The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-05-27
EATING AND LIVING.

A correspondent OF the London
TuM says: The persons living to
green old age, who have come within
the range of my observation, were
abstemious themselves, and had either
sprung from poor families or came
from the South, where heavy meat
meals are not enjoyable. Guizo', who
was not a vigorous trencherman started
III poverty and was a Southerner.
Thiers started in the same condition,
ate twice day and very heartily, to
go 10 sleep. He died of apoplexy
after eating. | attribute the extra
ordinary difference in quality in the
early and late works 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 SbnIfuel before lunch or
dinner he was inflated in speech and
bereft of all sense of the ridiculous
when digesting either repast. M. de
Lesseps is almost Oriental in his
abstemousness at table, he being Of a
Southern family, and having lived long
in hot countries, which are as healthy
as any to those who adapt themselves
to the climate. l dare say he owe:
his longevity and high spirits to hi:
sobrietv IN food as we'll as in drink
Volumes have been written against
drunkenness. But any doctor who
understands we'll the human frame will
tell you (if he can aside humbug) tina
drink is is not as bad in Its effects a
gormandlzing. Nothing SO hasten!
senility as the latter.
Barthelemy Saint Hilaire, though 8.
works as hard and with as little fatigue
as he ever did in his life. Twent
years ago he said to me: II am per
suaded that the civilized man eat
three times more than what he need
when he is not checked by poverty
For my part | was too poor until wa
elderly to be a gourmand, and when
now go to dine at friends house
only play with my knife and forE
Dinner IS a mistake" The Gar, h
brothers and his uncles are all german
dizers, ald what heavy wearied Ii
they all look, unwleldy as megat heriun
and about as intelligent. | have neve
doubted, since l began to think upo
the subject, that George III, ate hin
self into the mad doctors hands, an
Louis XVI, into semi imbecility. VIII
were the great vlctors OF the 18th cer
tery2 Voltaire, who lived on cotte
E and had too weak a stomach to be-
much food; Washington, who was spal
and abstemious and at the Revolutlc
the people OF Paris, who were starye
ings. Stanley greatly explains h
success when he says all he wants is
crust of bread, mouthful OF me-
when he can get it, and cup OF te
The Scotch were a proverbially hung
, people when they turned India into
A British dependency.
a l have been discussing the dim
Y question with a Jew, aged So,who is
enthusiastic Mosalst, He himself a
J. the Oache euyaeee until he was five-a
=. twenty, and thinks it was the making
c him, The reason he gave why /
brethren bear so well all climates IS tn
|, they spoil their meat when they prepa
it according to the prescriptions OF th'
=, religion. 1t IS first bled, and th'
d stepped in salt and water until no re
e ness stains the water. This unfits
c for the spit or the grill, and does n
make it toothsome in stew-the OF
A way in which it can be done, unls
e boiled. Meat thus prepared has
e SAVIOR, and does not tempt the Jew
S eat of it gluttonously. Dying
,e apoplexy does not much matter, sin
d eyery one must die of something.
a as my aged Hebrew friend observes,
" does matter to be for years IN st
r that ends in apopiexy-to wit, with
le starved brain. The brain starves
e the midst of too great plenty, beca
,g gormandizing clogs the capillary artel
ST which bring life to the brain substan
he The blood does its best to do Its VIC
th and in its efforts at last bursts
ot vessel.