Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-05
HEALTHFUL HINTS.

Milk and blood are nearer alike than
any other two fluids; a large proportion
of each is water. After milk, bread
stuffs and vegetables are the best diet.
and, in warm climates. fruits. Then
meats. Sugar and fat 60 into the body
not so much to nourish it as to be fuel
to give it warmth. Meat contains much
nitrogenous matter, and if we eat too
much of it, there will be more than the
kidneys can throw off. 1t is question
whether Bright's disease is not to some
extent attributed to the undue quantity
of meat that is eaten in this country.
The blood should be made of material
suited to the occupation. Men working
in the woods can throw off anything.
Cleanliness has been classed as akin
to godliness. 1t certainly takes high
rank in equalizing the circulation. The
jockeys appreciate its Importance. How
regularly and carefully they groom their
horses Is not man as precious as the
horse? Every man should groom him
self every morning-sponge himself
from head to foot with water the temper
ature of the room in which he sleeps.
The purpose of wetting the surface is
merely to make the friction of rough
towel more effective as it is rubbed over
the person. You should not sleep IN
any garment that you wear by day. and
the room in which you sleep should be
perfectly ventilated by fireplace and
partly opened window if possible.
If, after you have observed the rules
of hygiene to the extent l have INDICATED
you should still have cold feet and limbs
and indigestion and tendency to verti-
60, plunge your feet into water as hot as
you can bear it and keep them there five
minutes. Then put them into cold wa
ter for second-I don't care if it is ice
cold. Do as l have pointed out and
keep your bowels open, and you may
safely walk the streets in the slush of a
January thaw and bid defiance to the
sudden crispiness of the atmosphere that
freezes other mems feet.
Cool head, free bowels and warm
feet" is the old aphorism. If you suf-
fer your feet to get cold you are in dan
ger of apoplexy of the brain or lungs.
Cold feet are very likely to be associated
with a sluggish state of the bowels
The feet are cold because there is too
much blood in one place and too little
in another. Cold feel follow the equi-
lIbrium of the circulation. Sedentary
occupations are provocative of cold feet
If you keep the skin clean and the bow
els free and take moderate exercise you
will maintain an equilibrium of the cir
culation that will keep the feet warm.
When the feet are cold it is better to
warm them with exercise than at fire.
Look at the wood-chopper swinging his
arms so that his hands slap his sides.
Thus he carries the blood to his hands,
and warns them. That is the best
warmth for either the hands or feet.
Why should not men take care Of
themselves at all times-not only in
yellow fever time, and in weather like
that of an average January or February.
but at all time? There is vast differ
ence in the longevity of men who take
care of themselves and those who do not.
1t is, as the life insurance company's
tables show, as 35 is to 20. The man
who bows to all the known laws of n.y.
giene, not only lives longer, but is able
to enter into all the joys of life without
aches and pains that insulted nature
imposes when in rebellion.