Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1886 — Page 8

WHAT TO EAT.

Food and Its Relation to Health'—Freach and English Customs. The first meal of the day, or breakfast, is now in this country —with those in health, at all events—a fairly substantial one. although some people try —but, thauk goodness try in vain—to assimilate French and English customs in regard to breakfast. France and its folks are different from England, with its solid men and women; its climate is different from ours; its notions as regards eating and drinking can never be engrafted on English bone and muscle. Yes, breakfast ought to be a hearty one, eaten early in the morning, and eaten slowly, so as to preclude the possibility of eating too heavily, which would materially interfere with the business of the day. A man or woman who is no break-fast-eater must either be a heavy—over-heavy—supper-eater, or be in a bad state of health. A person who requires the stimulus of a cup of tea, or any other stimulus or stimulant whatever, before partaking of solid food is not in the heyday of health. I like to see a man have his breakfast first, and then feel around for his cup of coffee, tea or chocolate. I have known the strongest and healthiest of men positively forget all about the liquid part of their breakfast, and leave the table without it. 1 have known men who scarcely ever touched a drop of liquor of any kind from one week’s end to another, and who, nevertheless, were in ruddy and robust health. What a person eats for breakfast often gives me a clew to the state of his health. One example: if, while sojourning at an hotel I see a man come down to breakfast between 10 and 11, and sit down to deviled kidneys with plenty of sauce (piquant), and perhaps one poor puny egg to follow, I would be willing to aver that he carries a white tongue, and that his liver sadly needs seeing to. Ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, or a beefsteak or underdone chop, with boiled eggs to follow, and then a cup of nice tea, is a sensible breakfast for a man who is going away out into the fresh air to walk, or ride, or work till noon, but not for a person who has to sit all day in the same position at manual labor. I emphasize the word manual because intellectual or mental work conduces to appetite. An author hard at his desk, if his ideas be flowing freely, if he be happy at his work, and time flying swiftly with him, soon gets hungry, which only proves that we must support the body well when there is a strain upon the mind, so that no extra expenditure of tissue may lead to debility. Cheerful conversation insures the easy digestion of a good breakfast It is a pity that in this country the custom of inviting friends to the matutinal meal is not more prevalent It may seem a strange thing to say, but I would ten times sooner go out to breakfast than to dinner. One is, or ought to be, freshest in the morning; he then needs no artificial stimulus to make him feel bright, witty, happy, as he so often does after the duties of the day are over. The midday meal, or luncheon to those who dine in the evening, and who have work to do in the afternoon, should be a light one. lam not quite sure that I do not quite approve of the city “snack.” It puts one past, it sustains nature, it leaves the mind free to think and to do its duty, and, above all, it enables the stomach to have a rest before the principal meal of ,the day. Now, about this meal; I have to say that, if partaken of alone by one’s self, it ought to be an abstemious one. Even in company it need not be a heavy one. No matter how many courses there are there is not the slightest necessity of making too free with them. But it is a fact, which every one must have felt, that even a moderately heavy meal is quickly and easily digested, if accompanied with and followed by witty or intellectual and suggestive conversation. “■l’m a dyspeptic; I must not dine •out,” I have heard a gentleman more than once remark. Well, my impression is that it does dyspeptics a good deal of good to dine out, if they can eat in moderation and judiciously, never being tempted to call in the aid of artificial stimulus to enable them to do as men of more robust physique are doing around them.— Family Doctor in Cassell's Magazine, London.

He Laughs Best Who Laughs Last.

Aimee, the vivacious, tells of an experience she had in Lon worth, Texas, with a real cowboy. This fellow opened the entertainment by laughing very coarsely whenever the actress spoke. She managed to get through the scene, and appealed to the manager of the theater for protection. The little man said that as the cowboy seemed to be surrounding by admiring friends he thought it would not be wise to attempt his removal. Besides, the Texan theatrical code forbade interference with the audience after the admission money had ‘ been paid. Aime is not easily abashed, and she decided on her course. When she went on again she got as near the rowdy as the limits of the stage would permit. He began his laughing, and his friends joined in. So did the actress. She stood still, and, pointing an expressive finger at him, laughed as though immensely amused. The cowboy's face changed and bis laugh stopped. Aimce’s didn’t. She held her .sides and iaughed and laughed at the man. He grew red in the face and ✓looked uncomfortable. Still the actress laughed, and by this time the audience was roaring with her. all eyes turned on the unfortunate Texan. lie couldn't stand it. Abashed and thoroughly cowed the cowboy ru died for the door, followed by a great shout, and was not seen again that evening. The phty tlion went on smoothly. —Seu> York Sun.

Never Quarrel With An Editor.

