prevention IS BETTER THAN CURE it is often much cheaper and easier to prevent disease than to remove it and they who exercise sufficient care to do so are amply rewarded by tile the immunity they enjoy from the pain and summering suffering consequent upon sickness multitudes of people bring upon themselves premature debility excruciating pain and oftentimes shorten their lives by lack of care disobedience to the laws which govern their organizations and inattention to their constitutional infirmities and weaknesses we have heard the query frequently put why has disease been so prevalent of late in a region enjoying an atmosphere as pure as that of these mountains and valleys va lloys in last weeks issue some of the causes were touched upon and some others may be relevantly noted now by way of sequel the most prevalent disease among among 0 our children and one which often attacks adults is canker which is a always ways serious often fatal it is generally ascribed to the alkaline matter that impregnates in preg nates the tile soil water and air being carried through the last in in the minute particles of dust which are driven about so p profusely rofu sely by every passing breeze or rising gust of wind while it is not possible to change the alkaline and saline qualities of these mountains and valleys it is possible to neutralize their injurious effects upon tile the human system to do so an acidulous element should enter into our food in Dron mOD to the extent to which that food may be impregnated with the objectionable elements elemente eiel 1 how far that is the case may be 1 determined from the locality where the food is produced pickles or vinegar employed in cooking where whore practicable the mountain grape the native currant the california and other kinds of 0 f grapes which contain considerable acid and apples that are not of the sweetest kinda linda have alla alia all ali a neutralizing tendency they may be and should be used by all call can obtain them and most of them everybody aan lan can get here liere so that the effects of the tile alkali and sal sai eratus cratus may be neutralized in the tho system before injurious results become apparent we are not prescribing remedies when the tiie disease has appeared but that it may be kept away mothers c rs when nursing infants should remember that they tiley can call partake of many things s with apparent impunity because their physical systems are deve developer lopea and strong stron which act very banefully upon their babes whose bodies grewek are weak weah in consequence of this the mothers may luay continue to use articles of diet containing b the objectionable elements to without using 0 enough of a neutralizing element clement and feel no apparent injurious for a time while the tile children who draw sustenance from them would feel it and summer suffer the habits and die dle diet of the mothers should be therefore so go ordered that they would enjoy as good health as possible themselves and avol avoid avold d the transmission of disease to their children infants that have not got their teeth or that tro lre are ire teething should never have food given to them that requires to be chewed whether it be prepared for them or not their sto stomachs maclis have not strength enough to digest 0 it without receiving injury another fruitful source of sickness principally p ally aily among the young 6 lsne is negligence 0 I 1 in not trying to preserve as equal a temperature to the body as possible 0 why is it that colds are much more prevalent in the fall and spring 0 than in the tiie depth of winter the nights are cool and frosty sufficient bed clochin clothing is used to impart a comfortable degree C 0 of warmth in the mornings men women and children will rise from warm beds put on the clothing that will ivill he be used through L tho the heat of the tile day and until the air inside the house is heated by the stove the body feels chilled and uncomfortable for table perhaps the little ones are allowed to run about barefooted bare footed those who should see to their being carefully and warmly clothed clot ciot lied finding 0 o employment in lighting fires cooking breakfast and attending to other household duties again in many places the stove is kept as well supplied with wood at midday mid day as in the mornings and evenings and thus there is a continual succession of atmospheric changes from heat to cold and from cold to heat which surrounds the body alternately chilling and heating it prod producing if C 1 1 ng colds catarrh neuralgia rheumatism etc all of which might to a great extent be avoided by the exercise of wis wisdom doni doul and care in having 0 a more equable temperature indoors in doors and using extra clothing when going 0 out into the cool air let all rooms be sufficiently ventilated especially jie lie 1 jpe ping aparto apartments ants use food that will generously sustain the system and the waste of which will pass freely from it partake of such things as will neutralize the alkaline and saline elements which are around us and which enter into our systems in our eating drinkin drinking 0 and breathing and try to preserve as equable a temperature as ap ble each individual carefully studying their own peculiarities of physical constitutions to deal with them as they may require and an increase of good health and sound bodies will be the result we are 49 doctor but we have proved the utility of these things and can safely recommend them