Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20


utility of clothes.
This old great-great- grandfather
surprised stag, come to drink at
little pool in the forest, directly un-
der the spreading bough where y
Granny had his arboreal nest. Like
thunderbot the old gentleman
dropped beside the startled ANIMAL and before the deer
could say Jack Robinson he deity and expedtiousy
knocked its brains out with jagged lump of flint which
he had fastened to a tough club.
Then he shried the call to "meat," call responded
to by all the tribe within hearing of that note
And they gorged themselves much did later the
Babylonian sybarites and the Roman epicures-who
consistently lived to eat Granthers Paleozoic party
grunted and guzzled its way through the
five hundred thousand years afterward Caligula and
Elagabalus banqueted.
Time cannot wither nor custom stale our dietetic
practices; for nightly large proportion of those who
afford it-and many who cannot-valiantly eat
and drink their way through seven-course dinner
rising from the table with all the mental alerness of
anaconda that has just warped its huge length the
crushed body of peccary. This is highly commendable
in a snake which perhaps eats only month; but
extremely detrimental to human being who repeats
gastronomic from three to five times day.
Man, common with all other animals is organism
built around food tube Bioogicaly considered, he
nothing but stomach with its appendageS organized
group of organs clustered about his almentary tract
Yet all the marvels that he has achieved in social and
economical lfe every emotion OF which he is capable
from the lowest to the most exalted have arisen from
the prmordia desire to obtain nutrment the instinct
of self preservation Even commerce, in its final analysis
simply conveying food, the materials that
where they needed.
Small wonder then. that for countless centuries
has Frustrated himself before deity MEMORABLE a
Mumbo Jumbo Unsuitable the God OF the Stomach
No marvel that he has declared allegiance to this three
pint bottle of muscle that he has swung the pen
dulum that instead of eating to live he has lived to
eat.
And instead of hiding in closet to indulge his appe
tite, unobserved of the world the pesslmistic
Nietzsche advised, he brazenly hauns his physical
necessities and excesses and makes function OF Them
(WHICH leads us to observe that humanity digs its
w grave with its teeth. Startling it may sound,
many people die of overeating than from Starva
ton. "Anything is inimcal to nature, SAID
Hippocrates. And this dictum is recognized by ad
vanced thinkers and detists everywhere; IN fact the
ideas being interviewer into the proverbla wisdom
of the race: "Much meat many maadies "-More
people are killed by supper than by the sword
Quick to the feast quick to the "Feastings
physicians harvests. and many more crystalized
out of foodly knowledge To eat is human; to re-
frain divine.
We eat to be sociable and we refrain only when
can't hold any We eat when we have appetite;
and when haven't instead of waiting for its normal
return, stimulating it by rest oxygenation, or the
sight and smell of agreeable food rritate it into
seeming activity with cocktail This bears the same
relation to true gastric stmulant that chicken hight
does to gardening.
Alcohol creates a temporary congestion in the lining
of the stomach and also Slight flow OF gastric
juice but this is of the general plan as putting
grain of sand into the eye to stimulate copious flow of
tears worse because the of sand is readily dis
lodged while the alcohol is absorbed and effects
siderable lowering of the capacity for doing mental and
physical work.
The generally accepted idea as to the amount OF food
required is that "a little too much is just enough 1t
ascends from here to "stuf in all you can hold We
lose sight of the fact that the system needs only su
cent food to repair wasted tissue furnish energy and
heat and store material in the form of fat for
rainy day. also that it is the amount digested and
simulated, not the total quantity ngested that should
govern the size of the meal that inct upon
distended stomachS.
No hard and fast rule can be laid down that will regu
late this matter Therein the patient must minister to