The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-07
TALMAGE ON HEALTH.
The BrOOklyA Clergyman En-
plains WHY He Is Well.

TO what do you attribute your
long continued good health ~ asked
a Brooklyn Citizen reporter of DR..
Talmage. Il attribute it, first of all
TO a good Providence, / don't like to
cant, but l think that is a question
which we nave yet to come to. Next
to that, have always tried to observe
closely the laws of health. / am a
fanatic on exercise and ventilation.
During the time | lived in Syracuse
and Philadelphia | went TO GYM
nasium every day except Sunday, and
even when | first came to Brooklyn,
l went daily to the old gymnasium,
which then stood on the corner of
SchermerhOrn aud Smith streets.
There is nothing that takes the place
ola gymnasium. Leg exercise is grand.
Dumb bell are a good thing, but in
order to have good health all the
machinery Ofthe body must be brought
into use. L have been very cautious
about many things. smoke no cigars
and drink no rum. 1t is not whisky
and wine that kill people; it is the
horrible adulteratiOn they sell and
call it whisky. Another important
fact isgood nature. Nothing wears a
man out so much as getting mad. i
don't irifie with it more than ouce IN
ten years, because it breaks me all up
when do. 1t is bad for the spleenbad
for the liver and brain, awful on the
nerves and accomplishes nothing.
"How about diet -
81 must say that am large eater
and am fond of good things. like
every thing that was ever constructed
in the way of food, except goldfish.
That | like about two blocks of. l
dine at / O'clock, and have always
had something to eat. ! never
missed but one meal, and then 1 was
on the top ola mountain and couldn't
get anything. After dinner / sleep.
Prof. Combe. who was a celebrated
authority on dieIetics says that a
person should never sleep after dinner
| don't agree with him. All animals
lie down after they eat and we all have
more or less of animal nature in u.
So accustomed have | be1ome to tax
ing my after dinner nap that it makes
no difference here | am, in a horse
car or a railroad train, anywhere,
when IL comes time for my nap fall
asleep. Why | have gone to sleep OH
the witness stand before now and the
counsel In the case have become very
indignant, but that was my hour and
| could not help it. When | say nap
after Dime: | do not mean a snOUZe.
Some people lie down on the sofa
with a cane in their hand and go to
sleep and when the cane falls that
ends their nap. When | take nap
take off all my clothes and 90 TO bed
and | do that every day after dinner,
so | have two mornings of every day.
My theory on dietetics differs from
that of many ministers who say they
don't eat on Sunday. | eat twice rs
much on Sunday as | do any other
day because | work barker on that
day. will tell You a secret on die.
ties. The reason men become di>s;-
pated when they are about 40 years OF
age is from the fact that at that time
a complete revolution takes place in
their physical system which seems to
demand stimulus. What shall it he
fla man has taken tea and coffee all
his life there is no stimulus in him
when this revolution takes place. II
man has not taken tea or coffee all
his life there is no stimulus in them
when this revolution takes place. If
man has nOtstaken tea or coffee be
tween the ages of 20 and 10, when
this physical revolution occurs they
come in to him like a reinforcement
from heaven. think this Is import
ant, especially in the case of editors
reporters, speakers and literary men in
general. These men work hard, al
night aud that shOrtens life. Wher
they come down to breakfast in the
morning they have no appetite AIT
feel generally used up. There is
temptation for them to go out and ge
up an appetite, whereas if they woul(
sit down and drink up two cups o
coffee it would straighren them out. ]
know it by experience. despise one
cup of coffee; / must have two.
also despise one plate of ice cream TO
Pho Same veason / StoDoa.G 1Piu Kin,