EATING AND DRINKING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7379, 25 May 1887, Page 4

EATING AND DRINKING.

You have no doubt seen people who progress with a meal something after this fashion : A long draught of coffee, tea, milk or water, as the case may be, begins the performance ; this is followed by a mouthful of something solid ; only a mouthful, however, for the stream is turned on again down the throat. A glass of water disappears ; then the food is attacked and voraciously disappears ; again the stream. Once more attention is given to the food, but the stream baß the first consideration. We silently ask, and wonder how lout: the man cun stand it. To cay notliiug of tho utter disregard of tbe laws of health ia thus eating and driuking simultaneously, it is an absurd spectacle. A tired, overheated man drinks t.vice aa much water as he needs, first, because he is so tired he doesn't know what he is doin«" till he sees the bottom of the piasa ; and second, because his blood is at boiling mark, and the sudden chili is delightful and ho would prolong it tiil hi 3 capacity to swallow gives out. For" the same reason he drinks rapidly, thnt the Bncce&sion of chills may lower his temperature as speedily as possible.