Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-02
LIVING TO A GREEN OLD AGE.
HOW to DO It-Be Abstemious- Civilized
Man Eats More Than He Ought TO.

now to DO It-Be Abstemious-Ci Civilized
Man Eats More Than He Ought TO.
That the persons living 10 a green old ace
VINO have come within the range OF his obser-
'ahon we're sbstemions themselves and either
sprang from poor families or came from
.ne sonih, where heavy meat meals are not en-
| 'ossoie' point made bv the Paris corre-
spondent OF the London TSpssA ..Guizot~ he
says VINO was not v'to Gus trencherman.
started In poverty and was a 8, u.herner. Theirs
started IN the same condition, ate twice day
ana very heartily, but was SO heavy after
s TO be obliged TO go TO
sieep. he died of p-,plexy after cat
ing. I attribute the extraordinary aifyo--
| ence IN quality in the early and LATE uorks
| OF Victor Hugo To his having ONLY scant meas
when he wrote the former and to his having
n ...I, anu aeiicious ones, 20 which he did
the fullest Justice. when ne turned ont the lat
| ter victor Hugo was spiritual before lnnch
| or dinner: he was inflated in speech ana berefs
OF all sense OF the ridiculous when digcst,nS,
ehner repsst. W. de Lessops almost oriental
IN his sbstemiousness at table. he being of a
southern family aud having lived long in no,
countries which are as healthy as any 70 those
"uo aoapt themselves to the climate I dare
say ne owes ms longevity and high spirits %
ms sobriety In food AS well rs in drink
| oouRMANDrzINa WORSE TRAN DRUxErSxrss
4 K
enness. But any doctor who understands we'll
the human frame will tell you az he can cas-,
aside humbug) that driak is not as bad in ito
| effects as gourmandizing Nothing so hasten,
| senility as the latter. should like 20 know
| how Ninon IEenclos ate and crank but fancy
she must have been temperate 10 be so brightly
| intellectual. as well ss good looking, into a
| great old age. Catherine he Mcdici made il a
| RUE 10 rise from table With an appetite and "a
prefer Ientlls and onions and chestnuts 10 meat
| sue brought Italian confectionery into fashion,
| ana was always rating her married daughters
| when she correspondent with them for eating sa
| hucn and fatlguing themselves so little
| M Bartheiemy Saint Hilaire. though eighty
four, works as hard with IS little fatigue as he
| ever dld IN his life Twenty wears ago no sail
TO me: L am persuaded that the civilized man
eats three times more than he needs when he
| Is not checked by poverty. For my part was
too poor until was elderly 20 be a courmand.
| and when now 60 to dine M a friends house I
only play with my knife ana fork. Dinner is a
mistake The car. his brothers and his uncles
are all COMMANDERS. and what a heavy,
wearied lot they all look. uuwieldy as meCath-
erlums' and about as intelligent. I have never
doubted since began to think upon the sub
lect that George Ill ate himself into the mad
doctors hands and Louis ANI into semi-imbe-
cility.
who were the great victors of the eighteenth
century, NoltaIre, who lived on coffee, and
had too weak a stomach to bear much food;
| Washington, who spare and abstemious,
ana at the revolution. the people of Paris who
were starye!ings. StanIey greatly explains has
success when he says that all he wants is a crust
| OF bread a mouthful of wheat when he can cet
1t and cup of tea. The Scotch were a pro-
| verbally hungry people when they turned
India into British dependency
AN ABsTEMIoUs LTrE' AIRY WOMAN.
81 know literary woman who leads a sincu-
larry laborious life, and thrives in health and
spirits on it. She says that she owes in a great
degree her kood 81 .rits and capacity to get
through any amount of work. of worry ana OF
| strain on the nervous system by cutting dinner
What with serious occupations, running TO OK
| hIbltlons, theaters balls and what not. she
Is hardly ever in bed before $50 in tho
morning, and more often s; yet she gets
up at :. and keeps fresh. lively and active.
| though weighted with emboupoint This
is her dietary: A bowl of warm. unsugared
milk. favored with coffee. is taken without any,
thing else at in the morning. Lunch Is at
l2;30, oil hsh, one meat uish. COT ked vegetables,
| and cheese. Salad ls taken pretty often and
| the meal is followed by several small cups OF
black coffee. When cherries currants. or
| Strawberries are in season a plateful OF ono
| or the other fruit is taken at o'clock with
| out any ether sort OF food Otherwise there
| Is an unbroken fast from lunch 20 or in the
morning, when there is a slight r. lection made
| OF vegetable broth or chicken o.oth. a small
roll or hard baked tread, IN egg and a little
| cheese.
ing when slightly hungry; then her mental
| consciousness is most keen and her wits are
| most wakefuL Not being Ihin. she never feels
however long she may go without breaking her
| last, the pangs OF hunger. She walks three or
four miles daily. Ii she must go TO a dinner
party she does not lunch. 1t IL torture TO her
| to engage in any intellectual work after a re-
past, when the stomach, il the brain has to
| work, gets in conflict with it,
DECAY OF THE DRAMA
L he sl,o =.
rising from the table. Query: May not the
decay of the drama be traced to the heavy z
O'Clock meals of box hirers? The poisson
Mere of the ballet said the director of tho
dance department of the opera house to me the
| other day, rs due to Its great patrons being
| rich petits creves and hoary financists and
| other rich old men. They come gorged with
palste-tickling food to the opera and want
| something that is at once a polIssonnere and a
| tour de force. Gracefuness is thrown
| away on them. The Japanese girls at tho
| exhibition did not draw the surfeitod
people, but artists. artisans and Bohemians.
| What the Others best understood was Ia danss
| du ventre, imported from Cairo. Look at tho
salon pictures which are purchased for garcon-
/ nieres. They are not nuditles. but suggestiyely
dressed polissonnes. The patronage of sur
/ felted piutocrats is death toart.' NJ Jules Bre-
| ton, the great painter. listening TO the
| above, and struck in with, You are quite right.
| Fortune is bad condition of the human mind
because rich people eat and drink too WELL and
let their fancies and sulks and humors run away
| with them
Il have been discussing the dinner question
with jew, aged eighty who is enthusiastic
| Mosaist He himself ate the vache enragee until
| he was fiye-and-twenty, and thinks il 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 il accord
| ing to the prescriptions of their religion.
/ IT is first bled 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 it toothsome in q
| stew-the only way in which it be done,
| unless boiled. Meat thus prepared has no
| SAVIOR and does not tempt the jew to eat of 10
| gluttonously. Whenever pious Jews are nu-
| merous cake shops flourish, the cakes generally
replacing animal food Hophni and Phineas
objected TO the meat STEPPED in salt and water
until il was blanched, when they objected to
what was boiled or sodden. Dying of appo-
plexy does not much matter, since every one
must die of something. But my aged
Hebrew friend observes, il does matter to
be for years in the state that ends in apoplexy,
TO wit, with a starved brain"