The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-02-01
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Some riders ohocse to take no regular
meals at oil during their Journey, pre-
ferrtng to carry with them some plain
and simple food and drink, like meat
biscuit and a bottle OF cold tea or milk,
and to partake Of little very frequent.
ly as they go along not even caring to
dlsmount for the partaking of the re-
freshment. We understand that this
plan answers very well indeed when a
long distance hos to be mode and there
is little or no time Tor rest. 1t is better,
nevertheless. to dismouut take light
meal OF mixed food, rest for q good long
time to let digestion have full swing,
and then Oh again, gently ut first, brisk
~ afterward. Such plan gives good
digestion of the food, quick and excel
lent distribution of it over the body for
nutritive purposes, and healthy and
sharp appetite for the meal that Is next
to come. The diet itself can scarcely
be too simple. Animal food should be
fresh, not salted, and we'll cooked; light
animal foods like tsh and fowl and NUT
ton are very good to work on; eggs and
milk are very good. A couple of eggs
beaten well up in cup, mixed with
hot water, swcetened moderately with
sugar, and treated with small quantity
OF milk 30 as to make from half pint
to three-quarters Of pint, ls with q
little biscuit. an excellont sustaining
meal for those to whom eggs are easily
dlgostible. 10 those who can digest it
oatmeal porridge is very good to break
! fast on; and to all who cali digest milk,
milk is lightly thickened with wheat
moal IL most sustaining. Bread should
DO taken III moderate quantity, and
fresh vegetables und fresh fruit aro al
ways i'll ch aracucr when not taken in
exccss. Some fruits which for mo-
ment seem extremely refreshing while
On tho travel become a cause of thirst
If the day is very warm. I notice this
particularly in regard to oranges, tho
most tempting perhaps and the most
easily obtnined of all fruits.
or drinking during tricycle. exercise
L must speak with some care. It is not
very difficult to learn tricycle. without
desire for too much drink Of any kind.
But If tho beginner does not learn to
breathe through the nose, il he ac-
qnire the habit of brep thing through
the mouth, he is sure to acquire also
the desire to tako liquids far too freely.
Ho will become 30 dry in the mouth he
will feel he cannot get Oh unless he has
something to quench his thirst, and
that is al owl habit even though the
drink be rs innocent rs the pur, st water
itself. Tho first point. therefore, is to
drink rs little us possible: to drink as
much rs will fill up the loss that Is
made by cooperating of tho water fro m
the body and not any more.
What the character Of tho drink shall
be IL not very difficult to answer, and
what it should not he is answered with
less difficulty, for certainly of all things
again it should not DO m alcoholic slim
ulant On this last named point we
who are advocates for total abstinence
from all alcoholic beverages haye 80
cured, beyond any mistake. fine score
from tricycling experiences. Those who
are to some degree i'll opposition to lis
Oil ti,u general question. mean those
who still hold that alcoholic drinks arc
IN their right place as luxures and
should not be denied as luxuries, are
with us if they arc practised tricyclists,
in expressing that alcoholic stimulation
is fatal to good. suro, and sustained
work