The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-03
The Aftermath Of Overeating.
BY ORIsoN SWEET MARDEN,

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BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
! "Arc you full insde?' asked woman Of the
coachman, gazing obviously at a crowded stage
| Upon this Charles Lamb put his head through the
window and said 81 am quite full inside; that
last piece of pudding at Mrs. Gillman's did the
business for me-"
| For how many boy has that last" green
apple, that last piece OF pie, that last cookie,
etc, done woefu stomachic collie business
For how many girls, or even women, has one
more dish of ice cream, or a handful more OF
chocolate creams, done the business of sour
| stomach or start in facial pimples or other
dishgurements of complexion! For how many
man has that last helping at table or that
last glass of drink brought headaches, indi-
gestion, and poor work!
Addison says that Diogenes, meeting young
man who was going to feast, took him up in
the street and carried him home to his friends
as one who was running into imminent danger
had not he prevented him.
How many, far?" asked DR.. Lewis, who
had called upon his friend, Jacob Schneider,
| about o'clock evening, and found him
alone, very seriously occupied with big wood
en- bowl of doughnuts.
"Oh, eight or ten, perhap.-only few, any
way"
Did you have support"
Yes, of course l did; ate supper as usual,
and | shouldn't have touched these, but some
how l didn't feel very we'll and was sort O.
lonesome, and these doughnuts are kind O
company for me, you know. The old woman
always fries them for me in the evening, and
when they nice and hot | sometimes eat
moren twenty of EN- just to sort O. pass
away the time you know"
| His wife would urge Jacob to clean up
the doughnuts evenings for he wouldn't seem
| to care for them at all mornings, partly be-
| cause they would be cold but even more be-
cause of his catarrh, bilousness, liver torpidty
constipation, seepness, dullness low spirits
etc, which always bothered him the most morn
ings. But the doughnuts after supper had
nothing to do with those things, or with his
pimpes, blotchcs and yellow brown spots
| OF course not! Those were mysterious aflc-
! tons which the doctor would help him to ge,
rid of and perhaps would show him how to
avoid.
The sin of overeating is not peculiar to the
| ri h or the well to do. Jacob Schneider with
! Dives a Lucullus with rich and costly foods
and wines. Excess IN eating is not con.
| fined to any class country 1t has been well
said that civilized lives upon one-fourtt
OF the food he takes and the other three.
fourths he takes at the peril Of his life. The
great majority of people suffer seriously from
overeatng, from burdening the system to &c,
rid Of what it cannot convert into tissue and
power
In reality, only small part of what over
caters take into the system is required for the
| building up and maintaining of the tissues. The
residue is only poisonous, dangerous burden
and instead Of being built up most of it be-
comes the body's enemy. 1t overtaxes the energy
I Of he I;1I
to increase the power of the whole system, is
expended in getting rid of the excess OF food
and in eliminating the resulting poisons
! We all know how much better we feel in
the morning after eating a comparatively light
! dinner the night before than after a rich and
| heavy meal of which we have partaken too
generously Every one ought to wake in the
morning with life, feeling wonderfully re-
freshed and rejuvenated and having keen
zest for the days work. The reason we do not
is because we violate so many of Natures laws,
especially that which bids us eat moderately.
Some of our best physicians claim that all
sorts OF mental and physical ills are fed and
aggravated by the poisons of an excess OF food
half digested and assimated, and that there are
diseases which could be cured merely by the
adoption Of an extremely plain and simple diet
They say that apopexy, heart failure. and in
many cases, sudden death can be traced directly
to stomachs overtaxed and weak, yet pushed on
to tasks for which they are unequal by those who
have not yet learned to control their appetites
How many people are suffering from chronic
headaches, ollIousness nervousness, rheumatism,
govt and all sorts OF liver and head troubles who
would be entirely relieved of those evils inst nv
quitting their overeating and regulating their diet
to SUIT their ages, occupations and personal
needs.
Copyright 1861