Show I 1 A by bycy bywy way to health nobody ever repented of eating doolittle too little way wat w jha the sage bage remark of an old gentleman on the vergeon verge of ninety whom the writer had the pleas pleasure urb of 0 sitting at din ner the thil other the hosl host was waa pressing ns ham to take more moro and urging him hh in 10 the usual phrase wh why ayou you have eaten scarcely anything knowlt now it is to be assumed tt that it the tho theold old words Indica indicated teI tel one onti of the byways to good health iong long along which habad he had traveled hissong his orie life and to which 6 byred bis present re mar markab a 1 hearty realty e mul tion so 10 it was 8 suggested dative ly t that a bead 0 ad always been a small feed feeder r ever sin since bince 3 waa tp up to 0 that time I 1 was a weakly fellow enough and I 1 used to 6 make the great mistake of trying to eat and daluk drzik t as aa much as I 1 could in the hope of be becoming doming strong all my friends s aria and the 06 doctors backed me dp in jn my error b but U t fortunately tuna tely I 1 found jt gut put uit tit in 4 knocked off aa a your youn modern slang blang has it diore mome more th than en ibio hair my usual amount of food and seimu lants lauts I 1 gave up the idea of making 1 1 myself strong and merely s strove i brove to make myself well and I 1 was contented contenti pd with ea eating ting just IPA aa as much as I 1 could digest and no more of course it took a little time e and experience to di discover scoTer the prec pree precise dge tse limits I 1 could not adopt the golden goiden rule ruie of always leaving ocl with an appetite because causel I 1 never beg began fe persistently erring on the right side 1 g got ot kold hoid lold hold of one of the great secrets secreta of ilfe life the secret r of knowing when one has had enough and after afier a year or two I 1 became so po much better betten used to and end myself keenly feax to eat at meal time timi aud and d by degrees a actually acquired ired an a appetite this once round lound I 1 t hye never destroyed es troyed jt it but ut always determinedly rosedith rose with a feeling that I 1 should like to eat more naturally the temptation cpr ja while grew greatel greater is as my digestion grew rew stronger ljubi but I 1 was firm I 1 did ad not behave ungratefully to my stomach and immediately presume upon its increased powers elover by overloading it I 1 did not live to eat but only ate ao to live hye and behold nea me I 1 have no need to be very particular aa as to what whit I 1 eat even at my time of life only to be careful not to eat too much here indeed is the secret of a agrest great deal deai that is amiss with many ninny of ua us we ve are iro in the hab habit at of eating too much more inore thau than our dig digestive estiver powers an can tackle tackie ana and thiet that which is not assimilated simi is more or lesa poisonous the sy system stera becomes bec bee omes overcharged over charged and gives any latent intent tendency to t disease within us every facility foi fol developing itself the question is not so much what tp eat as what quantity to eat and kind nothing but a a sharp ourselves estpon upon ourselves can give giva us the answer i |