| Show 19 1 t donais r sphere spere by one on of the th ax the food we eat shall we eat more than two meals a day is a question which re requires a little consideration on our part before we p proceed eed to discuss the dinner and how it shall be prepared and of what it s shall hall consist first to bethought be thought about is i s as always what are the individual circumstances cum stances of the case are you dwellers on a farm if so this time of year there is not much work for your mon folks to do and it would be well for them to reduce the number of their meals as they are not consuming as much material as they do when in t the he harvest field and even yourself if you are the busy housewife it will be better if you will not crowd youn stomach but eat only enough to sustain yourself in health if you fire are working in a factory or in a shop and are obliged to have breakfast at six in the morning and you could eat three meals a day only the first one ought to be so HIM light that it could scarcely be called a mea meal i there are ae very few occupations during the win winter ter months which would justify austif y a person r n in eating more than two meals now ow whether you will agree with in me e or not I 1 want to ito tell you the truth and that is that this matter of eating one two or half a dozen meals in one day is simply a matter of habit and it can be regulated to suit the notion of the individual who wishes to take himself in hand the man who eats as a certain f imily ii living ving near me do five meals a day would assure you that it was just as impossible for him to get along on four meals as the one who is pow now eating three meals would feel it impossible to get along on two the stomach is an organ which is extreme extremely ay iy sensitive to habit you can adopt a certain mode of eating and if it is a change from the old custom for a few days the stomach h will protest but b by and by the normally health healthy y organ wirl adjust and go on about its work the best way it may you wild wil hear some thoughtless person say oh well I 1 am not going to give up good things to eat nor cut myself down in the number of meals for iab what at is the use of living if one has to continually den deny y himself such remarks cause a sensation of mixed pity and contempt in the mind of a listener who lives for something beside guzzling and gobbling and a great pity is felt for the weak minded individual who casts away so recklessly his time and chance upon this earth if you are a person ajon with th an ambition above your waist line and if you feel that you are here on this earth for a divine purpose I 1 assume that you will be quite ready to ask your self what is the best thing for me and my family our circumstances are so and so and now when and what shall we eat to be healthy full of vigor and able to make the very most of our time upon this earth in the winter time it must be very unusual circumstances which would require you to eat more than two meals a day one at eight in the morning and the other at three or four in the afternoon and then lot let me beg of you not to eat between your meals after a day or two you will find that you do not get hungry and th the slight headache caused at first by the change in your meal times will disappear e ar to return no more until you u go back ac pk to the three meal system rt at least five hours should be allowed between meals and seven is much better the clothes we wear FOOT WEAR Is there any one thing more unsatisfactory to the woman who finds herself getting along in in years than the aggravation of getting shoes th that atwill will not either slop a all 11 over her feet or pinch into excruciating misery the corn which has at last appeared upon her once un blemished foot it is very difficult to get shoes to suit you unless you have that narrow long and rather low instep ed foot which which all the shoemakers seem to have in mind when making shoes but I 1 want to teu tell you a secrete secret if you do not already know it the whole difficulty in getting shoes to fit lies in the width no I 1 will not say the whole difficulty for the maker of the shoe has something to do with it as well but remember the name of the shoes that fit and of those which did not fit and then be sure and get the shoes wide or narrow enough to be quite comfortable a and n d you ou are all right if you can wear a no 3 shoe if it is E E width that does not argue that you can decrease the width of your shoe if you choose to take longer shoes to suit your foot to the prevailing fashion the width of a shoe does not increase proportionately with the length remember that and a narrow shoe even it is much too long for you will just surely developed dev elope either a hard or a soft corn therefore learn your width of shoe and then never tor for the sake of convenience or style allow yourself to be coaxed into getting one letter narrower As to the stocking it is far more comfortable to most people to wear cotton hose all winter than it is to put on cashmere or even heavier hose if the woolen hose are decided u upon on I 1 hope 0 e you went at once an and got a pair air of f s shoes oes at least one size longer an and quite bite as wide as your old ones if you did id not you have my sympathy UNDERWEAR FOR CHILDREN A little child and