460 LEWIS'S AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. 



How perfectly correct and natural do these remarks appear to 

 us, when we reflect for a moment on the intimate sympathy and 

 peculiarly direct communication existing between the head arid the 

 stomach ! If the least irregularity in the natural functions of the 

 bowels takes place, with what rapidity is it followed by a propor- 

 tional degree of malaise at the very centre of life, the brain ! 



In fact, the healthy operation of the whole natural economy is 

 dependent in a great measure upon the state of the stomach ; but 

 the brain watches the actions of this organ with a most jealous 

 eye, and in most persons is the very first to strike the alarm at the 

 presence of gross or badly-cooked food ; and it has been most 

 justly remarked that "he who would have a clear head must have 

 a clean stomach" 



If such be the fact, (and no one certainly will dispute it,) how 

 necessary is it that we should not only regard the quality of our 

 food, but that we should have an eye to the proper preparation of 

 it by the cook before receiving it into so important an organ as 

 the stomach ! We do not now address our remarks to those whose 

 health is so robust, and whose habits and associations in life have 

 been such as to force them to remain happy and contented with 

 the coarsest fare, and whose stomachs consequently have attained 

 the vigor of an ostrich or the capacity of an anaconda ; such in- 

 dividuals, we know full well, would naturally accuse us of over- 

 refinement and ridiculous nicety. Neither do we wish to encourage 

 or uphold in their effeminate opinions those delicate and epicurean 

 dandies who cannot enjoy a meal beyond the vile precincts of an 

 eating-house or the luxurious saloons of a club-room, or whose 

 pampered stomachs are never sated, save when tempted with all 

 the niceties that the markets can produce, artistically concocted 

 into savory stews, outlandish fricandeaux, greasy ragotits, high- 

 sounding fricassees, and dainty salmis. 



Such fellows as these latter, "quibus in solo Vivendi causa pa- 

 lato est" whose brains, (what little they may possess,) as well as 

 their hearts, are located in their bellies, are objects rather of our 

 commiseration, and wholly beneath the notice of any sensible man, 



