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WHAT TO EAT.
Views of Different Doctors on
the Proper Food.
Too Highly Seasoned Food the
Cause of Dyspepsia.
Dr. Alexander Limbert, house sur
geon at Bellevue hospital of New York,
has given some attention to the subject
of eating. lie says: “I think the trou
ble with people in this country is that
they overeat. They don’t eat so often
as the Frenchman or the Englishman,
but when thej T do eat they usually par
take of a large variety of food, and eat
it as hurriedly as they possibly can, in
order that they may be kept from their
business as little awhile as possible. In
this way they overeat. If they haven’t
time to sit down and eat an elaborate
dinner slowly and carefully, then the
best thing they can do is to eat a small,
plain meal, which they could easily do
in the time that they devote to their
elaborate dinner, and from which they
would derive a great deal more benefit.
“I think that the best time for one
to take breakfast is between 7 and 8
o’clock in the morning. Dinner should
be had at about 1 o’clock if possible;
that is, if time can be spared at 1 oclock
to eat the meal properly, If not, a
light luncheon should be had at 1
o’clock and the meal of the day at
about 6 o’clock. Another light meal
might be had at about 9 or 10 o’clock
at night if one is hungry, I usually
find that an orange or a cracker is all
that I want to eat at that time. I think
as a ru’e families of the better class cat
very sensibly. They eat usually plain,
substantial food, which is prepared in a
simple way and not spoiled by being
made up into fancy dishes and highly
seasoned. I think, though, that they
make a mistake in not drinking enough
water with their meals. A man who
leads a literary life and one who is oc
cupied at his desk, and in his office all
day should be careful what kind of a
breakfast he eats. It should not be too
heavy.
“Such a man should eat very little
oatmeal, as oatmeal is heating. He
might eat lightly of steak, chops, weak
coffee, millc and fruit. A laborer, or
one who is engaged in physical and
manual labor can eat heavtily of oat
meal, bread and butter, meat, eggs,
and almost anything that is
strengthening. In the middle of the
day the laboring man should have his
dinner. The busy man who is down
town must take time to have a light
lunch. The habit of rushing out aud
getting something to eat, perhaps while
standing at the buffet, may not seem to
do any harm just now; but by-and-by
the effect will be very serious. When
this man has got through with his day’s
work and his mind is at rest he should
eat his heaviest meal of the day, his
dinner. He should eat it carefully and
slowly, and pay attention to what he is
eating and to his meal generally. It is
a mistake for men to attempt to eat any
meal and to read at the same time.
“Don’t go to bed hungry. If you
have been to the theatre or out late eat
a light meal before you retire. Highly
seasoned foods ought to be generally
avoided. Sweets should not be eaten
as much as they are. They hurt the
digestion and spoil the appetite. Fruits
and salads should not be taken too fre
quently. Eat more vegetables aud less
meats.”
A lady physician thinks that every
thing that is eatable ought to be eaten.
She said recently:
“I am in favor of a liberal diet and
believe that one shoul l eat just what
his stomach is strong enough to digest,
and that should be in such a condition
that he could take shingle nails without
much trouble. I think Americans eat
tho right kind of food. Americans are
great fruit eaters. In this they are
highly commended. Good ripe fruit is
always beneficial, and a particularly
good time to cat fruit is before break
fast iu the morning.”
Dr. John T. Nagle of the bureau
of vital statistics, New York, is in
favor of pretty liberal diet, lie attri
butes a great deal of the dyspepsia and
nervousness, though, to Americans eat
ing too highly seasoned food. Another
physician agrees with the view that the
American people habitually cat too
quickly. He says:
I “Indigestible foods are hard to be
specified, because what some people
digest easily others cannot, An in
digestible article of food is boiled cab-
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bage. This takes four hours to digest,
while cold slaw only takes one hour.
