The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-07-13
CARE OF THE STOMACH.
When to Eat and How.-Sound Advice from
an OId-Timer.

An old timer, who was brought up in
hotels and restaurants, and knows all
about eating, gave some points to a re-
porter the other day about the way for
man TO make friends with his stomach.
"1here are two big mistakes that almost
all persons make said be. "One is that
they don't eat the right things. and the
other is that what they do eat they don't
eat right. Dyspepsia and indigestion are
killing more people than rum ten times
over. Why, delirium tremens is ioy
compared with bad digestion. When
man has the tremens he's happy some
times, because he forgets himself, but
when he's got dyspepsia his stomach IS
always with him, and he's ALWAYS con-
sciOus OF it He can't sleep. His food
doesn't taste right. Boils break out over
him He's morbid. All his friends seem
10 have deserted him, and some day he
goes and blows his brains out, and the
public and newspapers say he had bust
ness troubles. Business troubles Why,
what does a man care for business trou-
bles when his stomach's all right? If
his stomach is all right, his head viii be
clear, and he'll prosper. No glutton or
dyspeptic can stand up alongside OF
man with sound stomach and a clear
head. When you got up this morning
what did YOU do? Went right OF, to
breakfast and filed yourself, = g.
Z WITH YoUE NOSE IN THE PArERs
and your mini wandering over the
earth. You don't know what you ate, or
how much or how long II took. For all
the good it did you, you might as we'll
have swallowed bacon and cornbread, or
turkey and buckwheat cakes, or any
other mixture that would take up space
in your stomach. Then, while you ate,
YOU gulped down ice water and coffee
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you Int cigar and went down town. glad
you had done part of the work OF the
day That's not breakfasting. Its load
ing up your stomach, and it's worse for
you than If you hadn't eaten anything.
Then you have headache and feel lad,
and grow fat, and wonder why Ii all is
It's because YOU don't pay as much at
tention 10 your stomach as you do to your
Office boy. Your stomach takes its re-
venge by making you wretched. To
!uelch 1t you pour lot OF liquor into it
and gulp some ice water on that with
cracker or pTetZel and Z bit of cheese
What sort of mixture is that ? Just
imagine the cheese and rum and pretZel,
and think hat something inside OF YOU
has to get away with that. If YOU want
10 drink. drink and enjoy your drink
Ion't down It and fling things at il when
you've got II down. Take a glass of wine
and en- oy it, but don't fling 1T into your
stomach as you would YOUR fist into
somebody eye. Your stomach ought
to be your friend, but if you 90 to pitch
ing into II. II II show fight and YOU NAV
as well understand that it viii get the
best OF IT. When you get up in the
morning take big drink of water. Your
system wants water first An engine
isn't first fired up ard then some water
let into the boiler. Clean your teeth and
let the water run from the spigot while
you re doing It.
20 THEN DRINK PINT or IT.
Csc common hydrant water; 10 ice,
30 salt, no mineral wafer. Ordinary
water is good enough for an ordinary
healthy man Keep away from drucs
and pills and give your stomach a show
If you are in hurry to read the papers,
read them before breakfast When YOU
sit down to breakfast table be happy !;
you're going to do something pleasant
Breakfast isn't penalty imposed on YOU
or a task TO he performed as soon as
possible, but a pleasant, enjoyable oc-
casion- Try and have somebody TO talk
10 you, and talk yourself Laugh. Start
| of with fruit some oranges, say. Then
eat some fish and stale bread, or stale
rolls or toast. If you want ANYTHING
more eat some meat. Take your time to
eat it all. / stay At the table for an hour,
N.
but take your time to il. Ii yCu haven't I
time, eat less. The time you spend at
breakfast Will be saved over and over
again during the day. Ifyou've been up
| the night before, don't take a cocktail or
ice water. Try some broth and some
tripe II your stomach's pretty far gone
When a mans been off little his stom-
ach is raw and inhamed. lie doesn't
want to start right off with more rum
let him give his stomach a show. It'll
pay him to- Coddle your stomach in [. e
morning and it'll stand up for you at
night. Ii you go pitching into it first
thing il Will have its revenge. If you
must smoke and you must drink, wait
until your stomach is through with
breakfast Try this thing of starting off
lalr and square You can drink more
and smoke more in the evening, and it
won't tell on il. a mans stomach is his
friend, and if he'll only treat it kindly
the nrst half of the day it viii show its
appreciation and stick by him at night"