Show a J4l P SIMPLE RULES OF HEALTH I Prevention of Disease Father Than Cure Should Bo tho Aim I I = = = Flies as Carriers of Disease In nn addnm before tho California Health AnHorlailon Dr Cobb called tho attention of the modlcn profession to the necessity of nn active crusado against the common house My This pOHilforoim Insect has many ehaiicos to rommiinlratc dlKeaso from 0110 person to another In iholera epidemics epi-demics It has boon shown that files are tho means of spreading tho oils vatic by Infecting the food Whenever largo bodies of men go Into camp typhoid fever Is almost certain cer-tain to break out oven though the water supply Is carefully protected from contamination Such outbreaks arc duo to flyInfection of the food supply Scattered cases of typhoid fever In country sottlomentH are more often tho result of fly Infection than of water lnctloii Dr Cobb believes that tuberculosis Is communicated not only through tho lungs by means of contaminated dust but that the greater source or infection infec-tion Is by means of the fly planting sputum on tho food from Its feet wings and excretions This Infection by files has been proved very clearly When tho habits of tho fly are con Bldorcd It Is notunreasonable to bo hove that this Insect Is an Important factor the spread of disease lhoy swarm upon decaying vegetable matter mat-ter manure piles tho filth of the streets privy vaults and every possible pos-sible source of Infection Follow them then to tho street vendors of fruit and candy tho bakery bntchershop and restaurant and even to tho family table especially of tho poor and It Is not difficult to understand tho ease with which germs of all kinds are convoyed con-voyed to tho food It lnay bo affirmed however that In tho process ot cooking tho bacteria will be killed This is granted but it is I not hero that tho danger lies It Is from food which Is eaten raw or which has boon cooked and upon which tho fly afterward alights that tho greatest danger of Infection occurs oc-curs Tho longer this food remains uneaten un-eaten after this contamination the greater the probability that a colony has grown thereby Increasing the dos ago of Infection It Is In tho homes of tho poor that tho greatest danger arises rho poor nearly universally leave their tables sot with cold food left from tho previous pre-vious meal Upon this food flies assemble as-semble In great numbers and from limo to tune tile children neip thom fielvos tho remainder of tho food being served at the next meal It Is therefore there-fore necessary to combine for tho extermination ex-termination ot this pest Housewives especially should be careful to pro vent this source of dangerous Infection Infec-tion A Window Tent A medical Journal describes a window win-dow lent doylsod for tho open air treatment of tuberculosis It consists of a frame to fit tho lower half of tho window to which Is attached inside tho window an awning of waterproof duck stretched In a quartercircle Tho bed Is placed parallel with tho window win-dow so that thor Invalids head and shoulders are within tho awning en tranco being mndo through a flap in tho side of the tent Tho lower edges of the duck at the head and side of the bed arc long enough to tuck under tho mattress and thus air from the room Is thoroughly excluded Tho framo of tho tent does not quite fill the lower halfof the window for tho escape of warm air from tho room there is loft a space of three Inches which can bo reduced at will For protection from storms tho roof of tho tent projects slightly beyond tho window win-dow and a roller blind Is placed Inside the window Do Not Wave the Handkerchief At a mooting of the Womens Christian Chris-tian Temperance Union In Cincinnati one of the speakers was welcomed I with tho usual Chautauquan flutter of I handkerchiefs throughout tho auditorium auditor-ium and the compliment was accepted with proper satisfaction Soon afterwards after-wards says Good Housekeeping an Inconveniently practical and learned delegate created quite a sensation by declaring that thin handkerchief salute was a most unhygienic performance which was quite competent to account for the colds and coughs that It was npaprent had a wide distribution among the delegates It was moved that the delegates llko sensible people peo-ple keep their handkerchiefs In their pockts whoro they belonged except when In necessary use and that the saluting bo done vlth little silk flags provided for the purpose 4 The proposition met with lively opposition i op-position and It was argued against with no little acerbity but In the end common PCDSO and faith In the ml crobo theory triumphed I1nd the motion mo-tion was carried by n vote of one hun drool and thirtyfour to nlnctyoine That this reform has already taken hold Is attested by tho fnpt that when a party of woman suffrage delegates departed for Europe they werp nod away by a fluttering cloud of little flags In commenting on this the Medical Record sara It Is a grave I sanitary question whether the hand I kerchief does not do more harm than good as It Is ordinarily used Most nasal catarrhs aro of an Infectious character notably those of a pip origin ori-gin Worse than tho nasal discharges nro tho expectorations that find their way Into the pocket Tho fWl > bIn women b-in tho