Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-22
EATING AND LIVING.
ABST EMlOUS HABITS ARE FAVOR
ABLE TO OLD AGE.

As Rule, People with Carniverous VA
lures Are Not Given to Longevity The
Great Men of the Eighteenth Century
Were Careful of Their Diet.
A correspondent of the London TuH
says: The persons living to green
old age, who have come within the
range of my observation, were abste-
mious themselves, and had either
sprung from poor families or came
from the South, where heavy meats are
not enjoyable. Guizot, who was not Il
vigorous trencherman, started in pow
erty and was southerner. Theirs
started in the same condition, ate twice
day and very heartily, but was 50
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 works of Victor Hugo to his hav-
ing only scant meals when he wrote the
former, and to his having plentiful and
delicious ones when he turned out the
latter Victor Hugo was spirituel be-
fore lunch or dinner ; he was inflated
in speech and bereft of all sense of the
ridiculous when digesting either repast.
Volumes have been written against
drunkenness. But any doctor who I'M
derstands we'll the human frame will
tell you lif he can cast aside humbug)
that drink is not as bad in its effects as
gormandizing Nothing so hastens
senility as the latter.
The car, his brothers, and his unclcs
are all gormandizers, and what heavy,
wearied lot they all look, unwieldy as
megatheriums, and about as intelligent.
! have never doubted since ! began to
think upon the subject that George III
ate himself into the mad doctors hands
and Louis XVI into semi -imbecility.
Who were the great victors of the
eighteenth century? Noltaire, who
lived on coffee and had too weak Il
stomach to bear much food Washing
ton, 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 q crust of
bread, mouthful of meat when he can
get it and cup of tea. The Scotch
were proverbially hungry people when
they turned India into a British de-
tendency.
l have been discussing the dinner
question with Jew, aged eighty, who
is an enthusiastic Mosaist He him
self ate the rache enragce until he was
five and-twenty, and thinks it was the
making of him. The reason he gave
why his brethren bear so we'll all
climates is that they spoil their meat
when they prepare it according to the
prescriptions of their religion. 1t is
first bled, and then stepped in salt and
water until no redness stains the water
This units it for the spit OF the grill,
and does not make it toothsome in a
stew-the only way in which it can be
done, unless boiled. Meat thus pre-
pared has no SAVIOR, and does not tempt
the Jew to eat it gluttonously. Dying
of apoplexy does not much matter,
since every one must die of something.
But, as my aged Hebrew friend OBJ
serves, it does matter to be for years in
state that ends in apoplexy-to-w wit,
with q starved brain. The brain starves
in the midst of too great plenty, be-
cause gormandizing clogs the capillary
arteries which bring life to the brain
substance The blood does its best to
do it's work, and in its efforts at last
bursts vessel.
L once knew m impressario who was
also Jew. He was behind any num-
Der of lyrical theatres, from Stockholm
70 30 hal lr
and other places where singing was the
attraction. He held carnivorous feed
ing in horror, and told me that he
never lost his time seeking for fine
voices in countries where fish or a
meat diet prevailed. The most fish
eating ltalians-those of Naples and
Genoa-have often among them sweet
singers. The most meat eating part of
Great Britain-England- 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 Irishwomen "lilt" and
sing like nightingales, but never in the
town. Sweden was country of song,
because 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 carnivorous one can ever sing a
song. 1t croaks, has bad liver, and
is generally melancholy.