Show M A KEEPING WELL I 1 t 1 X X I 1 DONT DONOT TAKE YOUR 1 Z CARES TO DINNER J Y dil FREDERICK DERICK B R olleen GREEN vi Y f editor ot of HEALTH X i P 1924 i tom newspaper union W HEN you are unhappy you dont enjoy your dinner but bul biats flats only half ot of it when you are unhappy you can cant t digest your dinner as well as you can when youre happy all imagination you say no it its cold scientific fact any unpleasant emotion slows up the digestive machinery or as doctors say inhibits intestinal peristalsis anxiety annoyance linger anger grief or worry actually slow up the processes of digestion doctor cannon of harvard university the well known authority on on phys ghys kology has made many curious and interesting te observations on the effect ot of worry fear and pain in both animals and man by putting an xray X ray tube behind the body and looking through a fluoroscope the mo movements or lack of movement of the stomach and intestines can be seen been as plainly as though the living body had bad glass walls cannon fed a pussy ent cat a diet of milk and watched the milk pass down her throat into her stomach and the digestion of the milk begin then he pinched the cats tall tail the digestion stopped at once and begun again until he had apologized to pussy and restored her good humor As soon boon as she began to purr the stomach started to work again when we are angry worried fear ful or in pain our stomach refuses to work the moral dont eat when you are over tired lie down and rest for fifteen minutes or halt half nn an hour dont eat when you yon are angry or excited sit down and calm down dont take your worries to the table with you it if you can help it there are two places where business family and personal worries should never come one lg Is the dining room and the other Is the bedroom when you sit fit down to take into your body the food which Is going to repair the waste and give you the strength for the next twenty four hours houm give your stomach a fair chance too many business men jump up from their desks run ran out to the lunchroom or home bolt their dinner in a rush without ever taking their minds off of their business worries and problems end and rush back to their desks tor for the afternoon then they wonder why they have indigestion even a horse Is allowed a quiet half hour in wb which I 1 C h to eat his oats give your stomach a chenta all it needs |