Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1871 — Eating and Drinking. [ARTICLE]

Eating and Drinking.

Now that mid-summer is fairly upon us, and we are passing through the heated term wiui all its concomitant diseases sur rounding us, a word to the wise; we trust, may be sufficient to ensure that degree of caution that should characterize all of us in the observance of the laws of health. The temptation to a frea indulgence in the fruits and vegetables thi t are so lavishly presented to us is very great, and already many are paying the penalty of excess in diet and violated laws that should govern our sanitary condition. Ripe fruit and vegetables are not only harmless but wholesome, and are recommended in moderation under proper circumstances, by all the medical faculty. But iu the excess of their enjoyment lies the greatest difficulty, and against which we should guard in our'daily food. Especially so when the system is much heated and the predisposition great to take frequent draughts of cold water. The drinking of much water at our meals, or, indeed, any fluid, is considered injurious as interfering with the proper digestion of our food and reduc ing to an undue degree its nourishing ’ property. The diseases thUt are too frequently, superinduced by a want of proper caution upon the subject to which we have referred, and the various phases of bowel complaints arising therefrom. Nature will assert her rights and vindicate her laws, and sooner or later we may expect to suffer the consequences of reckless mode of living, particularly during the hinted term. Let all, then, who value their health and happiness abstain frorti~bveHbadiug the system, live temperately and moderately, avoid undue excitement, and, as far as practicable, keep out oi the hot sun, ana so we may hope With reasonable certainty for that greatest qf all blessings to the human family, good healths— Exchange. e . An Eastern papef with an appetite so figures estimates that American tourists spend more than a hundred millions a year in excursion to Europe. As immigrants bring only about twenty millions here, there would be at this rate a very heavy balance of trade against us.