Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1889-03-28

tained at nearly one hundred DEGREES
In summer we have enly to combat a
few degrees u lower temperature; br.
II winter. by !cod and clothing, we
must raise the body heat from zero
outside Of us 10 one hundred degrees
above zero inside OF u.s. II slaihiv
will not do 20 eat IN summer as we do
in winter Ne much, or OF the same
kind of food-if we consider heat
alone. But in summer We live, as a
rule, more active lives, and pass of
supernuous heat with great ease and
rapidity, while the surface OF the body.
Is cooled by perspiratlon. Besides.
In wintor. we live on the average far
more sedentary lives rendering Il
much more diffic ~ 70 get rid Of su
perhuous food. Il is probable tha'
most people digest and assimf
late and dispose Of waste so much
better In the warm season that they
eat more than in winter-and ought
TO do 30. The kind Of foods used
should, however. be very unlike. II is
almost impossible In summer TO eat
too much Of rip, fruits, while OF meuts
very few care 10 eat in large amounts.
There is a remarkable revolution going
on In this matter OF diet Twenty-Five
years ago the consumption Of fruit per
capita in the United States could not
have exceeded ono-half the present
CONSUMPTION, for the simple reason
that 1t was not procurablc. The IN
creased growth OF small traits Is enor-
nous. but the demand is said to fully
keep NJ With the supply One of the
most wholesome OF all foods is tho
grape. The enormous increase in it's
cultivation is TO be welcomed by all
who desire 10 see a healthy people. II
is one OF those fruits that can be In
dulged in almost without limit A
surfeit OF grapes is hardly a possibili-
" Thousands Of tons are now con-
sumed whore one ton was eaten thirty
years ago.
Rules for diet are as COMMON as
snownakes. 10 Is impossible, how
ever for one TO prescribe absolutely
for another The physician Is never
more severely taxed than when called
on TO resuscitate an enfeebled stomach.
Vegetarians. Grahamite5 and a thou
sand other ties have their nostrums
and prescribe with great confidence.
The real necessity Is 10 discover some
preventive rather than IA cure Some
one has said that dyspepsia is killing
more people than rum. 1t certainly is
undermining the National constitution
and Herewith the National character
quite as fast as drunkenness Intem-
perance is altogether the same vice
whether it affects food or drink. Hor-
ace Mann sounded the note Of warning
to young men forty years ago in his
famous lectures. They should be ro-
printed and re-read. "No glutton or
dyspeptic can stand up alongside a
man with n sound stomach and clear
head" Mature abho-s two things
a vacuum and foul stomach" Who
ever fails to eat wisely carries decay
in his stomach. His breath Is the
smoke of the charnel house. Every
faculty OF mind and every function OF
body are affected, and degeneration is
the result
The most unpleasant feature OF this
intemperance of eating is that it Is
quite as easily added to heredity as
the intemperance of drinking. We
have TO suffer for the sins Of diet OF
our grandfathers. Can the natural
selfshness OF human nature be over
come sufficiently 10 reverse this
tendency, and make it law that each
generation shall have little better
chance than the lastp II am not mis-
taken. IL can be so reversed and there
are pretty sure signs that our next
generation will show the chan ge
The boys and girls who in ten years
will constitute the working world |
will have frmer nerves and better di- |
gestion, with more common sense
habits than we have had. Nj |
Maurice, NJ. d., In ST. Louis Globe- !
Democrat