The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1886-01-29
HYG1EN1c REFoRn.
An Open Letter to the Ladies of the
W, C. T. u.

department of hygiene. know that il
is hazardous undertaking to set out
to tell people how ignorant they are
but / do not mean to claim that I am
one whit wiser, or better than my
sisters, but willingly don sack-cloth
and ashes with them, and join in the
chorus OF confession. we are all miser-
cradle sinners. believe the gradually
increasing attention given to sanitary
matters which has been quickened by
the well-grounded fears of the epidemic
prevalence of cholera, will bear me out
in the assertion that we are allwoefully
ignorant of the house beautiful and
the requirements necessary to so mould,
fashion and preserve these tenements
of ours, that we may enjoy life, as God
intended we should.
Notwithstanding, that He made
man in his own image and likeness.
and told us Eye are the temple of
God" yet this life of the body is one
long course of shameful ill-usage, neg
lect and abuse.
just how to awaken women to a
sense of this responsibility in this
matter has been puzzling question
until along rolled the wonderful
machinery of the VIC. L. u, taking
up this department of work and if
every Union will wheel into line with
one of their most earnest women as
captain of this department of hygine,
our side of the house will do valiant
service For God, Home and Native
Land," through healthful nourishing
food, sensible clothing, and well venti-
lated homes, frightened with an
abundance of Gods sunshine, which is
so bountiful in Dakota.
Next to the eevangellstic, / belive
hygine to be the most important of
the whole vocabulary of the National
leatlet.
God grounds our being on natural
laws, consequently our children should
know the laws of health first of all,
because their hygenic being is the firm
base of the whole pyramid of charac-
ter.
If a little patch upon the brain, or a
tiny clot within, can transform the
man of genius into dwelling idiot; if
an insignificant break in the course of
a nerve trunk can convert athlete in
to helpless mass, how necessary we
should thoroughly understand the
wonderful mechanism of our homes,
and how watchful ought to be our care
of this wondrously complicated struc-
ture.
A well conditioned body must have
all its parts well developed, and be
kept well nourished, and only such q
body, so soundly constituted can per-
form there functions, whose sum is
what we term life, and whose har-
monious action is what we mean by
health. The fact is beginning to dawn
upon us to-day that we make our
drunkards at the table and gradu-
ate them at the saloons. So
every meal of nutritious food placed
before your sons, and every effort to
teach your daughters healthful habits
of living, drinking, eating, sleeping and
recreation are temperance lessons of
highest worth.
Mr.. Kellogg, national superintendent
of hygiene, says; "Hygiene is promi-
nently field in which the actions
count It's a field too in which all
can work, and when the mothers and
housekeepers OF our land practice true
hygine in all the details of their home
life, the dram-shops will have to close
for want of patronage" For instrue-
tions address.
Yours for good health,
NETTlE c. HALL, NJ. D.
Washington Springs.
Territorial Snnarintandant of IIvoiano