Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-07-20

truffies. One day, while dining with Victor
Hugo. seeing the poet mixing them up on
his plate with vegetables and gravy and
meat OF ragout, he could not repress a
panied exclamation. "What is the mat
ter| asked the host GAS poet l ad-
mire you" answered his illustrious maestro,
"but as an eater despise you" To have
truff1es and bananas as cheap as potatoes
was an utopia which Balzac tried to realize
at his country house; and Byron once
called truffies edible roses"
A goose is carved the same as wild duck
(this is also the case with tame duck !,
and should be served up with turnips or
olives. 1t should be sufficiently well done
for it to be possible to carve it with a
spoon or the point of knife. Pigeon,
when roasted, are divided into four pieces.
When no company is present, the most
equitable way is to cut pigeon in two
longitudinally.
HOW TO PRoLoNG LIFE.
How to prolong human life is ques-
tion of personal interest to every man, and
the duty of making an attempt to do so is
one that particularly rests with the medi-
cal profession. When an individual has
attained to full development and sound
health-say at forty-the expectancy of
life may be twenty-five or thirty years; for
the individual there are great risks, but
with the aggregate of mankind such ques-
tions may be calculated with business-like
accuracy. There are two great factors
which concern the prolongation of life
the inheritance and the conditions which
make up life history of the individual.
The inheritance of longevity fcom one or
both parents is powerful factor, and one
that carries great weight with life insur-
ance companies. That is more import
ant factor than an infancy free from weak
ness, provided the infantile ailments be
dependent upon temporary conditions of
defective nutrition, or conditions incident
to the stages of development only. The
late Emperor William, and many other
public men of great age and useful life,
illustrate that feeble youth may be fol-
lowed by a robust and prolonged life.
Even conditions of infant marasmus may
be followed by subsequent good develop
ment, as in the case of Sir Isaac New.
ton.
l now proceed to speak of average peo-
pie for "a perfect man" can hardly be said
to exist. shall consider average people,
especially as we see them in town life, and
the special conditions desire to note are
the habits, diet and the wear of life.
There is no doubt as to the habit of life
affecting longevity; temperance in all
things, in activity and in restraint, in reg
ularity in morning rising and in work, as
well as in resting and sleeping uniform
industry is as conducive to health as is
regularity in diet. The acquisition of
regularity in habits is largely due to early
training, and in this way a wisely directed
school system probably does much to form
sound and steady-acting nerve system,
such as gives the man prolonged phys
ical health. From the period of infancy
and upward sound and well-knit brain
has much to do with the permanence Of a
healthy constitution. The relation of diet
to longevity has often been discussed.
can only say that the diet should be
adapted, in quality and in kind, to the
work of the individual, while such articles
as tobacco, alcohol and tea, if used at all,
should be employed in moderation by such
as care for a stable constitution and pro-
longed life. Passing over such important
considerations, as being familiar to most
of US, / come to the great question of
wear in life-the outcome of the frictions
of life which all must meet with, more or
less. The various factors at work. espe-
cially in town life, make impressions on
the brain which lead to fatigue and pre-
mature wear. The strong-brained indi-
vidual may not be hurt thereby; the
weaker man is exhausted by such constant
impressions from without, and a second
generation under such influences is likely
to suffer, through loss of tone and vitality
in cell structures, rather in actual stature
or measurement.
City life necessarily produces series of
impressions. and calls for constant exertion.
The laws Of sanitation and hygiene should,
then, be most carefully studied. 1t is very
desirable to have what quiet is possible
during brain work, and the necessity of
proper ventilation as means of maintain
ing mental energy is well known. 1t
might lessen brain wear in many offices if
electric lighting were substituted for gas
illumination. Good digestion is essential
to continued work with good lasting power.
Late rising and still more hurried lunch
con and rush back to work, followed, at
the conclusion of the day, by heavy meal
when the man is worried often tend to ex-
haustion, as much as the unavoidable
pressure of business. 1t is most rational
after heavy brain work to partake of light
refreshment, and then rest for half an
hour before dinner; thus the power of di-
gestion and social enjoyment are restored
to the man. Probably the chief means of
preparing man to Withstand the wear of
business life is by careful training, both
physical and mental, before he enters
upon the strain and wear of business.
One means of obtaining longevity is by
training the child wisely. Many pre-
mature breakdown in health is due to
that want of premature exercise which
would not be neglected by the athlete
without serious results.
sCRAP-BooKs.
l advise every boy and girl to keep a
scrap-book. If you are 10, or Is, or 20
years of age, keep a scrap-book. Let me
tell you why and how. Hundreds OF
things you read and see you would
iihe W Keep, put ii you lay them away
you viii never be able to find them when
you want them. When l was girl
never had sense enough to keep scrap
book. | began some, but did not keep on
long.
My memory was good, but l can now
remember many things that cannot re-
member. What / mean is this | remem-
Der reading beautiful piece of poetry, of
which two or three lines l can recall, but
the whole can't recollect In many cases
/ do not remember the name Of the writer.
| have seen many fine pictures in maga-
zines and papers that would now be valu-
able. Some / cut out, but they are lost.
Charming stories, wise remarks, proverbs,
directions for doing great manv useful
and curious things are also lost. So much
do feel sure that have lost that would
give $50 apiece for the scrap-books of each
and every year that might have made
from the time | was 10 years old till be-
gan to preserve things only a few years
back.
If YOU have no scrap-book, get one and
put in it whatever pleases you. Ifyou have
one and have not completed it, take it up
again. assure you that you will be very
glad afterwards. You can buy one very