The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-28
Hints ON Health.

Inc 1Oll0Wlng valuable Suggestions dIe
culled from DIR. Halls Journal Of Health:
Dyspepsia means difficulty III prepar
ing the food eaten so that the nutriment
can be extracted from it to supply the
wants of the system. Eating too fast and
too much are prolific causes; the first be-
cause the food, being swallowed III too
large pieces, begins TO ferment before it
can digest, and the second because the
stomach cannot cope with the quantity
forced upon it. A limited supply of gas
trio juice is another cause, and this implies
bad blood. Out-of-door life, moderate ex-
ercise until hungry, and simple food are
the best remedies.
Bitters, the names of the multitudinous
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 medicine, they are often
drinking, three times a day, more con-
centrated form of alcohol than is found an
the purest WHISTLES and brandies. 1t should
be set down as settled rule that bitterS III
any form is alcohol in disguise.
Localities of life should be high. Ele-
waited stations are generally exempt from
the ravages of cOnsumptive disease. The
air is lighter and contains less oxygen
but as the lungs live on oxygen, as it IS
the oxygen which they bring in contact
with the blood at every breath, it is that
which purifies and gives it its life-giying
power. If each breath of air does not give
a sufficient amount of oxygen, instinct
prompts fuller breath this distends the
lungs more fully, and thus develops and
strengthens them. A statement Is gwen
of the elevation of several American cities:
New Orleans is relatively given as 10, New
York and Philadelphia 80, Boston 40, Chi
cagO 5S5, Nebraska City 1000, and Vino
ma, Mimi. 1900.
Many family mansion has been built
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 drain
age and proper water supply for drink
ing and cooking. Never select a house
over a 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
avocations. Less than that subjects one
to an attack of dangerous pneumonia at
any day or hour. More than that OPP
presses. Steadily aim, by all possible
ways and means, to keep off feeling OF
chiiliness, which always indicates that a
cold has been taken.
Instinct teaches that less eXertive power
is required to keep moving than, after
coming to a standstill, to set the body in
motion again. The frequent sIOppages OF
stages and street cars kill of the horses.
Instinct also teaches the requisite eXpen-
diture of strength according to the circum-
stances 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.
SpectaclcS become necessary when you
first notice yourself going to the window
instinctively for a better light, or when
your eye gets tired by looking at any
small thing near at hand, or a dimness or
watering is manifested, so as to cause in
diStinctness. First purchase No. 20; and
as you observe the symptoms above
named, get No. Is, and so on The glasses
should be near enough to the eye almost
to touch th& lashes; they should be
washed every morning in cold water and
carried in a pocket by themselves. Bra
lillian 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 eye
wash 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
if 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, so that you have to stay indoors,
then live on bread and wafer that day, not
an atom else, and YOU will need no exer-
else to work il up.
1t should always be borne in mind that
a large share of our little aches and pains
would pass off about as soon by letting
them alone as by d ing or taking some
thing; and the more we "take," the
greater is the necessity for f" 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 a single senti-
ment in newspaper makes an impression
on the mind which tinges the whole sub
sequent life foI good.