Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-17
Cranky Health Notions.

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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 a 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 ex-
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 Dio
Lewis of Barataria. % the roast meat
increases thirst, partridges 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 wonder1iflwe cry out, with the hum
CRY Sancho: tTo deny me any victuals,
though it is against the grain of Signor
Doctor, and though he should say as
much more against it, 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 10 bed" say the Bar
atarians of health Journals But we
know our fathers and grandfathers, on
their farms, would eat a horse's meal
of mush and milk, or Johnny cake and
beans and cold cabbage, be in bed and
asleep in half hour, and up at day.
light, as hearty at sixty as Baratari-
an health broker or banker TT fortv..9
Lord Cockburn tells us that Rev. Sir
Harry Moncrief had his supper OF roast
chicken at eleven O'clock a. niyht ALI
his life, and died at ininety.of Ever
since Conaro changed from n aebauchee
TO an ascetic and measured out his
bread and meat by the ounce aud his
drink by the teaspoonfItl, and lived to
I4be over one hundred there have been
fools who believed that one mans meat
was all mems health, and one man $
doctrine was all mems duty bio Lewis
lays down the law, and ten thousand
men break it every day and live long
and well. Others obey and die sickly.'
The wi.e law of food is that of the
brusque but sagacious Abernethy els
veuison wholesome, doctor?n asked a
nobleman with the govt. "Do you
it agree with YOU'D Yes; "Th Then
it is wholesome" There is no better
health law regulating food than that.
Let the Baratarians say What they
will of "nourishmentn and nitrogen
and. .'blood-making'' or .blood-thln-
ming qualities of food or drink, the
right rule. is to eat what you ike if it
agrees with you, and let the Barafar-
iahs go hang. WHY. it is but a few
weeks since some professor from Sancho
Ranza 5, island proclaimed that ''walk-
ing was not healthy exercise unless
it was yery--brisk and rapid" The
world will never be more healthy for
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 g authorities Health
authorities" are mighty apt to be hum
bugs.-PaU-MaU Gazette.