The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-03-19


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TWO SQUARE MEALS
cessive eating, or with the habit of
making eating the chief object of
thought. How much progress, in
business, in professional work or in
social life would person make who
should spend as much attention on
eating as a cow, with her four stom-
achs, a mere machine for making
milk and beef from grass.
Mr. Squeers of Dotheboy's hall was
certainly not a model educator, but
one of his injuncions to his boys ex-
presses a piece of moral philosophy
worthy of nobler character: Con
troll your appetites, boys, and then
you will learn to control your pas
sions." Every great moral teacher
has recognized this, the fundamental
principle of morality. Indulgence is
the mother of evil. Every moral lead.
er, from the Man Of Galilee, who
tasted 40 days as a preparation for
supreme spiritual test, down to
the leader of the latest cult, has set
the example of fasting. Intuitively,
fasting is associated with prayer as
a means of spiritual elevation. Self
control Is the cornerstone of virtue,
and the man who can control his APP
petite is master Of himself. Yet self
repression is to be avoided. Desire
Is never to be suppressed but always
directed by wise suggestion.
The time required for the digestion
of various articles of food given in
the tables in the books, refers to stom-
Il eat three square meals day, ;
Is the chief reason assigned by many
for the Astounding health they enjoy,
for season, in spite of that practice.
The Greeks at the time Of their
highest intellectual development ate
but once a day and the Persians, dur
ing the period of their ascendancy,
once, in the evening: The Romans,
also, in the days of the republic, their
best days, followed the practice of
the Greeks, in this respect, as in
others.
Lycurgus, the Spartan law giver,
carefully prescribed the diet of his
ideal citizens, with view to extreme
simplicity. do you know" asked
Cyrus, the great king of Persia, of
the ambassador of a luxurious sover-
eign, how invincible men are who
can live on herbs and .acOrns?" Wheat
bread, dried figs and honey consti-
tuted the menu at those meetings of
the Lyceum where Plato and Aristotle
breathed philosophy.
One who has a thorough interest in
any work knows that at times the
appetite seems to leave one for hours
while he is doing intensive work.
This tends to show, not that great
creative work and good nutrition are
antagonistic, for the contrary is true
but that high-class mental work
is inconsistent with frequent or ex-
ach digestion, under normal condi-
lions. But conditions are seldom nor
NAL, and digestion Is not completed
in the stomach. Two dogs were fed
an ordinary meal. One was imme-
diately taken for three-hours' run,
following a carriage; then it's stom-
ach was opened and the food was
found to have undergone no change,
while the other, which had lain in it's
kennel, had completely digested the
meal.
When d fresh meal is added to one
only partly digested, perhaps ferment-
ing, normal digestion is impossible.
Such condition is often the begin
ming of chronic indigestion. The nat
ural thing to do when the digestion
of meal is interrupted by unusually
severe mental or physical work or by
nervous excitement, is to omit meal,
but the habit of eating at meal time,
whether we are hungry or not, seems
to make this natural safeguard i'm
once assumed to be sick.
An essential requirement for the
maintenance Of any organism is, rest.
Sleep is means of resting the brain
and nervous system, but the digestive
and eliminative organs are so over
taxed by our unnatural system of eat
ing, that more than the period of sleep
is necessary to avoid exhaustion, soon
er or later.
If the necessary nutriment can be
obtained by eating two meals, it is a
bad system that requires the eating
of three or even more; and thousands
have proved by actual test that bet
ter health can be maintained by eat
ing only twice day. Superfluous eat
ing Is bad, because, in a word, it
wastes vitality, upon which health and
happiness depend.
Now If one is to eat only two regu-
lar meals In "a hours, the question
comes. which should be omitted?
This cannot be answered in a word.
Some argue that the chief meal should
be taken in the evening, not less than
three hours before sleeping; because
it is best to rest after full meal, a
few minutes in any case, and If the
principal meal is eaten at noon, there
will be more or less hurry in most
cases, on account of business condi-
lions, and nothing is so detrimsnta to
good digestion and health in general,
as hurry-except it's twin sister, the
maker of most of our troubles, worry
1t is well-established fact that pier
riment conduces to good digestion, snd
If there is any time in the day when
one can feel light-hearted, it is surely