Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-21
MAKING DYSPEPTICS.
WHY LIFE IS SEEN THROUGH BLUE
GLASSES BY so MANY.

torment to his friends. Life is seen through
blue glasses and nothing on earth is pleas
ing. There never was a cynic, pessimisi
| or premeditated revolutionist who ha6
unimpaired digestion and healthy stom,
ach.
One dyspeptic in the house will sour the
whole family.
Nlne-tenths of the human race are born
| with tendency to stomach troubles, and
the mothers finish up the business by per-
| hitting their children's internal organs
to become the dumping ground of all the
trash in the shape of sweets and acids and
stale fruit that pennies will purchase at
the nearest corner grocery.
1t begins before that even. The baby in
the cradle has to take its dose of ignorant
mothering. 1t cries; possibly pin, band
too tight, a roll in its clothing that presses
its tender flesh is irritating it. More than
likely "a little indigestion" from its last
overgorge of the bad breast milk has Civ
en- 1t the collie The worried mother, think
ing that feeding is the best medicine
for crying baby, and knowing that with
Its mouth full it can't Cry, Immediately
proceeds to nurse it.
The baby fills itself up to the chin, kick
ing and squirming, and often trying to
get away from the breast but is pressed
back. In utter exhaustion it falls asleep,
TO awaken in about ten minutes with a
shrek that would make a Cheyenne blush
For two straight hours that poor little
victim OF mothers ignorance or indo-
lence will writhe in the agony of collie, its
tender stomach tormented with deluges of
paregorlc, peppermint, catnip tea and IA lot
of other messos, which fill it up till the
tiny sufferer calls nature to aid and throws
all the horrible stuff up and then it falls
asleep, perspiring, white and limp.
For hours its little frame will be soro
and aching, and it will moan if stirred
Yet in less than "a hours it will have to
go through the same experience. Is it
much wonder that the weanling is fretful
and dubbed a cross baby?
Just fill an adult up on sweets and ices,
bread and meat and pastry Let his stom-
ach get to grumbling; then take him to
big dinner and fill him up again. You
can't safely remain in the Same house
with him till he gets over his ill temper,
headache and indigestion.
With the constant irritation of sourcd,
undigested food, the child's stomach gets
into the same diseased condition, and un-
less it has a constitution of iron it devcl-
ops into a whining, peeyish, nervous youth
and dyspeptic adult.
A perfectly healthy child ought to eat at
regular intervals, say four times a day;
have only plain food and sufficient to sat
isfy hunger, but never be permitted to
gorge itself on any dish of which it is
particularly fond. The habit of ''piecing"
is almost criminal. Indeed, that a diseased
stomach will turn man into criminal
is scientific fact. If child is not strong,
its digestion will be naturally weak ard
it should have its food carefully prepared
and eat q little oftener, because it does
not eat so much at d time, and the human
body has to have fuel to keep it running
properly.
If you say "diet' to man who calls in
a doctor, he flies into passion and de-
clares that he will eat what he wants and
when he wants it, and that it does him no
harm. Probably if he had needed the
warnings of nature and been moderately
careful of his diet the doctor would never
have been called. Your own good sense
will tell you that if you throw water on
the brightest fire it will smother it, and
long enough continued will leave black
ened mass of ruins. Hence if you cat
things that you know have always dis
agreed with you you can't help knowing
also that you will put out the fires of
healthy combustion in your body and that
if you keep up the indiscretion you will at
last wreck your health completely.
Women are the most careless, indis-
eliminating eaters in the world. | heard
a woman say at a restaurant table recent
~, where she was lunching with friends,
that pie did not agree with her and that
milk always soured on her stomach, but
that they were $50 filing" and whom she
was in a hurry with her shopping she al
ways took pie and milk to get through
quickly and then finished off with some
chocolates to "munch" on
| looked at her plate, and she had two
kinds of pie and q glass of half cream and
half milk. When she got up to leave l saw
that she was afflicted, as indiscrimnating
caters generally are, with a large abdomen.
Her habits of eating. rs displayed in her
luncheon, very largely accounted for it.
She ate things that "filled her up" to
put it coarsely, and caused flatulenco dis
tending the stomach with gases. Drink
ing great quantities of liquid, such as tea
and coffee or q great deal of milk or wa
ter, will distend the stomach in the same
manner and cause the uncomfortable |
full feeling Of which SO many women
complain.
Boiling ones food is another way of |
superinducing fatty folds about the abdo-
men. Nearly everybody eats too fast, and |
failure to properly masticate ones food |
is sure to bring on disagreeable hour,
while the ovcrworked stomach is grum- |
blingly performing its labor.
The woman who wants to be considered |
bright and handsome and charming has |
got to pay strict attention to her diet, if |
she ever suffers with attacks of indiges-
ton, because one attack brings a second in
its train, and soon she is a confirmed dys-
pcptic. A woman whose stomach is out of
order gets jaundiced eyes as well. She be-
comes critical and carping. Always being
uncomfortable, she can't well be pleasant
in manner.
If there is tack in ones boot ore is 60
ing to frown. If there is a misery" in
the stomach it will make itself felt in the
face and in the voice. No man living likes
a soured woman. That is woman who
sees things through blue glasses and
thinks that nothing that is is good"
The wit of a woman who is always com
planning loses its keenness. 1t degenerates
into mere fault finding.
Then too dipnstiou and dySnepsia arn |