New Britain herald., 1917-06-25
ABOUT BOARDING HOUSES AND

SUCH.
 There is much to be commended ir
 this advice, from physician, printed in Brooklyn newspaper:
 Never eat unless you are hungry; always skip 8 meal if you have nc appetite. Thousands of intelligent so- called human beings eat .themselvee into early graves, but rarely. indeed
 does anybody voluntarily starve to death.''
 It has been contended by some of the early writers that the nearest man approaches to spiritual perfec- tion the less he eats. : It has also been observed that the good die young. As they are not accused of eating themselves into early graves there is a discrepancy somewhere in these two ideas. Those who over-eat are gluttons. They are bad. So the holy folk say. Those whoA over-eat dig for themselves early graves. Therefore. the bad, not the good. die young.
 The function of eating is receiving more and more attention every day. Proba bly this Is because of the war. Foodstuffs are running short. Crops are not as plentiful as the demand requires. There Is world wide shortage of food. To this end the various governments of the world are confronted with the task of setting up food dictatorships. of conserving their food supplies.
 The propaganda now directed against the elimination of waste in foodstuffs could have no better slogan than this of the Brooklyn physician: Never eat unless you are hungry" No appetite, no meal. Carrying on the same line of thought, Never sleep unless you are sleepy, never rest unless you are tired.
 We have come to the conclusion that there Is an extravasance of eat ing in the human family. This has been brought about by the custom of going to meals at certain stated inter- ,vals. Whoever originated that custom started the practice of killing off the human race through faulty feeding.
 Getting back to nature. man gem erally follows the animals of the field. Living in their pristine state, no re- spectable COW. or horse, or sheep. or even . dog would answer to the breakfast bell, or the dinner bell, or the supper bell. These are the folk who never eat unless they are hungry. If they have no appetite for any par ticular meal they skip 1t. They. seemingly. eat when the spirit moves them. when they 90 desire.
 So far as we have been able to as- certain. the three-meal-a-day sched- ule now In vogue in America was first formulated in boarding schools and later perfected in boarding houses. The idea in the first place was not so much to 4ppease hunger as to curb appetite. There never was . healthy boy or girl in boarding school who could not, if permitted, eat at least one meal more than the lAw allowed. The dinner and supper belh always ring one hour or 50 too late for these youths. The least said about profess sional boarding houses, tho better.
 We believe with the Brooklyn physician that men and women should never eat unless they are hungry; that thev sho,ilA alvavs akin . ynAaI when they have no appetite. But we believe, further. that appetite can be coaxed along, or ruined just as the individual desires. A little exercise now and then will help the poorest appetite; just as the lack of exercise will help destroy the best. Hence good argument for Uncle sam's plea, "Plant Garden