Year: 1860


The Cause of Ill Heath-ImprOpriety OF Eating.


When riding on a locomotive last week
and talking with the engineer, as have
the privilege of doing, i could not but
think how much wiser men were about
iron and steel machines, than they were
about heshy and osseous machines. The
relation Of the pump 10 the capacity of
the boiler; the relation of the furnace to
the size of the hues, the relation Of the
cylinder, or of the steam generated, 10
the work 10 be done-all these things
were IN the engineer mind. He was
continuously watching every part, and
shutting valves on every side, so as TO
keep every part IN It's proper condition.
The stoker or fireman was applying or
Withholding food, so as to ileepthe engine
IN Just that state In which It would work
best, according to whether we were run
ming on an upgrade on a down grade
or on level ground, and according to mum
Der and weight Of the cars being drawn
for we were drawing a long and pom
derous train.


Now how many are there who watch
their furnace, TO see that they get in
neither too much nor to little fuel! Men
shovel in food withou. any regard to what
I lis gong to do. III is the Sabbath day,
when they have less air and exercise
than on other days, and when they ha We
less air and their stomachs are not in
condition 10 digest as much food as on
other days, they eat a double portion
If it IS a day when they are 10 undergo
severe taxation and work, and when they
can least afford 10 90 without food, often
times they become ANXIOUS and neglect
TO eat because they are SO anxious. As
q general rule, when the body needs
the basis Of food less than any other time
they eat the most, and when It needs II
more than any other time, they eat the
least Our food is means 10 an end -
1t is simply the fuel with which we are
TO raise sttam for carrying on the pur-
pose of life. A man should eat as much
on principle as he Prays.


L have been asked, sometimes, how |
could perform so large an amount Of
work with apparently SO little diminuIon
of strength. 1 attribute my power OF en-
durance to a long formed habit of obser-
wing every day of my life, The simple
laws of health-and none more than the
laws of eating. 1t ceases any longer to
be a matter of self denia Is almost like
an instinct. If have severe tax on
my brain IN the morning, | can not eat
heartily at breakfast. If the whole day
is to be one of exertion, | eat very lllle
till the exertion IS over. | know thai
two forces can aot be concentrated in aC-
tIyity At the same time IN the body. | know
that when the stomach works the brain
must rest, and that when the brain work
the stomach must rest.


If am going 10 be moved about out of
doors a good deal, l can give fuller
swing to my appetite-which is never
exceedingly bad. But if am engaged
actively and successively ii mental Ia
Dor, can not eat much. And | have
made eating with regularity, and with
reference 10 what | have 10 DO, habit
SO long, that It ceases any longer 10 be
a subject Of thought. It almost takes
care Of itself. l attribute much Of my
ability 10 endure work to good habits OF
eating. and constant attention 10 the laws
OF sleep, physical exercise and general
Cheerfulne>s.


There IS one thing more to be said in
this connection. Il IS not 4 matter Of
epicureanism that a man should be dam
" concerning the food he eats. On the
contrary l hold that man ought to be CIV
ilized IN his cookery. l suppose one Of
The infal.ible signs OF the millennium wiil
be a better regulated kitchen-a kitchen
,ha, sends on, food that viii not make
Christian men sick Henry Ward
BcccheT.


ry- A man Of sense may well dis