Meat Food for Nervous People.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2090, 28 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Meat Food for Nervous People.

Pork is good for nervou3 persons, buj. is not easily dippsterl. Wild game 13 excellent. Fish is good for.norvous people. Egg 3 boiled jmt enough to harden the white are easily digested. It ig a mistake about p°opla eating too much. Tbe majority do not eat enough. Ncrvou-3 r'vßpep3ia cornea from woiking too hard and not eating enough. When a tnaa b^ina to suffer from overwork ho ehcjld cat plenty of good bread and butter, drink two qimits of milk a day, and eat plenty of good meat. Wnen aucb a pernon res'orSa to a vpgptable diet he growa weaker and loses hia nerve power.

At a meeting of the Anthropological Institute, Mr. James G. Eraser read a paper on "Certain Burial Customs, as illustrative of the Piimitive Theory of the Siul." The Hnmans had a onitom that when a tuna who had been reported to havo died abroad "returned home alive, he should enter hia house, not by tho door, but over the roof. This cuotom (which is still observed in Persia) owed itq origin to certain primitive beliefs and customs with regard to the dead. The ghost of an unburied man wag supposed to haunt and molpfit the living, especially his relatives. Henco tho importanca attaohsd to the buiial of the dead, and various precautions were taken that the ghcat should not return. When the body of a dead man oould not be frunri, he was buried in rfligy, and this fictitious btuial \vaa held to be sufficient to lay thii wandering; phost, for it ja a prinoiple of piimitive thought that uhafc is done to the effigy of a man i t done to lha man himself. Tho Dheotox read a uapsr by Admiral F. S. Tremlott, nu the " Sculptured Dolmens of the Moibihan 1 ' (Ndtth-wesS France.) About 80 f-oulpluroa had been found, invariably on the interior sutfnees of the cfip-etone<i and their mi f pen ts. It ia remaikable that they are coniir.ed within a distance of about 12 miles, and ara nil situated near the Eea-coast, beyond which, although the megaliths are numerous, thae i^ a complete absence of soulptures. The sculptures \ary in intrioaoy, from simple wave hnca and oup-markiuga, to some that havo been compared to th 9 tattooing of tho New Zsalandera.— Knowledge*