Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1875 — Eat Slowly. [ARTICLE]

Eat Slowly.

Many a man lias' been choked to death in attempting to swallow his food before he had chewed it long enough. * Food in the stomach, surrounded with its juices, is like pieces of ice in a glass of water; for as the ice melts from without inward, so the stomach juices dissolve the bits of food from without inward; and as the smaller toe pieces of ice the sooner are they melted, so the smaller the bits of food the sooner are they dissolved and pass out of the stomach 'to be distributed to the system, giving it light and warmth and vigor. But if the pieces of food are largo they begin to rot before they aie melted, causing nausea or other discomforts. These make bad blood, contaminating the breath, sending dullness to the head, depression to the spirits and a universal feeling of unwellness, lasting sometimes for half a day or a whole night Therefore eat slowly,' with

deliberation; talk a great deal at meals; cultivate choerftil conversation; and let any man or woman be considered a domestic enemy and peat who says or does anything at the table calculated to cause a single unpleasant sensation in anyone present. — Hall's Journal of Health.