The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-06-04
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i took no more than l wanted, there
fore did not take too much Is very
common and a very mistaken conclusion.
Appetite is not by any means lhe measure
of need Habit, in this as III other things,
becomes the master and dominates in spite
Of sound reason and common sense. Few
human beings, 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 oatmeal
and cream and fruit for his breakfast, said
an anxious mother to the physician who
had been hastily summoned to relieve the
collie under which their precious seyen- year
old was writhing
But how much oatmeal and fruit? The
dear woman did not know She had not
noticed that he had swallowed the first
plateful and was ready for second before
anyone else had begun
1tiN " ~ hpt' v I'll 10 His t-i-
ness to get through his meal aud be off
to his play TO mind that the third plateful
disappeared with few spasmodic gulps;
nor did she notice that three peaches were
thrust into the pocket to supplement the
three swallowed without mastieation al the
table. One bountiful plate of oatmeal
and TIVE ripe peaches what could be bet
ter2 Three plates % oatmeal and six
peaches what could be worse Vet, had
he died Of the collie. his mother would,
doubtless. have wondered at the affective
way Of Providence
beginning in this manner al the nursery
and home tables the growing boys and
girls arc not likely to become abstcmious
in diet at school There they too often try
to make up for defective quality by con
Stunning an unusual quantity Of food, and.
fortunately, the vigorous sports of youth
and the demands of the growing body
sometimes save them from direct results
No immediate penalty being exactetl, they
lose all sense OF wrong-doing, for, strange
as it may seem, there is a conscience in this
matter that is often heard above the clamor
of appetite.
We would not overload the basket that
carried our eggs home until The bottom
falls out and The contents fall 10 the
ground; we would not put corn enough III
the mill to stop its grinding; yet we con-
stantly interrupt and clog the processes by
which the body is nourished by buflening
it with far more food than il can care for
without damage to itself.
Temperance in drinking is scarcely more
difficult for the topper than temperance in
eating to the man who has the habit of
taking all the food he desires It really
seems to require more heroism To forego
one-half or one-third the usual quantity
of food than to bear an ordinary Illness.
We cat too mueh-ninc-ten Of us do
it, over and over and every day Whether
we shall ever come to the place prophe-
sled recently, where the nutritiyc clements
extracted from all foods shall be carried
abont il the vest pocket in homeopathic
pellets, and all dining he reduced to a
pinch of them taken as we run, we cannot
say but one thing is certain. that wsshall
have to learn what food really feeds the
body, and how much to be taken and how
much to let alcne Until that day
comes let us go on multiplying drugs and
doctors and identifying our cemeteries, for
we shall have need Of all-Matg Lo'oe
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