The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-19
HEALTH HINTS.
women's Kingdom.

women's Kingdom.
81 took no more than l wanted, therefore
did not take too much" is a very common
and very mistaken conclusion. Appetite
is not by any means the measure of need.
Habit, in this as in other things, becomes
themaster and dominates in spite of sound
reason and common sense. Few human be-
ings, comparatively, have ever known the
sensation of hunger; fewer still, perhaps,
know how to control the desire for food
that passes for hunger.
We begin with childhood by giving our
little ones all they want, and, ordinarily,
what they want. He had only oat meal and
cream and fruit for his breakfast, said an
anxious mother to the physician who had
been hastily summoned to relieve the collie
under W hich their precious seven. years-old
was writhing.
But how much oat meal and fruit? The
dear woman did not know. She had not
noticed that he swallowed the first plateful
and was ready for second before anyone
else had begun.
She was too well accustomed to his eager
ness to get through his meal and be off to
his play to mind that the third platefu dis
appeared with a few spasmodc gulps; nor
did she notice that three peaches were
thrust into the pocket to supplement the
three swallowed without mastcation at the
table. One bountiful plate OF oatmeal and
two ripe peaches, what could be BETTER
Three plates of oatmeal and six peaches
what could be worseP Yet had he died o.
the collie, his mother would, doubtless, have
wondered at the affective way of Provi
dence.
Beginning in this manner at the nursery
and home tables the growing boys and girl
are not likely to become abstemious in die
at school. There they too often try t.
make up for defective quality by consum
ing an unsual quantity of food, and, fortu
nately, the vigorous sports of youth and tn,
demands of the growing body sometime
save them from direct results. No immcdi
ate penalty being exaoted, they lose al
sense of wrong-dong, for, strange as it ma,
seem, there is a conscience in this matter
that is often heard above the clamor of ap
petite.
We would not overload the basket tina
carried our eggs home until the bottom fall
: out and the contents fall to the ground; W
9 would not put corn enough in the mill t
I stop its grinding; yet we constantly intei
$ rupt and clog the processes by which til
+ body is nourished by burdening it with ia
Z more food than it can care for without dan
e age to itself
: Temperance in drinking is scarcely MOI
e difficult for the topper than temperate
}; in eating to the man who has the habit
d taking all the food he desires. 1t real
J. seems TO require heroism to forego one-ha
g or one-third th' ''snal quantity of food tina
+ Ia bear au 9rdinary illness.N
y We eat too much-nine-tenth of us do ii
over and over aud everyday; Whether "
u shall ever come to the place, prophesied +,
l. Gently where the nutritive elements extrac
: ed from all foods shall be carried about
y the vest pocket in homeopathic pellets, an
+ all dining be reduced to a pinch of theI
/ taken as we run, we cannot say; but OF
a thing is certain, that we shall have to lear
what food really feeds the body, and no
: much to be taken and how much to |,
e alone. Until that day comes let us 60 q
Il multiplying drugs and doctors and beaut
: flying our cemeteries, for we shall have nee
J. of all.
Z MARY Lowe Dickinson