it a girl strange to say was brought to a doctor the other day with a hacking cough and a pale listless face and the mother was gr greatly e ay distressed lest incipient c consumption P bon was manifesting itself in the once romping om ping form of her darling it take the shrewd physician long to unravel the mystery and to find out where the seat of all the difficulty lay in a very few minutes he had undressed the child and found upon its body a pair of stiff starched corsets which are called in the shops under waists but which have bones and heavy double seams with cords and starch to make the whole snug god save the marki mark and which had shrunk but which the mother had kept on the child because she did not wish just then to buy others these waists by frequent washings and the natural growth of the child had become at least two inches too small for the child and incipient consumption had set in but with the removal of the deadly pressure and care as to diet and exercise in the open air the child was on the high road to recovery I 1 was so horrified by this incident that I 1 thought thou I 1 would ask my friendly mother readers readers if they have put those health destroying corsets upon the precious forms of their children and if they have how much too small they have grown with the washings of this winter it does not take an hour to make a stout plain waist to fasten drawer and petticoats to and when you make give at least two inches more than the loose waist measurement of the child our children THE INFANT our dear little baby hasteen has been dressed in in warm and loose cloth clothing pg and the next question to consider is is when and how shall he be fed it is somewhat disputed point with the best physicians as to whether baby shall be put to the breast directly he is dressed or shall laid down in in a soft cosy crib to rest after all the unusual handling some say that it is an excellent thing for the mother to have the child at once others think the child is weary with all the unusual handling and it should be allowed all the time abich which it will take of its own accord to rest before being put to work again and it is work for the infant to nurse everyone knows that who has ever seen an infant with the beads of perspiration standing upon its brow as it tries or even after it has found and appropriated its source of food this question is one which no one but the mother or wise nurse can solve if the mother be healthy and the child robust there is no doubt in my mind that it will be better for both to rest awhile atlease at least until nature gives the child notice that its tiny stomach demands food and then well let the baby alone first last and all the time let me urge upon you let the baby alone be sure that the crib is warm that all the pillows blankets sheets mattresses even in the middle of summer I 1 say be sure they the are all comfortably warm A chilled chille Y baby is on the high road to colic and other troubles you cannot be too careful about this warming and never allow some one else to see after this if you are the nurse it is not good for baby to be put in the bed with its mother for a number of reasons first if baby is put low enough in the bed to be kept properly warm the air which will be breathed by the child is poisonous in the extreme you would not thing of givin giving I 1 th the e baby rotten food to eat why s should you give it rotten air air to breath it itis just a as s cruel and as dangerous to M baby li life fe and health another reason is that baby takes up a good share of the bed and the mother needs all of the bed to turn her weary body upon again if the mother turns about ten chances to one especially after baby begins to get more to eat than it should have baby is disturbed by the jar and motion of the bed and at once begins to nestle for food and being nothing but an enigma it fancies that as soon as disturbed it requires food and so if the mother be of the silly kind who thinks that every cry must be stilled by nursing at oice once the worst of habits is is set up and baby has begun his lite life upon earth with very discouraging prospects let the child sleep as long as ever it will I 1 know one excellent nurse who always puts a baby down upon ope one side or the other and then after ail ah hours sleep she goes and turns the baby over it took me a long A while to discover why this should seem to rest the baby as it did for I 1 could see no reason why a baby should be turned it at an a after some th thought d and many questions I 1 found oat arid in my next paper I 1 will ten tell you our ohr Ailin ailments TOOTHACHE AND EARACHE the cure for toothache says one is to go and have the tooth pulled out perhaps but I 1 know of women who under certain circumstances go and have one tooth out only to have another and an apparently sound one begin to ache ui in a mw few weeks more and ai many of us ais gre too cowardly to io have our teeth all pulled out andas and as there are various circumstances under which it seems im possible ps ible sible to ta have them ou out I 1 want to talk a little about the affliction and ing agest est some simple helps for it when is really afflicted with it there aye are two to kinds of toothache hiie one from the nerve and one after the nerve is dead and an ulcer begins to