment can be
formed AS to the size. weight. and general
appearance of our women. | Am quite
positive that if you we're able to weigh
the women snd girls who are walking on
th IL verands or on the sands. and had q
record Of the weights of their mothers ut
the same age, th"re would be an increAse
to day OF from 10 to Is per cent, quite
sufficiently to add immensely to the per-
sonnl Appearance Of our women. Yol
may say that am an interested party.
because feed my guests as well as | can,
and that a better class OF people frequent
my house; bu: the observations ! have
the honor of entertaining yod with are
general, and apply to the emajority Of wo
men l meet in the streets of New York.
/ We have no better food MS to quality, but
believe it is tie preparation Of it which
has made this Change. There is no coun-
try in the wofld where the necessity Of
good, well cooked food is greater than in
the United States The changes in our
climate are terrible, and the wear and
tear on the human fra,ae is immense
Perhaps, nowhere else, in any great city
Q Z the world is the stress on human brains
SO great rs in New York, 1t is miiac
ulous 10 think how, fifty years ago, men
aud women got along Mt all, and PrrseA
we'd their faculties. with the had system
OF feed ing they had then But if | be
leYe | can appreciate better physical
condition in The city, / can not say the
same ior the country. The country is
still pie-fed and fyngpan fed; it revels
in clammy ptst9, sticky dough, overdone
meat, ignores rare broled beefsteak, is
utterly ignorant Of soup, and destroys its
digestion by cIoEging ,tomachs with bA-
con fat. il is worse in New England
than 10 the Middle States. 1t is not pov,
erly that does il, but the want OF judg
meut in the selection of food, and ignor-
ance in preparing it. These enegnder
long, lantern jaws. palid compIeAions,
and slabs idedhess IN msn and women.
Feed a man and woman through half
century on indige-tbe food, and their
of-pring viii show the fec Is Of il. L Is
not the physique which is only UNDER
mined, bat the mental qualities are
dwarfed We don't want oper-neryous
mer and women, ail tinghng brain aud
no massive brswn. Such traits give
birth to all kinds Of queer isms. You
find me any well-led people who follow
those wild religious teHeis which ended
in such a fearful tragedy ss took place in
New Englsh this year, That horrible
thing came hs straight down as could be
from century OF bud food aud abnormal
digestions People DOM look at food in
the right way. Most especially do pro
fessional people, those who work the
hardest, often adopt an asceticism which
is fatal to hem. The thing we all want
is staying power. 1t is tue, We Amer-
cans accomplish a great deal in a marvel
ously short peri i'd oflime bat the fact is we
use ourselves up in doing it. We don
stay. Your lawyer, your doctor, your
professor, most especially the two first,
too often 60 to the most unfortunate OF
all extremes. That stimuant which
good, welr.cooked food, and plenty Of it,
would afford them they do not think
about. The great waste that is always
pulling them 10 pieces they make up far
to often by drink. This works for time
with leariIl rapidity keeping he machine
a-going in triple fast lime, but it then
soon grinds out the cog wheels. Your
professor plods, it is true, and may not
require, apparently, the same priming,
but stil he neelecis his stomach, aud is
proud OF such neglect. II is incompati>
bic, so be thinks, with the dignity OF his
calling to stoop down to the wants and
necessities OF men in lower occupation.
He bolts n little bad food, and Is SURE
Inely ignorant or ind ferent whether he
is feeding on baked or boiled meat.
Now, how stupid it's fora man olscience
who ought To understand the frst priuci-
pies ola team-engine, to fancy that any
machine can work without the necessary
amount Of good fuel. Aproessions per-
son should be temperate, but not abstem-
ious; when man is giving himself away
-pa";ing all The time with his substance
why, teetotalism often dries him up
and withers him. j Is good food with a
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