The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-08-06
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aeh Troubles.
At time like the present, when thl
marrying age OF the average man Of
the middle classes is being more and
more postponed, the physical ills o.
bachelordom come increasingly un1eI
the notice OF the medical man. II il
not good for man or woman to liv,
alone. Indeed. it has been well said
that for solitude to be successful man
must be either angel or devil. This re-
fers perhaps mainly to the moral
aspects OF isolation, and with these
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 a clerk in London, many
young barrister. rising perhaps,
not yet far enough risen; many
ness man or journalist. who will y
that one of the most trying 5 OF
his unmarried life is to ha cal
alone. And a premature dyspepsia is
the only thing ever takes him to hIs
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
cnt The average man puts his novel
or his newspaper before him and
thinks that he will lengthen out tht
meal with due deliberation by reading
q 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 accompani-
ment which with happier people con-
yersation 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 colc
he demolishes it In few mouthfuls, or
paying no attention to the book, which
he fiings aside, he rushes through his
food as fast as possible, to plunge into
his armchair and literature afterward.
In either case the lonely man must
digest at 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 OF
after-dinner speeches will convince
anyone that most speakers neither eh-
dure themselves nor excite in their
hearers any severe intellectual effort
In fact, the experience of count 81
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 alone
nor think much at that time, but
should talk and be talked to while he
feeds. Most people do not think much
when they talk, and talking is nAtur-
al accompan lent Of eating and drink
ing.
How does it fare with the many sell
tary women Of today2 No better, We
know, than with the men, but differ
emily. Alone or not man may gener-
ally be trusted at any rate to take food
enough. 1--WE suppose, Of course that
he can get it, with a woman 1t is
different. She is more emotional, more
imaginative and less inclined to realize
the gross necessities of existence
Therefore the woman doomed to dine
alone as often as not does not dine at
all She gets dyspepsia because ner
digestion has not sufficient practice, a
man gets it because his functions p-ac'
tice it too often in the wrong way Men
and women are sregarious animals.
Physically a.Id intellectually we im-
prove with companionship. Certainly
it is not good TO eat and to drink aloIe.
II is a sad fact of our big cities that
they hold hundreds of men and women
who in the day are too busy and at
night too lonely to feed with profit
much less with any decentralization
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