WIVES, DON'T BOTHER YOUR HUSBANDS AT DINNER TIME.

Evening Post, Volume XIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

WIVES, DON'T BOTHER YOUR HUSBANDS AT DINNER TIME.

Most people are aware, even without any scientific knowledge, that the mind has a most direct influence on the stomach, that the stomach reacts on the mind, and that the two, linked mysteriously together, act and react one upon another with unfailing certainty. Digestion thus obviously to a great extent will depend on the state of mind in which we sit down to a meal. It is not sufficient always merely to set the breadwinner down to a good dinner. If he has been hard at work battling during the day with the perplexities and diffiiculties inseparable from daily life in whatever

calling, his meal, if it is to do him all the good it should, must be a cheerful one. Nay, although disappointment in the quality of the viands will check much more than what is thought in the digestion, even when spirits are good and apetite keen, it would not be so prejudicial to the assimilation of food as will be dolorous tales of domestic cares or the announcement wf bad news. Whatever trials and sorrows have been faced, dinnertime and the time immediately succeeding is not the time to grapple with them, or dwell upon the means by which they are to be surmounted. Again, highly-animated discussions, lapsing often into virulent arguments are distinctly prejudicial at meal-time : for temper, if ruffled, will retard digestion as fatally as damp spirits will. In a word, there is no by-way more directly useful and generally worth sticking to than that by which we can have our meals in peace and comfort, if not in absolute gaiety. m ~ m ~ m —— — — — — —