Tripe is hard to digest. Fried meats
are always indigestible. Always hare
the meat broiled. Bread fresh and hot
should be avoided. Bread one day old
is best. Highly seasoned foods are not
generally good, although some people
j must have them seasoned. What agrees
with one will not agree with another
I thing Americans eat too many sweets,
but they are a sweet-eating people.”—
P'hilude'phi a Press.
Perils of Overfeeding.
Excessive eating is not the most strik
ing or the most widely preva ent fault
cf the present generation. O i the con
trary, moderation and even sometimes
undue limitation in diet is the prevaling
fashion. There is still, however, a
considerable number of persons who
habitually overeat at meals, and to such
a few physiological hints may not be
without their value. Dr. Reudon has
been at the pains to make some careful
investigations on the subject, and his
re-ults have recently been published.
According to this observer, a not un
common consequence of overfeeding is
the development of a sercis of symp
toms in many respects similar to those
of typhoid fever. The temperature
rises, there is a feeling of serious'illness,
the sleep is disturbed, the brain is in
capacitated, aud in severe cases the dis
ability is complete. The cause of these
symptoms is insufficient elimination and
an alteration in the blood, brought
about by the impregnation of the organ
ism with accumulated waste products.
In addition to these typhoid symptoms
thromboses occur in the vessels, and
what is know as spontaneous gangrene,
or mortification of parts without any
obvious or sufficient cause. Now, these
are conditions of very marked danger,
particularly the thromboses and the
spontaneous gangrene. Tnere is danger
to life here. The obvious remedy for
such a series of evils is, of course, rest
forjthe overworked digesting and elim
inating organs. Both the quantity and
the quality of the food must be so
changed as to admit of the performance
of easy digestion, peifect assimilation
an l adequate elimination of waste.
Lemonades and lemon juice are said to
be of great service in diminishing the
extreme craving for fool; and this,
from a limited experience, we can to
some extent confirm. Milk, also, in
moderate quantities is useful, and in
certain cases skim milk would prob
ably be best. It is not always found
that the resting of the organs is suffi
cient. The fever may persist for a long
time, and with it the feeling of very
decided illness. Drugs of different
kinds are then urgently demanded, and
a competent physician should be con
sulted without delay.— Hospital.
The Clergy man and the Roughs.
It was a touching story which the
late Lord Shaftesbury told of some of
the greatest roughs in the East End of
London. A young clergyman in one of
tho most wretched parishes had asked
his advice as to how to deal with the
terrible human vice and misery of tho
place. Lord Shaftesbury had coun
soiled him to begin by establishing
ragged school, and had at the same
time furnished the necessary funds.
The school met with immediate success,
but it was impossible, in spite of all the
vicar's efforts, to induce the people to
come to church, and the young clergy
man finally resolved to meet them by
preaching iu the open air. He selected
oue of the worst courts, and had tho
benches from the school taken there for
his hearers to sit upon, but was dis
mayed when lie came upon tho scene to
see the front row occupied by a number
of the most notorious roughs oi the
neighborhood, who, lie made no doubt,
had come to break up the services. To
his surprise, however, everything went
off quietly, auj when the services were
over he stepped up to the leader of the
gang, told him he had not expected to
see him there, though he was very glad
to welcome him, and asked what had
brought him. The man said:
“Well, sir, you’ve been very good to
our little kids, so I said to my mates:
‘Parson’s goin’ to preach in —-court
on Sunday night. It’s a roughish
place. Let’s go and see fair play.’
That’s W’hat brought us.”
Entire bonnets and brims of flowers
continue in popular favor, roses and
foliage of velvet and rich scarlet blooms
taking the place of the daintier sprays
used earlier in the season.
SAND STORMS.
Peculiar Gales in Various Parts
of the World.
Experiences in Africa, Asia and
America.
