Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1884 — The Habit of Sunday Stuffing. [ARTICLE]

The Habit of Sunday Stuffing.

This habit has grown to be common in our large cities, where men live at a distance from their business places, and therefore take a light lunch every day during the week. When Sunday comes they liave leisure for breakfast, and little exercise during the forenoon; then have a royal dinner at 2 o’clock, and perhaps lazy lounging and “lying off,” as it is called, during the afternoon ; they thus eat twice as much on Sunday as they do other days. The appetite is just as good as it would be if they were engaged in their ordinary occupation, but the needs of the system are not half so great when a person is idle as when he is actively or laboriously engaged in business, and the result is that Monday is a blue day to very many. It is a day of headaches and ill-feeling, and by Wednesday, perhaps, they get back into their normal track agaii;, and by Saturday are ready for another stuffing on Sunday. We believe that dyspepsia in city men originates, in nine cases out of ten, in the practice of over-eating, and taking little exercise on Sunday.— N. Sizer, in Phrenological Journal.