| Show HEALTH HINTS AND OTHER THINGS WORTH remembering COMPILED BY MAC disinfectant now that the season has baa arrived when disinfectants disinfect ants are often wanted it is well to remember that common salt Is one of the cheapest most effectual and harmless it can be used in strong or weak solution about the person or premises women physicians carlisle wrote of women as physicians their form of intellect their sympathy their wonderful acuteness of observation etc seem to indicate in them peculiar qualities for dealing with disease and evidently in a certain department that of female diseases they have quite peculiar cullar opportunities of being useful fu el I 1 infants 9 food dr arthur V meigs writes concerning feeding that mothers make a mistake in hurrying infants on to a heaitly diet and giving them meat and ve vegetables eatables before before their young stomachs are ready to digest them he says that children under two years of age are generally best fed on milk and milk foods that they should never be taken to the table lest they appear to want what they ought not to have sleep A mother writes to babyhood that she has found an unfailing remedy tor for sleeplessness in her young youn children fresh air if babies are comfortably clad and well protected with a sun shade they will hardly be able t to a keep their eyes open out of doors and will drop off to sleep quickly she recommends that the mothers also take refreshing exercise in the open air saying if I 1 failed to be in the fresh air sometime each d day when I 1 was nursing a baby al I 1 could always see the result in increased nervousness and fretfulness in the child we have seen one baby raised with t the lie happ happiest lest results on the plan of ta taking k ing it its naps out of doors all the year round there is a ridiculous notion that when babies are allowed to sleep in the open air they are apt to be troubled with wind on the stomach there is no sense or reason in ia it Unripe girls dont you see a good many pale girls with a bloodless half baked sort ot of lace face whose walk whose voice whose whole expression Is void of spir spirit it and force those girls are in the green een state look at their lios and an d cheeks hel they are not half ripe send them out in the country let them throw away their parasols and cors corsets Lyts and live out in tile the sunshine three mo months and I 1 would give I 1 e more for one of them in anaw any work ork bequir requiring i ing spirit than for a dozen of the pale wags things that live in the shade the only girls with red cheeks and sweet breaths the only girls aids who become fully ripe and sweet are those who baptize themselves freely in the sunshine the best physicians to cure pimples and flesh worms you must purify your bloody blood not by swallowing patent medicines but by living on plain nutritious food breathing a pure air day and night I 1 sleeping enough exercising freely and keeping your skin open by frequent baths in soap and water there is no other way to to purify your system swallow swallowing a g poisons wont do it mineral waters will not god has furnished the true physicians for this and other maladies dr sunshine dr cleanliness dr pure air dr temperance dr exercise ll 11 che chewing the design of the creator is th that t we should prepare our food for or tile the stomach by grinding it to a paste and saturating it with the juices of the mouth and as digestion is the pivotal function ot of the animal economy and the only direct contribution we can make to it is in the mouth it follows that the importance of thorough mastication cau can hardly be exaggerated ag stoves unhealthful dr dio lewis says saya in fitting up a house formy for my home I 1 should begin with an open fire is number otte one among house blessings if it were practicable abie it should be ot of wood in one of those great generous old ola fashioned fire are places to supply the draught the air of the room is i changed rapidly rapid li it a small part of the money we spend in yar foolish 60 1 sh fashions were given to the reintroduction of this good old fashioned blessing how mach healthier and happier we all should be Next toan open wood tire the open coal grate is the best means of warming gand and ventilating and if with a good draught the coil coal be bituminous it is a good fire there has been a fearful f earful I 1 increase ot of cons consumption emption ump tion bronchitis headache and some other affections since the general introduction of stoves sieves and furnaces ar naces spirituous liquors we put pat a drop of alcohol into a mans eye it poisons it we try it upon the lining of a living stomach again it poisons it we study alter death the stomachs of drinking men and and alcohol produces in ie regular stages redness intense tense congestion morbid secretions deeper hurt destruction of parts utter ruin we study its influence upon the health and strength of sailors and soldiers and find end it helps to freeze them ilithe arctic regions and exhaust them in the tropics we watch two regiments on a ions ion march in india one with and the other othar without grog and are driven to the conclusion that even moderate quantities of alcohol weaken the muscles and break the endurance we visit the training grounds of oarsmen oarsman oars men pedestrians ana and prize fighters and learn everywhere the same sam lesson alcohol is a poison to muscle and brain climate bof of all the agencies which determine our destiny climate is one of the most potent A climate with sharp alternations of heat and cola calm and fury rouses the elasticity of muscle and brain brain the sharp and severe changes in the climate of northern regions make that part of our country the breeding place of strong wise men the original ilal settlers of the carolinas were a grand chivalrous people the climate emasculated them The climate of southern california fascinates a visitor but a new england family removing to santa barbara undergoes a curious deterioration the children learn less and less at t school and the adults grad gradually bally losse lose their interest in ideas and the larger movements of the world and fall fal luto that personal gossip characteristic of southern peoples for thin people americans incline to emaciation A thin yankee worries and asks what he shall do first be thankful yon are not fat mans body is for use lean flexible folks should be grateful that they do not waddle and w wheeze heeze besides your chance for long iong life is better than a fat mans but you need a certain quantity of fat and I 1 will prescribe for you you probably eat too much and hurt your digestion it is not food swallowed but food well digested that produces flesh it if your digestion is shaky shun pie cake pudding sweetmeats sweet meats greasy food condiments all ail desserts and confine yourself to beef and mutton with graham bread potatoes and other vegetables eating of plain food less than your usual quantity now you must observe and eat more or less as your ile case may require it is very important that you yoli should masticate your food thoroughly live in the open air much for after the food is dissolved in the stomach it must mingle with much oxygen in the lungs before it becomes a part of your body shun tea coffee tobacco and strong drink sleep fat tens so retire earit early and dont hurry up in the morning toothache A clean tooth will not decay it is the food left between the teeth which causes the trouble that part of tile the hoota which you can reach with the toothbrush tooth brush and this means the flat side does not decay if tile the brush is used he the decay takes place between the teeth especially the double teeth where the toothbrush cannot go but bat tile the new tooth bp springe ringe with the slip point corrects all this and keeps the spaces between the teeth clean so that decay is impossible use a toothpick and clean the teeth after eating ito to be continued 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