The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-01-22
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Mistakes and Precautions.

with robust health are not inclined to
take any precautions to preserve it.
Having never known sickness, they often
become as reckless as if insured against
it. Rules absolutely necessary to the
continuance of good health are regarded
as "old wives fables" too childish and
superstitious to be worthy of mo-
ment's consideration. ALWAYS strong
and free from all bodily intirmities, they
argue that it is folly to allow themselves
to become the slaves of precautions
they have no reasonable prospect of
needing.
But, for those who will not listen to
reasonable warnings, Gin such an hour
they think not, the evil they would not
guard against may overtakc them.
Observe the signs of the times. With
which class do the epidcmics that so Of
ten come upon a community like light
ming from an unclouded sky prove the
most deadly? The strong, who have
never known sickness, or the weak and
ever-suffcring who have never known
health? Those who have had very few
days freedom from discomfort and ill.,
ness, and are conscious of little strength
to contend with any violent sickness,
foreseeing the evil, hide themselves un-
der the protection of judicious, sensible
sanitary regulations until the storm has
passed, and are saved. But the strong,
who, through ignorance Of suffering,
mock at danger, pass on needles, of adj
vice and precautions, and are more fire.
quently swept out of lite with scarce a
moments warming. How often it is re.
marked, "Strange one 50 invariably
robust and healthy should have so easily
fallen victim, while another near by,
so frail that one expects the first breath
OF contagion to be fatal, is left un-
scathed."
The simple rules or suggestions list
ened to by many as idle breath, are,
however small, nevertheless as the
elite boats" in that voyage that all must
make before they reach the shores of
''the hereafter.' The "brcakers,
whose warning voice may be heard
from afar, and should be at once guard
ed against, seem, to the strong and in
cautious, but as the gentle ripplcs that
gather and break harmless on the shore.
But however insignificant they NAV be
thought. they. have a power that may
bring much mischief.
lrregulari'y in eating is an evil that
works gradually but surely much dis
comfort and misery; often undermine
ing the health and darkening the re.
maindcr of q lite that might, with lit
tie caution, have been unclouded by any
physical disturbance. The number OF
times one eats is OF less Importance than
the quantity and regularity.
A large amount OF bodily or mental
labor before breakfast is not conducive
to health, nor should one, if it can pos
sibly be avoided, enter upon the days
regular occupation vigorously for at
least an hour after eating. 1t would be
OF incalculable value to health if each
meal could be taken in light, airy
room, with pleasant, cheerful c,mpar-
ions, who would so asreeably help to
pass the time that the temptation to eat
rapidly and without thoroughly mas,i-
eating the food would be overcome by
the cheerful surroundings. A short
time OF such enjoyment and repose will
enable one to work more effectively at
the proper time, and secure much
larger amount of work afterward than
m hours rest without such pleasant in
t1uences could do.
| Early breakfasts for young and grow
ing people are almost a necessity If we
hope to bring them up to maturity
healthy and vigorous. The maxim
''Early to bed and early to rise" has
mach more wisdom in it than is gencr-
ally conceded.
! If the occupation is such that half
hours labor before breakfast is really a
necessity, then take piece Of hSsad or
cracker. 1t il not wise to 60 out into
the early morning air before eating at
least few mouthfuls. Especial y ought
this precau'ion to be strictly observed in
malarial sections, and in seasons when
much sickness is over the country.
Nothing can be more unwise than to go
into sick room fasting, and when the
sickness, is contagious the result may be
dangerous, if not fatal.
While early rising and early breakfasts
are conducive to good health and vigor,
late suppers are, on the contrary, very
injurious and the sure road to dyspepsia
| and settled i'll health.
10 sleep in clothes worn through the
day is another bad practice. The clothes
are filed with the eilluvium cmsnating