The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-27

substance, creating irritation: and the ex-
element involved in the effort to throw off
the irritating substance wastes the energy
and life of the system. After alcohol has
produced disease of the stomach, it next
expends it's force upon the neighboring
organs inducing disease of the liver and
dropsy or Bright's disease, both of which
are fatal to health if not to life.
''But assume, Doctor, that the spirit a
man drinks is pure?"
II answer that alcohol, however pure, is
in itself poison, and that it impairs the
whole living organism and cuts life short
cuts life short, sir. The life insurance
companies understand it. Their figures
show that while temperate young man at
twenty may reasonably look forward to
forty four years and two months of life
the young man of the same age who poison
than fifteen years and six months. He who
uses alcohol becomes an easy prey of cpl
denies; his system cannot resist the poison
of dipetheria, cholera and fevers."
TOBACCO.
''What else, doctor, will tend to fortify
the public against the perils of this season
Of sudden changes in the atmospheric"
II ought, prehaps," the doctor replied, ito
have put personal cleanliness in the front
rank-that is. to have dwelt upon it earlier
in this interview; but the descent from in
toxication to beastliness- which I mean
the use of tobacco, of course-is so natural
that it is we'll to speak of that destructive
agent here. You will hardly credit the veri-
fed statistics of life shortening by this in
sidious destroyer. The system that is sat
urated with this poison cannot beget healthy
offspring. And not only does the smoker
shorten his own life and transmit disease
to his posterity, but he invades the domain
of his contemporaries. What right, sir, have
you to throw an impurity into the glass of
water that intend to drink? Do you ex-
pect me to drink it after you have polluted
it? The air is fluid that must inhale 7
must have it or die. What right have YOU
to vitiate it and thus to imperil my life?
Chewing and snuffing are not so heinous
for they injure nobody but the victims
themselves and their progeny.
Il repeat, sir, air is an impalpable fluid.
It is an important part of our food. By
what right does the smoker deprive me of
this indispensable means of life? You have
been in crowded halls in which the air was
so impure that the gas burned dim. That
came of the exhalations of human lungs
added to the combustion of gas. How
much more destructive to life if the as
semblage had yet further poisoned the at
mosphere with the fumes of tobacco!
ITO make good blood we re 4uire good
food, pure water, pure air, sunlight and ex-
ercise. Either foul air or impure water
poisons the blood. If you don't throw off
two pounds and three-quarters of effete
matter every twenty four hours through the
lungs and two pounds through the pores
you must expect sooner or later to fall.
Nothing is more essential than pure air.
Impure air is the source of our..ship fevers. -"
EQUALIzE THE CIRCULATION.
"Cleanliness,' the Doctor went on to say,
"has been classed as akin to Goodness.
It certainly takes it's rank in equalizing the
circulation. The jockeys appreciate it's i'm
portance. How regularly and carefully they
groom their horses Is hoffman as precious
as the horse? Every man should groom
himself every morning-sponge himself
from head to foot with the water of the
temperature of the room in which he sleeps.
The purpose of wetting the surface is mere
ly to make the friction of rough towel
more effective as it is rubbed over the per-
son. You should not sleep IN any garment
that you wear by day, and the room in
which you sleep should be perfectly VENT
lated by fireplace and a partly opened
window if possible.
If, after you have observed the rules of
hygiene to the extent that have Indicated
you still have cold feet and limbs and indi-
gestion and tendency to vertigo, plunge
your feet into water as hot as you can bear
it and keep them there five minutes. Then
put them into cold water for a second-I
don't care if it is ice cold. Do as 1 have
pointed out and keep your bowels open and
you may safely walk the streets even in the
slush of January thaw and bid defiance to
the sudden crispness of atmosphere that
freezes other mems feet"
How shall the feet be clad in winter?'
"'Cool head, free bowels and warm feet
is the old aphorism. If you suffer your feet
to get cold you are in danger of apoplexy of
the brain OF of the lungs. Cold feet are
very likely to be associated with sluggish
state Of the bowels. The feet are cold be-
cause there is too much blood in one place
and too little in another. Cold feet follow
the breaking of an equilibrium of the circu
lation. Sedentary occupations are provo
cative of cold feet. If you keep the skin
clean and the bowels free and take moderate
exercise you will maintain an equilibrium of
circulation, and this equalized circulation
will keep the feet warm.
CrOiZette.