Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-06-17
are said to have borne $4,000 oranges
each in n season.
Resting After Meals.

A friend of the writer's, who has suf-
fered from dyspepsia during almost her
entire life, considers the suggestions in
the following extracts from an article in
a recent issue of The Journal Of Health
10 be the most in accord with her own ex.
perience of anything on the subject late
ly published.
Hurried eating Of meals, followed i'm
mediately by some employment that oc-
cupies the whole attention and takes up
all, or nearly all, of the physical energies
is sure to result in dyspepsia in one form
or another. Sometimes it shows itself in
excessive irritability, a sure indication
that nerve force has been exhausted; the
double draught in order TO digest the food
and carry on the business has been more
than nature could stand without being
thrown out of balance. In another case,
the person is exceedingly dull as soon as
he has few minutes Of leisure. The
mind seems dead blank, and can only
move in its accustomed channels, and
then only when compelled. This, also,
is an indication Of nervous exhaustion.
Others will have decided pains in the
stomach, or q sense OF weight, as IL
heavy burden was inside Others, again,
will be able to eat nothing that will agree
with them; everything that is put inside
the stomach is made the subject of VIC.
lent protest on the part of that organ, and
the person suffers untold agonies in con-
sequence. Others suffer from constant
hunger. They may eat all they can, and
feel hungry still II they feel satisfied
for a little time, the least unusual exer.
tion brings on the hungry feeling, and
they can do no more until something is
eaten. 1t is almost needless to say that
this condition is not hunger. but intllm-
nation of the stomach. Scarcely any
two persons are affected exactly in the
same way, the disordered condition mani
Testing itself according to temperament
and occupation, employments that call
for mental work, and those whose scene
of action. lies indoors, affecting persons
more seriously than those carried on in
the open air and those which are merely
ihVSHaAiNui anu Nu hoJ cuSuSC tnt lllIu,
All, or nearly all, of these difficulties
of digestion might have never been known
by the sufferers had they left their bust.
ness behind them and rested short time
after eating, instead of rushing off to
work Immediately after hastily swallow
ing their food.
Nature does not do two things at time
and do both well, as rule. All know
that when force is divided, it is weak
ened. If the meal were eaten slowly,
without occupation of the mind, and
the stomach allowed at least half an
hours chance to get its work well under.
taken before the nervous force is turned
in another direction, patients suffering
from dyspepsia would be few
A physician once said: 1T does not so
much matter what we cat as how we cat
it." While this is only partly true, it
certainly is true that the most healthful
food hurriedly eaten. and Immediately
followed by work which engages the en-.
tire available physical and mental forces,
is much worse than meal of poor food
eaten lcisurely and followed by an inter
val of rest