The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09

A CONSTITUTIONAL WALK.-Few peo-
Ple walk in winter, yet it is precisely at
that season when people Of close, Sc
dentary habits, should walk. How
grateful the crisp air is to the lungs.
How clear and sweet it is to the nostrils.
How it inspires and sustains one in q
swinging gait of four or five miles an
hour, and the muscles tingle 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. il you
would seek health and strength. Win
ter walking, as "nervine," is million
times better than medicine, and for the
complexion it is worth q whole harbor
full of lotions and washes. 1t will put
an edge on your appetite that you can't
buy at doctors, and in prompting di-
gestion it is better than 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-and no wonder
they don't like it. We would't like to
see them. There is an art in walking,
as in other things. If you don't be-
lieve 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.
1t is never too la,c 70 learn to walk by
walking
ALCOHOL AND DIGESTION me it
is marvel of marvels that thoughtful
man, one Of intelligence, knowing the
nature of alcohol and its effects on the
stomach and its functions, should ever
recommend the use of intoxicants for
weak digestion. While it is fact that
alcohol coagulates animal albumen, pre-
cipitating it in worthless flakes, 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
GUS particularly that given to the
sick-it is downright cruelty to order
these stimulants to the sick; they we'll
may bear this treatment for time, but
the sick should be spared. The egg, so
useful to the subsequently, 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 SUBJ
stances, though - vegetable albumen
is not affected so much by the heat.
Common sense, science and facts are
opposed to the use of intoxlcants, in
sickness and health alike. The world
would be helped beyond our powers of
comprehension by the utter Punishment
of all intoxicants.-Dr. j. II. Hanna
ford.
NATURAL APPETITEs.-In order to
distinguish 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-
siye. 2. The persistent obtrusion of the
moxious substance changes that aver
sion into specific craving. 3. The
more or less pleasurable excitement
plOuuCtu " SidtluCdllOu VI tudt
craving is always followed by depress-
ing reaction. The first drop of 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 a specific craving.
Pancakes and honey We may eat with
great relish whenever we can get them,
but ii 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 a barrel,
it needs no lectures and midnight
prayer to substitute rice-pudding for
apple-pie. A Turk may breakfast for
thirty years on figs and roasted chest
nuts, and yet be quite as comfortable
in Switzerland, where they treat him
to milk and bread. Not so the dram
drinker; his thirst" cannot be assuag-
ed with water or milk, his enslaved APP
petite Graves the wanted tipple-or else
q stronger stimulant. Natural food
has no effect on the poison-hunger;
Nature has nothing to do with such APP
petites. and Home.