EATING TOO FAST.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1672, 16 December 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

EATING TOO FAST.

_ Aow listen to the words of wisdom; it is my turn to talk. You sa y tha* Ernest eats a tremendous lot, and ye« ho remains as thin as a rake, and the others are all going the same way.Ihe truth is that they do not really get the goodness out of the food you! supply because they eat too fast. It is no good staggering home with thel basket, useless to be .the best cook for miles around, of no "avail to put the food on the table in an appetising manner. You do your duty, mother -mine, but no sooner" is the food on' the plates of your young offspring than it has gone, disappeared, bolted, wolfed. They might as well have no teeth at air, for they are never used. HOW WE GET CHILLS. In the autumn, when colds are so common, the clothing that is best suited to avoid chills may be well discussed with advantage. It must- be pointed out that it is not so much the cold weather in itself that is dangerous as the sudden changes from *' warm house to a cold street. Wd could easily stand a low temperature indefinitely if we were in ihe same temperature all' the time, but no organism can" resist the heavy strain put upon it by the rapid alternation of heat and cold. First the cold bedroom, then the warm breakfast-room, then .the cold walk to the station and Svo minutes' standing about in the draught waiting for the train-; thenthe stuffy journey with ten people breathing the same air over and over again, all the windows being tightly closed; then a cold shivering ride on top of a 'bus and the incarceration in a badly-ventilated over-heated office— no wonder-we get chilled.