The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-25
How to Become Plump.

,.. You. want to know what you shall do
to become plump and seemly? | will
tell you.
1. Be thankful you are not fat. Man S
body is designed for use. Lean, flexible,
active folks should be duly grateful that
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. e ID
2. You must begin the consideration
of your emaciation with the physiology
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. n You proba-
bly, eat too much. The digestive appa-
ratus is compelled to undertake so much,
it can do nothing well. .' g ''''f
Remember it 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 stom-
ach.a "a I ea.Ht,. g. ii ual r..
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 l rarely prescribe
for 8, consumptive or dyspeptic, without
making this rule imperative. If the pa
tient is to eat twenty or even Twenty-Five
ounces of food per day, tits greatly bet
terdto eat it in two meals. And, | may
add, that for all classes of persons, be-
lieve it would prove great advantage,
in a physiological point of view, to
change from the present system to two
meals a day. am lg4YsIs .s.s ...t,rs
| bo4 For breakfast eat coarse bread,
cream and baked sweet apples; for din
ner, beef or mutton, (not veal or lainb),
with some coarse bread, potatoes, and
all the vegetables of the season. except
tomatoes; for desert, use fruitad libitum.
ii possible sleep a little after dinner.
%. You must sleep. in a pure .atmos-
F! phere; go to bed as early as nine q clock,
and rising by six. walk slowly in the
open air half an hour or more, drinking
two or three tumblers of cold, water.
6, Spend the evening in social enjoy
nient, Happiness and'laughterF are the
best friends Of digestion. n i'9ib iYp
z. Live as much as possible in the open
air. meyer forgetting that, after the food
has been well dige9ted in the stomach,
it must mingle with a good supply Of
oxygen in the lungs before it can be
transformed. into the tissuesof 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 depositioRofnew material 0gQ
3, If married, cultivate the quiet sen.
timents of domestic life. If unmarried
and Of proper age and health, Seek in
this most satisfactory of all earthly re.
lations, that freedom from the fret and
discomfort of life which only a true mar.
rage can give, -D|o Leecis, IN colder