THE FAREWELL BUSINESS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 108, 2 November 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE FAREWELL BUSINESS.

A NEW OCCUPATION. The other morning at New York, says Puck, as the departing Cunard steamer was casting off its lines and swinging out into the stream, an elderly-looking business man hastily j embraced a lady who was one of the passengers, and rushed down tho gang-plank to tho wharf. Going hurriedly up to a melancholy loafer who was watching the busy crowd, tho gentleman drew him behind a piie of freight, and said — " Want to earn a dollar ?" " You bet." 11 You sea that lady in black on the bridge there ?" said the citizen. " Cert." ' ' Well, that's my wife, going to Europe. Now, of course, she'll expect mo to stand hero for the next twenty minutes, whilo the steamer is backing and filling round, so as to wavo my handkerchief and watch her out of sight. Soe ?" " I ketch on, boss." " Well, I'm too busy too fool around here ; stock to buy, biz to attend to. She's a little nearsighted; so I'll just hire you to wave this handkerchief instead. It's a big one, with a red border, and as long as she sees it she'll think it's me. Come up to 202, Wall-street, when they are well off, and I'll pay you." " S'posin' she looks through a telescope or suthin' ?" "In that case you'll have to bury your face in the handkerchief, and do the great weep act." " That'll be 50 cents extra " " All right. Time is money. Look sharp now ! You can kiss your hand a fow times at, say, one dime per kiss ;" and snapping his watch the overdriven business man rushed off. We print this affecting little incident to call attention to the fact that the man thus employed has gone into the business regularly. He is now a professional fareweller, and business men and others can save valuable timo, and yet give their departing relatives an enthusiastic send-off by applying to the above specialist any steamer day. Go early to avoid the rush. HOW AND WHEN TO DRINK WATER. According to Dr. Louf, when water is taken into the full or partly full stomach it does not mingle with the food, as we are taught, but passes along quickly between the food and lesser curvative towards the pylorus, through which it passes into tho intestines. The secretion of mucus by the lining membrane is constant," and during the night a considerable amount accumulates in the stomach ; somo of its liquid portion is absorbed, and that which remains is thick and tenacious. If food is taken into the stomach when in this condition it becomes coated with this mucus, and the secretion of the gastric juice and its action are delayed. These facts show the

value of a goblet of water before breakfast. This washes out the tenacious niueus, and stimulates tlie gastric glands to secretion. In old and feeble persons water should not be taken cold, but it may be with great advantage taken warm or hot. This removal of the accumulated mucus from the stomach is probably one of the reasons why taken soup at the beginning of a meal has been found so beneficial