The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-11-26
fHR FAIRLY DOCTOR.

A CONSTITUTIONAL WAIK-Few peo-
pie walk in winter, yet il il PRECISELY 8
that season whan people Of close. 90
habits, should walk. How
grateful the crisp air is to the lungs
How clear and sweet it isto the nostrils.
How it inspires and sustains n in
swinging gait Of four or five miles an
hour, and the muscles Jingle with de-
lightful vigor. after such . walk through
the winter sunshine. A sleigh-ride is
not half SO good, for It robs the trip OF
the necessary exercise. Try it, it You
would seek health and strength. Win
ter walking, as q "nervine," is . million
times better than medicine, and for the
complexion it is worth . whole harbor
full of lotions and washes. It will put
an edge on your appetite that you can't
buy at a doctors, and in prompting d.
ge ton it is better than q corner drug
stores entire stock of bitters and pills.
If you have never tried it, take . walk.
Keep your mouth close, your shoulders
thrown back, your head up, and remem-
Der that your legs-and especially your
hips-were given to you to walk with.
Some people walk with their knees,
bodies and shoulders-snd no wonder
they don't like it. We wouldt like to
see them. There is an art in walking,
as in other things. If you don't be-
ieve it, observe the motion of some
shapely woman who knows how to
move, or study the gait of the man who
has some spring and lithness in HIM.
It is never too late to learn to walk by
walking.
!, ALCOHOL AND DIGESTION To me it
is q marvel of marvels that . thoughtful
man, one of intelligence, knowing the
nature of alcohol and its effects on the
stomach and its functions, should YER
recommend the use of intoxicants for
weak digestion. While it is a fact that
alcohol coagulates animal albumen, pre-
cipitating it in worthless fakes, and
that it renders the pepsin in the gastric
juice inert, or of necessity impairing
this juice, one of the most active COM
ponents of whichis this pepsin, its effect
on digestion must be manifest. Now,
since so much of our food is albumin
ous-particularly that given to the
sick-it is downright cruelty to order
these stimulants to the sick; they well
may bear this treatment for a time, but
the sick should be spared. The egg, SO
useful to the sick-esrecially when
simply "beaten up" with milk-is worth
less when coagulated with alcohol; bad
enough when this is done by heat. The
same remark applies, also, to our meats,
rich in albumen, with still other sub
stances, though the vegetable albumen
is not affected so much by the heat.
Common sense. science and facts are
opposed to tile use of ~intoxlcants, in
sickness and health alike. The world
would be helped beyond powers of
comprehension by the utter Punishment
of all intoxicants.-Dr. j. Il. Hanna
ford.
NATURAL AppEr1rEs.-In order TO
distinguish q poison stimulant from q
harmless and nutritive substance, Ma
ture has thus furnished us with three
infallible tests: l. The first taste Of
every poison is either insipid or repul-
sive. 2. The persistent obtrusion Of the
moxious substance changes that aver
sion into q specific craving. 8. The
more or less pleasurable excitement
produced by q qualification of that
craving is always followed by q depress-
ing reaction. The first drop of q whole
some beverage milk, cold water, cider
fresh from the press, etc., is as pleas
ant as the last; the indulgence of such
pleasures is not followed by repentance,
and never begets q specific craving
Pancakes and honey VI may eat with
great relish whenever We can get them
but it we can't, We won't miss them as
long as we can satisfy our hunger with
bread and butter. In mid-winter, when
apples advance to six dollars q barrel
it needs 20 lectures and midnight
PRAYER to substitute rice-pudding fol
apple-pie. A Turk may breakfast fol
thirty years on figs and roasted chest
nuts, and yet be quite as comfortable
in Switzerland, where they treat hin
to milk and bread. Not SO the dram
drinker; his "thirst" cannot be assuag
ed with water or milk, his enslaved ap
petite Graves the wanted tipple-or els
a stronger stimulant. Natural foot
has no effect on the poison-hunger
| Nature has nothing to do with such ap
| petites.-HeaM and Home.