Connecticut western news., 1888-11-07
HOW TO LIVE LONG.
The Secret Lies in Finding Out and
 Practicing the Golden Means.

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 The true secret of good health and immunity from disease, says writer in the London Neps, lies in finding out and practicing the golden means of every creed. The vegetarian, for instance, goes too far; but he is perfectly correct in his assumption that most men eat too frequently and too plentifully of meat, fruit. The average Englishman believes in good slices from the joint, usually underdone, and often eaten in haste, with the days work but half done. Vegetables are with him very second ary consideration, partly because they are often badly cooked and not tempt ingly served. Were he to eat less meat and more vegetables and fruit he would be less of martyr to rheumatism in his old age than he is at present. Nor is he sufficiently appreciative of fish as an ar 0 of diet. Here, again, unsatisfac- tory cooking comes in as a factor in deterring the general public from what is good for them. The ordinary English cook is as wasteful in her methods of cooking it as she is careless in her manner of serving it. The man who does the most justice to his own constitu- tion is he who compasses an attractive variety in his diet, ranging through all the Aavors of fish, flesh, fowl and the wares of the green grocer in way that not only satisfies appetite, but stimu- lates it. Milk is not always admirable as dinner drink, especially when fish plays any part of the menu. Tea or coffee taken with meat is simply suicid- al. These hot beverages turn the meat into something resembling leather, and the result interferes sadly with diges- tion. The man who desires long life must not give place to "high tea" in his daily programme. Of tea itself it can only be said that it is harmless If not taken too often or made too strong. The American lady, who after several calls and cup of tea at each, remarked that she could ''always worry down another cup," was probably unaware of the mischief she was doing herself. No one need totally abstain from tea if they will only take the precaution to buy it good, not to make it strong, not to let 1t infuse long, never to take it more than twice day, and to abjure it after 5 o'clock in the afternoon. AS to the man for whose bath tho ice has to be broken on the Serpentine on winter mornings, who can deny that he is in- temperate in the matter of cold water ? And yet the morning tub is indispens- healthy life. It is true that there have nothing of this luxury, but their longev- ity has been in spite of that fact, not because of it. The bath is good, but m hot "o1E ia but it must not be overdone. Dickens overdid it. Most of us, however, under do it, and scarcely walk enough. Flesh accumulates upon us in middle age be- cause we do not take sufficient exercise, and then we give up long walks because we are stout, and consequently lazy, thus reversing the process of cause and effect. The health suffers seriously, and way is open to many maladies. People who assert that they have not time to take long walks should remem- Der that they are probably cutting short their own time by refraining from the needful exercise. Many people take too much medicine Morbid persons with hypochondriacal tendencies are always dosing themselves. They apparently regard their own interior arrangements as sort of puzzle that has been badly put together, and their efforts to sort things out with the aid of pills and pow ders are but series of experiments. Highly destructive to cheerfulness is this frame of mind, and cheerfulness is one of the best ends to length of days. It is possible to cultivate this quality, and to the interests of those about us. no less than in our own, it ought to be cultivated It is sign of healthy mind, and enables its possessor in cer. tain degree to shake off worry, which if 8 terrible shortener of human life. Nc one ever died of work, but worry has killed thousands. There are many ways of avoiding it. The chief IS to live within one's income, md thus escape the wearing cares that come of debt anc improvidenoe, avoiding anxiety for the future of those dependent on us. A little voluntary self denial saves noun tain of it, enforced and inevitable, jus as the proverbial stitch in time save' nine.