The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-11-02
rAE FAMILY pocroR
Gives tho IIasty Eater scoiding and n
nit of Good Advice.

Gives tho IIasty Eater n Seeding and y
nit of Good Advice.
n there Is any truth In tho adage that
the ''way 10 mans heart Is through his
stomach" In nine cases out of ten u
would be hard road 90 travel. When
you consider the enormous and varied
amount of material that strews its path,
you at once encounter many unpleasant
obstacles. The man who gets outside of
hot soup. boiled ham, fried CLAIMS, pota-
toes, picked cabbage, pastry, Ice cream,
and tea In fifteen minutes, and then
wonders why he feels SO badly, is either
an ass or an idiot-very likely a melange.
lie cannot understand II, when he Is
30 constantly taking those celebrated
''after dinner pills, title that Is simply
a cover for wrong doing. True, he paid
extra 10 have his pills gelatine coated to
retain their virtues the longer; but he
evidently did not know that the tannin
I'm the tea would convert that coating
into mass which the juices of the
stomach are powerless 10 affect, and so
no benefit Is derived from the pills. He
goes on, however, stuiling himself with
food--and the delusion that the moro one
eats the stouter he grows. IL Is not the
quantity we eat. but what II assimilated
that is, what the system IL capable Of
burning up as fuel 20 increase our vital
energies. II you smother your fro with
too much coal, out II goes. Now the
dyspeptic, the sufferer of that most COM
mon trouble, indigestion, may feel Its
presence by thousand different signs.
So numerous are they, that the mention
of only few must suffice here.
For instance he wakes with n Rtuffy
t.a.l a. Ii
his breakfast, and rushes on to business.
His food repeats" as our English
friends say. his taste becomes sour and
hot, and so does his temper, and he Il not
altogether the most amiahle OF mortais
As the day grows apaee he has i'll defined
aches, and fancies his eve sight is failing,
and his irritahility increases. His clerks
live on pins and needles, and his friends
say, "what bore he is getting TO be, SO
full of ills"
Thus it goes on from bad TO worse.
Think of that man as a judge, and now
he might ''make wretches hang that
iurymen may dine" No doubt many a
verdict of today Is largely influenced by
poisonous butyric acid I'm the circulation
OF one who has too hastily consumed his
fodder. Ultimately. IL he does not switch
of, he falls victim to nervous prostra-
ton and melancholia. a fit tenant for any
asylum, which he often cheates by draw
ing n razor across his throat. All from
dyspepsia. There Is no hyperbole in this
picture; you will see many like II every
day, IL you but keep your eyes open.
The remedyi Certainly not indiscrim-
mate drugging, a proceeding as foolish
as 10 load your dog with an elephants
burden and expect him TO carry It, II
the stomach cannot take care of its ma
tural guests it viii resent the intrusion OF
foreigners.
The panacea il rest for the stomach by
the use Of light foods. and rest for the
mind by anything which will draw at
tention from the suffering organ. Few
things accomplish this latter better than
the diversion of hearing good music.
You may think It strange, but there Is an
eminent physician abroad who writes
out prescription for music much as we
would for calomel. Il possesses woh.
derful sway over the lower orders OF life,
and you have often noticed the spirited
action of horse, the arched neck and
proud canter, when hearing the strains
of martial music.
Music cheers the soldier on the long
march and rencws his tagging energies.
So viii it aid the dyspeptic. The instru-
ment Is matter Of choice, the violir
hardly to be recommended unless handled
by a master, for no instrument Is Sc
capable Of distracting wailings, when in
the hands Of novice. The voice Is, paI
excellence, the best of musical remedies,
and four part songs are potent for good.
/ dare say, you who have been victim.
of atrociously bad performances viii moi
agree with me. But give tho best trial
/ Just go to some of the near by resort.
/ that offer so many harmonious attrac
4 tions and try the curative effect Of {
concord of sweet sounds. ~ Richart
1 Guernsey, NJ. D., in Once Week.