form or has formed ed lit at the root of the tooth the first is usually caused by the exposure of the nerve to the air or it may be that the he nerve arve is about to die this pain is a very sharp darting pain which is more otless spasmodic in character and it often takes the form of neuralgia and tiles flies about from place lopace to place in the head and face the other pain comes canies on usually with gradually increase increasing ing force until the dull heavy pain drives pt every thought and emotion but that of intense suffering if you are sure the ache is caused solely by diseased nerves quiet hot water applications and some simple as a dowl bowl of catnip tea or a bit of will soon cause relief if it is cold which is only another name for a ba bad stomach and blood you can take your choice of several remedies isyou if you like to dose take two or three pills or some physic hys ic i preferably the pill of cascara spoken spoken of of in a former paper and keep your face warm and if pos possible isible sweat it in some way A hot bath is good goad in any case and if you have a syringe a full enema of tepid water or one of a teaspoonful of glycerine I 1 w will ill help hel ant in the clearing out odthe j the stomach and bowels and you will soon obtain rest proceed exactly as if you had a balled called bilious attack and you will succeed of courte course I 1 should strongly you to fast for at least one gh da and tb live on dry toast and gruel for q three thice or four days more rest is what the stomach is crying out for and it if willbe aul wul be wise for you cheed its cry if it is the earache proceed precisely sely the same as regards a good clearing out of the system andhor and for local ibcal treatment a few drops of wa warm rai consecrated oil pour pom od into the ear and more added from ume dine to time I 1 with warm arm flannels and the di drinking inking of plenty of hot water will or later cabbe cause t the e pain in to cease I 1 must tell a story of 2 my abend friend the doclar who loves the truth so well ell that he asserts people dont love him for telling gr it onedas one day a good woman came to him for a prescription to heal the running at the ear which afflicted her child oh said the doctor in his plain cheery way go home and wash it out several times a day with hot water and castille soap indignant at such treatment the lady hurried burned out to find a doctor who kne knew to togi give her a proper prescription back she came to the same drugstore drug store ail a hour after with agatin prescription sidn 4 4 abr soap suds and water for which which she b had ad pat paid the soap and water costing it her another 50 C 0 cents chewed she went h home 0 ba satisfied I 1 ed AZ and left my ak friend th doctor chuckling kner merrily tily sit at the credulity redall all of humanity who pay any price 16 be humbugger humbugged hum bugged physical says some good mother oh my children dont need physical culture they run and play enough to keep themselves in excellent condition just so will you kindly tell me the position your girl takes when she sits down what is the reason your growing son hangs his head bead forward tike like a convicted criminal have you one boy that carries himself like A soldier op on parade have you one on daughter who stands sits and walks walk with the lissome grace of an ancient grecian cian maiden oh no you answer impatiently but if the children ate are healthy what need have I 1 to care about the rest but are th they healthy do they never have a hea headache 7 or side ache or are they never afflicted with colds do you know that perfect beauty and perfect health are synonymous terms if the ancient greeks possessed the secret of beauty they also acquired the knowledge of perle perfect ct physical health you have the earthly lives of your children in your hands what would you say if some one came to you and told you that either from prejudice or ignorance you had robbed your children day by day clay of a long string of pearls each day you stole one from the chain until you sent forth your offspring stripped of their most precious possession and left to face a bitter world with no means aldno and no power to acquire them for you had robbed them of their all you will do that let me tell you what this gospel of physical culture means to you arid add me mei we say that the spiritual gospel 0 of christ must be obeyed or men will be damned so must this branch of his gospel if you do not accept light and truth when it is presented before you you will be condet condemned nned that is plain language but it is bible language now our leader brigham young used to say that all truth belongs to the saints joseph smith has told us ui that the temporal and the spiritual are so closely connected that one indissolubly involves the other our temporal welfare must receive a righteous share of our time and strength or we will be called to a severe reckoning your children need to be taught how to use their bodies as well as how to use their minds would you think your child had bad a sufficient education it you gave him books to read indiscriminately and left him to work out his own mental salvation 7 if it is necessary for him to go to school to get his knowledge in a systematic manner 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