Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-10-17
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lFaiR R0eEsstsr, in Amerisan A9rieul,

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Then Auge proportion Of our neiEhbjrs m lst
be tnssne. II We may judge 5y their actions: Tor
they do the very things mat Induce disc Ass day
after day, ana year after year, grOaning over
various aches and pains, giving q week OF a
month now and the n 70 the tedious necessities
Of sickness, and pay ing heavy doctors bills
every year. All this, "a = matter Of cOurss-is
mainly the result OF ignOT3 nce. 1 mean iKnOT-
ance In the respect TO he bodies We inhabif and
the laws OF our Maker with regard 70 their
growth aud health. Many persOns, who are
learned enough In ancient languages and in
general Information about all sorts Of things
outside themselves, have no sort of knOwledge
TO living a. 20 be comfortable from dav n
day, getting the best use Of th -ir powers, and
escaping disease and premature decay and
death. Whole families OF cultivated peODle
live daily In such away as to ruin their health,
and so destroy the poser OF using and enioyinS
The culture they have acquired Then thsy ems
piOy doctor To cune them, but 90 on tearing
Gown what they are paying him heavily for
trying 20 build up Does IL pay2
DlJ last neighbJr,fJT instance: she is q woman
OF uncommon ability a hOusekeeper. She
se0rns the idea OF stopping % rest, and is proud
OF her ability to do more and harder work than
any OF her beighbOrs. She TidtcUles those who
refuse to eat anything that tastes good, for the
reason that it Il injurious q their health. Moth
Ing ever hurts her, according TO her own story.
But this woman has severe its OF sickness every
year, snd the list OF her ailments II truly aston
1shiDg. Last year she paid over one hundred
dollars To her dOctOrs-mOney that she worked
hard to earn when well enough tn DO so. Last
month she still laughed # the idea OF taking
care OF Der health, bat she was then under the
expensive medicines.
1t was a little fve-vesr-oId girl who set me
upon this train of thought to-day. She said Of a
former playmate;
"HUldah used u De always eating candy OF
sugar andbTead. How much candy she Us d -
ear"
"And she is poor sick chiId,r ans ered.
ayes. she always had the tOOth-sche, or the
stOmaCh-aChe. OF some hing
Veal remembered how much and how help
lessly she used % cry sonnet mes, how pale she
usually looked, how email che remained, while
Some o. her playmstss, more wise Y fed and
clothed sud lodged, went on OIt-growing her.
Little hv5-year.old declared she thought II
didn't pay e. eat candy which only tastsd good
in the mouth Tor a few minutes, and then suffer
50 much 10 paw for II. Yet she is not such an
UnChidisb child as to refuse the next stick of
candy offered her. However, she vii, briGgit to
mamma, II she does a. always heretofore, aud
accept il In balf-inch lengths At her meals, d.
Tidi6g with others when il Is dealt out 70 her.
And, though YOU may laugh, 1 really bslieTe
that child FED 50 moderately upon such con-
centIsted sweets, gets more enjoyment out Of
them thanOne who eats twenty times as much
in quantity.
1t paw good deal better to take little rest,
and 20 try little fasting perhaps, when the
body begins to complain u WEAKNESS and dis
comfort, (did you ever notice that the word dis
ease is simply dis ease, or BOt-ease9), tn an to
stagger on with foolish brayadO, aud have TO lie
by In pain and weakness for weeks and months
when these f0llies have piled up high enough 20
Bring about the crash. It pays In dollars AID
cents to avoid doctors bills by avoiding sick
ness. C.r little family can not boast OF robust
constitutions, or OF the most healthy habits in
AL respects-if We shOCld wish to do such fool
ish bOastiDg-but We DO often rejoice that we
are able 10 escape severe illnesses and that we
nave found no necessity for a doctors care or
doctors biils for several years past, and that
medicines, beyond care in the adjustment Of
our diet, exercise, rest, clothing, and cleauli-
ness, ever seem needed or get used by US. Some
sickness We must expect until sanitary cOndi-
fiOns are allowed 20 each-until We are all wise
enough 20 see the inteT-dspendence of each and
al. Then we can work together and clear up
this present 'ivale of tears, so that il may be
very pleasant and comfortable home for us while
rOhag IN
glOriOuR cOnsuHmatiOn hope L work no less
Cheertl.iy because cit may be-" as you say,
HmiiliOns and millions OF years hence"
POTATO DIET.
