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Show Evils of Eating Alone ml )iwm . in .. immiMi in n i - i it Thoro aro somo fow happily disposed dispos-ed Individuals, says tho London Lancet, Lan-cet, who can dlno nlono, and not oat too fast, nor too much, nor too Httlo. With tho mnjorlty It Is different. Tho avcrago mnn puts his novol or his papor boforo him, and thinks that ho will lengthen out tho meal with duo deliberation by reading a Httlo with, and more between, tho courses. He will Just employ his mind enough to help, njid too Httlo to Intorfero with indigestion. In fnct, ho will provide that goritlo mental accomplishment which with hnppler pooplo conversation conversa-tion gives to a meal. This is your solitary's soli-tary's excellent Idea. In reality ho becomes engrossed in what ho . Is rending till, suddonly finding his chop cold, ho demolishes it In -a few mouth-fuls; mouth-fuls; or cl8o ho finds that ho Is hungry, hun-gry, and paying no nttontion to tho book, which ho flings nsldo, ho rushos through his food ns fast as possible, to plungo Into his nrmchnlr and literature litera-ture nfterward. In either caso tho lonely man must digest at a dlsadvan- '- - ii n,..i tage. For duo .and easy nutrition food should bo taken Blowly nnd tho mind should not ho Intensely oxercls-od oxercls-od during tho process. Evory one knows that violent bodily oxorciso is bad just after a meal, and mental exertion is equally so. Wlso peoplo do not even argue during or Just after dlnnor, and observation of aftcrdjnncr speakers neither onduro tjiomsolvcs nor excite In their hearers hear-ers any Borero Intellectual effort. In fact, tho oxporlence of countless generations, gen-erations, from the red Indian 6f tho woods to tho whftc-shjrted diners of a modern 'party,' has propotuatcd iho lesson that a man should not cat nlone, nor think, much u this time, but should talk .ana" bo talked to whllo ho fecdB Most peoplo do not think much whon they talk, and talking is n natural accompaniment of eating and and drinking.- liqw docs it fnro with tho many, solitary women of to-day? No bettor, wo know than with tho mon, but differently. Alono or not, a man mayVgouernlly bo trusted at any tlmo to tako food enough. |