Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-16

The way health journals and sanitary
publicists taboo agreeable luxuries that
have been found innocuous, if not bene-
fetal, for many generations, is "add-
ing new terror to life, if it takes none
from death" 1t is certainly notice.
able feature of the doctrinaires of the
hygienic school-the Halls and Dio
Lewises and their kind-that they con-
denim modes of life, kinds of food, fash
ions of clothing. habits of resting or en-
ercising that have prevailed for years
with no visible harm. Day after day
they take away something that some of
us have been in the habit of eating or
doing. or put in something we have not
been in the habit of doing or eating. till
we feel like SanchO PanZa at his ban
quet at Barataria. Fruit is too moist"
said the doctor of the table, the bio
Lewis of Bar3taria. "the roast meat
increases thirst. cartridges are danger
Gus, stewed cOneys are sharp-haired
food, ollapodrida is too coarse; there
fore eat one hundred rolled up waters
and some thin slices of marmalade.'
No wonder if we cry out, with the hun
CRY Sancho: ''To deny me any victuals.
though it is against the grain of Signor
Doctor, and though he should say as
much more against it, l say, is rather
the way to shorten my life than to
lengthen it, The sensible half of the
world will say amen to the honest
Manchagan. Never eat hearty sup
per before going to bed" say the Bar
atarians of health journals" But we
know our fathers and grandfatherS, on
their farms, would eat 4 horses meal
of mush and milk, or johnny cake and
beans and cold cabbage, be in bed and
asleep in a half hour, and up at day
light, as hearty at sixty as a Baratari-
an health broker or banker at forty.
Lord COckburn tells us that Rev. Sir
Harry Moncrieff had his supper of roast
chicken at eleven o'clock at night all
his life, and died at ninety. Ever
since ConarO changed from 4 debauchee
to an ascetic and measured out his
bread and meat by the ounce and his
drink by the teaspOOnful, and lived to
be over one hundred, there have been
fools who believed that one mans meat
was all mems health, and one man S
doctrine was all mems duty. Dio Lewis
lays down the law, and ten thousand
men break it every day and live long
and well. Others obey and die sickly.
The wise law of food is that of the
brusque but sagacious Abernethy. is
venison wholesome, doctor?" asked a
nobleman with the govt. "Do YOU
like it?' was the reply. Yes" '.Does
ii agree with you?" YES" ''Then
it is wholesome There is no better
health law regulating food than that.
Let the baratarians say what they
will of ''nourishment' and nitrogen
and "blood-making'' or "blood-thin-
ming qualities of food or drink, the
right rule is to eat what you like if it
agrees with you, and let the Baratar-
ians 90 hang. Why, it is but few
weeks since some profes sor from SanchO
Panza island proclaimed that ''walk-
ing was not a healthy exercise unless
it was very brisk and rapid" The
world will never be more healthy fol
the PRONUNCIATION of such stuff as that.
The great want of most of the world,
even of our own part of it, is to get food
enough and clothes enough and time
enough to sleep, not to repine upon
modes and qualities to fit the theories OF
schools or of authorities Health
authorities are mighty apt to be hum
bugs. -PuU-MaU Gazette.