Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-09
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Eating Zoo NWcEi.
Blessed ara The poverty stricken, il lon.
gevity ne blessing The majority of the
eighty iour centenalians who Wete alive in
France at the taking of the last census were
extremely poor. There were lwenty.one OF
them living on alma aa beggers or in aims.
houses The open air life Of shepherd
must be also conducive to long life. A beg
gar named Rives, at iarbes; was born i.
1770, aud q woman who herded goats in tbs
Ceyennes mountains had exceeded lis years,
Widows survive into great old age thelr
husbands more often than widoWere pay
such compliment 10 their wives. The
proporiion of the centenarian widows us
compared to the same class Of widoWers wes
as Al to % in 1854. Ia this because the un~
gentle sex are the more deeply sentimental,
or the gent,o ones eat less and have better
regulated ,empers?
You kuow-or perhaps you don't know
that nothing hastens senility like habitual
guZzling. Would it not De vel! to hang UP
the above statistics n the dining rooms OF
city companies and at the Mansion house
Your elderly guzzler On the shady side of
middle life is, though he lives, 10 many re.
specis dead. His brain is starved ny the
clogging of the hair like arteries which used
to feed it. The sediment that cbokes them
comes of too nutritive food and too much OF
it. His bones are dense and @eighty, his
muscles rigid, his knuekles chalky, and his
lungs and throat ready 10 catch cold. Turk.
isb baths keep off, il degree, these effects,
but the best plan is not to be sourmand.
Those centenarian beggere, l dare say,
had not tbs means Of eating heavily, and
few in the south OF France, 10 which they
belong, drink deep Meat, TOO, is there dear
and trying to bad teelh and fruit is plenti-
full, cheap and good. This last won't make
bone and muscle in 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, when !s convertible
into yivacity Eggs are also plentiful, hens
laying in the south four more months in the
y ear than in the north. The egg is ideal
food for any one who wants lot OF nutri-
ment in small volume. | should pity the
French mendicant who could not procure
at village inns an omelette or an oeuf sur
le plet.
It 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 these 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
empire, whose ideal was faire bombance.
The higher class Bonapsrtists ate, drank,
and were nearly all guzzlers, and managed
to soak any amount Of fine wines at their
lunches nnd dinuers. The fashion in
their time came in of having IS
OF nIQ
are hues in o great stack of chimneys.
When appetite.paled the sorbat russo was
brought in to act on the unfortunate stom.
ach as n tonic and enable it to go through
as much more as it had gone through al
ready. One of the reasons why the late
Marshal Bszaine could not get quickly out
of Metz to bar the way against the Prus-
slams was that the Emperor started before
him, and so the road was blocked with the
service de la bouche and the wagons carry.
ing the belongings of his imperial majesty,
which were truly impedimenta.
When the Isrselites were under the0cra-
CIV. and the chief priests sons ate as DO city
Of London aldermen, the Philistnes routed
them. Likewise Marshal de Souboise was
immortaiZed by his saucs for mutton chops
and disgraced by his defeats. The old
French monarchy was done for when Louis
XVI, whether trying to fly from France or
a prisoner of the assembly in one of its most
stormy attinga, could not do without a
heavy meal at the usual hour | never saw
anything so prodigious as the service de la
bouche at the Tuileres and Fontanebleau.
The kitchens there were vast factories, and
were situated at great distance from the
court dining and banqueting rooms out OF
respect for imperial nostrils. By the time,
therefore, the dishes got to table they were
spoiled. .-PariS Cor. London Truth