The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1879-03-27
HAEiyG TIE x0sT OF ONESELF
FGL,

FOOD.
Afiectation has always set limits H.
women within tiigsc by which uaCu1
. and social laws have already hedge
Ecr, and IL 10 shape las IL prove,
more EUTtful o. degrading t0 her tha
IL the notion thai il j. unbeCJmiu.
for her To eat. The whole race o
InCveliSts Of the last generation. tTie,
to make Ecr q creature above the sen
scs, WITH arms and meek enough Z,
lsiHg with and pretty feet. But tn,
lreSt all grown. with, let us presum,
for the sake OF probability, yeTtebrai
30 support il. Lord Byron pretended
he could not bear 10 see woman eat
and pretended il is said to rat next &
lnOthing himself, at particss, for which
he fortified himself by a hearty TcpaSl
before going. BUlWeT's hcroines par
took Of food only from stern necessity
and Disraeii in 'LOthair' makes one Oi
his fine women Of fashion say that
Strawberries and cream are the only
food one is not ashamed to be seen
eating This affection might be par
dOned in fine women whose greatest
daily effort was 10 walk from the sofa
to their carriage, and vino cultivated
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employment. But the mischief has
been that tie idea spread among class.
Is who Lad 10 right TO indulge in il
women with duties 20 perform, and
who deliberately untitled themselves
and their daughters for use and hap
piness by neglecting 70 lay in health
and strength for both.
4 GRAND MISTAKE.
Human beings draw their strength
from two sources, the food they eat
and the air they breathe. As a rule
men in health do not limit themselves
in food when they wish to gain
strength and liyelincsS Of spirit and
/ body. And they find that living gener-
/ Ously renders the faculties keen and
the humUT gay. Women, with more
! trying duties to ill, improve on nature
by living almost wholly within doors,
breathing the poorest air they can get,
and make up the waste of nerve and
want Of Stimulant by eating the least
they can persuade Nature to accept.
TIE OLD WAY OF living.
Much has been said about the dcte-
TiOratiOn Of women, since the times of
| the gTandmU.heTs who reared large
families, spun, wOve and kept house
and often took part in field work. The
causes are not far 10 seek, for any one
who understands human nature. Our
great graldmOthers had plenty Of air
and aie heartily CT substantial, nOuT-
ishing food. There was never any
lack OF air in the old houses, where the
door opened directly into the open air,
and the drafts came roaring down the
great chimncys, and the living room
was set i'll the southwest corner to
catch the light. AHi the women con-
triYed 10 tiO much of their daily work
in the open air. They washed and
boiled soap and cide= and made hQm-
iny ont of doors, and in summer the
cooking was largely done out of the
house in fine weather. 4 turn at corn
planting when the "wOrl was drove"
or 4 hand at haymaking or Teapng
gave them whole days in the sunshine,
and how much these did lay the fOun-
datiOn for sound nerves and muscles.
only those know who have tried the
same life, and the women kept them
| selves Oh no mincing portion Of ten
and toast ut meals. Much meat, fowl,
bread and vegetables and cheese, with
/ free access to ample dairieS and full
cider barrels gave rOundneSS TO their
figures and bloom to the cheek of those
handsome DANES, who danced, too, at
sixty, as light as girls in their teens,
and held Ii a disgrace ever TO name an
aching back,
BLAME WHERE 1T BELONGS,
/ The young man Of the period Is re-
spOnsihle for much OF the fOOlishncss
! that leads women to abjure their food.
In his ardent determination to see
nothing in women but angels before
their time, the young man makes it
rather difficult for the human creature
to exist with any comfort. His ideal
is all brilliance and amiability, with a
number two shoe and no appetite. He
| iidgets if his admired takes a second
biscuit, for fear she will appear too
gross for his fancy, and never could
understand that refinement of taste
and sensibility of feeling might exist
in a girl who could ask for Il second
plate OF buckwheat cakes. Women
and girls dreading his callOw satire
and grand condemnation either take
their meals on the sly, or cOnscien-
tiOusly repress their hunger till they
have reduced themselves to half allow
ance of spirits and nerves, rs well as
of food,
There is another exquisitely mcOm-
| Portable school of persons, strict dis
iciplinarians, who act on the principle
| that it is unWiSe TO allow any one to
have what he wants. They always III
| sist on sitting in chilly rooms, where
delicate people ShiVcr, because hot
rooms are SO weakening, and stunt
| themselves of sleep, because It IS a
waste Of precious time, and whose
golden rule of the table is, never to a.
| low themselves or any body else to eat
enough. How often have you not
! seen in the paIsGI5 Wise esiSays ON eat
ing, winding up with The sage advice,
always rise from the table before you
| feel satisfied, an excellent rule for
human beings perhaps, but not what
one would feed a favOrite cdt or a
farmer treat his horse by. You do not
| take the saucer away from the cat be
fore she has done lapping hcr milk, or
/ you give it buck if she looks Wistfully
after it; the farmer gives his blOOded
stock all they can eat, and is alarmed
if there is falling off in their appe-
tite. Only women, the most delicately
| framed beings in creation, with keen,
irritable nerves which take food rs Il
polished working shaft takes UP oil,
eat the lddst and the poorest that will
sustain life in them.
The evil begins with TIE glrl, who
hears Il schOOlnlate criticised by a pre-
cOciOus Satirist for nm ungentcel appe-
tite, and Immediately begins To check
her own for fcar of coming under tlIC
| ban. She refuses breakfast and nl;ui-
ages to get on with an apple and cara
melS ut recess. lunches faStidiOuSly on
mince pie and fruit cake, and picks at
dinner, stealing back to the table after
| the rest for a supplementary course.
Hungry all the time, she nibbles cake
and confectionery, till by the time she
| is ii her appetite is spoiled in earnest,
and she is delicate, and walking wears
her out, and sweeping two rooms
brings on palpitatiOn of the heart, and
she is too nervous to sew, and by 20
develops maladies her grandmother
would have blUshed 10 own, gastric in
Examinations, and weaknesses which bl
and by put her On the list Of chronic
patrons of the drug shops.
PANTRY PROwLEES.
No one who knows girls will call
this an oyerdraWn story. l have
known various young ladies with gen.
teel appetiteS who sneered politely at
companions who ate with natural Zest
ut meal times, but there was not ore
who was not Il most determined nib
! bier, or rather feeder between times
l recall one, who pTided herself on
] never eating but one Biscuit at break
fast, who was an example in this line
| of extraordinary feeding. If she sat
down TO read, apple after apple came
out of her pockets to be mUnched with
a vigOr very unlike her languid airs at
the table. At h3lf-past ten she was
about the pantry, tasting the nice
things in preparation for dinner, pass
ing celery, custards and sauces in i'm
partial review. Remnants Of pie, often
exceeding two pieces, the last bit OF
/ pudding and fruit cake, fcll to her
! share IN foraging, and the relays Of
| cookies and caraInelS that came out OF
| her pocket were endless. \ bad breath
and spoiled complexion were the re-
suits OF this miscellaneous diet, rs they
always will be; but if there were moth
ing else to be said about il, the hypOc-
riSv of such 4 habit would spoil q
girls nature for sincerity and OPEN
! ness, which some excellent judges find
/ the chief charm in man Or woman.
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