The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-10
az ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
People eat too much.

This is distinguished authority. But
your family doctor can tell you the
| same thing.
Two meals a day are all that the av-
erage person needs. The ideal is said
to be attained by Gazing at eleven or
twelve in the morning and at six or
seven in the evening. This it has been
stated will establish a regimen from
which anyone in ordinary health will
emerge in fine physical condition. SO
far as eats alone are concerned.
Eating is habit.
Breakfast is crime.
This sounds like an epigram but.
in nine cases out of ten, 1t Is the
truth.
Think of the things the person OF
sedentary occupation will eat immed-
lately after rising.
Fried potatoes, pancakes with syr-
up beefsteak, maybe hash, maybe
fried chops, maybe bacon and eggs,
and variety of other eatables all
washed down with coffee.
Then walk to the corner, take
street car, immune yourself in an Of
flee until noon. Eat again-anything
and everything. Maybe it's luncheon.
In this town it's apt to be dinner. Peo-
pie usually dine here in the middle of
the day.
If they do, then it's a heavy meal
with meat, several vegetables, salads
and some kind of dessert, probably
pie. If dinner in the evening, the hea-
Wy menu is moved on to that time.
However, lunch, substantial, is U.s.
ually partaken of.
Then ride on the street car home.
Half the physical ills that afflict
| humanity come from improper eat
ing both as to time, place and am.
cunt.
The writer knows two people. in
good health, who are occupied
throughout the day professionally who
eat but one meal and that at between
six and seven in the evening. They
| walk from their homes to their places
of business and back again-several
! miles daily.
They established this regime on &C.
count Of ill-health and have been re-
warded by the comfort of good physi-
cal condition.
First dispensing with breakfast,
they ate light lunch at noon. This
latter was reduced finally to sand.
witch, then to an apple, or bit of fruit
OF some sort, and then the entire elm
ination of the lunch. They declare
| that they never were better and feel
no faintness or need of food, although
both strenuously occupied during the
day with professional duties.
| Fasting one, two or three days each
month is also a valuable aid to perfect
health.
One day each week without food
was tried with beneficial results by
a resident of Richmond. Fasting is a
flesh reducer compared with which all
recipes handed out through the beau.
ty column fade into insignificance.
Its also a complexion beautifier. The
wonder is more people don't use it
as a cosmetic. The paint would then
ooze through the canvas instead OF
! being laid on outside with palette
knife. Or a trowel.
| DR.. Stevenson, in a talk to the high
school pupils the other day, emphasiz-
ed the absolute necessity of sleeping
in a room open to the out-of-doors.
Many people say they sleep with the
windows open.
But walk around town at night, or
very early in the morning and it's
mighty little air you will see getting
into the average domicile. Houses are
shut up as tight as drum.
| People will raise the lower sash
about an inch and think they're get
ting a lot of air.
Its the upper sash that wants to be
pulled down.
There's no use in being afraid of a
draft.
Someone said, and truly enough, that a
little fresh air wasn't going to hurt
anybody any more than lot OF
fresh air. If people would sleep with
the air circulating all about them, and
blowing freshly on their faces, in
somnia would be banished, that tired
feeling" would elope with the morn
ing headache. and you would go down
to the breakfast you do not eat with
much more elasticity than when you
slept with all the windows down and
ate two-thirds of beefsteak and eight
or ten pancakes and then wondered
why you didn't feel all right.
Less food, more fresh air, and sever
al miles of brisk walking every day
would improve the general health Of
a community more than all the drugs
consumed and all the physical cul
ture" lessons ever taken.
There is a good deal said nowaday.
about the girl in the department store
and her lack Of ability to live in ever
the most ordinary fashion on the wag
es she receives.
This condition obtaining mostly il
the larger centers although, in a lesser
degree, it is true everywhere.
This is the result of an economi,
condition that is, seemingly, nobody,
fault.
One elias blames the employer WIT
pays the niggardly wage. The othel
blames the girl for not being a super
human being who can constantly liv,