Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18
Food.

Food.
The use of fool by different persons
should be regulated in auaatity or char
ncler, or in both, according to their
ages, their health and occupations,
the seasons aud the climate in which
they live.
Milk is the only perfect food for in
fants. 1T is the best food for children
and youth up to the age of sixteen.
Ola people are weaker in their digest
i've powers, partly because their
whole systems are weaker, and partly
because of their diminished muscular
activity. Their food should be less in
quantity than that used by younger
persons, and of easier digestion.
In summer and in warm climates less
food by one-third is needed, the tone
of the system being lowered, and per-
sons thus being unable either to digest
or to assimilate as much as in winter
and in colder ATTITUDES.
SO also fat, sugar and starch-the
latter includes fine our-beiug mainly
heat making elements, should be but
little used in summer and in tropical
regions, and largely used in winter and
in cold climates. Corn.l read, which
contains large per cent. of tat, is bet
ter adapted for food in winter than in
summer.
Shoemakers, tailors and people of
sedentary habits generally need less
food, and food that is more easily di
gested, than the farmer and all persons
who work hard in the open air. Sill,
everybody should have enough of &C.
tive exercise to be able to digest gen.
erous diet.
A thinker needs good supply of
brain food, such as is literally fur
nshed in oatmeal but he must not
use his brain at the expense of vigorous
muscles, for it is muscles that have to
work not only the stomach, but the
lungs and heart.
The sick, of course, need food care
fully adapted to their particular condi-
ton, and those who are not in full
health may greatly help themselves by
rejecting whatever they find injurious
to them.
A WoMAN's DOUBLE LIFE.-A farm
laborer of Ridgewood, N. j.. married
in New York in 1862 young girl who
had recently arrived from Germany.
She was only sixteen, pretty and we'll
taught. She became the mother of
three children, and was model wife
except for her extreme penuriOusness.
She frequently allowed the children to
do without necessaries to save few
cents from her husbands scanty earn
ing. She kept an account in a savings
bank in New York city. A few day 8
ago, after an expensive illness, she died +,
and her husband went to New York to
left--out of the bank. The Cashier
told him that his wife had two accounts,
one of $40 in her own name and one of
81 500 in the name of her sister. in
trust of person said to be residing in
Germany and unknown to the husband.
He found his wife's sister, who cou-
fessed that his wife had child in Ger
many, now q lad of seventeen, and that
she had deposited THIS money of his
! in bank for the benefit of this child.
The 81 800 had been accommodating for
sixteen years.
Tennyson, the poet laureate, is thus
pictured in the independent Beige:
Tall, rather stout, round shouldered,
walking with stick. a long beard com
pletely burying his face, and pair of
round, Chinese-looking spectacles. "
His attire: " A felt hat, much the worse
for wear, the brim large and fabby,
drawn low over his forehead; trousers
too wide, shabby-looking coat too tight,
his left hand in constant contact with
his spectacles, which have q large gold
rim that flashes in the sun as he ad-
vances towards you"