The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-03
OTTAWA FREE TRADER: AIURDAY AUGUST 8 1879

The first number, issued last month, was good
but the August one is far better. Physio.og
being now by law one of the subjects TO be laugh
in our common schools, this magazine will b
found to be an excellent help to our teachers. i,
every one OF whose libraries it ought to be found
Every one interested in his own health-ant
who Is not?-wOuld do we'll to subscribe for th
cheap but really excellent Journal We subjoir
the following extracts:
LADY INvALlDs.-It is the frail, delicate lady
THAT Is tenderly cared for and waited upon. l,
is for her benefit that trips are planned. not only
to Europe and the watering places, but to the
picture rocks of Lake Superior and the garden
scenes OF Yosemite and the Sierras. Neverthe.
less healthy women are a necessity to the world
they are wonderful convenience, and what the
sick ones would do without them remains an
open question. Who would sit up nights with
their poor babies suffering for the sins of their
parents? Who could they call upon to do their
thinking for them, to soothe their nerves and
nurse them back to life when medicine fails and
husbands finally get disguised
| And yet the world generally, and the feeble
ones in particular, have very little sympathy for
a woman who presents healthy appearance
People seem to forget that they are human, or
nave any OF the aches and pains that mortals are
helr TO. II one OF them ventures to remark that
she feels poorly, she is usually met with an in.
different smile. and the reply that she "looks
feeble" meaning Of course that u rosy cheek is
proof against pain. If she ventures to remon.
strate against the burdens placed upon her by
her family and neigh bors, she is met BY the same
irony. and learns that she 'looks like woman
who is very much abused" SO that it is not only
in her own family that she must have the care,
the nursing and the watching to d. but if a
neighbor is sick they send for her whether it
rains or SHOWS, because she is healthy and so
good in sickness
remember one broiling hot day in midsum.
mer OF hearing little, putty-faced female ask q
rosy.cheeked woman if the heat debilitated her
any, The lady replied that she felt the force of
such weather as we had been having.
"Indeed" languialy responded putty.face,
you hoh so he0'Ny that didn't think you fat
tue lieut."
RULES FOR BATHING.-1. Never battle soon
after eating. =. Never take full bath nor 90
into the surf less than three hours after full !
meal. 3. The best time for bathing is an hour
or two before breakfast, or as long before dinner
4. Never eat soon after bathing. 5. Those who |
bathe In the evening should not remain long in |
the water 9. Be sure that the body is uniform.
~ warm at the time Of bathing r Never Oh |
into the water In state Of fatigue s. Never
battle when the respiration and circulation are
disturbed in consequence of violent exercise or
any other cause, 8. Perspratiol. Is no objection
to going into cold water, provided the action of
the heart and the breathing are not disturbed.
~~ud the system not in a state of fatigue. TO-
after s.sthing keep the body comfortably warm
by fire u exercise, and do not expose i. to a
1raft Of cold air.
Single copies for sale and subscriptions re.
,eived 10y Osman " Hapeman, Ottawa, III.