Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-10-04
The Waste OF Life.

Ine waste OF Lice
hotelkeeper, past the middle age Of life, OF
long experience, and who had quite acute pow
ers OF observation in regard to the physique OF
his guests, was quite positive that there mad
been developed OF late better form In Hon1n-
kind. 81 know Of no reason to account fJr tniS
improvement" said he, Ethan by advancing
the idea that women and girls are be- ter fed:
miss these STOPPING, wan-faced women and
Once they were In the majority. Delicate
hands and feet were, OF course, to be found, Out
1t was accompanied with dropping head; no
breadth OF chest, and general deputy. l 90
not know II 1t arises so much on account OF
more exercise, but rather from the fact That
food, such as women use, Is better cooked and
more plentifully given to them IMAM IN tne
time OF our mothers and grandmothers. There
used to be an oh-fashfoned school which was
founded on stintng. It was unladVltke Tor
girl to eat hearty meal. Our sisters used to
be half starved. Cravings for that solid food
which was absolutely necessary for growing
girls were satisfied with cups OF tea or thin
slices OF bread and butter on which little pre-
had 6 been spread now you may 5ank
sort is exactly the place where fair Juag-
ment can be formed as to the size, weight and
general appearance OF our women. l am quite
positive that If you were able to weigh the wo-
men and girls who were walking on this YER
anda or on the sands, and had record OF the
weights Of their mothers at the same age there
would be an Increase to-day OF from 10 to IS
per cent, quite sufficient to add immensely to
the personal appearance OF our women. You
may say that am an interested party, be-
cause feed my guests as well as / can, and
that better class OF people frequent my house,
but the observations have the honor OF enter
tanning you with are general, and apply to the
great majority of women meet in the streets
OF New York. We have no better food as to
quality. but believe that 1t is the preparation
OF it which has made the change. There is no
country in the world where the necessity of
good, well-cooked food Is greater than In the
United States. The changes in our climate are
terrible, ard the wear and tear on the human
frame is immense. Perhaps nowhere else, In
any great city of the world, is the stress on hu-
man brains so great as in New York. 1t is mir
aculous to think how, so years ago, men or Wo-
men got along at all, and preserved their facul.
then. But If believe l can appreciate better
physical condition in the city. l cannot say
the same for the country. The country Is still
pie-fed and frying pan fed, it revels in clammy
rare broiled beefsteak, is utterly ignorant of
soup, and destroys its digestion by cloggng
England than in the Middle states 1t is not
poverty that does it, but the want of judgment
In the selection Of food and ignorance In pre-
paringit. These engender long lantern jaws,
pallid compilations, and slabsdenesS in men
and women. Feed man and woman through
half century on indigesttble food, and their
offspring will show the effects of it. 1t is not
the physique which is only undermined, but
the mental qualities are dwarfed We don't
want over-nervouS men and women, all ting
ling brain and no massive Drawn. Such traits
me any wel-fed people, who would follow those
wild religious tenets, which ended in such a
fearful tragedy as took place in New England
down as could be from century of bad food
and abnormal digestions. People don't 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
them. The thing we all want is staying
power. 1t Is true, we Americans accomplish a
great deal in marvelously short period of
w II n tr n
Ing 1t. We don't stay. Your lawyer, your
doctor, your professor, more especially the
first two. too often go to the most unfortunate
Of all extremes. That stimuiant which good,
wellcooked food, and plenty Of it, would at
ford them they do not think about. The great
waste that is always pulling them to pieces
works for a time with fearful rapidlty, keeping
the machine agoing in triple fast time, but then
1t soon gr1Ids out the cog-wheels. Your pro-
lessor plods, it is true, and may not require ap-
pareDtly, the same printing, but still he neg
lects his stomach, and is proud Of such neg
lect.. 1t is incompatible, so he thinks with the
dignity OF his calling to stoop down to the
ton. He bolts little bad food, and Is SUI
premely ignorant or Indifferent whether he is
feeding on baked or boiled meat. Now, how
understand the first principles Of steam en-
CINE, to fancy that any machine can work with
out the necessary amount OF good fuel. A pro-
fessional person should be temperate, but not
abstemiOus; when man is giving himself
away-parttng all the time with his substance
why, teetotalism often dries him up and with
ers him. 1t is good food with single glass Of
sound Burgundy which is often the saving of a
mans faculties, and carries him through to
future usefulness. Great brains that do mighty
work, and keep on doing it, like Bismarck,
must be .well-fed men. A man may squirt
along until he Is So or 40, and accomplish some
thing, but If he is underfed he stops then sud-
denly and goes all to pieces. he has used up
half his life, and the harvest of his later years
he is unable to reap. If the question OF longev-
far as professional men go we kill them no In
the United States with startling rapidity. It
Is all driving, and no time to bait the beast.
Why do not doctors, lawyers, clergymen and
calling abroad, and follow their example in
caring better for the physical necessities Of
life,"-[N. Y. Times.