Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-10-11
The FOibles Of Food.

Nothing's more sure at moments to take hole
Of the best feelings of mankind. which grow
Mere tender, as We every day behold,
Than that all-SOftening, OverpOwering knell.
The tocsin Of the soul-the dinner bell
Byron.
The new philosophy which some phi
losopher of unbounded stomach has
presented TO the world is the philosophy
of eating, not three times day but
five, or six, or seven times, according tC
the capacity of the eater. 1t is safely
demonstrated that people get sick from
lack of sufficient diet, that the internal
economy Graves constant fuel, and that
insufficient diet is cause of Indigestion
and not Over-eating. Inproof of which
this horrible story is told: A child, who
had always asked for and received a
slice of bread and butter the last thing
at night from its mother, went to visit
an aunt who believed that late eating
was incompatible with health and re-
fused the child its accustomed food In
the morning the child was dead, and its
throat ard mouth filled with rin-worms,
which, denied their food, had crept uI
and suffocated it.
The fact is also adhered to that in.
somnia is caused by want of food, and
is fearful illustration that the gastric
juice is so strong that the moment dis
solution occurs it begins to eat the
stomach itself.
Again, the new comestible philosophy
urges that it is not late suppers that
injure people and prevent them from
sleeping. 1t is the unusual isolated
cases that suffer. The man or woman
who habitually eats late supper will
not feel the least inconvenience, but, on
the contrary, will be refreshed and
strengthened, and the English nation
proverbial rs supper eaters-is quoted
to support the theory. 1t is a fact
that the Jewish people eat four or five
meals daily without any Inconvenience.
Theatrical people eat at all hours, and
always late at night They average
long lives, and are healthy and full of
endurance, while the New England in
habitants, with their three meals a day,
early supper, and no cold bites at bed
time, are dyspeptic sufferers.
1.-TWO conditions" said an English
writer, 'oppose the requirement OF
sleep. These are by hyperamia of the
brain stimulating it to undo activity,
and playing the part of whip and
spur to a tired horse; and the opposite
of hyperemia-eNcessive cerebral an
emia To relieve the former by ration
al methods, flank movement is re-
quired. The blood forces must be en-
ticed away from their persistent as
saults upon the cranial fortress. This
can be accomplished by filing the
stomach with solid food, thus furnish
ing temporary engagement for the pugi-
listic globules on other fields. The food
should be of the coarsest and plainest
variety, else the remedy might produce
an agg:avation. We all know that the
lower animals, after filling their stom-
achs with coarse and abundant food,
lie down Immediately to rest and sleep,
and they succeed, even after the most
severe and exhausting toll upon the
race-course, at the pillow and in the field.
To a reasonable extent man should SIM
ilate the unartificial habits of less gifted
animals
If we are to turn over this new Leaf
in the pages of life we will need a rail-
way timetable at home, and twenty
minutes for refreshments will become
household legend. 1t may detract from
the purse, but if it gives us added
health and satisfies that indefinite crav.
ing which like the daughter of the
and Oliver Twist is always
crying for more, we will have reached
3 small millennium even if we have to 90
there as did Mother Hubbard by the
way of the cupboard, only in this case
not to find it bare.-DetroI Post and
Tribune.