HEALTH fa IS HAPPINESS SS TRY TO PRESERVE IT tho the subject of individual health in particular and the public health in general is now demanding a considerable share of attention and though we have no desire to usurp the duties of those who make it a busine business sg to cally attend to such matters a few general hints publicly thrown out may not lot be without service anthi at this season of the year we find our population increased by an influx of immigrants who experience a great change in their habit habits and die dle diemand tand and who are coming in ili most instances from humid climates where their habits and diet were uniform they find themselves more or less debilitated after antera a tedious sea and land journey breathing the dry clear atmosphere of our mountain home engaged in a variety of employments that are strange and new to them and in many instances with opportunities for a freer use of fruit than they have ever enjoyed before at the tho first st glance these may not materially affect their health but butali all ail sudden dietetic changes have a tendency to act injuriously upon the internal organs and affect the vital organs inducing various diseases the most prominent of ar which presents itself in the shape of diarrhoea in fa its several forms The change from the heat of the tile days when the sun shines out strongly to the tho cool frosty nights which we now have asvery is very different from what is experienced in more humid climates yet among new mew comers but little attention is it and not sufficient by the people generally and the result shows itself in colds affecting the head chest and intestines producing chills ings pains in the head and back and often inducing feers fevers which sometimes terminate hei Let fatally tally with most new comers there is for some time a constant internal fever which they do not understand and which simply makes itself manifest by liy a craving desire for something to quench a continual thirst this is caused hy by the clear dry atmosphere of the tile mountains to indulge this appetite is to feed the disease and strengthen the tile colds which may have seized on the system the old scotch mans aphorism is capital as far as it goes keep the head cool saidee said sald he the bowels regular re ular and the feet warm warin and a fig for th tile 0 doctor those who have been accustomed to sedentary occupations when wilen they begin t to work at some stirring and outdoor out door employment induce a large largo amount of extraordinary perspiration which rapidly lydrick dries up before a rising breeze and as suddenly closes the pores obstructing the natural perspiration this sudden cooling should be avoided but whon injurious effects arise from it the body should be thoroughly washed and well rubbed and the bowels kept mildly opened to go out in the cool morning air in the same clothing I 1 that would be worn in the heat hea of the tile day or to saunter around at night without some som e extra protection from the cold is unwise and attended with injurious results the practice of wearing woolen clothing next the skin tends to ward off the evils thus arising because it readily absorbs the unnatural perspiration promotes by gentle friction a healthy condition of the skin and maintains a more regular uniformity of warmth li the practice of regularly washing waning the body and thoroughly drying it also tends to astren strengthen 0 then the body and gives a greater immunity from colds unquestionably the kind and quantity of food eaten and the regularity or irregularity in taking taing it have llave a very decided influence upon the general health the constant and very free use of fine flour without a proper amount of vegetables produces a costiveness that breeds breed incipient inflammation in the bowels and is often unnoticed till some serious disease makes itself manifest or when this is not the case the stomach be being ng over tasked takes its revenge by injuring in g the nervous system and causing 0 shooting pains through the chest or gri pings in the intestines A more general use of rough 0 food such as corn meal and unbolted flour with a fair proportion of vegetables would keep the system in more regular order ward off dyspepsia and its kindred ailments and be conducive to a better condition of health the first season after settling this valley the health of the settlers sett lera leia was remarkably mar kably good the tile atmosphere was as dry and arid then as now the air was impregnated with as large an amount of alkaline particles and dust as at present and the people had made a much more tedious journey than the immigrants now have to undergo under very trying and disadvantageous cir clr cum stances ant food was not and rather course in quality the people were rationed used their flour to a great extent with the bran mixed I 1 eat generally rougher food than they do now and enjoyed excellent health we do not say that the observance of these simple matters will give immunity lin from disease but they will undoubtedly be conducive to health and if the immigrants newly arrived will win act upon them much of the sickness with which they are at times afflicted will be avoided