The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-09-17

with dozen apartments and no bath"
room Wealth can buy no luxury like
q clean skin. The tepid bath has doub-
led In duration many thousands of use
full lives. Successful business men, wri
tsrs and orators, owc their bcs: mental
achievements to well-timed bathing
Habitually, we ought not to battle of
tener than once in two days. Spare
persons with black hair and dark dry
skin and wiry firm flesh. need not battle
30 often as others. But scrofulous con-
stitutions with light skin and hair and
soft flesh, who sweat easily should battle
often. They enjoy it; such have phren-
ologically strong endowment of bila-
tiveness, or love OF water. For chang
ing apparel no rule can be devised that
will suit all circumstances. If possible
never retain at night the clothes worn
during the day. Let them air till morn.
ing.
Warmth is another vital necessity
"Cold kills more than famine" Renem.
Der this during the cool nights of Sep.
TENDER, and provide warm clothes for
children. Never dispense with flannel
underclothing until the hot weather
overpowers you, and in September wear
it at least during the night. We meet
in the country, In September, children
suffering with various diseases, but
clothed no warmer than in midsummer;
the mother declaring that she has done
all in her power to guard their health
Never forget this danger. The chill OF
autumn creeps over us stealthilY.
Our last and most difficult item il
equalized motion and rest. To procure
high perfection and happiness every
nerve and tissue Of brain and body must
find exercise ard rest. A good old rule
divides the day into equal parts, devot.
ing eight hours to sleep and food. eight
to business and manual labor, and eight
to mental and moral culture A wide
deviation from this rule will curtail hap
piness and shorten life. For health we
should not work hard enough to keep
the muscles stiff nor make them soft and
fabby by idleness. Many persons rust
out their lives In Incidence. A greater
number shorten lite by too much labor.
We have space only to protest against
one error of this kind-overwork OF wo.
men. Especially is this proverbal In
the West where her work is much en-
hancel, and males are more numerous
propor'ionally With the well being Of
her fanny at heart she may refuse to
SPARE herself, hut with a little discretion
she can avoid many things that are most
injurious. In the endless round Of
homework there are certain motions pc
culiarly injurious to the sex Constant
standing. az with those who teach
school, or wash. or worse still who iron,
is a more trying exercise than walking,
and should not be continued long at a
time. The sewing machine, glorious
relief for women, becomes ANYTHING but
blessing when worked fifteen hours a
day. The constrained position of the
limbs and fatigue of the eye cause more
neuralgia aud female weakness than sew
ing much longer in the old way. Reach
ing too high above the head or lifting
heavy furniture are dangerous, but the
great woman destroyer Is the stairway.
A fortunate house keeper, whose work
is on one level floor, cannot guess what
trouble stairs of two steps can make
If constantly trayersed up and down,
much more long steep flight.
The avoidable causes of disease is a
theme which none should despise, and
in which all have an interest. This is
my apology for waking up these familiar
facts.