The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-24
Crazy Health kot,ons.

The way bealth Journals and sanita-y pub
licists taboo agreeable iuxuries that have
been found innocuous. IL not beneficial for
many generations is adding new terror to
life, il 1t takes none from DEATH" 1t is'cer-
tafnjy noticeable feature Of the doctrinaires
OF the hygelfic school--tbe Halls andiDio
Levises and their kind-that they condemn
modes OF life; kinds OF foOd fashions of
clothing, habtsof resting or exercising that
may have prevailed fol years with no visible
harm Day after day they take away sonse-
thing that some Of as have been in the habit
OF eating or doing or put in something thas
we have not been in the habit of doing or
eating till we feei like SanchO Panza at his
banquet at BarataCia, Fruit is too moist
said the doctor OF the table, the bio Lewis os
Barataria the roast meat increases thirst
partldgeS are dangerous stewed copeys are n
shaTT1-ha5red food. ellapodrida Is too coarse
therefore eat 100 rolled waters and some thin
slices OF marmalade." No wonder II we cry
out. with she hungry Sancho: To deny me
any WicouSss tbough,it is against the grain OF
Signcr doctor. and slloagh he should say as
much more against IL. 1 say is rather she way
to shorten my life than to lengtheu it The
sensible half OF the world will say amen to
the honest NanchagRn. Never eat q hearty
supper before going to bed" say the Harata.
rians Of health Journals But we know our
fathers and SrandfaesIeIs, sheir farms,
would eat a horses meal OF mushr and milk,
or Johnny cake ana DeatN anu Coib CABBAGE,
be in bed and asleep in a half keur and up
at daylight, IS hearty &c sixty II BaTata-
rian Eeslth broker or banker at forty.
Lord Cockb1rn tells us that Rev Harry
Moncrieh hast his supper OF roast chicken at
eleven o clock AZ highs All his life and died
at ninety. Ever since GoNarO chaRged nom
4 debauele to All aScet-o.. and measured out
his bread and meat by the ounce and his
drink By the tsaspoonsul, and lived to be
over one hundred, there have bee2i fools who
believed that one mans meat was all mems
health, end ore mans doctrine Wa. all mems
duty. bio Lewis lays s.orEn the law, and ten
thouSandimen break il every day and live
long and we'll Others obey and 9ie siekly.
The wise law OF food is that of the brvSque
but sagaeious AbernetbF. lis veuiSon whole
some. d9otor% asked a noblemaD with the
govt. DO yoD like it?' was the reply. YES"
Then IL is wholesonIe.@ There is no better
health Saw regulating food than that. Let
the Baratarians say what they will of 'lour-
ishmens' ana nitrogen" and ''blOodmalSing"
or olo0dthinnfng'' qualities of food drink
the right rule is to cot what you like ii it
. agrees with you. and let the Baratarians 20
hang. Why, il i but few weeks since some
professor from SanchO Panza'S island pro-
claimed that walking was not healthy eX-
ercise unless ii was very 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 il, is to get food enough and clothes
enough. and time enough to sleep, not to re-
pine upon modes and qualities TO fit the the
cries of schools or of authorities" Health
authorities are mighty apt to be humbugs.