Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1884-10-04 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

BITS FROM BOORS.  THE DUTY OF CHEWING FOOD. The veriest dullard who thinks for a moment on the daily task entrusted to our digestive machinery, how incessantly it occurs, and how serious are the issues involved in its fulfilment; and who has, moreover, learnt anything of the delicacy of those organs and their close relation to happiness, will understand the need of lightening that task as far as we can, and the cruelty of any wanton increase of it. Our system asks for food well chewed and well lubricated, and we give it dry nuggets, at rapidly recurring meals. The highest authority on disorders of the digestion and their far-reaching consequences has said that no constitution in the world can survive the neglect of this duty. The difficulty of getting the truth believed that the fatal consequences seem to have so little connection with their cause. They follow late in time, but with the most inevitable certainty. Melancholia, loss of sleep, lethargy, illtemper, and a generally jaundiced view of life are among them, but are not the most serious. If anyone doubts the value of the prescription lot him try it. I could name a lad of nineteen whose whole life was exhilarated by this and nothing else. I could name a dyspeptic, who travelled in search of a cure, all in vain, till a stranger told him to masticate his meat, and he obtained instant relief. But there is a better instance at hand than either of these. Mr. Gladstone is a man about whose physical vigour there can be no question. Men are known in troublona times to cavil at his statesmanship, but no one hag anything to say against his digestion. Now, as early as the year 1848, Mr. Gladstone formulated to himself rules for chewing food. Previously to that he had always paid great attention to this requirement of nature; but at that date he laid down a rule for his children that 82 bites should be given to each mouthful of meat, and a somewhat lesser number to bread, fish, ite. It is also known that to get into a habit of following this example is as easy aa can be. A little attention paid to it for two days will ensure the duty being unconsciously performed through life, with the most beneficial results. Truly history turns upon small causes ! The philosopher of future ages may busy himself with pondering what the course of the world would have been had that number been 22 instead of 'll2.—Atiffeties ( Health Exhibition Handbook). By the Hon. E. Lyttleton, M.A.  So long as the religion of enmity predominates over the religion of amity, the current political superstition mast hold its ground. While tiaronghout Europe the early culture of the ruling classes is one which every day of the week holds up for admiration those who in ancient times achieved the greatest feats in battle, andbnly on Sunday repeats the injunction to put up the sword—whilst these ruling classes are subject to a moral discipline consisting of six-sevenths pagan example and oneseventh Christian precept; there is no likelihood there will arise bud' international relations as may make a decline in governmental power practical, end a corresponding modification of political theory acceptable. While amoog ourselves the administration of colonial affairs is such that native tribes who retaliate on Eloglishmen by whom they have been injured, are punished, not on their own savage principle of life for life, but on the improved civilised principle of wholesale massacre in return for single murder, there is little chance that a political doctrine consistent oaly with unaggressive conduct will gain currency. While the creed men profess is so interpreted that one of them who at home addresses missionary meetings, seeks, soon abroad, to foment a quarrel with an adjacent people whom he wishes to subjugate, and then receives public honours after his death, it is not likely that the relations of our society to other societies wilt become such that there can spread to any extent that doerine of limited governmental functions accompanying the diminished governmental authority proper to a peaceful state. A nation, whieb, interested in ecclesiastical squabbles about the ceremonies of its human cult, cares so little about the essences of that cult that fillibustering in its colonies raced, s applause rather than reprobation, and is not denounced even by the priests of its religion of love, is a nation which mast continue to suffer from internal aggressions, alike of individuals on one another and of the state on individuals. It is impossible to unite the blessings of equity at home with the commission of inequities abroad.— The Man reiso, the State. By Henry Spener.•.