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WHAT TO EAT
Views of Different Doctors on
the Propér Food.
Too Highly Seasoned Food the
~_ Cause of Dyspepsia.
Dr. Alexander Lambert, house sur
geon at Bellevue hospital of New York,
has given some attention to the subject
of eating. s says: *I think the trou
ble with people in this country is that
they overeat. “They don't eat so often
gs the Frenchman or the Lnglishman,
but when they do ca’ 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 overcat. 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 smal,
plain meal, which they could casily do
in the time that they devote to their
elaborate dinner, and from which they
would derive a great deal more benefit.
¢ think that the best time for one
to take breakfast is betwcen 7 and B
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. 1 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 eat
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, mill and fruit. A laborer, or
one who is engaged in physical and
manual labor can eat heartily of oat
‘meal, bread and butter, meat, eggs,
coffee 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 alight
lunch. The habit of rushing out and
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 ecat
a light meal before you retire. ~Highly
seasoned foods ought to be generally
avoided. Bweets 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 and less
meats.”
A lady physician thinks that every
thing that is eatable ought to be eaten.
She said recently:
“T am in favor of a liberal diet and
believe that one shoull eat just what
his stomach is strong enough to digest,
and that should be in such a condition
that he could take shingle naily without
much trouble. I think Americans eat
the right kKind 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 eat fruit is before break
fast in the morning.”
Dr. John T. Nagle of the bureau
of vital statistics, New York, is in
favor of pretty liberal diet, =~ He 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 eat too
quickly, Me weww: o 0000
*lndigestible foods are hard to be
diges oMI oty Jn, At
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 have
tho 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
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 peop.e.” -~
Puiladelphia Press.
Perils of Overfeeding.
Excessive eating is not the most strik
ing or the most widely preva'ent fault
of the present gencration. 01 the coa
trary, moderation and evéa 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
n few physiological hints may not be
without their value. D: Reudon has
been atthe pains to make some careful
investigations on the subject, and his
results have recently been published.
According to this observer, a not un
common consequence of; overfeeding is
the development of a sereis 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, and 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 spontancous 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. Taere 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
and adequate elimination of waste.
Lemonades and lemon juice are said to
be of great service in diminishing the
extreme craving for food; 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 Clergyman and the Roughs.
It was a touching story which the
late Lord Shaftesbury told of some of
the greatest roughs in the Tast 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
selled him to begin by establishing a
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 in the open air. He selected
one of the worst courts, and had the
benches from the school taken there for
his hearers to sit upon, but was dis
mayed when he came upon the scene to
see the front row occupied by a number
of the most notorious roughs of the
neighborhood, who, he made no doubt,
had come to break up the services, To
his surprise, however, everything went
off quietly, and 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 what brought us.” e
. Entire bonnets and brims of flowers
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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 leawe you limp as a wet rag,” said
1, as we sat on deck in the dreamy
Medi‘erranean twilight, I got caught
by them once in Ezypt, and a passing
Arab howled after me, ‘None but a pig
and a Christian can face the khamsin’”
(hot wind). ¢And I answered, ‘So I
sce, 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 man 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 with the lid off,
and instantly all was dark as night, and
I felt as if forty thousand ants were
cating me up at once. You should
have seen how the beasts whisked round
to get their backs 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
scemed to get inside one’s, very skin,
When it cleared off we all looked as if
we’d been bathing in brown sugar, and
you might have raked a match on any
part of my skin, and it would have lit
right away.”
‘You need not go to Arizona for
that,” cried his English neighbor.
“You can sce 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, and every time you draw breath
you feel as if you were takingsnuff 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
Sand) Desert, between the Ural Moun
tains and the Syr- Daria (Jaxartes), 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 scen,
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 us.
‘““We had hardly reached the top
when I saw the advancing Cossacks leap
from their horses and fling 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 fel flat on
the earth, and the Kirghiz, screaming
} ‘Tebbad !’ (sand-storm) threw himself
beside them. I had just time to notice
1 that the horizon had suddenly grown
~blurred and dim, as if seen through wet
glass, when my Tartar servagt dragged
‘me down beside him into the bottom of
the wazop, and pulled a heavy shawl
tightly over us both. Thenextmoment
came a rush and a roar, rocking the !
huge wagon like a toy, the air grew
thick and close, asif we were in an over- ‘
heated room, and the skirr of the sand 1
against the tilt was like the chirping of
a thousand grasshoppers, :
*‘But just as we were almost stifled,
the noise began to abate, and ‘we ven
tured to peep forth., ~ The passing of
the storm had left the air bitterly cold,
and in the dim moonlight we saw the
whole plain lashed into huge ridges,
like a stormy sea. My wagon and cam
els were more than half buried, and the
Kinghiz was gouo altogether, und when
long white robe, it was just likea
fiwfiff‘%ffi”*‘?'%fln
from burying us, we should all have
been dead men. As for the Cossacis,
they got wup, shook themselves, and
went on as if nothing had happened.”
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Caltivation of Peppermint,
The cultivation of pepp:rmint says a
Lyons (N. Y.) letter to the New York
Sun, issimple, but requires a great deal
of labor in keeping it free from weeds.
