Show HEALTH HINTS ANU AND 0 THER OTHER THINGS WORTH remembering COMPILED BY MAC the following extracts are from a monthly magazine entitled good health t the healthy house the healthy house hous elisi the one thoroughly pene grated and purified by the hygienic rays of the sun in the houses bouses of the wealthier wea thier classes says the unitarian atarian nt arian there is too much luxury and elaborate ness of furnishing and ornamentation and sanitary precautions are made to give way to the multiplied artificially ties of existence our civilization j is becoming overdone the tend tendency enc y should be toward greater simplicity im p lacity the custom of surround surrounding dwellings irig too freely with trees a and shrubbery as often seen in village and country homes is a most pernicious one and in these damp and sunless rooms room 8 it is no wonder that phthisis rheumatism ati m and malaria fin find a fertile atmosphere ge re for their another source of nervousness and lowered vitality in connection with insufficient ventilation bilat ti ou is the extreme degree to which our houses places of business theatres theartres the atres churches hotels and railroad cars are overheated in winter this custom alone is sufficient to prevent americans from ever becoming a robust people infallible ble recipes sor for preserving the co complexion temperance OWMA for whit wait i the hands honesty to remove stains I 1 re repentance enhance en tance for improving the sight ob observation P e rt ion for imo improving roving the voice civility ito to keep away moths good od society a beautiful ring the come home circle patine patent medicines the truth is when people consult the doctor they want to get beet the worth of their money and they want it in something they can see ace taste and smell in short abort in something that will do them good bood and their idea of that is something that will make them sicker before they are allowed to get better if they do not get it from one doctor they will fett from ro in another palling falling to get it or what is more likely getting too much they abandon the doctors and take to 4 kennedys Kenn Kenne edys dylis medical discover 1 warners safe kidney and liver cure or lydia cem pound orsome or some other nostrum put up in a quart bottle advertised io ia an al armanac af manac manse and for sale by all druggists the extent to which these and the many kindred no strums are used among all classes of people is appalling high hi ii and low rick rich and poor educated educated and uneducated servant girls and sewing girls lawyers jui judges ministers and I 1 am sorry to times doctors voluntarily tax themselves to build palaces steamboats and pleasure yachts and to buy last fast horses and bulldog pups for the millionaire lion lio alre proprietors of these health destroying and disease product producing ug nostrums no strums in almost every city in this country baking powders and digestion eastern astern professors are making experiments upon the influence fluence ia of baking powder bowder upon the digestion the result 0 of f which Is thus given by the scientific american elaborate experiments on the effect of tb the residue left by certain baking powders on gastric digestion showed that the digestion of albumen by gastric I 1 juice alce was greatly retarded by the residue which would be left in biscuit made by cream of tarter ter baking powders besides retarding arding the digestion of albumen albu meu it was observed that the residue rendered the mass liable to ferment lve changes fat produces one of the most pernicious tendencies teneen cies of modern cookery 1 is the use of tried fried foods of I 1 every description fried meats fried eggs tried fried vegetables tried fried bread doughnuts dough nuts and similar bombina eions of melted fat and other food substances are exceedingly harmful articles of diet we can hardly call them food tor for their only virtue consists in the cravings clavings cravi of hunger at the expense of the digestive organs the gastric juice has but little more action upon fat than has water arater indeed fat undergoes in the stomach no change which answers to the digestion of other elements of tood lood and its pres prea ence interferes with the action or of the gastric juice upon other tood foods in consequence digestion proceeds ver very 1 slowly it if at all and the delay occasions termen lermen tive and putrefactive changes which render the article still more unfit for nourishment it is the indigestibility of fat and this property of delaying the digestion of other food substances used in combination with it that render erple pie crust puff paste and all ail varieties or of pastry so unwholesome that even their name has come to be almost synonymous with dyspepsia A A queer prescription dr lyman beecher used to tell an amusing story about his aunt who used to say to him when he had a sour stomach after eat ingrie ing pie lyman go into the milk room and get a piece of cake you dont doat look well quite equal eq ual to the above is an anecdote related of an elderly new england gentleman who upon returning home late at night entered the pantry as was his bis custom before retiring in search of pie and cake finding none he awoke his bis wife who had already retired and in tones of severe reprobation exclaimed mary I 1 am