Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-09-14
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EATING AND SLEEPING.

EATING AND SLEEPING.
These two occupations have closer con.
nection than most persons in active life are
willing to admit. We gave some advice to
our readers on this subject year or two ago,
drawing largely from experience in confrma-
tion of our theory, and have reason to know
that many proited greatly by what was to
them new revelation. We have been asked
by several correspondents, who changed their
habits at our suggestion, to repeat the lesson
for the benft of others.
The notion is widely prevalent that it is
unhealthy to eat late at night or just before
retiring. This came from the severe denunci-
alton of "late suppers," contained in nearly
all the old popular works on diet. The argu.
ment in these publications was not directed
against food at late hour in the day, but
against what was involved in late supper,
at period when the reyelers slipped from
their chairs and spent the night under the
table. or we're carried by waiting lackeys in
sensible to their beds.
1t was the midnight liebaueh that:was the
object of attack and even here it was less
the gluttony than the drunkenness which
alarmed the doctors and called forth their
reprehensions. A man may induce apoplexy
by gorging himself with food at any hour of
the day, but the bottle after bottle Of heavy
wine or the bowls of hot punch at the evening
revel were what did the business for most
who ran brief career Of dissipation to an
untimely grave.
Man is the only animal that can be taught
to sleep quietly on an empty stomach. The
brute creation resent all efforts to coax them
to such a violation of the laws of nature.
The lion roars in the forest until he has found
his prey and when he has devoured it he sleeps
over until he needs another meal. The horse
will paw all night in the stable, and pig will
soueal in the pen, refusing all rest or sleep
until they are fed. The animals which chew
the cud have their own provision for a late
meal just before dropping off to their nightly
slumbers.
Man can train himself to the habit Of sleep
ing without a preceding meal, but only after
long years Of practice. AS he comes into the
world nature is too strong for him, and he
must be fed before he will sleep. A child's
stomach is small, and when perfectly filled, II
no sickness disturbs it, sleep follows natural
ly and inevitably. AS digestion goes on the
stomach begins to empty. single fold in It
will make the little sleeper restless; two will
waken it and if it is hushed again to respose
the nap is short, and three folds put and end
to slumber. Paregoric or other narcotic may
GLOSS lUS eyes dSdll, WlGHouV OlotSA Aoo@'
or some stupefying drug it will not sleep, no
matter,how. healthy it may be. Not even an
angel who learned the art of .minstrelsy in a
celestial choir can sing babe to sleep on an
empty stomach.
We use the oft-quoted Illustration, ''sleep-
ing as sweetly as an infant" because this
slumber of child follows Immediately after
it's stomach is completely filled with whole
some food. The sleep which comes to adults
long hours after partaking Of food, and when
the stomach is nearly or quite empty, is not
after the infantle repose. There is all the
difference in the world between the sleep of
refreshment and sleep of exhaustion.
To sleep we'll the blood that swells the veins
in the head during our busy hours must flow
back, leaving greatly diminished volume be-
hind the brow that lately throbbed with such
vehemence. To digest we'll this blood is
Of life. 1t is fact established beyond the
possibility of contradiction that sleep aids
digestions, and that the process of digestion
is conducive to refreshing sleep. 1t needs
no argument to- convince us Of this mutual
relations. The drowsiness which always fol
lows the well-ordered meal is itself testl-
mony of nature to this inter-dependence.
The waste of human life by the neglect OF
this lesson is very great. The daily wear and
tear of the body may be restored more fully
than it usually is if this simple rule was not
Systematically violated. Sleep is wonderfully "
recuperative, but it may be shOrn OF half Its
benefits by unfavorable conditions. Foul all
in the bed chamber leaves the sleeper almost
as exhausted in the morning as when weary
with the days labors he sank upon his bed.
A gnawing stomach, empty Of food, takes
out the mighty sleep that refreshing sense OF
comfort which properly belongs to it. 1t
leaves the blood to throb in the heated brow,
and haunts the slumber with eyer-present
source of disquiet. 1t is like the sleep when
the mother takes while her child is under the
care of the watchers in another room. An
uneasy stomach is just like an aching heart,
in it's effect upon the nightly repose.
A healthy person who goes to bed on a full
stomach will always awake in The morning
with better appetite for his breakfast Ii
dinner is eaten in the middle of the day and
light supper is served at six o'clock in the
afternoon, a hearty luncheon should be pro.
vided at ten O'Clock in the evening, or just
before the hour of retireing. The rule should
be to eat the last moment before going to bed,
whatever the hour may be-.
And this latest meal should not be of slight
viands, as this phrase is commonly understood
The less person eats at any time OF cake OF
pie, or the countless flummeries that 60 to
make up fancy tea table, the better; but
none of these should be eaten at bedtime
Cold chicken, cold roast beef, corned beef OF
wholesome meat of any kind, with well-Daked
bread and butter (sauce and pickle will 40 nc
harm) will serve the substantial requisites fol
this callation. Milk is perhaps the best of all
where the pure article can be obtained "Bor.
der's condensed" will supply it in the best
shape to suit our taste, and if this be used II
should be mixed with warm or hot water, IN
stead of cold, and eaten before it cOols. With
bread and fruit baked apples will serve when
berries and peaches fail), this makes very
wholesome evening meal.
All persons should be cautious when they
reform their habits in this respect. A mouth.
full or two each night at first is all that should
be attempted, gradually increasing the guam
tity until the luncheon, becomes pretty sub
stantial meal. If indigestion follows at any
time, chewing the meat of one or two peach
pits (for the prussic acid in them after eating
is better than sending for doctor. with
clear conscience and a full stomach, any man
in toerable health may derive from his night
ly sleep that recuperation which ought TO come
| from this sweet restOrer of life's daily Weal
and waste. e.-Practical Health Hints for Busi
ness Men.
| MUD VOLCANOES IN SICILY.-I"O eIup
tions of mud in places remote from each other
and offering different and remarkable charac'
teristics, are under observation in Sicily. one
is taking place in the interior of the island
about eight miles north of Girgenti. 1t pro;
ceeds from mountain about three hundred
feet high, called Macaluba, the tlattened sum
NIT of which is dotted with small cones, each
containing tunnel shaped crater, from the
bottom of which bubble of mud rises anC
bursts every minute The other eruption is