The Newtown bee., 1904-06-24

avery U0lDk UlaU SOOUneS the temper, SOotheS the soul or wakes the demon. Finally, a few, old fashioned, Quench their thirst with native water. Thirst begotten of tobacco Fed and kept alive by whiskey, Burning ever like Gehenna, Cries for fiery fluids to quench it; Natural thirst craves crystal water. Mouths and throats God made and per-
 feet,
 Servants standing at the entrance Dutied to defend the stomach, Charged with Purity as password, Passing naught without the watch
 word; Are depraved to do the bidding Of Gambrinus and of BacchuS. Lips that none but God could chiSel, Tinted as no art can tint them, Are depraved to clasp clay pipe, Or to poiSe at proper angle Cigarette Ia cigar junior), Or manipulate meerschaum; And the mouth is made a crater, Blowing fire and smoke like Etna. God made man but man re-tOucheS, And his manifold re- -tOuchingS, Laid on blindly or unwisely, Of work wrought to perfection, Bring on countless ills and ailingS That mans flesh should ne'er be heir
 to.
 Man is divine enactment, An idea of God concreted: An unchanging law embodied In conscious, moral being, :. Being mixed of flesh and spirit,. Perishing yet ever living Wasting in it's fieshly nature But immutable in spirit Law divinely put in action, With full power for self-enforcement, Law rewarding its observance, Furnishing it's least infraction. Man preSumes to make amendments To this infinite enactment; And, while changing not it's function, Neither changing nor annulling, Has embarrassed it's fulfillment, Bringing on himself destruction. By the terms of this enactment Constant waste is going forward, Waste of flesh and blood and tissue Which from earth was first converted To the body's various uses. :. To supply this never ceaSing, Constant and exhaustive wasting, God made appetites and stomachs With wise and nice adjustment, Giving each its proper function, AAA Uo OoSI4 PlOPSA A1hAAO3 And adjusted food to stomach, Fruits and flesh in rich abundance. And the law is all compelling. New material must be added To supply the waste of nature, To repleniSh wasting tissues. Man must eat or cease existing. Men like brutes must live by eating; But he eats by law, or suffers. God has granted wide limit, And to man he has subjected -:' Birds and beasts, in air and forest, All the fruitful earth produces, Vast amount to choose from: But He never in wisdom made him, Nor so liberally did endow him Thus to eat up all creatiOn Eating! Ever masticating! Gross and unpoetic eating. Daily grinding for the stomach, And increasingly digesting, To sustain our cOarser nature! UnpOetic for being Who claims kindred with the angels And expects to put on piniOnS, And the spotless robes of spirits, And to wear them into glory!
 It is quite humiliating. | Yet Gods plan has laid it on us While we yet are in our budding, While our wings are yet in growing; l we must maSGlCaCe or perlSn.
 Eating is not all hardship!
 God lays not upon his creatures , Any duty past performance,
 Howe'er burdenSOme in seeming:
 His good grace is e'er sufficient.
 Thank God, we have grace for eating If our task at all seems irkSome,
 With His help we labor through it!
 But the helpful grace in eating,
 And the blessed grace in drinking,
 And the chiefest, is the stopping.
 Men in asking grace at eating,
 When the board is spread for feasting Should include in their petition
 Equal grace for moderation,
 And healthful point for stopping.
 A fter half score of courses,
 And course of tempting deserts, Followed by wines and ices
 When in the elastic stomach Every inch of space is taken,
 And all further efforts painful,
 Grateful thanks should then be offered
 And the master of the feasting
 Then and there should caEa halting
 Stopping short oftgnasaapl letion
 Is the special gragSth9S needed,
 Is the grace th7tsfiSbould pray for
 Mrs E. M. RasHe1sertained a fev
 friends at her pIeasan home, Shad
 Side, Tuesday afterHooh.