Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-11-27
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WHAT HAVE OUR FOOD AND
MANNERS TO DO WITH PEACE?

our ready Obedience-"Eat we that
which is good and let your soul delight
itself in fairness only we misread
one word, Soul we pronounce body.
Do we often remember when tempted
| to Overeat. or to eat at irregular hours,
or of foods which we know will injure,
that whether eating or drinking. all
should be done to the glory of God?
We never question that temperance
| (as applied to alcohol and narcotics)
will make for peace. What is temper
ance? Moderate use of the good and
total abstinence from the bad.
Do you know it is said. 1.-The English
| speaking people are digging their
| graves with their teeth?' First as to
quantity The most wholesome and
nourishing food becomes injurious
| when taken in too large quantities, as
the digestive system is then over
worked in its efforts to handle SO much
and so fails to properly digest any. |
have often heard persons say. why, l
eat hea' tily, but I need to, for I am
hungry long before the next meal"
A sure proof that there is either a
| wrong choice of food or indigestion,
probably the latter, and frequently
due to overeating. Let US try a bit of
arithmetic. Usually the food has not
left the stomach in three and half
| or four hours, often it is longer. Then
the stomach needs at least one hours
rest. How then can one be hungry
long before meal time? Our hunger"
| is more habit than actual need. Some
times when we think we are so raven
Gus, days fast would be of vast
benefit. Now as to choice of foods =
Some of the dishes long considered as
going together" are but duplicates
Select such dishes as will furnish pro-
| ted, carbohydrate and fat With a
| meal largely vegetable or meat, serve
| fruit for the dessert.
Then eat not because it is a certain
hour, nor because others are eating,
| but because your body needs more
material with which to work Doubt
less you have all heard the paraphrase,
Tell me what you eat and | will tell
you what you are"-it is no less true
than the original, Tell me what you
read. " We do not think of asking a
young child to lift as much as a grown
person, then why expect his stomach
to be as strong as a grown persons S?
L have heard mothers say, Il let my
| children eat whatever the rest do, and
1T never hurts them, they are always
we'll. Yet she tells of being up in
the night with Dick because he vomit-
ed. And soon she is wondering if all
children do not quarrel and why hers
are more irritable some days than
| others. The teacher finds them often
| llstless, easily put out" nervous
These things are attributed to grow
ing, =" disposition" or overstudy. Yet
it is fact that many such cases are
cured by correct diet, if more is needed
as a remedy, it is fresh air. Closed
| sleeping rooms and unwhOlesOme food
are weakening our race morally and
physically. Their effects are perhaps
more easily traced in the children, but
they are no less sure in adults and
many stomach troubles of the adults
are due to wrong feeding when chill
dren.
Often, I'd almost said all, peevish-
ness, sleeplessness, headache, rheuma
tlSm, constipation and a multitude of
other ills are the direct result of
wrong food and bad air; it is sure that
by correct diet and free use of fresh air
and pure water we may do away with
much Ill health and so build up our
race.
Much has been said the last few
years of trace suicide" and attention
|
more time, give more thought, to the
development of perfect individuals
rather than simply numbers. Of
course | use the term ''perfect'' as ap-
piled to the moral and physical.
By correct care of the body, we
develop it's endurance, it's capabilities,
and hundreds testify that the moral
effect of physical education is simply
| wonderful.
Then we would conclude that correct
diet makes more robust physical
life. muscles under control of the will,
a brain keenly alive; and a high STAN
dard of morality.
Have you never observed that one
with a taste for alcoholics usually
wants strong tea and coffee and.is i'm
moderately fond of pickles, spices and
such like condiments? Perhaps you
have not seen the statement that the
free use of such creates an appetite
for tobacco and alcohol, so they cause
twC-fold injury, the direct, which is
great, and the Indirect, leading to
stronger pOisons.
Whatever tends to weaken our
bodies also tends to injure DISPOSE
ton. The wrongly fed Individual is
much more irritable and excitable,
the lower nature striving for the as
tendency. Can interests of national
Importance be as safely entrusted to
such? Think you those who are quar-
relsome and faul finding at home will
use as great influence for peace as
those of peace loving and promoting
disposition?
But what of our manners? It has
been aptly said, GOOD manners are
like an air cushion, there is nothing
solid in it, but it eases the jolts of this
world wonderfully. Note the effect
of politeness in the home. And, be-
lieve me, there is small use in trying
to have coat Of politeness to slip or
for the benefit of strangers, the ell
bows will soon stick through. Teach
the children to practice at home the so.
called little things of etiquette. There
is no reason why the farmers boy
should be less easy and graceful than
others, his outdoor life is a point ir
his favor &C If m okac for bottor y,o,c