The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-05-04
.eekIp Corvallis 6a3ette.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY a, 1888.
TIE DYsPEPTIc STRUGGLE.

Dyspeptics with morbid appetite,
If intelligent, conscientious, and de-
termined not to abuse themselves,
are constantly engaged in a hard
struggle, in hand to-hand fight
The dyspeptic sits at the table at
each meal with a determined will,
and give his whole mind to it.
He says, now I will eat one dish OF
soup, a small piece of beef, one
spoonful of potato and squash,
small piece OF pie, and just spoon
full of ice-cream. But his appetite is
ravenous; he forge.s little; his good
resolution let's up; he. takes just one
mouthtul of pie. which turns out, OF
course, to be another piece; just the
least bit OF pudding, which they all
declare to be delicious; then another
spoonful of ice -eream-well. in short
he repeats for the thousandth time
an excuse, suffers. aud goes on tor
months and years.
This struggle Of the dyeptic al
" VS. seems to me most pitiful. Eat
ing was desingned by the Cool Gre
ator to afford a real, unmixed pleas
urs. 1t is sad to see it changed into
q bitter fight between appetite and
conscience. Besides, thus earnest
effort of the will breaks in upon the
pleasant flow and harmony of nature,
and dlsturbs digestion. The whole
trouble grows out Of lack of com
con sense in the management of our
meals.
What sense, I should like to ask,
is there in this: Suppose druokard
finds himself too week to resist
temptation, and he presists in keep
ing right before him the most dtlic-
GUS liquors, i'll placing right under
his nose several times day just that
brandy which he never found him
sells strong enough to resist. What
an idiot! Not only Miss Ophelia, but
every one with FIVE grains of COM
con sense would cry on "Why
don't the fool keep away from it?"
For one man who is spoiled with
a drink, hundred are spoiled with
pie, cake and such similar trash.
join this common sense party and
ask why they don't keep away?
Take, for example the ordinary
American family, consisting, say, of
half dozen persons. Nine-tenths
of the dysreptics of this country live
in such families. OF these persons,
constituting a large part of the pop
ulation, not one in ten has a perfect
stomach. Now. I ask, can't these
people shun. the sweetmea: and
pastry temptation ? Nothing is
simpler and easier; and I will add
that; few duties arc more sacred and
imperative.
The time will soon come when in
telligent mothers will no more think |
of providing such stuff for their
than they would prepare
whisky sings for them.
just now, we fell about these
things as people used to feel about
whisky. Nothing mortified a good |
deacon more than to be caught with
no good whisky in the house. What
no whisky? If when the. minister
called, our good deacon could not
set out decanter before him he was |
poor indeed !:
And nov when entertaining friends
at your table, if you can't close the
dinner with pudding and pie, or if
you can't present them at the supper
table with preserves, cake, strong
tea ard salf dozen other indiees--
tible things, you feel it is s'real mean.n
What, nothing but roast beef, pota-
toes and bread for dinner; and moth
ing but plain sandwich for supper +?
Golden Rule.