Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-26
Health CrallkS,

From the indianapolis News
The Pail Mall Gazette thinks that the way
health Journals and sanitary publicists taboo
agreeable luxuries that have been found innoc-
uous If not beneficial for many generations. is
"adding new terrors to life II it takes none
from DEATH" It is certainly noticeable fea-
ture OF the doctrinaires of the hygienic school
the Halls and DiO Lewises, and their kind
that they condemn modes of life, kinds of food,
fashions Of clothing, habits Of resting or exer-
cising 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 been in the habit of not doing or
eating. till we feel like Sancho Panza at his
banquet at Barrataria, Fruit is too moist, /"
said the doctor Of the table. the Dio Lewis of
Barrataria; ''the roast meat increases thirst:
cartridges are dangerous; stewed coneys are
sharp-haired food; Olla-podrida is too coarse
Therefore, eat a hundred rolled up waters and
some thin slices Of marmalade." No wonder If
We Cry out with the hungry 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, say is rather the way to
shorten my life than to lengthen it." The sensi-
BILE half OF the world will say amen to the hon.
just before going to bed" say the Barratarians
of health journals. But we know our fathers
and grandfathers on their farms would eat a
horses meal Of mush and milk, or johnny cake
and beans and cold cabbage, be in bed and
asleep in half hour and up at daylight as
hearty at 60 as Barbarian health broker or
breaker at 40.
Lord Cockburn tells us that Rev. Sir Harry
Moncreif had his supper Of roast chicken and
claret at II O'Clock at night all his life and died
at 30. Ever since Cornaro changed from . de-
bauched to an ascetic and measured out his
bread and meat by the ounce and his drink by
the teaspoonful, and lived to be over a hundred.
there have been fools who believed that one
mans meat was all mems health. and one mans
doctrine was all mems duty. Dio Lewis lays
down the law and ten thousand men break It
every day and 1--we long and well. Others obey
and die sickly. This wise law of food is that Of
the bfusque but sagacious Abernethy. as
venis0n wholesome, doctor" asked nObleman
with the govt. 'tD0 you like it," was the
reply. Eyes" "Does 1t agree with your"
'sYes." s'Then 1t Is wholesome" There is no
better health law regulating food than that.
Let the Barratarians say what they viii Of
s'n0urishment" and nitrogen" and sblood-
making" or 'blood-thinning" qualities OF food
or drink. the right rule is to eat what you like II
hang. Why, 1t Is but few weeks since some
professor from Sancho Panza's islands pro-
claimed that walking was not q healthy exer-
else unless It was very brisk and rapid" The
world will never be healthier for the pr0mulga-
ton Of such stuff as that. The great want Of
most Of the world, even Of our own part OF II, IL
to get food enough and clothes enoughand time
enough to sleep, not to repine upon modes and
qualities to fit the theories OF schools or s'au-
thorities" eHealth authorities" ere mighty apt
to be humbugs.