Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
The Philosophy of Eating.

The Philosophy of Eating.
| The persons living to "a green old age
who have come within the range of my OBJ
servation were abstemious themselves, and
had either sprung from poor families or
came from the South, where heavy meat
m als are not enjoyable. Guizot. who was
not vigorous trenchman, started IN
poverty, and was southerner. Theirs
started in the same condition, ate twice
day and very heartily, but was so heavy
after eating, as to be obliged to go TO
sleep. He died of apoplexy after eating.
attribute the extraordinary difference In
quality in the early and late work of Victor
Hugo, to his having only scant meals when
he wrote the former, and to his having
! plentiful and delicious ones, to which he
did the fullest justice, when he turned out
/ the latter. Victor Hugo was spiriiael be-
fore lunch or dinner; he was inflated In
| speech and bereft of all sense OF the ridlcu-
lous when digesting either repast Nj, de
Lesseps is almost Oriental IN his abstemi-
BUSINESS at table, he being of southern
family, and having lived long in hot
countries, which are as healthy as any to
those who adapt themselves to the climate.
dare say he owes his longevity and high
spirits to his sobriety in food as well as IN
drink. Volumes nave been written against
drunkenness. But any doctor who under
stands well the human frame will tell you
Off he can cast aside humoug) that drink is
not as bad in its effect as gormandlziug.
Nothing so hastens seniity as the latter
Borthelemy Saint Ailaire, though eighty
four, works as hard and with as little
| fatigue as be ever did in his life. Twenty
h., i a. a1
that the civilized man eats three times
more than what he needs when he is not
checked by poverty. For my part | was
too poor until was elderly to be gor-
mand, and when | now go to dine at a
friends house only play with my knife
and fork Dinner Is a mistake. The
car, his brothers, and uncles, are all gor-
handlers, and what a heavy, wearied lot
they all look, unwieldy as mes atheriuus,
and about as intelligent | have never
doubted. since began to think upon the
subject, that George III. ate himself into
the mad doctors hand, and Louis XVI. in
to semimbecility. Who were the great
victors of the eighteenth century? Vol
taire, who lived on coffee, and had too
weak stomach to bear food; Washington,
who was spare and abstemious and at the
revolution the people of Paris. who were
starvelings. Stanley greatly explains his
success when he says that all he wants is a
crust of bread, amouthfu of meat when he
can get it, and cup of tea. The Scotch
were proverbially hungry people when
they turned India into a British DEEPEN
| dency.
have been discussing the dinner ques-
! ton with Jew, aged eighty, who is an
enthusiastic Mosaist. He himself ate the
vache enragee until he was fve-and-twenty,
and thinks it was the making of him. The
reason he gave why his brethren bear so
well all climates is that they spoil their
meat when they prepare it according to the
prescriptions of their religion 1t is first
| bed. and then stepped in salt and water
until no redness stains the water. This
units it for the spit or the grill, and does
not make il toothsome in a stew--the only
way in which il can be done, unless boiled
n t-tS t1TS T7irr=ccr du uO6s
not tempt the Jew to eat of ii gluttOnously
| DYING Ct apoplexy does not much matter
| since everyone must die of something
| But, as my aged Hebrew friend observes. 1T
does matter to be for years in a state that
ends in apopexy-to wit, with starved
| brain. The brain starves in the midst of
too great plenty, because gormandizing
clogs the capillary arteries which bring life
to the brain substance. The blood does its
best to do its work, and its efforts at last
burst a vessel once knew an impresserio
who was also Jew. He was behind any
number of lyrical theatres, from Stockholm
to Sydney, safec-conoerts. music hall, and
other places where singing was the attrac-
| ton. He held carnivorOus feeding IN hOr-
ror, and told me that he never lost his time
seeking for fine voices in countries where q
fish or a meat diet prevailed. The most
fsheating ltalians-those of Naples and
Genoa-having not often among them
sweet singers The most meat-eating
part of Great Britain -EngIand-is also a
voiceless country. Though the singing Is
so fearful in the Scotch kinks, my friend
found some divine songsters south of the
Grampians, and a greater number in the
Highlands. He often heard common Irish
women Gilt and Sing like nightingales,
but never in the towns. Sweden was a
country of song, because Il country of grain
| Norway was not Too much fish was eaten
there Vocal capacity disappeared in
musical families who got rich. They ate
too much meat The vocal birds are eaters
of grain, fruit and vegetables. No carniv-
orous one could ever sing a song. II
croaks, has bad liver, and is generally
melancholy.