The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-04
evening State 5o,trnal.
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1872.
HEALTH COLUMN.

2. Do not enter sick chamber on al
. empty stomach, nor remain as a watche
or nurse until you feel almost exhausted
nor sit between the patient and the fire
nor in the direction of q current of air from
the patient towards yourself, nor cat o.
drink anything after being in sick room
until you have rinsed your moutl
thoroughly.
3. Do not sleep in any garments worr
during the day.
4. Most grown persons are unable tc
sleep soundly and refreshingly over sever
hours in summer or eight in winter the at.
tempt to force more ON the system by a
nap in the day time, or "second napo in
the morning, renders the whole of the sleep
disturbed and imperfect.
5. Some of the most painful stomach
aches" are occasioned by indigestion this
generates wind, and hence distension. 1t
IS often speedily remedied by kneeding the
abdomen with the ball of the hand, skin to
skin, from one side to another, from the
lower edge of the ribs downwards, because
the accumulated air is forced on and out
wards along the alimentary canal.
D. When you return to your house from
a long walk or other exhaustive exercise,
go to the fire or warm room, and do not
remove single article of clothing until you
have taken a cup or more of some kind
of warm drink.
z. In going into colder atmosphere keep
the mouth closed, and walk with rapidity
sufficient to keep off a feeling of chiliness.
s. Two pairs of thin stockings will keep
the feet warmer than one pair of greater
thickness than both.
o.. The might sweats" Of disease come
on toward daylight; their deathly clammi-
ness and GOODNESS is greatly modified by
sleeping in a single loose, long wooden
shirt.
10. The man or woman who drinks a
cup of strong tea or coffee, or other stimu-
liant in order to aid in the better perform
ance of any work or duty, public or pri-
vate, is a fool, because it is to the body and
brain an expenditure of what is not yet
got-it Is using power in advance, and
this can never be done, even once, without
impunity.
IL. The less man drinks of anything in
hot weather the better, for the more we
drink the more we want to drink, until
even ice-water pals and becomes of a me-
tallic taste hence the longer you can put
off drinking cold water on the morning of
q hot day the better you will feel at night.
-. Drinking largely at meals, even of
cold water or simple teas, is mere habit,
and is always hurtful. No one should
drink at any one meal more than
quarter of pint of any liquid, even of
cold water, for it always retards. inn
pairs and interferes with healthful diges-
ton.
10. If you sleep at all in the daytime it
will interfere with the soundness of your
sleep at night, much less, if the nap be
taken in the afternoon.
IA. A short nap in the daytime may be
necessary to some. Let it not exceed ten
minutes; to this end sleep with the fore
head resting on chair back or edge of a
table.
Is. Never swallow an atom of food while
in passion, or if under any great mental
excitement, whether of depressing or ele-
waiting nature.
CoLoRs AND HEALTH.-There are
some colors that no person can be cheerful
and elastic in spirit, if their rooms are tint
ed with them. A correspondent of SCI
entitic paper, the Builder, states that he
had occasion for several years to examine
rooms occupied by young women for man
ufacturing purposes, and he has observed
be very cheerful and healthy, the occupants
of a similar room who were EMPLOYED on
the same kind of work, were all 'ssinclined
to melancholy, and complained of a pain
in the forehead and eyes. and were
often i'll and unable to work. The
only difference he could discover in the
rooms was that the one occupied by the
healthy workers was wholly whitewashed.
and that occupied by the melancholy work.
ers was colored with yellow ochre, AS
soon as the difference struck him, he had
the yellow ochre washed off the walls and
then whitened. At once an improvement
took place in the health and spirit of the
occupiers. He pursued his observations
and experiments, not only in large manu-
factories, but also in small apartments and
garrets; and he invariably found that the
occupants of such quarters, when thew
were colored yellow or buff, were less
healthy than their neighbors in whitened
rooms, and that when the yellow hue dis
appeared the low spirits and ill-health went
with it.
HIGH HEELS. --Nearly all the corns.
bunions, incarnation of nails, etc., which
are peculiar to civilization, being unknown
pedal troubles in savage .or barbarian life,
are traceable to high heels.
Notwithstanding shoemakers know this
to be true, they continue the fashion,
which gives employment to chiropodists,-
or, as they are known in palmer language,
corn doctors-a lucrative profession which
thrives by the folly Of those who rather be
lame than wear easy shoes or boots of vul-
gar patterns. Any elevation of the heel
drives the toes into closer quarters, and
corns develop to notify the individual there
is not room enough at the point of the
shoe. Being too tight across the ball OF the
great toe joint inflames it extensively; that
is a bunion. IL the pressure is not re-
moved, which is the only permanent relief,
distortion of the toe joints follows, and a
perpetual crop of corns is as certain as
seed time and harvest. No heels-none of
that trouble.
Life would be less miserable than it is
five were incapable of taking cold, and if
so much of it were not necessarily devoted
to coughing and sneezng. The spring-time
of the year would be perfectly charming if
people did not so frequently make such
terrible mistakes in prematurely taking off
their fiannels. 1t is now suggested Tin the
Cleveland Leader thatssthe Signal Service
Bureau at Washington might make itself a
blessing to the nation by letting us know
when we must wear wool, and when we