The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-08-23


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At time like tie present. when thl
marrying age Of the average man ol
the middle classes is being more ana
more postponed. the physical Ills
baehelordom come increasingly n1el
the notice of the medical man 1t IL
not good for man or woman 70 liv,
alone. Indeed. it has been well SAID
that for solitude to be successful man
must be either angel or devil This re-
ferss perhaps mainly TO the moral
aspects Of isolation, and with slese
We have now no concern There are
certain physical ills, however. which
are not the least among the disad
vantage Of loneliness. OF there the
is many q clerk in London. many
young barrister. rising perhaps.
not yet far enough risen; many
ness man or journalist. who will "a
that one Of the most trying es 0i
his unmarried life is to ha eat
alone. And a premature dy sia is
the only thing ever takes him to ms
medical man
There are some few happily disposed
individuals who can dine alone and
not eat too fast. nor too much. nor toe
little With the majority it is differ-
ext The average man puts his nove
or his newspaper before him and
s1.--s-- tt.o+ H.. .--frr in.,,--tr.c., f,..t the
meal with due deliberation by reading
little with and more between the
courses. He will just employ his mind
enough to help and too little to inter
fere with digestion. In fact. he viii
provide that gentle mental accsmpani-
ment which with happier people con
versation gives to a meal. This is your
solitary's excellent idea In reality he
becomes engrossed in what he is read
ing till suddenly. finding his chop code,
he demolishes it in a few moutl.fuls, OF
else he finds that he is hungry. ane,
paying no attention to the book. which
he fiings aside, he rushes through his
food as fast as possible. to plunge inte
his armchair and literature afterward.
In either case the lonely man must
digest at a disadvantage.
For due and easy nutrition food
should be slowly taken and the mind
should not be intensely exercised dur
ing the process. Everyone knows that
violent bodily exercise is bad Just after
a meal. and mental exertion equally So
Wise people do not even argue during
or Just after dinner. and observation VI
after-dinner speeches will convincs
anyone that most speakers neither eh-
dure themselves nor excite in their
hearers any severe intellectual effort
In fact, the experience Of count $
generations, from the red Indian OF the
woods to the white-shirted diners Of
a modern party, have perpetrated the
lesson that man should not eat aloLe
nor think much at that time, ou;
should talk and be talked TO while ha
feeds. Most people do not think mucn
when they talk, and talking Is natur-
al accompaniment of eating and drink
ing.
How does II fare with the many sell
tarv women OF today? No better, w
know. than with the men, but diffe--
emily. Alone or not a man may gener-
ally be trusted at any rate to take food
enough. I'VE suppose. of course. that
he can get IT'D with a woman 1t Is
different. She is more emotional, more
imaginative and less inclined to realize
the gross necessities Of existenee
Therefore the woman doomed 70 dins
alone as often as not does not cine AZ
ali she gets dyspepsia because nei
digestion has not sufficient practice
man gets it because his functions p-ac-
tiea II too often in the wrong way. Men
and women are gregarious animals
PHYSICALLY and intellectually we I'M
rrove with companionship- Certainly
Il is not good to eat and to drink alone.
II is a sad fact of our big cities that
they hold hundreds Of men and womea
Who in the day are too busy and at
riyht too lonely to feed with profit
much less with any pleasure.-London
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