Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-03-04
TALK ABOUT EA1ING
AND SLEEPING.

molish the unsouad notion that it is
unhealthy to eat Just before going to
bed. 1t draws the proper distinction
between midnight del auches and glut-
,ony, and the taking Of healthy food
and says:
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 VIC
lation Of the laws Of nature. The
lion roars in the forest until he has
found his prev, AMI when he devour-
cd it he sleeps over it until he needs
another meal. The horse viii paw
all night in the stable and the pig
will equeal in the pen refusing all
rest or sleep until they are fed, Inc
animals which chew the cad have
heir own provision for late meal
just b tore dr pp'ng off to their night
ly slumbers.
Mau can train himself to the
habit of sleeping without y preceding
meal, but only af'er long years OF
practice. Az b, comes into the world
ma, ure is too strong for him, and ne
must be fed before he will sleep A
childs stomach is small, and wi en-
perfectly filled, if no sickness disturbs
it, sleep follows naturally and inevi-
tably. As digestion goes on the stom-
ach b gins to empty. A single fold
in it will make the sleeper restless;
two will waken it; and if it ie hushed
again to repose tho nap Is short, and
three folds puts an end to the slunber,
P regoric and other narcotics may
close its eyes again, but without
either food or some Supplying druf
1t will'not sleep DO m'tter how healthy
1t may be. Not even an sugel who
loarued the art of mis- relsy in a
celestial choir can sing a baby to
sleep on an empty stomach.
Ws use the Of quoted illustration,
sleeping as sweetly as an infant,
, because this slumbar of child follows
Immediately after its stomach is com
| pletely filled with wholesome food.
The sleep which comes to adults long
hours after the partakine of food, and
when the stomach is nearly if quite
empty, is not after the type OF intan-
tine repose There is all the difference
in the world between The sloep of
refreshment aud the sleep of exhaus-
tion.
To al ep well the bloc that swells
the veins in the head during the busy
hours must flow back, leaving a great
ly diminished volume behind the
brow that lately throbbed with such
vehsm nee. To digest we'll this blood
is needed at the stomach and nearer
the fountains Of lite. 1t is fact es'
tabiished beyond the possibility OF
contradiction thai sleep aids diges
ton, AID the process Of digestion Is
conducive Of refreshing sleeF. II
needs no argument to convince u5 OF
this mutual relation. The drowslnes.
which alive vs. follows the we'll ordered
meal is iC.ell testimony OF nature to
this luter epenienoe.
The vase Of human life by tins
LESSON ia very great The daily wear
and ear of the body might e restor
ed more lully than it usually Is n
thip simple rule was not 50 system ut
ieally violated. Sleep is wonderfully
recuperatlve, but it may be shorn o
half its benefits by unfavo;ab!e con-
ditions. Foul air in the chamber
leaves the sleeper almost exhausted
in the morning as when weary with
the days labors he sank upon his bed
A growing stomach, empty OF food
takes out of the nightly sleep thai
efresh,ng sense of comfort which
properly belongs to it. 1t leaves lh'
blood to throb IN the heatsd brow, anc
haubts the s..umber with an ever
present source of diequiet. II is like
the sleep which tie mother take'
, while her sick child is under the care
of watchers in another room. Al
uneasy stomach is jet like an acl'lnt
) heart in its effect upon the nightly
repose.
A healthy person who goes TO bee
on a full stomach W II always awake
Z in the morning with better appetite
: FIR his breakfast. If dinner is eater
! in t!e middle of the day and li9h
, supper is seived at six in the after
r noon hearty lunch should be pro
! y.ded at ten in the eTening, or jns
r. II