The Press., 1888-06-21
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
LConducted by the W. c. T. U.I
POINTS ABOUT YOURSELF.

Conducted by the w. c. T. U.l
 POINTS ABOUT YOURSELF.
 Tarrying a little time at the Sanitarium here-Battle Greek, Mich.-I renew my youth by turning reporter to pick up hy- gienic points dropped in the parlor on question box mornings by Dr. Kellogg, the medical director, and the clearest, readiest respondent ever heard to batch of questions requiring exact scientific knowledge. Having his answers, you can guess the questions put by hundreds of patients
 In the majority of cases, it is a sin to be sick, for sickness implies misdoing ; the man who, by use of liquor or tobacco, shOrtens his life ten years, is equally guilty with the man who shoots himself ten years before Nature would call for him and the woman who hangs herself by the waist is not less suicide than if she used a rope about the neck. Unto chewers and smokers one verse ill the Bible should be executed as it reads in the Chinese version "Then came John the soaker soaking in the vii. derness." And the drunkard who persists in using tobacco is incurable.
 We advise the use of cream as a substi- ute for butter, because it is much more easily digested. In cream the fat lies in minute globules that are readily broken up by the digestive juice and the fatty parti- cles absorbed into the blood; but the first hard work the system has to expend on butter is to unchurn ito divide it into filmy globules and wrap them in an emul- sion much like cream. Skinned milk, too, is of great value as food, building good bone, nerve and flesh fiber, but no fat. And the safest preparatory treatment of milk is boiling, for the milk of consump. tive COWS will transmit the germs of the disease unless killed by heat. The flesh of such animals, too. is much worse than their milk, and more likely to come to the table, for as soon as the COW is discovered to be diseased, her milk is stopped by hur. rying her flesh of to market. Don't drink milk; eat it with solid food.
 Strictly, children do not inherit disease, only bodies easy for it to work in. The smokers boy is not born with pipe in his mouth; but if the old man or other enemy put it there, the boy does not fec that dislike of it natural to the boys oi clean fathers. So, too, the child of insan. ity or consumption needs not to die that way there is simply a weak spot in his boiler at 100 pounds pressure, and he must not crowd on the 200 pounds of exposure, nicotine, liquor, vicious, or morbid com. panionship, but must employ the best helps to mend that weak spot-pure air, diet, clothing, exercise, associations, etc.
 We do not recommend grape juice as a drink, though it is wholesome food if eaten slowly with solid foods; but no better than the grapes themselves. Sugar, be- yond very small amount, is trouble some food. Inject syrup into an artery and it shrivels the blood corpuscles. Its only use is to gratify the palate, because above fifty per cent. of bread and many other foods is starch, and digestion con verts starch into sugar. In every ter cases of diabetes, nine are the result of SUI gar-eating. And honey is a more unwhole some sweet, for with the sweet the beet gather more or less of the volatile oils al the base of the flowers, many of which oils are poisonous. They get also spores grains of the pollen, etc. These elements constitute the difference in honey havors Many people can eat honey only with mill -an antidote to the poison. Honey culleC from the tobacco flower often sickenI whole families. There is, too, alwayI formic acid in honey injected from tho stingers of angry bees and it is this poisol of the bee stinger that gives some honey eaters the nettle-rash.
 The onion is not fit to eat unless frs minced, and its acrid oil washed away, al the poison is washed from tapioca root for the oil whose vapor brings tears iron the eyes, makes the Things of the stomacl weep worse. Nor are the skins of apples and potatoes fit contents for modest stom achs. Their substance is woody, and need the digestive force of an OK to properly convert them into bone and muscle.
 Baking powder we don't use, but pur' I-s. do leaves behind it, after partial evaporation the tartarate of soda which no one would consent to swallow clear every day. Al most all, too, contain alum, it being cheap CT than tartaric acid and many contain ammonia, which Is not worse than othe ingredients.
 The majority of nervous invalids hav indulged in tonics, all the way from whisk, to mustard, but quinine and the who'll family are injurious, because they mak one feel we'll when not we'll. Whisky act as tonic, making the drinker feel warn when cold, and cool when hot, and ricl when poor. And though some tonics ar sometimes to be prescribed as medicines the general effect of them all is unnatura and bad. They are whips and stings t, nerves, and the extra effort they push mel on to, leave their second state worse thal the first.
 The best diet to build up with, bot physically and mentally, is that whic best agrees with the stomach for there no more barren humbug than the theory c E special foods for nerves and brains. Tn Circassiau women, living chiefly on barle, , gruel, are the handsomest in the world while their neighbors, the Tartar women eating oil and curry, are so homely a hardly to be distinguished from men. Yes, dancing is good exercise; but nc body goes to the dance for exercise, as the gymnasium nobody goes off by hin self to dance. If one does, he will find n moral harm in dancing.-Janes Cteme1 Ambrose, ia U'aiOn Signal