“No hot winds here anyhow, to
drink up your very life at one gust,
and leave you limp as a wet rag,” said
I, as we sat on deck in the dreamy
Mediterranean twilight. “I got caught
by them once in Egypt, aud a passing
Atab howled after me, ‘None but a pig
and a Christian can face the khamsin’ ”
(hot wind). “And I answered, ‘So I
see, my friend, for you and I are the
only living things abroad!’ ”
“Well, I’d sooner face that than such
a sandstorm as we had once in Arizona,”
said a gaunt, wiry, keen-eyed Yuan be
side me, who looked like an old soldier.
“All in one moment the whole sky
seemed to rush down upon us as if it
were a big pepper-box w’ith the lid oil,
and instantly all was dark as night, and
I felt as if forty thousand ants were
eating me up at once, You should
have seen how the beasts whisked round
to get their baeks to it, and ducked
their heads down! And how the men
shut their eyes, and pulled their hats
down over their faces, and covered their
mouths with their hands! But it was
no use trying to keep the dust out; it
seemed to get inside one’s very skin.
When it cleared off we all looked as if
we’d been bathing in brown sugar, aud
you might have raked a match on any
part of my skin, and it would have lit
right away.”
“You need not go to Avizona for
that,” cried his English neighbor.
“You can see the same thing on the
outskirts of Moscow any summer day
you like. The moment the wind rises
your surroundings are clean blotted out,
and the whole air is a whirl of hot,
prickly dust, making you smart and
tingle from head to foot. Passing
wagons loom dimly through the driving
storm; ladies hold down their veils with
the grasp of desperation; men shut their
eyes and plunge blindly on like mad
bulls, aud every time you draw breath
you feel as if you were .taking snuff at
the rate of half a bushel a second.”
“Most Russian towns are like that,”
said I; “but the worst sand-storm I
ever saw was in the Kara-Koom (Black
SanI) Desert, between the Ural Moun
tains and the Syr- Daria (Jaxarte 3 ), when
poor McGahan and I were following
the Russian army in its march upon
Khiva. It was just about sunset on the
third day, and I was half across the
desert, when a detachment of mounted
Cossacks appeared in the distance, com
ing slowly from the northward. They
had got near enough to be plainly seen,
when suddenly the biggest of the three
camels that drew my Tartar wagon
stopped short and began to snuff the air
uneasily. Its uneasiness seemed shared
by my Kirghiz driver, who, with his
lean, wolfish face fairly quivering with
excitement, goaded the beasts to their
full speed with yells and whip cracks up
a low ridge in front of U3.
“We had hardly reached the top
when I saw the advancing Cossacks leap
from their horses and fiing themselves
on the ground, with the grayish-white
dust of which their grayish-white
dresses mingled so completely that it
seemed as if the earth had swallowed
them. Just then my camels fell flat on
the earth, and the Kirghiz, screaming
•Tebbad!’ (sand-storm) threw himself
beside them. I had just time to notice
that the horizon had suddenly grown
blurred and dim, as if seen through wet
glass, when my Tartar servant dragged
me down beside him into the bottom of
the wagon, and pulled a heavy shawl
tightly over us both, The next moment
came a rush and a roar, rocking the
huge wagon like a toy, the air grew’
thick and close, as if w’e were iu an over
heated room, and the skirr of the sand
against the tilt was like the chirping of
a thousand grasshoppers.
But just as we were almost stifled,
he noise began to abate and we veu
.LUThmmi the storm had left the air I ho bitterly passing cold, of
and in the dim moonlight we saw tho
whole plain lashed into huge ridges,
like a stormy sea. My wagon and cam
els were more than half buried, and the
Kirghiz was gone altogether, and when
he started up out of the sand in his
long white robe, it was just like a
corpse rising from the grave. But for
that high ground, which kept the sand
from burying us, we should all hare
been dead men. As for the Cossacks,
they got up, shook themselves, and
went on as if nothing had happened.”
Cultivation of Peppermint
The cultivation of peppermint says a
Lyons (N. Y.) letter to the New York
Sun, is simple, but requires a great deal
of labor in keeping it free from weeds.
