Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1886 — Men and Beasts. [ARTICLE]

Men and Beasts.

There is a class of people who proSss with a meal something after this lion:- A long draught of coffee, tea, milk, or water, as the case may be, begins the performance; this is followed by a mouthful of something solid; only a mouthful, however, for the stream is turned on again down the throat. A glass of water disappears; then the food is attacked and voraciously; again the stream. Once more attention is given to the food, but always the stream has the first consideration. We silently ask, and wonder how long the man can stand it. To say nothing of the utter disregard of the laws of health in thus eating and drinking simultaneously, it is an absurd spectacle! ' A tired, overheated man drinks t,wice as much water as he needs, first, because he is so tired he doesn’t know what he is doing till he sees the bottom of the glass, and second, because his blood is at boiling mark, and the sudden chill is delightful, and he would prolong it till his capacity to swallow gives out. For the same "reason he drinks rapidly, that the succession of chills may lower his temperature as speedily as possible. .... And then he goes out to his stable, “John, be sure to give Black Prince no water just yet. Rub him down well, John, and cool him off slowly.”— Good Housekeeping. Prof. C. A. Donaldson, of Louisville, Ky., the well-known pioneer, in eighteen years spent SIO,OOO in trying to get rid of his rheumatism, and failed. . At last he used St. Jacobs Oil, was cured and sold his crutches.