Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1881 — The Type of a Class. [ARTICLE]

The Type of a Class.

There is the man who has made up his mind to keep his health good by eating the right sort of food in proper quantities, and with the right kind of mastication. Resolution sits on his brow, his eyes turn scornfully upon his fellowmen, and he deliberately and with malice aforethought sits in a restaurant with superbly folded arms, painfully working his mouth as if he were a type of Samson's celebrated jawbone engaged in the duty of slaying a bit of brown bread. He becomes a nuisance to his landlady or his wife; he buys a fish which he eats for his brains, and strug gles in the morning with harsh oatmeal and sour baked apples, chewing, chewing, chewing, while casting contemptuous glances around at the disgusted people who are not so good and are not going to be so healthy as he is to be. He turns his too out, abhors butter, and walks on the side of the street which is healthiest. His children receive no candy, and his wife receives only a Bcolding because she does not live up to the laws of health. He then becomes pale, fretful and morose, and says of a healthy man, “He lives for his stomach,” while he is dying for his. The phptographer is always getting negatives from pretty girls, and the nope he gets broader m imilee.