McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17

youth, while some of their sex, whom
they occasionally see, but would not
for worlds speak to, preserve face and
figure in spite of lives of which the less
said the better.
But when these, as we'll as less inno-
cent classes, are convinced that they
are living too rapidly, able physicians
begin to arrest the advance of age by
urging rest. No practitioner of high
standing now prescribes stimulants to
any persons not really i'll, excepting to
those who are absolutely compelled to
more exertion than is good for them.
Short periods of relaxation throughout
the day are always found beneficial;
some business men have been greatly
helped by dropping upona lounge for
five minutes in every hour or two; they
may --cannot-stop thinking, but
there seems great relief in merely as
Stunning a recumbent position for lit
tie while. During the recent civil war
a general, whose men were noted for
coming out of hard march in fine
fighting condition, attributed his sue
cess to his imperative order that his
men should lie down whenever halt
was ordered. Regular and full hours
for sleep are also insisted upon, and
until the patient endeavors to adhere
closely to this rule he does not begin to
comprehend how natures great restora-
tive is diminished In quantity by the
demands of business and society in a
great city. One or two half-nights of
sleep do not seem to mar the health of
young people, but any person who has
reached the age of IS is weakened by
such privations, and few of them who
have active nerves can ever make good
the loss.
"High living is remorselessly ia
booed-not only the custom of drink
ing q great deal of wine at dinner but
that Of eating concentrated food with
stimulating condiments and sauces
Much meat and little vegetable is the
rule with active people in large cities.
1t is the result of a physical craving,
born of the rapid waste of physical
tissues for stimulation. A hard work
ing farmer, who is in the open air all
day, would not-because he could not
eat as much meat as a slightly-built
business man will consume daily in
New York, and he would become ex-
citable almost to madness were he TO
partake as sparingly of bread and veg
etables. Good physicians place no re-
striction on the quantity of food for a
city man or woman, but they urge that
the proportion of meat and pastries to
vegetables be lessened. The free use
of fruit and milk is strongly advocated
to correct the bad effects of over-eating
and of stimulating food. Fruit juices
are believed to accelerate the natural
and healthful action of the alimentary
canal, TO prevent the retention of vast
ed tissue and to maintain at its normal
condition the prespiratory system, one
of the most important and least re-
membered portions of the physical
machinery. While not delaying or di-
minishing nutrition in any way, truir,
if used in sufficient quantity, is known
to lower the temperature of the blood
that is overheated by liberal feeding
combined with lack of exercise. Every
one should eat berries, melons and
peaches during the summer months,
but in eight of the twelve months of
the year fruit is regarded as a luxury
rather than as necessity. A physician
with large practice said recently that
careful inquiry failed to discover that
any one of his patients ever bought
apples, except for special treatment in
the kitchen, although the apple is the
most abundant, cheap, and ever-pres-
ent of the fruits which are peculiarly
beneficial as food
The few rules given above do not OBJ
viate the necessity for special treatment
of persons who are growing old too
rapidly, for age nearly always mani
tests its approach by finding It's victims
weakest part and attacking it. They
are, however, so contrary to general
custom that they will be new to most
people who read them, as they are to
nearly all who obtain them, for the
first time, from family physicians.
Making Paper Pals.