Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-03-20
Bad Health Among Farmers.

fruits, vegetables ana other health
giving articles too numerous 10 men
ton, should be able to walk mile
or two at hundred years of age
Premature death or decay is, gener.
ally speaking, sin against nature
and Body. The Almighty has hung
out sign for the guidance of meI
in physical as we'll as spiritual health
Sickly bodies incapable of discharg,
ing life's work are proof presump
tive that we or our parents hav,
| erred.
How comes it that there ia 81
much culpable ignorance in the rura
districts as regards the preservation
and restoration of health? One
reason is the inattention to this mat
Ter by ministers, doctors and school.
masters. Were these leaders awake
to the subject there would be much
more knowledge diffused concerning
it, and there is no subject, apart
from the welfare of the soul more
important than ROBUST health. There
are many farmers who understand
the proper treatment of valuable
colt or costly breed of Attorney
cows, for they have studied the SUBJ
ject, but who know comparatively
little about the bringing up of their
own children.
There are also many hard work,
ing farmers toiliDg early and late
who are kindly careful not 10 over
look their cattle, but whose wives
are probably worked to death. Vefi.
ly men are a bundle of contradic.
tions.
The Jealous minister of the bles
sed Gospel should not, we think, con.
tent himself with appearing at the
deathbeds If his pArishioners but
should find occasion to instruct biz
people in the Divine laws concerning
physical health. He should ses thai
every family has cheap literature
designed to help the bodies as vel
as the souls Of his flock. He should
himself give lectures, occasionally
on the advantages of healthy homes
anil how to secure them. If the
people were in good health, there il
no doubt but that the church collec
tons would be more liberal, for fee.
BILE and respondent persons are poor
in both purse and soul. The Lord
Jesus, himself cared tor the bodies
as well as the souls of men.
Why are farmers and their wives
not centenarians (? Our question is
easily answered. Death comes from
their tables, their cellars, their beds
and their pores. Fried pork, soggy
potatoes, and sour and heavy bread
begets disease. We have got to
learn that proper cooking of food il
an art of supreme importance. other
wise there is death in the pot. 1t is
not every one who knows how to
cook potatoes and cabbages. A
quack doctor, dangerous as he is, is
less dangerous than a quack cook,
who 1poils everything she touches.
Farmers families for the sake OF
yourselves and pcsterity, study the
art of cooking. Why will ye suffer
and die before yonr time /? The
world needs your services for GEN.
fury.
In the beds, TOO, we find the King
of Terrors busy. 1t is not every
one who knows that the healthiest
bed in the world is fat straw one.
summed and aired every day and re.
plenished once month. Wise SOL
diers and scientists refresh them
selves on these cheap and healthy
beds. The London Lancet recon-
mends them for universal use among
farmers and there is no higher au-
thority. Let this also be remember
ed, that they are not sleeping we'll
who repose in bedroom into which
sunlight and warmth does not freely
enter every day. In hospitals O
great many more die in the northern
tier Of rooms than in the southern.
There is much wisdom in statistics.
We put our hens on the sunny side
of the building. Why not our daugh.
ters. Our bedrooms are of much
more Importance to us than our par
lors.
The sanitarian enters farmers eel
lars. In too many of them he finds
forbidden things which send their
unhealthy odors up into the sleeping
rooms preparing the family for large
doctors bills. We have said that the
bedroom ought to be sweeter than
the parlor and more cheerful. 1t is
now in order to say that the cellar
should be freer from enemies than
either. The cellar is often the source
of much more mischief. We would
be safer with keg Of gunpowder 10
the cellar than with the decaying
vegetables and other matter often
found there, 1t may be we'll asked
How can farmers live to be q hun.
dred years old with dirty, damp eel.
lars If you want to know the or
igin of small pox, TYPHOID fever, dip.
liberia, and other ills go to the cellar
or look at the manner of cooking or
stir up the old feather bed with
your cane.
The pores of the skin are the
chimneys Of the body, With these
clogged and unwashed the machinery
is all out OF order. As we'll might
we expect spawned horse to win a
race or carry load as to expect q
man or woman living in the IN.
washed state to do full days work
Chez rful people are clean in their
homes and their persons. Despon.
dent and disc ouraged folks are often
afflicted with unwashed skins. Hall
the race die under f 70 years of age.
What a reproaeh on our civilization
and Christianity! Bad cooking, old
and Differentiated bets. cellars, sinks
sending up poisonous gases, and
pores opened only occasionally ex,
plain why there are not more cen.
tenarian farmers. Reader will you
be kind enough to mention the mat
ter to your neighbour
This article has no -eference to the
thousands of tidy. clearly, well man
| aged homes of farmers throughout
the continent 1t is only for those