Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-11-30

widows as compared to the same class OF
widowers was as Al 10 23 in 1884. Il
this because the ungentle sex are the
more deeply sentimental, or the gentle
ones eat less and have better regulated
tempers?
You know-or perhaps you don't
know-that nothing hastens senility like
habitual guzzling. Would it not be well
10 hang up the above statistics in the
dining rooms Of city companies and at
the Mansion house? Your elderly guz-
zler on the shady side of middle life is,
though he lives, in many respects dead.
His brain is starved by the clogging of
the hair like arteries which used to feed
it. The sediment that chokes them
comes of too nutritive food and too much
Of it. His bones are dense and weighty,
his muscles rigid, his knuckles chalky.
and his lungs and throat ready to catch
cold. Turkish baths keep of, in a de-
gree, these effects, but the best plan is not
to be gourmand.
Those centenarian beggars, / dare say,
had not the means Of eating heavily, and
few in the south Of France, to which
they belong, drink deep. Meat, too, is
there dear and trying to bad teeth, and
fruit is plentiful, cheap and good. This
last won't make bone and muscle in a
child-a reason why it does not clog
capillary arteries. But in the south it
has deal of force in it derived straight
from the sun. which is convertible into
vivacity. Eggs are also plentiful, hens
laying in the south four more months in
the year than in the north. The egg is
ideal food for any one who wants lot Of
nutriment in a small volume. / should
pity the French mendicant who could
not procure at village inns an omelette
or an nuf sur lie plat.
II is fact worth noting that most Of
the families who were raised TO high
positions and profusely gilded by the First
Napoleon are extinct, and that those still
! existing are represented chiefly by
women. The First Empire and its wars
did not play havoc with the dukes and
princes who sprang up around its head.
The harm was done by the second en-
pire, whose ideal was faire bombance.
The higher class Bonapartists ate, drank,
and were nearly all guzzlers, and man
| aged TO soak any amount Of fine wines
at their lunches and dinners. The
fashion in their time came in of having On
many wine glasses at each plate as there
are flues In q great stack of chimneys.
When appetite palled, the sorbet russo
was brought In to act on the unfortunate
stomach as a tonic and enable ii to 20
through Is much more as 1t had gone
through already. One Of the reasons
why the late Marshal Bazaine could not
get quickly out Of Metz to bar the way
against the Prussians was that the en-
peror started before him, and 80 the road
was blocked with the service de Ia bouche
and the wagons carrying the belongings
Of his imperial majesty, which were
truly impedimenta.
When the Israelites were under q the
ocracy, and the chief priests sons ate a.
do city Of London aldermen, the Philis-
tines routed them. Likewise Marshal de
Soubise was immortalized by his sauce
for mutton chops and disgraoed by his
defeats. The old French monarchy was
done for when Louis XVI, whether try
ing TO hy from France or a prisoner Of
the assembly in one Of its most stormy
sittings, could not do without a heavy
meal at the usual hour. / never saw
anything 80 prodigious as the service dc
la bouche at the Tuileries and Fontaine-
bleau. The kitchens there were vast fac
tories, and were situated at a great dis
lance from the court dining and ban
quoting rooms out of respect for imperial
nostrils. By the time, therefore, the
dishes got to table they were spoiled
Paris Cor. London Truth.