Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-09
W HAT TO EAT
HOW TO CARE ron OUR sToMacHs
IN HOT WEATHER
VIEWS OF RICHMOND DOCTORS.
some of Our Leading Physicians
Give some Timely Pointers as to
the Nature and Amount OF Food
to BE Taken in Summer.


his caloric rays, which transform this
usually cool and comfortable sphere into
a ball Of red-hot substance. and sim
collars and billed" shirts are tabooed'
the question. what shall we eatY' per-
plexes us-at least a great many Of US
no little.
Food. as we all know, is great heat
producer. and as the elements are pro-
ducing enough heat to satisfy even
Sandwich Islander. It is rather a prob
lem for the ordinary citizen TO deter
mine Just what kind Of food Is best Tor
him, and will best permit him 10 keep
as near cool as possible.
To interview doctors on this subject
would COST money-that is, IL one inter-
views some Of them, and the Dispatch
with its usual foresight, has gotten ex-
pressions from some Of Richmonds lead
ing physicians. VINO give It's readers some
very timely advice as TO how to treat
their stomachs.
DIR LONGS IDEAS.
DIR. ]. w. Long writes as follows:
1.-THE Dispatch has asked me to write
a few lines indicating my ideas as 10
what we should eat and drink during
this extremely hot weather feel re-
lieved that I was not asked to cay
wherewithal We should be clothed, for
should certainly have said-nothing
.'These are absorbing questions, even
during the days of free silver that have
dawned upon US. for silver or gold, we
are bound TO eat and drink; and most
of us eat and drink about sixteen times
as often as we see either OF the sordid
metals
1.-THE majority Of those who must eat
and drink are not bothered about nice
distinctions IA the choice Of eatables and
turntables, but are content with anything
that will stay the cravings or munger
and cool the parched throat However,
mosr people can choose between water
MEDIUMS" and 'cantel-o-o-pes. In the
matter OF eating, 1t is not altogether
question as TO what we shall eat. for the
quantity of food consumed is quite as i'm
portant The digestive organs have
limited capacity Just as the stomach or
one OF the Capitol-Square squirrels; the
only difference ID Bunny knows When ne
has enough, and some people DO not.
saw this in the interest of clearinghouse
keepers, and not in behalf OF the doctors.
"Apother suggestion just mere; l would
like to say, conddentially, TO the COOKS
of sable hue and otherwise: Cook your
vIctuals done" II there is anything on
the face OF the earth that will give a
man the dyspepsia, make him cross anu
snappish; provoke him to say his mother
was the best cook in the world, ana cause
him TO fee from the bosom OF his famliy
TO revel in the varieties OF me Vaude-
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con the other hand, 1t is not untimely
IN saw TO those who eat. whether Well
cooked or under-done food, don't bolt
IT Is all right for politicians TO bolt, II
IS the order Of the day, but you had bet
ter put a knife TO your throat than 10
bolt your food. O.. T.,
an a general way, / would say, II IS
hest 10 avoid heavy, rich foods, ana take
by preference plain diet, composed N part
IL not mostly, of vegetables. VINO
would think of eating roast-pork or
plum-pudding in August? How much
better are spring chickens, Hanover
snaps" tomatoes, corn, butter-beans' ana
the like! And then the delicious cante-
loupe for breakfast, and juicy water
melon for dinner!
"As to drinkabes. Richmond is spe-
cially blessed with large number or
lithia springs close at hand, which fur-
nish the best water l ever drank ana
at very cheap rates. Just think or the
delightfully."- refreshing beverage at
cents a gallon, plus cents worth OF
icel 'Jeemes-river" water is good enough
for our city fathers, till they put in
a filter; then they might be allowed 10
have ice in theirs. Ice-tea is cool re-
freshing, astringent dyspeptic; 1 drink
IT, but prefer non-tubercular milk.
"a night ramble over certain parts Of
the city would convince one that good
deal of drinking is postponed till after
SHUTDOWN / hesitate to recommend the
kind Of drinks these people swallow, be-
! cause a very dear friend OF mine, who
modestly confesses to some experience
along that line says he drinks that kind
OF stuff in the winter-time-to make him
warm"
DIR. PARKER'S VIEWS.
DR.. w. w. Parker gives the following
very wholesome advice;
adults. as a rule should eat three
/ times a day. Some invalids and children
/ four times. CNot forty) 1t is not wei
to eat, Immediately on rising from bed
! This many do from necessity. This mea
had better be light. We have no tim'
TO argue this point, or any other. in thii
brief letter. ] give you my observation
for what they are worth. Never put ont
meal into the stomach till the preceding
has been digested.
1.-THE table in the organ should b
cleaned off and scraps removed, ant
allow TO cool down before a secone
meal is introduced This called atten
ton to in the Dispatch a decade ago
Since then hundreds OF men and womei
have zone to premature graves on Thu
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