Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-05-19

You want TO know what YOU shall do
to become plump and scemly? | will
tell YOU.
l. BE thankful YOU are not fat. Man j
body is designed for use Lean. flexible.
active folks should be duly grateful that
they do not waddle, wheezc and sweat
Besides your chance for long life is. on
the whole, better than that of the fat
man. So gratitude. that your ease is no
worse, is your first duty.
2. You must begin the consideration
of your cmaciation with the physiology
cal fact that the quantity and quality of
your flesh depends on the character of
your digestion. The dyspeptic and con-
sumptive eat IN 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 il is not the quantity eaten,
but that digested. which determines your
flesh and strength. Eat less! And as the
saliva plays very important part in the
function of digestion, masticate thor
oughly, drinking little or nothing by
way Of helping the food into your ston,-
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 l regard the
two-meal-a-day system for certain class
q of individuals, that rarely prescribe
for consumptive or dyspeptic, without
making this rule imperative. If the pa
tent is to cat twenty or even twenty-five
ounces of food per day. it is greatly bet
ter to eat it in two meals. And, may
add, that for all classes of persons. be-
lieve it would prove a great advantage
in a physiological point of view, tc
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, mot veal or lamb)
with some coarse bread, potatoes, ant
all the vegetables of the season. excep
tomatoes; for desert. use fruit al libitum
If possible sleep little after dinner.
5. You must sleep in \ pure atmos
phere; go to bed as early as nine o clock
and rising by six, walk slowly in tn,
open air half an hour or more. drinking
two or three tumblers of cold water
6. Spend the evening in social enjoy
ment. Happiness and laughter are thu
best friends Of digestion.
Z. Live as much as possible in the opeI
air, never forgetting that. after the foo,
has been well digested in the stomach
it must mingle with good supply o
oxygen in the lungs before it can b,
transformed into the tissues of the body
Bad food with pure air, will make llesl
faster than the best food with -an in
pure atmosphere.
8. Battle frequently, that the effected
matter in the system may easily escape
and thus afford the best opportunity 70
the deposition of new material.
3. If married, cultivate the quiet sen
timents Of domestic life. If unmarried
and OF proper age and health, seek il
this most satisfactory of all earthly re
lations, that freedom from the fret an,
discomfort of life which only true mar
rage can give.-Dio Le,0is, in Code,
Rule.