Tue ubiquitous daisy rears its dainty
blossom among the peppermint rows,
as much at home a3 it is in the mead
ows, and the aesthetic golden rod en
riches the mint borders with its color.
But while the daisy and the golden rod
may be indispensable in my lady’s cor
sage, their expressed oil mingling with
(he pungent juices of the peppermint do
not add to the efficacy of the latter in
curing her baby’s stomach ache. An
other weed, unknown in New York
State until the Wayne County farmers
began to cultivate peppermint, and
which is still unknown outside of the
peppermint fields, is a perpetual menace
to the purity of the farmer’s prod
net. This is locally known as
rag weed, but it is not the old-fashioned
ragweed that grows everywhere. It
looks something like lettuce, and yields
of itself an abundance of bitter and
pungent oil. It does not require a
great deal of this weed, if distilled
with the mint, to diminish greatly the
value of a farmer’s crop. No new in
sect pest has followed the cultivation of
peppermint, unlike almost every other
product of the farm. Insects do not
interfere with the growth of mint.
Keeping the crop free from all weeds is
the principal care that attends its culti
vation.
A field of peppermint yields two
crops. The sets, or parts of old plants,
are planted in April and Miy, iu rows
two feet apart, They grow to the
height of two feet. Any one who had
never seen peppermint growing would
suppose it was the common spearmint
of the julep and sauce for lamb. If he
press a leaf between his finger, howev
er, the odor of the oil will at once re
veal the difference. The gathering of
the peppermint begins in August and
the harvesting is now in progress. The
plants are cut close to the roots with a
scythe or a two-fingered cradle, They
are cured or wilted in the sun like hay
for twelve hours, the oil being expressed
more freely with the plants in that con
dition than when they are fresh. From
the roots the next year's crop springs.
The distillation of peppermint oil is
very simple. The still is a wooden vat
of heavy staves hooped with iron. It
is about four feet deep and six in diam
eter. Into this the mint is closely
packed and pressed down by treading.
When the vat is full it is covered steam
tight. Steam is force 1 in b/ a pips
near the bottom of the vat. The steam
volatilizes the oil of the mint, and its
vapor is condensed in a worm, as in or
dinary stills. The mixed oil and water
are collected ift a receiver, and the
usual separation by specific gravity en
sues. The oil is skimmed from the
watei and placed in large tin cans.
Some farmers distil their own oil, but
the crop is generally treated by regulai
distillers, of whom there are about 100
in Wayne county. They toll the crop
fer the distilling, as a miller does the
farmers’ grain for the grinding. The
v’aste of the distilling vats is fed by
some farmers to their stock, cattle be
ing fond of it.
Two Rig Walnut Trees.
The Calaveras (Cal.) Prospect tells of
,
an English walnut tree in Chile Gulch,
Calaveras County, that State, which it
describes as follows: “This walnut
tree was p.anted twenty- four years ago,
and w’as thought to be about two years
old at the time of planting. The tree
measures 8 feet and 0 inches in circum
ference 2 feet from the ground and
above the bulge of the roots, It is
about 75 feet high, and has a spread of
branches which cover a circle of (55
feet in diameter. >»
This moves the 1 uolunme, (Cal.) In
dependent to come fprward with a big
gorone, of which the following d–
scription is given: “Our tree was
planted from the seed thirty-four years
, go. near the town of Columbia,
on the well-known Jarvis ranch, now
the property of Mr. G. F. McPherson
It is 14 feet in circumference 4 feet
above the ground, and about 78 feet
high, with a spread of nearly 100 feet.
One branch measures 0 feet in c.rcumfer
once, one 5 feet and two others 4 feet
each. On the same ran^h there is a
mighty oak with a circumference of 30
feet 6 inches from tho ground ”
Regret.
Regret! Regret Regret!
