Year: 1860

When riding on locomotive, last week,
| and talking with the engineer as had the
privilege of doing, could not but think how
much wiser men were about iron and steel
machines, than they were about fieshy and
osseous machines The relation of the pump
to the capacity of the boiler; the relation Of
the furnace to the size of the hues; the rela-
ton of the cylinder, or of the steam gener-
ated, to the work to be done-all these things
were in the engineers mind. He was con-
tinuously watching every part, and opening
and shutting valves on every side, SO as TO
keep every part in its proper condition. The
Stoker or fireman was upplying or with
holding food, so as to keep the engine in Just
that state in which it would work best, ac-
cofding to whether we were running on an
upgrade onadown-grade, or on level ground,
and according to the number and weight OF
the cars being drawn--for we were drawing
a long and ponderous train. ......... :
Now how many are there who watch their
furnace, to see that they get in neither too
much nor too little fuel2 Men shovel in
food without any regard TO what il is going
TO dol If it is the Sabbath day, when they
have less air and exercise than on other days,
and when their stomachs are not in con-
dition to digest as much food as on other
days they eat a double portion. If it is a
day when they are TO undergo severe taxation


and work, and when they can least afford to
go without food, oftentimes they become
anxious and neglect to eat because they are
80 anxious. AS a general rule, when the


body needs the basis of food less than at any
other time, they eat the most, and when It
needs 1t more than at any other time, they
eat the least. Our food is means to an end.
1t is simply the fuel with which we are to
raise steam for carrying on the purposes of
life. man should eat as much on principle
as he prays. aniHi adi n u iilV 3wla iiF .ii


have been asked, sometimes, how could
perform so large an amount of work with ap-
parently SO little diminution of strength.
attribute my power of endurance TO long
formed habit Of observing, every day OF my
life, the simple laws of health-and none more
than the laws of eating. 1t has become sec
ond nature to me. 1t ceases any longer to be
a matter of self-denial. 1t is almost like an
instinct. If | had a severe tax on my brain
in the morning, can not eathardiy at break
FAST II the whole day is to be one OF nervous
exertion, eat very little till the exertion is
over. l know that two forces can not be con-
centrated in activity at the same time in one
body. | know that when the stomach works
the brain must rest, and that when the brain
works the stomach must rest. N


If l am going to be moving about out of
doors good deal, then | can give fuller
swing to my appetite-7which is never exceed
lngiy Dao. but II am engaged actively ana
SUCCESSFULLY in mental labor, I can not eat
much. And have made eating with regu-
larity, and with reference 10 what have TO
do, habit so long, that it ceases any longer
to be subject Of thought. 1t almost takes
care Of itself. / attribute much Of my abil-
ity to endure work to good habits of eating,
and constant attention to the laws of Sleep


physical exercise and general cheerfulness.


There is one thing more 10 be said in this
connection. 1t is nota matter of epicurean-
ism that a man should be dainty concerning
the food he eats. On the contrary hold that
cookery. ] suppose one of the infallible signs
Of the millennium will be better regulated
Aitchen-a kitchen, that sends out food that
will not make Christian men sick Henry


Ward Beecher. -