The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-01
Late and Heavy Shippers.


The objections to late and heavy sup
pers, il we care more for our health
than for mere sensual Indulgence. will
be apparent if we consider few facts.
As a fundamen al principle, let it be
remembered that the stomach labOrs as
much as any organ of the body, and
that it suffers from fatigue, like others.
If the body, as a whole, Is more Ia
tgued at night than in the daY, less
able to perform the hardesB work. it is
reasonable to infer that the stomach is
subject to the san depression in con
sequence of similar labOrs; and since all
must agree that the hardest work may
properly be done in the morning, after
the rest and sleep of the night, and the
lightest when the body is fatigued by
the day 5 labOrs. it is reasonable to APP
ply the same principle to the stomach
labOrs. If this rest is necessary cOndi-
ton to precede the labor of the dav, it
is reasonable to infer that the heaviest
meals may be taken in the morning and
at noon, the light st at night, or not
more than One-siXth of that for the
W ole day, instead of one-third If he
more bstant al and more nutritious
may then be taken as a means of car
rying the Labor or through the dav, it is
reasonable to take the less substantial
at night, that one may have good, re-
freshing sleep and be in proper con
dit for labor. since it is a well estab-
Hshei principle that, with ordinary hui
man beings, dige ton and sound sleep
do not proceed at the same time. If the
stomach is filed with food, and diges-
ton is in full progress, the sleep must
be disturbed, dreamy and unrefreshing.
1t also as true that if food rather diff
ficult Of digestion is taken in the first
part of the day, when the digestive
powers are active and vigorous, the
hghtest meal-the smallest in quantity
and the easiest of digestiOn-shouldb be
taken when the stomach is somewhat
debiltated like the body.
While some of the more intelligent
and thoughtful suspend work at early
tea-t me. as they do at noon, others
continue about as long as they can see,
then stop and do the ''chOres, = take
heavy meal, and soon retire. After
such tolls the powers of the body. the
d igestive included, are much exhausted
and in an unfit condition for their best
efforts. 1t would be no more cruel 9nd
unreasonable to require the limbs to toll
for three or four hours longer than to
compel, by a heavy supper. the stomach
to digest such meal before any sound
and refreshing sleep can ordinarily be
obtained. If a heavy meal is taken at
4 late hour, and then one goes to a
place of amusement, entertains COM
pany, or is entertained till near mid
night-a ruinous custom-there is ample
me for digestion. But not so with The
farmer who has no time to waste in
mere amusements. He is asleep
soon after his labors are fin shed, that
he may be ready for the coming day.
If such heavy meal is taken as the
cold ham and cabbage LETT at noon. pie
and cake, or still worse. if possible, hot
and new bis uit, one of two results or
dinarily follow: Either sleep takes pos
session, suspending digestion, mainly
(this process TO be re econ menced with
poor appetite in the morning), or the
sleep must be disturbed BY the diges-
ton, of necessity unrefresh;ng and I'M
satisfactory. This no farmer can af-
ford, since good sleep and rest must ac-
company hard labor
1t is during the hours of rest and re-
pose that the blood made from the food
of the day is consolidated into muscles,
bones. etc. on which he must depend
for success in his business just to the
extent that this change OF the blood is
impaired by wakefulness-n naturally
produced by the digestive pros ess-the
cOnstt ton is undermine J, and he
must suffer. 1t would be far better,
there ore, to take seven-eighths of the
food needed for the day at he first and
second meals (nO luncheOns are really
of any advantage, eventually, with q
very light supper. DR. Hall, we'll
known but now dead, advised single
slice of bread, with a cup of weak tea.
But | am still more temperate in my
habits, taking less and simpler food,
emitting the tea. rs that might disturb
sleep, which l cannot afford As an ex.
pertinent and not from necessity, as /
am far from being a dyspeptic, l have
confined myself to a single mug of
breakfast cocoa, ilhout milk, that no
digestive labor may be performed, or
the same of cereal cOfee,' similar
to crust coffee, and have been perfectly
satisfied. sleeping well and feeling re-
freshed, with line appetite in the
morning.
know of no calamit es, no degrade
/ ton, no vices. no evil tendencies and
abnormal desires and appetites, and no
| depravity which do not as naturally
| flow from a career of drunkenness as
the streamlet flows down the mountain
side. And while our poor, fallen,
human nature has constant tendencies
toward sensual qualifications and the
indulgence Of Initiated appetites, L
would not have any act of mine, in any
respect, encourage the use of ardent
| spirits. l would not introduce into the
human stomach that the tendency of
which, with no exceptions, is to de
range every function, vitiate every di-
gestve solvent. corrupt every fiber,
! and unduiy dr1Ue every organ. wasting
/ power and undermining the aggregate
I fol I N or n allow nQfHTp
to have fair chance, introducing no
/ poison, no malignant antagonist DR..
| Huuuatord, ln Farm and FlreSide.