Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-04-11
ABOUT EATING.
a Wcrd OF Warning to the Igno-
rant and Imprudent.
The Many Bodily Ills Arising from Dis
oased or Disordered Condition of
the Digestive Organs-How to
Remedy Existing Evils.


The first organ that nature made for
living creature was stomach. It's
the most important to-day, after many
thousands of years, and after the evo-
luton of many other organs. But it
is that one part of the body which We
persist in neglecting or destroying;
and just where nature began to build
we begin to pull down. The posses
sion of a good digestive organ Is really
more important than good eyes and
ears and even more than largo brain;
for the relation of the nerves of nutri-
tion are as intimate with the other
parts of the body as are the blood ves-
sells. If the stomach be disordered the
thinking and recollecting apparatus is
also disordered, and the unseating of
clear vision and good hearing is as
liable to be from bad nutrition as from
local causes. So it comes about that
the first lesson Of education is how to
eat and not how to think; how to warm
up and run the organism and not clog
1t, rather than how to think; for if
there be no hindrances or interferences
the brain is sure to do good
thinking and plenty Of it. Nine-tenths
of scholarship is wasted owing to indi-
gestion. Many fine brains are rem
dered useless by dyspeptic stomach.
There is no getting around this. If
you want to do good hard work you
must digest suitable food to nourish
the brain-enough OF it, and not too
much. This is exactly the reverse of
the common practice, because we have
not got over the old celibate and
ascetic idea that the mind is somehow
higher and better than the body, and
can despise it. A college is the para
disc OF ignorance and stupidity on all
matters pertaining to the stomach.
Brains are supposed to have the entire
control and alone to be worthy of con-
sideration. The object of the whole
curriculum is to culture heads; and
the result is, the foundation of good
head-worl becomes impossible. Four
out of five graduates are permanently
disabled from doing their level best
in the world, while the coarsest fellows
in life outstrip the finer because they
have better stomachs. We need a
University of the Stomach, with full
set of professors of nutrition, diges.
ton, assimilation and waste, as well
as of general physiology, anatomy and
general biology. Or better yet, each
college and every common school in
the land should teach how to take care
oil the body and how to save the stom
ach.
The relation of food to morals is 3
matter so generally overlooked thai
most people would deny that character
was anyway dependent on eating
But start with an extreme and you viii
see that nothing is clearer than tha
morals and table manners go together
The glutton we all recognize as fairly
classible with the drunkard. Their,
is no one but can see that it is sin t,
live to eat as it is sir to liv,
to drink-with no ulterior pur
pose for eating and drinking. TIL,
reason clearly is that the gluttol
is a useless creature, incapable o
high thought or noble purpose.
is only when we come down to sa.
that a little too much food, or food of
sort innutritious, is a sin, that the av
erage man stares in amazement Yer.
much of our wickedness of all sort
comes from disordered stomach. Yo
can make up list of direct conss
ouences of that Sort and then anothe
list of the indirect. OF the direct ar
fretfulness. and moroseness, and vi
due irritability of every application
The nerves are goaded and rasped b
unnatural efforts at digestion. Ind
rectly the blood is poisoned and th
system is bent toward animalism an
brutality. The passions are begotte
in place of generous love. Prior pl
the matter in straightforward way j
these hines:
sObserve the various operations
OF food and drink in several nations.
Was ever Tartar fierce and cruel
uron the strength Of water Cruel!
But who shall stand his rage and force
When first he rides, then eats his horse
Salads and eggs and lighter fare
Tune the Italian sparks guitar,
And n 1 take Don Confuse right
Pudding and beef make Britons fight
Ills especially easy to test this ma
.ar with children. Let them eat
they will, and what and when the
will of rich dishes. greasy foods. pa
tries and condiments, and you viii ha'
q peevish. quarrelsome househol