Not long ago l remarked in the course Of con-
VeTsatiOH with = lady that my children ate a
good deal OF bread and milk. 'Hy Willie eel
dom eats it, she said. "He seems To need
something more nOuTishirg-eats good deal OF
potato Here our conversation was interrupt
ed. If Willie eats milk or eggs, OF lean meat,
with his potato, very we'll. But IL he is kept
upon potato and butter, or fat gravy, with
white bread and bu tef, and cake and pastry at
meals when potato l. absent, be l. very poorly
nOurl, bed III my opinion. lie may look lat, a.
Children DO when food l. mainly or the fsttening
or heat producing kind but he viii b5 likely TO
lack IN bone and muscle. Potatoes alone cannJt
supply the system with enough of the miner Al
elements required for = HEALTHY growth. So SAYS
Dr. EDWARD Smith, the authOF OF an excellent
book on Foods" This book agrees in the main
with one 10 which have before referred, The
OTiziBg and more to the simple description OF
various kinds of food. In the Philosophy of Eat-
a
ed to be eaten with lean meat-the starch
potatoes furnishing the fattsniDg and hestinS
elements which lean meat lacks, while the lean
meat So pIlies the bone and muscle making ele-
ments Lot afforded by potato q fine flour bread.
Fat meat afford heating and fattening elements,
like potato, but IN = form less easily digested by
most persons.
PAT CHILDREN AND CONDENSED MILK
have seen condensed milk recommended for
infants deprived OF their mothers milk, but the
author OF IF GODS" says that 10 sho1ld never be
used az q substitute for milk, " whenever that
can be obtained He quotes another authority
which states that such milk caused an undDe
development of fat, leads infants TO refuse food
OF more simple flavor, and renders them less
able 70 resist disease. Children like the con-
aensed milk, on account OF it's sweetness. In the
process OF ccndensirg the milk, good granulated
sugar Is added in the proportion Of pound and
quarter to each gallon OF milk. The writer
says 81 have observed in a number of cases.
Carefully watched during the past eighteen
months, that while condensed milk fattens and
while children apparently thrive upon il, the
vitality OF the Childis below par to a yery dam
2eTOus degree Indeed sD Tar as nv experience
EOes, II has been invariably the case, that chill.
dTeD fed on condensed milk and are attacked
with diaTahea at all severely, almost imme-
ciately got into a semi-collapsed state and If
brandy be not at once given, they die. / have
observed the same with other diseases, as for in
stance me Asles, whOOping cough, and bronchitis.
The resisting power OF the child has been bad,
ana those children brought up on the impure
LONDON fed cows milk, viii resist an attack Of
acute disease, better than children fed on con-
CeDsed NIX"
Is sign OF health, vet we ali know that fat
people are not ia 80 good condition for
active usefulness, a. are persons who have only
Moderate amount OF flesh, Children who have
Tat hOCles, and rudy cOuntenances, are sOms-
times badly diseased with decsying teeth fire.
Cuently have worms, and great tendency to
Group ana diptheria-
HOW GOVERN THE BABY.
The question Of an old playmate OF mine,
which came 10 me yesterday in a letter is much
Ike questions other mothers sometimes ask me-
She says: - do so wish could zee you with your
httie flock and see how you manage with them,
ana win homework, and sewing. and reading,
and writing day after day, week IN and week
out wonder II you ever get nervous OF worried,
or in other words, lose patience, and feel like
EhakiDg the children. OR 90 you take 70 il kind
iy, sno by natural or acquired grace, bear with
all their Whims, and teasing, and nauyhtiness,
without feeling like Shaping them. U! L wish
did know how yOu manage them. For instance,
when thew are shout two years old, like G-,and
you tell them not 70 90 outside the gate and