The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-29
WE WILL BE HAPPY YET.
Laneastlr lPa.l Eraminer.


For years poor. suffering man has been scared
into melancholy by being told that almost every
thing he does is wrong and tends to shorten life.
So we have heard the changes rung on such fads
as cold water baths, open windows in zero
weather, no meats or pies, much chewing and
little eating early rising, all flannel and no fan
mel clothing, no hats, bare feet, sleeping out of
doors, no cigars, no candy. not sip Of wine. no
breakfast. or indulgence in anything man likes
or nature prompts for our happiness.
Now the dawn of better days and fewer warn
ings against the pleasurable seems near. Even
the unexpected has happened, for now comes
the famous DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief chemist
of the Department of Agriculture, whose name
of late years is a household word, actually tell
ing us not to be afraid of overeating in these
words:
blessed is the man who does not know how to
eat. A mouthful of food should pass on it's way
automatically and without the knowledge of the
man who chews it. He who mixes mathematics
with his food by counting twenty eight times on
each bite is on the road to emaciated. sad-faced
dyspepsia Life has nothing that is worth wnlle
for him. fail to see the use of wasting too
much time on one bite while there is anotner
just behind 1t inviting attention.
Some one quoted me as advising meat eaters
to bolt and not chew their meat. did not give
such advice, but pointed out two undeniable
facts: The herb eating animals devote much
time to chewing. while the flesh eaters DO very
"Overeating causes less trouble to the system
than does undertaking, and were the score even
between the two It would be the part of philoso-
ply to lean to the side of the partaker of much
food, for a goodly part of iife's happiness is
found at the table with a normal appetlte. al, 4
never come when they will have place In the
world as caterers to palate under ordinary con-
ditions. 1t is entirely possible to condense the
nourishment of a whole meal into few pellets,
aud these have their place-as, for instance,
when. it becomes necessary to make enforced
marches with the lightest possible burden. But
the system would not thrive for long on sucn
diet. for there must be the necessary DuiK 10
supply the tissues and flush the system.
Now there is comfort and richness. There is
no sense in eating too much, but less in eating
too little and chewing it like DR.. Fletcher or
Gladstone. The wise man eats what comes along
or what he likes and as long as he does not come
to the point of surfeit. But not only do we now
derive joy from the permission to eat as much
as we please, but are warned against early rising.
Here comes DR.. Savary. of Paris, who tells us
not to initiate the birds. He says that 1.-THE
strenuous business man who bolts out of bed to
his bathtub the moment he opens his eyes rem
ders himself liable to a number of ailments 2"
Among these ailments DIR. Savary includes mad
ness, which is a question over which alienists
may bubble.
Be this as it may, the doctors, Savary and
Wiley, are both making us all happy. Their po-
sition indicates reaction against past and re-
cent fads. The New York World points this out
as follows 1.-THE disposition of modern medical
science to bark back to the natural instincts as
safe guides is one of the evidences of sane medi-
cal progress. The doctors of former day who
cupped, leeched, purged and starved patients
would view with amazement the more catholic
methods of enlightened practice. Following the
decreasing reliance on drugs as sovereign RENE
dies attention is being paid to the correction OF
errors of hygiene. Dieting on starvation lines
is done away with. Even the fetish of cold water
is under suspicion. In this direction of saving
common sense is the recognition of the virtue
of the desire nature has planted in every human
breast to lie abed as late as possible"
Let us eat when we are hungry, as much as we
can enjoy, and sleep till our nap is out, and we
will be happy yet-you bet.