Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-06-21
PRACTICAL HINTS.


Rules for the Preservation Of Hedlth.-i
always keep the head cool and the
feet warm'' Go to bed early, and get
up at the peep of day. Never be in a
hurry when you eat, but :masticate your
food we'll, and thoroughly mix it with
the saliva of the mouth before swallow
ing, which is One-half of the process of
digestion. Above all, never wash your |
food down, half masticated, with pint
Or more of tea or coffee. Too much fluid
on the stomach dilutes the gastric juice,
prevents its direct and immediate action
on the food, and consequently, retards
the process of digestion till the fluids /
have been absorbed. Drink very mod /
erately with your meals, and nothing |
tor two and -a-half or three hours after |
ward. Avoid too much greasy and fatty |
substances. The too common practice |
of eating fat pork is the cause of more |
scrOfula than all other causes combined. |
Fresh bread and hot biscuits are decid- |
edly injurious, and unfit to beeaten. |
Eat regularly. and never between |
meals.
Whatever may be your occupation
take plenty of daily exercise in the open
air. Ifyou can not work in the garden,
saw and split wood. or do something else
useful; walk and run briskly, or ride
on horseback. Don't say that you have
not time; for in the long run, you viii
find it the best 'Iput in" of any thing
which you have done.
Always have your house, especially
the sleeping apartment, well ventilated,
be it warm or cold weather.
Never sit in a room, on cold or damp
day, without a fire, if you are in any de-
gree chilly Or uncomfortable without
one. But few causes are more produc-
tive of disease than this practice, which
is almost universal. People generally
take their stoves down too early in the
spring, and neglect putting them up too
| late in the fall; some. in. fact, till dire
necessity actually drives them to do it.
This is more particular the case in ho-
tells and boarding-houses, which is not
only great Inconvenience, but is actu-
al injustice 20 guests and boarders. Bet
ter to save the almighty dollar" by rob
bling them of one-half their meals, than
to deprive them of the comforts of a
warm and comfortable room, on chill
ly day.
Avoid contracting colds as much as
possible; and when taken, endeayor to
break them up as soon as you can. If
you have been caught in rain storm
and your clothes have become drenhced
through, eyerfsit down, or remain idle
one minute after You get where yon can
exchange them for dry ones. AS soon
as you discover thar your pores are
closed, from having allowed any part of
your body to have become chilled, keep
yourself comfortably warm, within door
till the difficulty has been removed.
Drink plentifully of warm ginger, pen
nyroyal, or sage-tea; eyacuate the
bowels by enemas, and liyeiupon warm
broths and gruels. Vapor baths are ex-
cellent in removing colds. Attend to
manent injury will ensue; but if neg
1ected, pulnlony diseases, which will
ultimate in consumption, will often be
the result, to say nothing of the dam
gers of pneumonia, congestiOns, etc.
Aviod sleeping on feather-beds, and
under too much clothing, as it retains
the perspiration and noxious exhalation
from the body, and prevents q free cir
culation of the air. Woolen blankets
are preferable to cotton comforts.
Never allow yourself to become pas
sionately angry, or anduly excited; but
uniformly endeavor to preserve an
equanimity and serenity of mind, which
will greatly tend to the promotion of
your health and happiness.
| Never indulge in the filthy, disgusting
and enervating practice [now univer-
sal crime among all so-called civilized
nationsl of smoking and chewing to-
bacco, as no other cause is more prolific
of deleterious effects upon both mind
and body.
IF you have become so thoroughly
welded to the 'sweed'' that You can not
give it up yourself, for heavens sake,
and the sake of Humanity, don't permit
d FyoHr darling bey-to imitate-yeur exam
pie, so long as he remains under your
guardianship; and when he arrives at
mans estate, the chances are, if he be
mon sense, that he will not then take it
lup. Mothers, see to it, = that your boys
do not acquire this man-killing habit
before you are aware of it.
Keep the body clean by frequent ablu-
tons. Never go more than one week
: in cold weather. and not more than one
or two days in warm weather, without
washing your person all over.
Regulate the temperature of the wa
ter by that OF the weather, and the con-
stitution ana vitality of the system. If
the constitution be feeble, with but lit
tie vitality in the system, never, especi-
, ally in winter, use water with the tenn
t perature much below the heat of the
body-that is 9ee Fahl enheit; tlren
. wipe yourself perfectly dry. and rub
/ briskly with the hand, or a dry towel.
Persons of strong, robust constitutions.
may use cotu WateF, Us 61e supeFaDuuu-
ance of animal heat will be sufficient to
!, get up reaction and carry off the ex-
: cessive cold.
3 Were the above rules universally and
! strictly observed, nine-tenths of the
, ellis" and "ails'' to which human flesh
is heir, would disappear from the face ol
{ our beautiful earth.
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