The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-02
Hints ON Health.

Hints ON Health.
The following valuable suggestions are
cuhed from DIR. Halls Journal OF
Heath
Dyspepsia means difficulty in nre.
pairing the food eaten SO that the nIItr;.
ment can be extracted from it to supply
the wants of the system. Eating too
fast and too much are prolific causes:
the first because the food, being swal-
lowed In too large pieces, begins to fer
ment before it can digest, and the second
/ because the stomach cannot cope with
the quantity forced upon it. A limited
supply of gastric juice is another cause,
and this implies bad blood. Out-of-
door life, moderate exercise until hun
CRY, and simple food, are the best
Bitters, the names of the nuItitudi-
nous varieties of which disfigure the
fences and scenery of the country, come
IN for severe handling, on account of
their alcoholic composition. In brief,
while persons are using bitters as a med
1clne, they are often drinking, three
times day, more concentrated form
OF alcohol than is found In the purest
whlskies and brandies. It should be set
down as settled rule that bitters in any
form Is alcohol IN disguise.
Localities of life should be high. EIe-
vated stations are generally exempt from
the fayages of consumptive disease. The
alr Is. lighter and contains less oxygen
put as the lungs live on oxygen. as il is
the oxygen which they bring in contact
with the blood at every breath, it is that
which purifies and gives it its life-givino
power. If each breath of air does not
give sufficient amount of oxygen. in
stlnct prompts fuller breath this dis
tends the lungs more fully, and thus de-
velops and strengthens them. A state
ment is given of the elevation of several
American cities New Orleans is reIa-
lively given as 10, New York and Phila-
delphia, 35 Boston, 40 !; Chicago, 585
Nebraska City, 1000, and Winona,
Minn., 500.
Many family mansion has been bnilt
with the accumulations of the savings of
half lifetime to make the graves of half
the household In few months, from neg
lect OF the precautions for thorough
drainage and proper water supply for
drinking and cooking. Never select q
house over filling prefer sandy soil
or the top of hill.
With reference to winter garments.
sufficient clothing should be worn to
keep off a feeling of chilliness when
about usual ayocations. Less than that
subjects one to am attack of dangerous
pneumonia at any day or hour. More
than that oppresses. Steadily aim. bv
all possible ways and means, to keen of
feeling of chilliness, which always in
d1cates that cold has been taken.
Instinct teaches that less exertiye
power Is required to keep moving than.
after coming to standing, to set the
body In motion again. The frequent
stoppages of stages and street cars kill
off the horses. Instinct also teaches the
requisite expenditure of strength accord
ing to the circumstances of the season.
No one walks as fast in summer as in
winter. We get up in the morning with
certain amount Of strength, and much
may be gained by economizing during
the day.
Spectacles become necessary wheny ON
first notice yourself going to the window
lnstinctively for a better light. or when
your eye gets tired by looking at any
small thing near at hand, SO as to cause
lndistinctness. First purchase No. 20 !:
and as you observe the symptoms above
named, get No. 18, and so on. The
glasses should be near enough to the eve
almost to touch the lashes they should
be washed every morning in cold water
and carried in pocket by themselves.
Brazilian pebble makes the best lenses.
Avoid reading before sunrise and after
sunset. Read as little as possible before
breakfast, or by artificial light do not
sew on dark material at night, and use
no other eyewash than pure, tepid, soft
water. Babies eyes are often injured
by allowing the glaring sunlight to fall
upon them.
Exercise is worth more than all the
medicines in maintaining health. If it
rains, take an umbrella and let it rain on;
it it is cold, walk or work faster; If it is
windy, turn around and go the other
way; If it rains, halls, SHOWS and blows,
all at once, 80 that you have to stay in
doors, then live on bread and water that
day, not an atom else, and YOU will need
no exercise to work it up.
It should always be borne In mind that
large share of our little aches and pains
would pass off about as soon by letting
them alone as by doing or taking some
thing; and the more we " take,T the
greater is the necessity for Sc taking"
The best way to enjoy things is to use
them, and thus get the worth of our
money out of them. There is no use of
gorgeous parlors kept In darkness.
Sometimes the reading of single sem
timent In newspaper makes an impress
sion on the mind which tinges the whole
subsequent life for good.