The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-04
Hints to Good Health.

WINE luhlJ recognizing bn6 YaLu0 OF
alcohol and other stimulants under
special circumstances, and while adj
hitting that their moderate use is COM
paratively harmless to health, DR..
Laudet Brunton speaks very forcibly on
the subject of intemperance, and points
ont the evil effects of stlmulants upon
the health of the persons who cannot
be called incorporate, yet who are in
constant habit of taking very small
quantities of wine, beer or spirit at all
hours throughout the day. The follow
ing table of comparative mortality is
instructive:
An Incorporate per- A temperate per.
sons chance of sons chance Of
living Is; living is:
At 20-15.6 years. At2O-4I2 Veara
& AT 80-138 years. At 8O-365 years,
AT 40--1I8 years. At 4O-288 years
At60-l0s years. At50-2l.25 years
At CO. 80 years. At0O-142S5 years..
In these days. when there is so much
talk about overwork of the brain, it is
not a little encouraging to find an
eminent authority stating that for one
instance in which the brain is over
worked there must be many hundreds
or thousands of cases it is not used
enough, even for the ordinary condi-
tons of health. And yet, although the
brain may suffer from want of exercise,
the evils of oyer-strain-especial in
the case of young people-must be
fully recognized. Evening preparation
of school lessons is not without its
dangers; night work often causes
sleeplessness and long train of at
tendant evils, and contributes largely
to the nervousness and debility which
are becoming so common among school
children, particularly in towns, while
it fails in securing advancement at all
equal to what might be got from much
less strenuous and rrOtracted study
earlier in the day. The most arduous
mental work required of child ought
to be imposed on it when mind and
body are in their prime vigor, between
a. m. and noon, and certainly nothing
but the lightest work should devolve
upon it after p. m. Questions of
food, drink and labor naturally lead on
to another important health considera-
tiOn-rest and sleep. 1t cannot be de-
MED that, as rule, the largest
amount of the best work in life is done
by those who can sleep well. Nor to a
healthy man is any amount of work
furious when it is followed by a due
amount of sound sleep. What is a due
amount varies widely in different per-
sons. This is due in part to the vary
ing degrees of activity of the vital
changes. Thus, although these are
most active in the young, the young
require much sleep, because the rapid
rate of repair during that period is met
by the rapid rate of waste during the
day. Both by day and night the
changes are then most active The
aged also require much sleep, because,
although there is comparatively little
waste during the day, the process of
repair is slow also. Harassed brain
workers should encourage sound sleep
as much as possible if they wish to pre-
serve their health and strength. Late
meals should be avoided, and mental
work should be put aside at least an
hour or two hours before retiring to
rest. To sum up the whole matter:
How is health to be preserved By
temperate and discriminate use Of
food and drink; by due exercise of
both mind and body, but with the
avoidance of worry, and of haste to get
wealthy or to acquire all knowledge;
by attention to all natural health laws,
such as the need for pure air, clothing
adapted to climate and the body of the
wearer, etc; and by paying due regard
to the necessity of sleep and rest.
From such things result "a sound mind
in sound body" and healthy and
vigorous old age, with all the facilities
unimpaired.