The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-03-16
How to Become Plump.

| You want to know what you shall dc
to become plump and seemly? / will
tell you.
1. Be thankful you are not fat. Mans
body is designed for use. Lean, flexible.
active folks should be duly grateful thai
they do not waddle, wheeze and sweat.
Besides your chance for long life is, on
the whole. better than that of the fat
man. So gratitude, that your case is no
worse, is your first duty.
2. You must begin the consideration
OF your emaciation with the physiologi-
cal fact that the quantity and quality OF
your flesh depends on the character OF
your digestion. The dyspeptic and con-
sumptiye eat an enormous quantity OF
nutritious food; but grow thinner day
by day. Lean people are not unfre-
quently great eaters; but the food is not
appropriated. Such bodies are like our
great peninsular army which, receiving
constant supplies of men and horses, con-
stantly decreased in size and strength.
So, my dear shadows, we must determine.
first, what will give you more strength in
digestion and assimilation. You proba-
bly, eat too much. The digestive appa-
ratus is compelled to undertake SO much.
it can do nothing well.
Remember it is not the quantity eaten,
but that digested, which determines your
flesh and strength. Eat less! And as the
saliva plays a very important part in the
function of digestion, masticate thor
oughly, drinking little or nothing by
way OF helping the food into your stom-
ach.
3. Eat but twice day; and, unless in
the midst of hard labor, let the second
meal come as early as two or three
O clock. So important do regard the
two-meal-a-day system for certain class
es OF individuals, that I rarely prescribe
for consumptive or dyspeptic, without
making this rule imperative. If the pa
tent is to eat twenty or even TWENTY-FIVE
ounces OF food per day, it is greatly bet
ter to eat 1T in two meals. And, / NAV
add, that for all classes of persons, 1 be-
ieve it would prove great ADVANTAGE.
in physiological point of view. to
change from the present system to two
meals day.
4. For breakfast eat coarse bread.
cream and baked sweet apples; for din.
ner, beef or mutton, (not veal or lamb,
with some coarse bread, potatoes, and
all the vegetables of the season, except
tomatoes; for desert, use fruit ad libitum.
Ii possible sleep a little after dinner.
o. You must sleep in a pure atmos-
phere; go to bed as early as nine O. clock,
and rising by six, walk slowly In the
open air half an hour or more, drinking
two or three tumblers of cold water.
3. Spend the evening in social enioy-
ment. Happiness and laughter are the
best friends of digestion.
a. Live as much as possible in the open
nr, never forgetting that, after the food
has been well digested in the stomach.
1t must mingle with good supply Of
oxygen in the lungs before it can be
transformed into the tissues of the BODY.
Bad food with pure air, will make flesh
faster than the best food with an i'm.
pure atmosphere.
8. Battle frequently, that the effected
matter In the system may easily escape,
and thus afford the best opportunity for
the deposition of new material.
!. u Ii married, cultivate the quiet SEN
hments OF domestic life. If unmarried.
ana OF proper age and health, seek in |
ms most satisfactory of all earthly re-
atlons. that freedom from the fret and |
ilseontent of life which only true mar !
1age can give. Lewis. in Golden |