A Plea For Late Suppers

A Paris correspondent, who has fallen, j SoubÜess, into the Europeau practice of eating late suppers, saya it is a mistake to euppose the medical fnculty hoshle to Bleep following supper. He discussed the question recently with an able physician, who said to him: Iba is nothiug more absurd than to ! pretend 'tis unhealthy to sleep ately after the day's last meal. Is not man an animal ? Do not animáis, without exception, sleep immedintely after ! eating? Down-t fcol like sleeping ; after each day's last meal? and isit not j by an eftbrt that we shake off sleep ? i Évidently the body yearns lor sleep, j Exercise immediately after every meal is pernicious. Kest is henlthfnl. Whatrest. can compare with sleep, which reposes the miiid, the lungs, the heart ? See the peasants. No persons enjoybetterhealth than they do. Supper is the best menl of their day. No sooner have they supped than they go to bed. Look at the actors. There was Rubini. He diiu-d at three, went to his drossing-room in tha Italkn Oiiera-IIuK( anfl Aetít till tbe theater opeáe'd its foors. At midnigM hè supped heartily, and straight to bed he went. He dièd of sheer oíd age. 'ïou know Mons. Thiers' habitflï The - - , 1 - _ j moment tfinnor ends he stretches hiraself out to sleep, and aleeps au honr. ' The truth is, if you look abouL.yonthere j i will bo found that tho preat majority oL men go to sleop immediately after I iug their best mejl. You curtainly uever saw unywhere in tha woild healthier or strongor women than tboae of the great I marlcets. What is theiv rule of lite ? j Dinner and to bed. Tako another, the vory opposite class - astronomors. Thcy kot-p late honra. Their beat meal is taken when the stars say good-night. Then they go to sleep. Did you ever hrar of nn astronoiner dying under 100 1 Tho great majority of servants and meI chanics go to sleep immediately after taking their best meal. They nre right. ; They obey Nature's voice, which always ; j gives judicial counsel.