My grandfather, writes Labouchere, was on intimate terms with Talleyrand. One day Talleyrand said to him: “I always had thought that you were possessed with a certain amount of sense, but I see that I was in error.” “Why?” asked my grandfather. “Because,” he replied, “I observed in a newspaper this morning that you had contradicted a statement about yourself.” As a rule, anyone who replies to a newspaper on a personal matter is an ass—especially to fact, accompanied by comment. The editor does not like being placed in the wrong, and he generally manages to have the last word. If I saw in a newspaper a statement that I had committed a murder. I doubt whether I should deny it. But if the newspaper were to ask me whether I could prove an alibi, I most certainly should not seek to do so.

A Layman’s Services.

Kev. Dr. S., who is a prominent divine in a city not far from New York, had been spending a few days on an island on the Maine coast, and, intending to depart on a certain morning, he started for the boat in company with a friend. A porter followed with the doctor’s valise. Arriving at the wharf, they found that, to take advantage of the wind or tide, the boat had gone before the advertised time. Not aware of the clerical character of the company, the porter swore several shocking oaths in quick succession. “What do you think of that, doctor? 1 * asked his friend. “Well,” said the doctor, slowly and impressively, “there are times when the services of a layman are indispensable.” —Boston Record.

Postage Sixty Years Ago.

•‘Walton’s Register” for the year 1828 shows that there were 163 post-offices in Vermont at that time, and that about $20,000 was annually paid on the postage of letters, papers, and pamphlets by the citizens of Vermont. The compensation of the postmasters was on the oasis of 30 per cent on the first SIOO of receipts and 25 per cent on the next SIOO. Brattleborough was then the largest office in the State. The salary of Asa Green, the postmaster, was $630.89. The rates of postage were: For a single letter of one piece of paper for any distance not exceeding 30 miles, 6 cents; over 30 and not exceeding 80 miles. 10 cents; over 80 miles and not exceeding 150 miles, 12) cents; over 150 and not exceeding 400 miles, 18J cents; over 400 miles, 25 cents. Letters composed of two pieces of paper were charged triple rates, and more than three pieces quadruple postage. The highest salary paid any of the 4,000 postmasters in the United States was then $2,000, and there were only 10 who were paid that sum, while 27 received SI,OOO and upward. The population of the State was about 235,749, an increase of 17,835 in 10 years, of which 50,951 persons were engaged in agriculture, 776 in commerce, and 4,484 in manufactures. There was an enrolled militia force of 20,781, and Gov. C. P. Van Ness, was the captain-general of the forces. — Burlington (Ff.) Press.

A Subject For Judge Lynch.

A Reading, Pa., telegram says: City Supt. of Schools Balliet was informed a few days ago of a pupil who has just entered the public schools here who shows a remarkable mania for torturing persons and animals with fire. His name is Rueben Briner, aged 7 years, a scholar in one of the Ninth ward schools. The teacher can do nothing with him, and is compelled to keep him seated on the platform near her desk, where he once tried to set her dress on fire. Until recently he resided with his parents in Philadelphia. There, while his parents were absent, he lit a piece of paper at the stove and deliberately set fire to the clothing of his little brother, aged 18 months, whose limbs were burned to a crisp until he died, while the youug fiend enjoyed it, and gleefully told his parents what he had done. He was penned in the garret and kept on bread and water for a month, after which he was sent to Reading, as he expressed an intention to cut his two brothers’ throats with a butcher-knife. He continually wants to set things on fire in school, and has several times been detected just in time to prevent the destruction of buildings. While his grandmother, with whom he is now living, was away from home, he caught the large house cat, placed her on the redhot stove, and roasted her to death. Such inhuman acts of cruelty innumerable have been reported of him.

Casting His Horoscope.

Col. Sumter Mcßride, of Austin, Tex., while in New York on a visit, read the advertisement of clairvoyant in a morning paper. He went to the female for-tune-teller to have his horoscope cast. She cast horoscopes with a dirty pack of cards, which she spread out on a table. “You will marry an unusually wealthy lady and be very happy. Everything in your past, present, and future is an open book to me.” “I suppose jpu know everything about my future?” said the colonel. “Not only about your future, but about your past and present.”— “It’s wonderful, incomprehensible, (food morning, madame.” “Hold on lheie. A dollar, if you please,” said the lemaie wizard, holding out her hand. “Well, that is strange. You know everything about my past, present, and future, ami you didn’t know 1 left all my money with the clerk of the hotel before I started out to have my fortune told. It’s wonderful, incomprehensible,” remarked the colon. 1, as he passed out. — Texas » aSecretary Whitney is a nephew of the inventor of the cottln-srin.

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