Tired eyes with sorrow’s salt spray wet;
By day’s broad beams or midnight deeps
A poignant grief that never sleeps;
That haunts my waking hours and seem*
The specter of my fairest dreams;
The woe I’d give worlds to forget
And wish and weep—Oh, vain regret I
Regret! Regret! Regret!
I often think had we but met
Ere all the passion flowers of youth
Had died and left life’s field uncouth;
Ere drouth of disappointment, drove
The dewdrops from the blooms of Eve,
And thorn of withered hopes beset
The weary way—Oh wild regret!
Regret! Regret! Regret!
Like cloud wracks when the sun has set
That flit across the darkling skies
And blur the evening’s golden dyes:
That cause the bright-eyed stars to swoon,
And, gathering ’round the maiden moon,
Enshroud her silver coronet
In widow’s weed—Ob, dark regret!
Regret! Regret! Regret!
The saddest thought in life, and yet
Through depths of mournful mists afar
I gaze upon that paling star
And feel a wild delicious thrill «
Of joy ineffable, and still
A hopeless debtor, dear the debt,
I owe to Fate—Regret! Regret
—Atlanta Cons! itution.
HUMOROUS.
Fruit and vegetable dealers are a!waj„
in favor of moderate measures.
The conveying of ideas by telegraph
is merely another form of lightning ex
press.
Railroad men report collections dull.
Nearly all trains are compelled to run on
time.
She: Well, ’Zskiel, what d’yer in
tend doin’ fust—pop the question or
question pop?
“Good morning, Mr. Good; you’ve
arrived, I see. How did you leave your
wife?” “I left her talkin’.”
The proper name of the bumble bee is
humble-bee. But humble as he is, he
won’t allow himself to be sat upon.
An exchange says: 4 4 Thomas A. Edi
son rarely sleeps more than four hours a
day.” The balance of his sleep he
probably gets at night.
“I heard you were fishing yesterday,’*
said one traveling man to anothe
“Yes.” t > Have any luck?” i.
some; I didn’t get drowned.”
It isn’t every couutrv that has, like
the United States, the free choice of a
national bird. Russia would be a Tur
key .gobbler, if she dared.
Stern Parent (to a young applicant
for his daughter’s hand): Young man,
can you support a family? Young .Man
(meekly): I only wanted Sarah.
What is the difference between an
apple aud a pretty girl, unless it is that
you squeeze an apple to get cider, and
you get ’side a pretty girl to squeeze
her?
What wages does your husband get?”
asked Mrs. White of Mrs. Black.
“Mages!” snapped Mrs. Black, vicious
ly, “my husband docs not get wages at
all, I’d have you understand, He ac
cepts a salary.”
“Now, boys,” sa : d the professor,
“remember that while you see the point
of a needle you perceive the point of a
joke.” “And the point of a pin pro
lessor?” “Ah!” replied the professor,
with a soft sigh, “that is neither a
vision nor a perception; it is an experi
ence.”
Extraordinary Smjiggling.
An extraordinary case of smuggling
is reported from Sourabaya, in Java. A
Chinese passenger having died on board
a junk which was anchored in the road
stead, the health officer of the port
went off, and, after viewing the body,
gave the necessary permit for burial.
The master of the junk then came on
shore and ordered a large coffin of the
usual Chinese kind. During tho early
hours of the morning the crew, with
the coffin, lauded, and tho funeral pro
cession passed along the streets. After
the funeral the party went back to the
junk, which immediately put out to sea
Ui the middle of the dav some natives
found an empty coffin in the middle of
the road close by the Chinese cemetery,
which not oniy 8mdt stron „ ly of opium?
but also had small particles of the drug
adhering to its sides, Tho custom
house authorities found tho maker of
the coffiu, who identified it as the one
supplied to the master of the junk,an<l
the dead body of the Chinaman was
washed ashore soon afterward, 30 that
it was clour that lie had been thrown
overboard, ax I the burial permit used
to smuggle on shore a largo coffin full
of ojiium.