Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-02
THE HOME DOCTOR.

DAILY HABITS. -Always eat your food
slowly. masticate well; sit down to your
meals in good humor, as you 60 to bed,
smiling and peaceful. Keep good ma
tured, and never indulge in anger. This
is the way TO insure good digestion,
sound sleep and long life. A violent
passion racks the constitution as severely
as a typhus fever.
CANE OF THE AGED. From the time
they get up in the morning until they're
tire for the night, there is many little
attention required by the aged, even in
health. which kindly hands can give
They are usually early risers. Have the
room tidy and cheerful, the cloth laid,
bright bit of fire in the CRATE, the chair
ready, and, if possible, a flower on the
table Breakfast ought to be ready, and
the tea waiting to be infused, for, remem-
Der, old people need breakfast as soon as
they come down of a me rning. 1t weak
ems them. to wait. Whatever is for
breakfast let it be the best that can be
procured-the bread day or two DID,
the butter the freshest, the egg rather
underdone, the bacon frizzled, not fried;
or, If it be fish, it ought to be sole or
paddock, at all events, not a strongl
oleaginous fish like n,ackeral or sal.
mon.
ADVICE FOR WARM WEATHER.-Warm
weather, with its facilitating influences,
is already approaching. The blood is
still thick and rich, as compared with its
state in warm weather, and needs i'm.
proving. This is effected in two differ
ent ways. The blood, of course. is made
from the food, which, like milk, par.
takes of the nature of the materials from
which it is made the summer and winter
food differing as much as our clothing
This is inferred from the varying appe-
tite, the carbonaceous elements being de-
manded in the winter and in cold eli
mates, such as the sweets, oils and the
starches, while the sub acid fruits the
succulent vegetables, etc, are demanded
in warm weather. One fact should be
remembered, that the weather often
changes more rapidly, more abruptly,
than the appetite. Hence the danger that
the appetite may not fairly guide in the
selection of food, the danger being that
the cold weather appetite may be con-
tinued too long. If so, the system being
DuidCnCd ny III CACISS VI NdlOOlly oiOhl-
ach and liver arrangements will legiti-
mately result. 1t is best, therefore, on
the first appearance of warm weather, to
use less and less Of these ''heaters," thus
relieving the organs of digestion, avoid
ing tbiliousness, whatever that term may
imply. Perhaps there is more probability
of the excessive use of sugar and fine
flour, with pastry at this season, than of
other articles, since the nleasantness to
the taste may exert an influence. The
appetite is a natural guide, but it is not
as reliable in health as in sickness. and
not as certainly so during the inferno
date state as in the middle of the winter
or summer. But the appearance of the
fruits and vegetables, in their peculiarl-
ties. indicates plainly what course to pur.
sue The strawberries and currants, for
example, show us what is right in this
respect, being more acid than those fol
lowing them, even in warmer weather,
after the blood has been purified and
thinned, and the appetite has been regu-
lated These acids are of the utmost i'm
portance on the liver, exciting that or
gan to perform its work of purifying the
blood, eliminating the carbon and the
general waste from the brain and nerves,
so that the nerves, so that the heart and
lungs may not specially suffer. And
more, while there is tendency ut this
time to constipation, the increased score
ton of this "bile" or waste-which is
natural cathartic tends to remove all
distractions, so regulating the system as
to prevent the more usual diseases of the
season. But, if these acids are needful
now, the use of that winter food sugar
Commencing their beneficial effects,
must be Inappropriate, in the usual guam
titles. 1t is believed that moderate use
of bread-not simply baked starch,
known as white bread-with the berries,
the early vegetables, the canned fruits,
etc., would do much to prevent spring
diseases. This implies but moderate use
of butter, sugar, meats-the lean only
while fish, as the plain cod and the like,
may supplant much Of the winter food.
The potatoes, mostly water and starch,
will afford enough Of the carbon for the
season-a simple form Of this needed
element. Such food will tend to arouse
the torpid liver and keep all in order.