The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-18
CHEATING OLD AGE.
Physicians Trying to Check
the Business Mans
ife-Gallop.

the Business Mans
Life-Gallop.
Many physicians in New York are de-
voting themselves to the task of pro-
longing the lives of persons who are not
ll.yethave begun to wear away too rapid
ly. Among the practitioners who study
the subject carefully, there seems to be
but little difference of method. Their
first and hardest work is to convince
their patients that it is dangerous to live
"fast'-a word which has special signi-
fcance which makes it absolutely in
sulting to many e;ninently respectable
transgressors of the laws Of health. 1t
seems impossible to persuade a merchant
who does more work in one hour than
his best clerk can do in three, that he is
guilty Of fast living and dissipation, even
if he never drinks drop and refrains
from all improper pleasures.
The lawyer or broker who accom-
plishes wonders in the morning, but feels
sense of "goneness" early in the after
noon. cannot bc made to believe that
part of him is literally "gone," and that
if he urges himself beyond that point,
without first taking a little rest he ex-
pends vitality with frightful rapidity.
Ladies who, between household cares,
religious duties and social responsible
ties, are steadily active from 8 in the
morning until midnight, some times
wonder why they lose the freshness Of
youth, while some Of their sex, whom
they occasionally see, hut would not for
words speak to, preserve face and figure
in 81 lte Of lives Of which the less said the
better.
But when these, as well as less innn-
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 igh standing now
prescribes stimulants to any persons not
really i'll, excepting those who are ab-
solutely compelled to more exertion than
is good for them. Short periods Of re-
taxation throughout the day are always
found beneficial: some business men
have been greatly helped by dropping
upon a lounge for five minutes in every
hour or two; they may not-can not
stop thinking, but there seems great re-
lief in merely assuming Il recnml,ent
position for little while.
During the recent civil war a general
whose men We're noted for coming out
Of hard march in fine fighting condi-
tion, attributed his success to his imT,era-
tive order that his men should lie down
whenever Il halt was ordered.
Regular and full hours for sleep are
also insisted upon, and unit the patient
endeavors to adhere closely to this rule
he does not begin to comprehend how
natures great restorative is diminished
in quantity by the demands of business
and society in great city. One or two
halfnights Of sleep per week do not
seem TO mar the health Of young people,
but any person who has reached the age
Of thirty-fve is weakened b. .t'o1'
priyations. and few of them who have
active nerves can ever make gOOu uiIo
loss.
High living" is remorselessly tabooed
not only the custom Of drinking great
deal of wine at dinner, but that Of eating
concentrated food, with stimulating con.
diments and sauces. Much meat and
little vegetables is the rule with active
people in large cities. 1t is the result of
a physical craving, born Of rapid waste of
physical tissue, for stimulation. A hard
working farmer, who is in the open air
all day, would not, because he could not,
eat as much meat as Il slightIy-built husi-
ness man will consume daily in New
York, and he would become excitable
almost to madness were he to partakc as
sparingly Of bread and vegetables. Good
physicians place no restriction on the
quantity of food for city man or woman
of active habits, but they urge that the
proportion ofmeats and pastries to vcge-
tables be lessened.
The free use Of fruit and milk is strong
ly advocated, to correct the bad effects
of over-eating and Of stimulating food.
Fruit juices are believed to accelerate
the natural and healthfnl action of the
alimentary cnnal, to prevent the reten-
ton of wasted tissue, and to maintain at
it's normal condition the perspiratory
system, one Of the most important and
least remembered portions Of the physi-
cal machinery. While not delaying or
diminishing nutrition in any way, fruit,
if used in sufficient quantity is known to
lower the temperature of the blood that
is overheated by liberal feeding, eombin-
ed with lack of exercise. New York has
plenty of ofmelons and peaches during the
summer months; but in eight Of the
twelve months Of the year fruit is regard
ell as luxury rather than necessity.
4 physician with large practice in a
fashionable district in New York said
recently that careful inquiry faileh t"
discover that any one Of hispatients ever
bought apples, except for special treat
ment in the kitchen, although the apple
is the most abundant, cheap and ever
present of the fruits which are peculiarly
beneficial as food.
The Recent Bad Boy.
"Hello, where you been" said the gro
i ceryman to the bad boy, a. he came