convention certainly dosoivo great credit for calling ntentlon to tho daagora of the handkerchief HayMaking for Fun at ElQhty A pi oss dispatch from Urldgejiort Conn gives an Interesting account of the oldest twins In the country Julius and Junluo lienham who recently celc lirated their eightieth blithdny looty nmKlim on their farm In So incur llajmaking Is great fun said Ju nlus and i fool as if I could mow away hay up In the peak of till peaK of the barn as I used to In days long ago ami inotvin away hay is aboui tho hottest work there Is to he found ill summer The lienham twins aro remarkabli men They are far from being In vnlldH though they have arrived at the ago when must persons are usually feeble Htglnnlng lift as apprentices to a mafioii they worked tip and later became biillrtura and contractors Sjiuc years ago the Hcnhatns gave iil > building and settled down to tho I care of the real estate they had acquired ac-quired In their long residence In Hrldgcport Every morning at eight oclock the twins will ho found at their office opening their t mail and preparing to drive about tho city to collect nuita and look after their property We always got up early in Uto morning said JunliiK when spoken to about tho hour of rising and wo cant get out of tho habit The twins are In excellent health People ought to be cheerful If l they want to live to be old said Julius Look at brother Joining and mo No boys of the present day ever had as hard a time to get along as we did when we started but we had what a good many boys of today do not have Our mother gave to us Iron constitutions constitu-tions the greatest present a mother can glvo to her boys and we had been taught to live according to tho simple and clean rules of the country Wo lived clean lives always We never drank liquor nor used tobacco Money spent for such things Is worse than money thrown away hut many of tho boys today seem to think they cant be men unless they drink liquor and use tobacco Why wo would never have Jived to celebrate our eightieth birthday birth-day If It had not been that wo lived right lives You can enjoy yourself without going contrary to Natures laws There is plenty of harmless fun In the world but It seems to mo that people are looking for the fun nowadays that hurts rather than helps The Starvation Cure Starvation as a means of cure is by no means a now idea It Is very old Most good things arc old and things altogether now aro seldom good Very few original discoveries aro made nowadays now-adays long fasting Is one of the most effective ef-fective means of securing thorough goIng go-Ing constitutional reconstruction It compels tho body to feed upon itself In tho rebuilding defects may be left out and healthy conditions may be reestablished But this result may be secured by other and generally safer moans It is I not so much tho withholding of food but of certain elements of food which secures the benefits of fasting It Is tho protolds from which the system sys-tem in diseased condition manufactures manufac-tures tho poisons which give rise to rheumatism biliousness neurasthenia and gout When protclds are withheld with-held the formation of poisons soon ceases of necessity and thus tho disturbed dis-turbed functions return to their normal nor-mal state and the health Is restored By a diet of fruit this condition may be secured as readily as perhaps more readily than by any other means Tho fruit diet Is really protold starvation as fruits contain practically no pro leius Certainly a frut diet is far more agreeable than total abstinence from food Fruits contain predigested food elements which do not clog the system sys-tem and which are valuable In BUS taming the strength Fasting Is a good thing In certain cases but long fasts are rarely needed need-ed and a fruit diet Is preferable In all essential particulars except In certain cases In which fruit acids are irritatIng irritat-Ing as in gastric ulcer The Need for Recreation nest restores again the energy which has ben consumed In work So long as one Is able to restore his lost energy by sleep and rest ho cannot become neurasthenic But when a man comes to tho point where ho can no longer restore by rest or sleep tho loss of energy which has occurred ho necessarily becomes neurasthenic bo cause his nerve cells remain chronIcally chron-Ically in that exhausted condition This is tho reason n vacation sometimes some-times docs so much for one completely complete-ly I replenishing the exhausted store of energy and saving one from a com bide breakdown A Rood many men look forward for months to their annual vacation of I three weeks In the summer as their salvation For lIe or six months afterward af-terward they enjoy very good health Then their store of energy Is exhausted exhaust-ed and tho next six months are simply sim-ply misery waiting for tho breathing spell to come again When the business busi-ness man finds at tho and of his three weeks vacation that ho has not yet recovered re-covered his natural energy and ho has to go back to his work In almost tho same condition In which ho loft It ho has chronic neurasthenia and Is going to have a tremendous perhaps nn Irreparable Ir-reparable breakdown If ho keeps on in that way When a man discovers that ho has reached that point ho ought to stop at once |