The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-05-14
ONLY A GOLD.
Take Care of Little NIaladies and Great
Ones VIII Need No Care.

Take Care of Little NIaladies and Great
Ones VIII Need No Care.
Take care of the pence and the
pounds will take care of themselves.
Take care of the minutes and the hours
Will take care of themselves. These
aphorisms are very familiar to US all.
Hundreds of men get rich by simply
taking care of the pennies. Elihu Bur-
rift learned fifty languages by simply
taking care of the minutes. Hundreds
of people die every year from what was
at first ''only little cold"
Worcester defines q cold as IAN in.
fammatory disease oecasioned by cold. "
| A few scores or hundreds of the two
million "tubules' through which the
insensible perspiration of the body is
carried off are closed up by cold,
| and the effete matters that should es-
cape from the body are retained within
| it and cause Inflammation.
Nothing is more common than "a
| cold in the head" which is very SIM
| pie malady if it is cured there and goes
| no further. But the membrane which
lines the airpassages of the head is con-
tinuous with that which lines the throat
and lungs, so the inflammation in the
mead, if not arrested, spreads to the
throat and lungs, causing cough and
finally consumption and death.
When the pores of the body are
closed, the i'll effects are likely to be felt
in the weakest parts of the body first.
Some suffer from colds first in the head,
some in the lungs; in some cold
affects the joints, causing rheumatism,
in others the bowels, in others the kid
neys, and so on. When the cold has
settled in the weakest part of the body,
or in any part of it, all the lurking inn
purities in the system seem to concen-
trate there; that is the lowest point as
to health, and all the streams of degen
eracy flow into it.
More people die of pneumonia and
kindred diseases in the spring than
during any other season of the year,
and the reason of this we need not 90
far to discover. Shut up in close and
heated rooms, the impurities of the
body have accumulated within it. The
skin, from lack of frequent bathing and
from being kept from the air by close
fitting flannels, has become inactive; the
lungs, from breathing impure air, have
become enfeebled; and the whole body,
imperfectly and scantily supplied with
well oxygenated blood, has lost its elas-
ITCHY and soundness. A little cold
taken when one is in such condition
is not easily thrown off; it is like little
break in the dykes that keep out the
sea; unless stopped promptly it may
open wider and wider till the river Of
death flows through it.
The lungs, the skin, the kidneys, the
bowels, are the great sewers through
which the impurities of the body flow
from it. So long as these are kept wide
open impurities can not collect in the
body. The lungs must have pure air or
they can not perform their Office per-
fectly. The pores of the skin must be
kept upon by exercise, by bathing and
friction, or they can not perform their
office. The kidneys must be supplied
with material for the easy performance
of their duties. Medical writers say
that Americans do not take liquid
enough. We have no national beyer-
age as the Germans have we are not
bllC FIcucIl Vi Uc1-
drinkers as the English, and ice water.
of which large quantities are consumed
by us, is not the best thing for us.
Soups are recommended as meeting a
want of our people. Water, hot and
cold, chocolate and its cousins. cocoa
and ''shells, are wholesome beverages,
and it is better for such as find tea and
coffee Ito agree" with them to drink
that than not to take fluid enough.
Constipated bowels mean cold feet and
hot head. Exercise and diet will cure
these if taken seasonably.
Boerhave's rules for health were these
three: keep the feet warm, the head
cool, and the bowels OPEN" These
rules can be well observed by due atten-
ton to the sewers of the body as above
particularized, for if there is a free
movement through these there will be
q corresponding demand for fresh
supplies of air and nutrition, and the
functions of the body will be so vigor-
Dusty carried ON that disease will find
nothing to lay hold of.
The first thing to do when one finds
one has cold is to open the pores that
are closed, to start into action the func-
tons that are suspended. There are
various simple ways of doing this known
to everybody, and we are inclined to
believe that the simplest ways are the
best Some can '.work off, a cold;
some can starve it off; sage tea in large
quantities, drunk while one keeps in
uniform warm atmosphere, will cure
some; a wet pack is efficient with
many; bountiful fruit diet is good
cure; Turkish bath is agreeable to
some constitutions. But no one can
afford to neglect even a '.little cold"
since it may draw after it such large
consequently. Z. Tribune.