greatly surprised to find no pie or cake in the house what would you do it if some one should be sick in the night killed by a snuffbox snuff box boz the great napoleon Nap oleen died shortly after middle life in exile a at st helena and accordion according to rev de witt talmage talmae one of his doctors said that his disease was induced by excessive snuffing the hero of austerlitz the man who b by y one step of bis foot in the centre of europe shook the earth killed bya by a anuff box vinegar end and indigestion it is the business of the saliva to digest starch and by its alkalinity to stimulate the secretion of ef the gastric luice juice in the stomach it is well known that the saliva is unable to act upon starch in the presence of an acid experiments have shown that even so ao small a quantity of vinegar as one part in appreciably diminishes the action oi of saliva upon starch one part in 1000 renders it very slow and twice the latter quantity arrests it altogether from this it is evident that vinegar salads and other preparations in which vinegar is used used are unwholesome es especially ec bally when t taken with farinaceous lood food such as bread and other grain in preparations there is a popular tr notion that by the use of vinegar a tendency to increase in orease iu in flesh may be antagonized the physiological fact that fat is largely formed from the starchy ele elements mentis of grains and vege tables rather supports the popular notion but this method of reducing weight should not be encouraged as the loss of flesh is secured at the expense of good dk the there aels is more poison in a cupol cap of strong tea than iu in a glass of ale or beer and yet many persons persona who sup aup pose themselves to be good food temperance people are trying to light fight thet the thedrick drink demon with the fictitious strength of strong tea and coffee death from decayed meat the death of the late mayor of amaba from eating chicken which had been preserved by freezing and after being thawed out had bad become slightly tainted before being used has baa called public attention to the fact that the use of tainted meat is in the highest degree dangerous the process of decomposition in meat mead develops poisons known as es cooking does not destroy these poisons it is probable that many mysterious cases of illness are due to this cause sickness from eating canned meat and from cheese poison poisoning are also attributed to te the same c class I 1 ass of poisons rational Kat ional dress ithe requirements of a perfect dress are 1 freedom of movement 2 no pressure over any part of the body 3 no more weight than is necessary to warmth and both weight and warmth equally 4 quick changeability 5 grace and aad beauty combined with comfort and convenience 6 not departing too con conspicuously irom the ordinary dress of the time maxim clothing bould follow the I 1 natural lines of the body ind about health an old writer nab bad quaintly asked who is ia he that values health at the rate it is worth not he that bath it he be reckons it among the common ord ordinary IDAry enjoy ments and takes little notice of it or less regards it than his bis long lone worn clothes perhaps is more careful of his bis garments remembering their price but his health costs him nothing and coming to aim at so flo eay easy a rate he be values it accordingly and bath little regard to keep it is 18 never truly sensible of what lie be enjoyed until he be finds the want of ef it by sickness then health above all things is eai neatly desired and wished for THE CODE OP OF HEALTH the laws which relate to individual health may be concisely summed up as follows 1 breath only pure air 2 drink only pure water a 3 eat only pure food 4 take sufficient muscular exercise 5 preserve proper attitudes 6 discipline the mind by proper mental excer cise else 7 take proper rest and recreation and sufficient sleep 8 restrain the passion and govern the emotions 9 give due attention to personal cleanliness 10 be temperate in all things jess ceas pools are disease breeders bleeders Bre eders house clogs slogs may be be carried out and distributed over the surface ot of tibe the ground io bo widely that evaporation will quickly render them innocuous it if this plan is adopted the garden i be divided into three or four areas which should he be used successively one each day summer complaints the summer rummer complaints of children which carry carra off so many thousands of little ones especial especially lly those below live five years ot or age are almost wholly due to bad fee feeding diug feeding little children meats and vegetables and all sorts of such inch artle articles leass as are fo found foundoe on the gablein table in arost families is in the highest degree injurious to children many times these articles are fed to little ones whose digest digestive ve organs are not prepared to dispose be of starchy food of any sort particularly starchy vegetables and ther other farinaceous farina cious foods children who are fed properly bathed every day and given an abundance of out of door exercise will not be likely to suffer from bowel complaints learn to live healthfully for 10 cents I 1 will send to any a 25 four page tracts tracts on health eal nd a list of health aubi publications ti ns D M mcallister 66 centre street salt lake city |