The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-08-01

The Warm Season Ceuime nced-See 70 yeur
E Homes. q
Wsthink we might safely conclude that
the warm season has at last commenced;
and it behooves every one to look well to
his premises, and see that no disease gen.
Grating plague-spot is suffered to remain in
and about the dwelling. Many people are
not careful enough in this respect. Disease
and death enters their dwellings, perhaps to
them in mysterious manner; when an OBJ
serving eye in close, and sometimes by a
superficial examination, would discover
causes which are as direct bids for the af-
flictioH as if one were to build pest house
under his bedroom window. These various
causes are too numerous to mention in their
full detail. They are found often in refuse
sink holes which receive the kitchen wash.
We knew person few days since to COM
plain of a neighbor who turned cow into
Joint lane, for half hour only, each night
and morning; while in the same lane, not
ten feet from the compliments door, was a
sink-pool made from the kitchen wash OF
the complainant, which was filed withreek-
ing filth covered over with its, green scum,
ton very personifcation of disease genera
tor. These causes are also found IN hog
pens, close cattle yards, and uncleansed
-yards-unclean cellars-unaired Sleep
ing rooms with unemptied slops in them
unwashed persons-sleeping in rooms where
the air has been poisoned with the breath of
several persons during the evening-too
much shade. On the last specification We
wish to say word farther. As agreeable
as are shade trees, and undoubtedly bene-
fetal also, there is possibility of having
too much of a good. SUPPOSE you keep a
plant in some Of these deep shaded houses.
1t will perhaps find light enough to keep life
in its branches, but take that plant into the
full blaze of the sun, and it will wilt and die
in the very sunshine which is the life of a
plant that has not been diseased by thick
shade. Why then may not the effect be the
same upon men women and children, dis
eased in their dark rooms, and then at times
going out into the full blaze of the SUM-
Were it not at any rate much safer to let in
a good proportion Of sunlight into our liv-
ing and sleeping rooms; and then the light
will be life and strength in all places. Give
your homes light and air uncontaminted
with foul gases generated by causes which
we have mentioned, and you must at least
look for causes outside the atmospheric in
fuence, if you are sick. We might here
speak of those causes which are found some
times in improper food, but oftener in i'm
properly masticated, and of course undi-
gested food. In this matter Of food, little
careful observation will enable one to de-
termne what agrees with them.' A person
who, knowing that any certain kind offood
makes him sick'-deranges the system; and
will yet persist in that food, ought to die,
and cucumber the earth with one less fool;
but the death is as much case of self
murder as if the person amused himself or
herself in thrusting appointed knife between
the ribs, at random, and accidentally
happened to hit the heart.
Use the good things of God then, but re-
member God never made fruit-cake, nor
sliced His eucumbers SO thin you could not
masticate them!) but use them properly
He has given US teeth with which to masti-
caticate-to render our food pulpy mass,
and not merelyto bite it into Chunks be-
fore we throw it into the stomach-and if
by reason of the former violation of Ma
ture's Laws your teeth are gone, keep a
hammer and an anvil by your side to aid
you in the process, rather than throw half
masticated food into your stomach to bring
dyspepsia and hundred other diseases.
There is much in this connection with re-
gard to dress, also, which effects health; but
to which we can only refer at this time
Think, watch and investigate these things.
Adrian Erposator.