Bellows Falls Times

Two Meals A Day.-If any man or woman of forty-five or over, not engaged in hard manual labor, especially the studious, sedentary and in-door livers, would take but two meals a day for one month, the second being not later than three in the afternoon, and absolutely nothing afterwards, except it might be in some cases an orange or lemon, or cup of warm drink, such as tea, broma, sugar-water, or ice-cream, there would be such a change for the better in the way of sounder sleep, a feeling on waking of having rested, an appetite for breakfast a buoyancy of disposition during the day, with a geniality of temper and manner that few, except the animal and the glutton, would be willing to go back to the flesh-pots of Egypt. "Ben Wade," as he is familiarly called, one of the political lions of the West, has taken but two meals a day for twenty years; and if all sedentary persons, those who are in-doors a greater part of their time, would, after the age of forty five, observe the same inflexible rule, there can be no doubt, other things being equal, that long years of happy exemption from the ordinary ills of life would have been the result. The reason is that the stomach would have time to rest, for recuperation, and would thus be able to perform its part more thoroughly, making purer blood, giving better sleep, and securing a good appetite for breakfast. Let any man try it for ten days, taking the second meal seven hours after the first, and abandon the practice if he can."-Hall's Journal of Health.