Show tuberculosis IN CHILDREN appalling mortality among the little ones due jl to this cause proper attention to health of mothers would save many lives 91 the number of deaths due te tuber Is tremendous when the word Is spoken one instinctively thinks ol 01 pulmonary consumption this Is the form which attacks adults and which we see dally gathering in its victims there are other forms however more common in children that levy trib ute upon then without calling atten alon to the relationship between diseases die eases and consumption of the lungs dr jacobi is authority for the state scent that tuberculosis hills as many keople old and young ae diphtheria croup whooping cough measles and typhoid fever taken to gather in all of our cities active steps have been taken to protect the keople from the above named dis eases until quite recently however a few years at most nothing was done to reduce the mortality from tuber now however the attention of the world the common people and the health authorities has been called to its curability and the causes the modes of scatter ing and the prevention are all being and an educational campaign Is on to wipe out this white terror the children suffer from losis of the bones the bowels and lymph glands tubercular meningitis Is frequently found in early life and Is uniformly fatal only by careful at to the food and dally habits can the rising generation be made am mune from these varied forms of tu the fact that over one halt of all babies born die before they reach the age 0 five years proves that con capital bequeathed them 1 small Is the proper attention paid to the diet exercise and out of door life of the mother it this were done the child would undoubtedly have greater vitality and could by proper care and education live above the tu bercu losis of childhood and ot adult life cause and cure of gastric catarrh chronic congestion of the stomach known as gastric catarrh Is usually caused by one of the following errors or by all of them put together eat ing too much or too fast swallowing food insufficiently masticated the use of such coarse foods as cabbage greens etc mustard pepper sauce ginger and other condiments ana spices pastry containing animal tats free tats which lodge in the stomach and remain there a long time pork griddle cakes and burned tats these are the things that produce gastric catarrh the first and most necessary step in the treatment 0 this disease Is to remove the cause ol 01 the trouble we may induce activity of the skin by hot applications followed by cold or hot bath foli oBed by a short applina alon of cold fomentations followed by a short cold application to the stomach these treatments are use tul but the most important factor Is the regulation of the diet A fruit diet Is best tor the reason that in gas trie catarrh there Is a great tion of germs which are destroyed by tault juice A well prepared diet of toasted bread zwieback bis auit etc Is also useful in these cases bedroom climate A person at the age of sixty years has spent about twenty years of his life in his bedroom have ou hinves the average sleeping room ell mate it you were sent as a mission ary to distant pestilential spot the climate of which was as tul as that of the average bedroom would you not feel that you were risk ing a great deal for the sake of the heathen 7 on the tombstone of tens of thou sands of those who have died from tuberculosis might appropriately be inscribed disease and death were invited and encouraged by a death dealing bedroom climate to show that this Is no tion it Is only necessary to call at to the fact that fully halt of the patients placed in out door consumptive hospitals make a satisfactory recovery if fresh air aiu cure the disease it Is certainly a wonderful preventive of it it Is not more reasonable to deliberately breathe impure air than it Is to drink impure water or to eat unhealthful food or wear infected clothing tender hearted savages one of the most anomalous features ot our christian civilization is the slaughter house especially the abat doirs of our great cities where veri table torrents of blood perpetually flow the ebbing life of millions of in enocents which die that man may feast indians are not noted for being over sensitive and particular de epise any exhibition of weakness wea knees the interior of a slaughter house however Is said to have proved too much for their powers of self control the achl cago record states that a party of fifteen blackfoot indians recently vie cited the killing room of armour plant one fainted three more were the rest covered up their eyes i they were hurried out of the into the fresh air A good reform the abominable practice of wear ing long skirts for the street 1 dying out pretty it ie to see a summer dress negligently trailed over ai smooth lawn jeweled with daisies th sight of a woman dragging her gown in the street sweeping up the filth and collecting millions of microbes mic robes 1 a revolting spectacle and yet with a long skirt the only alternative to hold it up a practice which in duces cramp in the arm as well aa cold fingers in winter and gives a decidedly ungraceful walk and attl j tude 1 A cure for cold feet an excellent and simple remedy tor cold feet is the application ot cola water step into the bathtub let the cold water run in a little faster than it runs out standing in the water rub one foot with the other rapidly ten or twelve times then change and ireat the other foot in the same er keep up this alternate rubbing or about three minutes the feet will have become very red and as youl step out of the water you will find hem burning and glowing with the blood brought into them by thlu means some chinese baths A traveler in mongolia writes there are some hot springs on tho road about twenty miles north 0 the place Is named Tang shan the arrangements tor those anxious to benefit by their heal ing properties are very primitive A row of twenty to thirty wooden boxes the size of an ordinary packing case Is ranged beside the road in these sit bathers of evera age and both sexes with their heads protruding attendants with buckets continually refill the boxes from the springe bor less luxurious bathers there Is accod mod atlon in a pool which has been dug out close by in this they squat scooping up the water and pouring it over their heads with brass baalas it Is curious to reflect that establish ments like and alx les balna have had their origin in such beginnings training the skin the usual effect 0 a draft of colda air upon the bach of the neck Is a cold and a sore throat many years ago t brown sequard an eminent I 1 french physician devised a means by which sore throat from this cause might be prevented by blowing upon the back of the neck with a pair of bel lows increasing the time each day he trained his patients until they could endure this treatment tor halt an hour without injury it Is not necessary to be exposed to a draft of air on the back ot the necla in order to obtain this result by means of the col 1 bath the wet sheet rub the shower bath towel friction etc the skin may be educated to con tract on tha slightest increase of cold dally exposure to the contact of cold air Is of the utmost importance it la because of the constant exposure to cold that the indian body Is all face the skin of his whole body has learned to take care of itself dr strict teetotaler at a banquet given to dr lorenz wine was served pushed the wineglass aside someone enquired if he was a total abstainer lie an I 1 am a surgeon my success de upon having a clear brain a steady nerve and firm muscles no one can take any form of alcohol with out blunting these physical powers therefore as a sui geon I 1 must not nee ny form of spirits journal of in briety in harmony modern science aa well as expert ence has shown that contact with nat ural surroundings especially tresh air sunshine and the emanations from growing plants has marvelous marve loua health imparting virtues in these natural agencies Is active the power which created and maintains all ahinga and which Is constantly communicated to all living things as the essential condition ot continued life the closely man comes to nature the deeply he may drink from the fountain of life and healing to live in harmony with nature in the fullest end truest seno Is to live 1 harmony with god and to live in divine harmony Is to be bappe |