Tae übiquitous daisy rears its dainty
blossom among the peppzrmint rows,
as much at home as it is in the mead
ows, and the w®sthetic golden rod en
¥iches 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
the pungent juices of the peppermint do
not add to the efficac; of the latter in
curing her baby's stomach ache. An
other weed, unknown in New York
State until the Wayns County farmers
began to cutivats peppermint, and
which is still uaknown outside of the
peppermint fields, is a perpetual menace
to the purity of the farmer's prod
uct. This is locally known as
rag weed, but it is not the old-fashioned
rag weed that grows everywhere. It
looks something like lettuce, and yields
of itself an abundance of Dbitter and
pungent oil. It does not rcquire a
great deal of this weed, if distilled
with the mint, to diminish greatly the
value of a farmer’s crop. No ncw 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 attenls its culti
vation,
A field of peppermint yields two
crops. The sets, or parts of old plants,
are planted in April and May, in rows
two feet apart. They grow to the
height of two feet. Any onc 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 elose to the roots with aJ
scythe or a two-fingered cradle. They
are cured or wilted in the sun like hay
for twelve hours, the oil beirg 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. Itl
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 forcel in by a pipe l
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 in a receiver, and the
usual separation by specific gravity en
sues. The oil is skimmed from the
water and placed in large tin cans.
Some farmers distil their own 011, but
the crop is generally treated by regular
distillers, of whom there are about 100
in Wayne county. They toll the crop
for the distilling, as a miller does the
farmers’ grain for the grinding. The‘
waste of the distilling vats is fed by
some farmers to their stock, cattle be
ing fond of it.
Two Big 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
treec was planted twenty- four years ago,
and was thought to be about two years
old at the time of planting. The tree
measures 8 feet and 6 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 65
sect in diameter.’’ ;
This moves the Tuolumne, (Cal.) In
dependent to come forward with abig
g:r one, of which the following de
scription is given: ‘‘Our tree was
pldnted from the sced thirty-four years
©go, nmeat the town of Columbia,
on the well-known Jarvis ranch, now
the property of Mr. G. F. McPherson.
Itis 14 feet in circumference 4 feet
above the ground, and about 78 feet
high, with a spread of nearly 100 feet.
‘One branch measures 6 feet in eircumfer
ence, one 5 feet and two others 4 feet
ke 00 the ekt g i
Teet 6 inches from the ground.” .
Regret.
Regrot! Regret Regret!
Tired eyes with sorrow’s salt spray wet;
By day’s broad beams or midnight deepe
A poignaut grief that never sleeps:
That haunts my waking hours and seerns
The specter of my fairest dreams;
The woe I'd give worlds to forget
And wish and weep—Oh, vain vegreti
Rogret! Regret! Regzret!
1 often think had we but met
Ere all the passion flowers of youth
Had died and left life’s field uncouth;
Ere drouth of disappointm:nt drove
'The dewdrops {rom the blooms of lova,
And thorn of withered hopes beset
The weary way—Oh wild regret!
Regret! Regret! Regret!
Like cloud wracks when the sun has sos
That flit across the darkling skies
And blur the evening’s golden dyes:
That cause the bright-eyed stars te swoon,
And, gathering 'round the maiden moon,
Enshroud her silver coronet
In widow's weed—Oh, 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,
lowe to Fate—Regret! Regret
/ —Atlanta Constitution,
HUMOROUS.
Fruit and vegetable dealers are alway.
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, ’Z:kiel, what d'yer in
tend doin’ fust—pop the question or
question pop# -
“Good morning, Mr. Good; you've
arrived, Isee. 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 apon.
An exchange says: “Thomas A. Edi
son rarely sleeps more than four hours a
day.”” The balance of his sleep he -
probably gets at night.
¢TI heard you were fishing yesterday,”
said one traveling man to another.
*“Yes.” ¢Have any luck?’ *Yes
some; Ididn't get drowned.”
It dsa't every country that “has like
the United States, the free choicz 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): lonly wanted Sarah.
What is the difference between am
apple and a pretty girl, unless it is that
you squeeze an apple to get cider, and
you get ’side a pretty girl te squeeze
her?
What wages does your husband get?’
asked Mrs. White of Mrs. Black.
*“Wages!” snapped Mrs. Black, vicious
ly, ¢my husband does not get wages at
all, I'd have you understand. He ac-~
cepts a salary.”
¢‘Now, boys,” said the professor,
‘‘remember that while you see the poins
of a needle you perceive the point of a
joke."” ¢And the goint of a pin pro
fessor?” *“Ah!” replied the professor,
with a soft sigh, ¢‘that isneithera
vision nor a perception; it is an experi
ence.”
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Extraordinary Smuggling.
An extraordivary case of smwmiggling
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, alter 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 the early
hours of the morning the crew, with
the coffia, landel, anl the funcral pro--
cession passed dlong the strects. After
the funeral the parfy went back to the
jaok, which immediately put ouf to sea.
In the middle of the day some natives’
found an empty coffin in the middle of
the road close by the Chinese cometery,
which not only smelt strongly of opium,
but also had small particles of the drug
adhering to its sides. The custom
house authorities found' the maker of
the coffin, who identified it as flh
supplied to the master of the junl,and
the dead body fib":t:%hifihif
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