Eating When Exhausted

Wheu the strength or nerve power is already worn out or used up, the digestión ot food only niakes a fresh demand upon it and if it be unable to meet the demand, the food is only a burden upon it producing mischitf. Uur bodies have been coropared to steam engines, the food being the fue), and steaiu produced being the nerve power. The analogy holds gcod to a certain extent. If, when the steam is low, because the fire is low, you pitch in too fast a quantity of ooal, you put out your fire, and if you have depended upon steam power to fan your uree, that is also extinguished. Beyond ihis the comparison fails. You may clean out your furnaoeB and begin again, but in the body the consequences of thisoverloading are dangerous and sometimos fatal. No cause of cholera is more cominon than eating freely when exhausted. The rule should be to rest for a time, and take soiíie simple rnfreshiuent, a cup or a part or a part of a cup of tea, a little Viroth, or even a piece of bread ; anything simple and in small amounr, just to stimuiate tho stomach shghtly and begin to restore its power. After rest, a moderate quantity will be refreshing. Never eat a full meal when you are exhausted. Take first a small quantity of anything simple which may be handy, and rest. Then, after a time, proper food will be a blessing, not a Vjurden. The fires will burn, tbe stuam will be up, und you can go on your way safely. ít is not amiss, in this coniiection, to say that children would avoid maiiy a fnvènefa njght, md many au attack of dinease, if mofhers would follow tuis rale.