Daily globe., 1882-11-09
That Nervous Headache.

Where does it come from, friend, that
nervous headache, whose sharp twinges
Oh pain are wearing out your strength
aud sapping your energy? You have
tried tonics and cordials and pills for il,
but it refuses to be exercised. 1t clings
to you until you are almost in despair.
1t drives you to frantic ordinations CT
trouble by day, and it will not let you
sleep at night.
To find out precisely whence it came,
we might have to go n long way back
into the past. IG is very possible that
your daughter, Just set free from school
by the summer commencement, il re-
peating in her person the follies which
IN yours are responsible for the aching
brain and tortured nerves. She has
been studying necessarily, resting her
self from books of rhetoric and mathe-
matics by an exciting novel, going now
ana then to party, and eating too little
solid food and too many dainties. Your
doing and not doing the right things
twenty years ago are among the causes
for your suffering now.
To let the past alone, however, You
need not look further than your work
basket for some of your distress. The
needle is potent cause of great many
peoples neuralgia. The beautiful, elab-
crate and stylish clothing, which YOU
think you must make-economy forbid
ding you to employ much help in the
making-this is wearing out your
strength. Fewer dresses for yourself
and children, and palmer attire, would
afford you breathing space and time i'm
neratively needed for sitting sometimes
with folded hands. Less worry about
the house and the household, less
anxiety about the way things are going
to turn out, less careful thought of the
morrow (Which you have Gods word
that He will care for)-and that head
ache might cease to be an attendants
phantom.
Very possibly, however. it is neither
worry, nor the needle, which is at the
bottom OF your particular trouble. You
were Brought up to regard an abundant
table and great variety Of dainty eat
ables as sine qua non in housekeep-
ing. Your grandmother and your mother
were famous for their cakes and confec-
slons, their pastry and preserves, and
i
your hands. 1t is not that you person.
ally eat so much of the delicate viands
which prove your culinary skill. Every
good cook has known the feeling of tri-
umph In her own productions, mingled
with an entire lack of appetite. Either
way, it you are in the habit OF spending
your physical resources On the prepara-
ton OF rich super-elegant food, or in
the other habit Of living on food which
1t taxes the digestive powers to properly
assimilate, you may thus account for
your headache.
The home table may be spread with
varied and nutritious bill Of fare. with
out great labor to the housewife, and
with common sense as regards health.
Cereals may be prepared for the daily
breakfast, and whether rice, oatmeal,
wheaton grits, crushed corn or farina
are preferred none of them are unwhole-
some and all are easily cooked. The
mistake made by most cooks is in hurry
ing over their making of porridgos.
Porridges require slow coaxing, simmer
ing. steaming and brooding over gentle
fires to bring out their best qualities.
One may read, sew or dream, practice
her scales or write her letter, while her
oatmeal, in its leisurely swelling, is
yielding up its inner sweetness.
Fruits uncooked or stewed, soups and
broths, which are not the trouble the
uninitiated imagine, and juicy meats,
boiled, broiled or baked, furnish forth
the family table well and sensibly. And
no lurking headache hides in such diet
as they supply, unless people over-eat,
or eat at irregular times, or eat when
Overwearied or exhausted.
The truth Of the matter is that many
bodily ailments are very much within
our own power of control or banish-
ment, and that the last thing in most
cases to be done is to fly to stimulants,
narcotics or other drugs for temporary
relief which leaves the main trouble
nnhelped and unchecked. = Christian
Lnteiligencer.