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Show Health Notes It might be well to arrange a compromise com-promise between men and women on the clothes question. If man would wear less heavy things, and women more sensible outfits, we all might live to a greater age and he more comfortable com-fortable en route to our ultimate destination. des-tination. Although cheerfulness of disposition Is very much a matter of inborn temperament, tem-perament, it is also capable of being trained and cultivated like any other habit. Three-fourths of all our ailments occur, oc-cur, or are k''pt in continuance, by improper im-proper eating, and by preventing the daily food, which is eaten, from passing pass-ing out of the body, after its substance has been extracted by the living machinery, ma-chinery, for the purpose of renovation ! and growth. ' ' A bat so tight that It mokes a red line on the for. -head prevents proper circulation of blood through the scalp. Air. sunshine and moisture are necessary nec-essary to the cultivation of luxuriant hair. . . ! When a man eats too fast the food Is not chewed well enough. It Is passed into the stomach in such large pieces that so much time Is required for the gastric juice to dissolve it from without inwards that that It begins to rot, to turn sour, causing a long list of physical and mental maladies. If a meal is eaten with great deliberation, de-liberation, an expanding, heating, liquefying process begins and keeps pace with the meal, and the man does not feel like a gorged anaconda. That we all eat more than we can assimilate is unquestionable. How can we determine the right quantity? Instinct should guide us. but an abnormal ab-normal appetite often leads us astray. Nature's I'! ins are perfect if her laws are obeyed. Disease follows disobedience. disobedi-ence. P.e regular at meals. Ail functions of life occur in regular cycles, and aro never performed ,.; when the.e ov-oles ov-oles are disturbed. Whatever the interval in-terval or r,u!i;l.er of ni-s;!i regubritv .shcuM be prcs.-rved. |
