Show im abe health destroying booda In stomachs the risks aich new york men digestion said the proprietor of a group of well known res is a constanti source of surprise to me heavy pie and pulpy pudding are bolted at the eating should be rigorously attended to I 1 sit and i look on at times in my rants with absolute amazement atthe at the or rath erlack of judgment at the table two throngs of customers the fir comes about half past nine in the morn i ing it is composed of brokers busi i ness men clerks and office employed emp loyes who have grown into the habit of rising late and rushing down to the office without breakfast so as to start the work of the day on time they could easily get their breakfast at their boardinghouses boarding houses or at home if theli would risea half hour earlier but most of them are up late at night and the temptation of a longer nap in the mom ing ais too alluring to resist so they hurry downtown down town open the things a nearest nea resl restaurant for breakfast does hot hurt any man to take a little exercise before ho eats in the in oming and undoubtedly a delay in the first meal of the day would not do them any ji harm if they would be care fd about the character of their food but after working two hours on an empty stomach they come in in violent haste order a cocktail and then eat pastry and sweets enough to ruin the digestion of an ostrich they usually start in with roast beef or some other dishta dish th aliis ready and wind up with mince apple dumpling many a business man who canies conies co nies in and consumes three or if our dishes and is out of the place again in iless aham fifteen minutes at lunch time they come in again and load up with an oyster pattie or beefsteak pio or some other dish in which rich pastry is an important factor this second rash of trade is even more interesting than the first because it shows how the habit of eating pastry grows it iso unusual thing to see a man of forty years of age take wheat cakes sausages and mince pie for his luncheon he bis cakes with pie served hot and ilch deep with powdered sugary lie is invariably an advanced appearance and for some unaccountable reason he seems to suc aeed in business it does riot do any gaoa to sneer at the pie eaters of new the railroad dents itee graph i superintendents and influential men of affairs of eat things which icausi a mandof gas trono i intelligence to shudder most nervous finan ciers and business men die at fifty and everybody says it is due to overwork all a mistake pie is the fell destroyer J N Y sun |