The Dickinson press., 1888-12-08
Advice to the Nan Who Is Always Dosing
Himself with Dluss-Somcthing About
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Unlcrclo.iiny-I1cad and T~cct-Negli-
Eence of Ladies.
The great secret of unvarying health is,
before everything, TO have Il body i'll a high
state of NigoI, and once having that, to keep
il. There is less wisdom III studying the ways
of curing an ailing frame than in giving your
attention TO those of obtaining Il hardy ono
that never becomes aiiing. y proper physique
sheds pains, aches, disorders, illnesses, dis
eases and crideinics as Il duck does water, and
enables its owner to laugh at doctors bills.
1t conters upon its lossessor happiness amid
the heaviest misfortunes, and gives the surest
promise of longevity. To obtain it, have
some regular business that will give you an
interest i'll life and make you alive all over,
without oTerworliing you; shun care and
worry; he systematic in YOU habits; avoid
dissipation; sleep enough; eat ilain, whole
some food, thu best of its kind, and, above
all. devote yourself methodically to some
athletic pursuit, such us will give you exercise
all round, and spend ali the time you can in
the open air. Then forget you have Il body
that can by any possibility get out of order,
and never think of your health.
COMMITTING SANITARY SIN.
We find people WHO commit we'll nigh every
"tiieoA oNA hN6'SlhS OH. AhSt u AA0
healthy food at irregular and unreasonable
hours; they work too hard and worry too
much; they pass their lives within doors, in
i'll ventilated rooms, sleep with tightly closed
windows, and fear Il puff of pure air as they
would the breath of contagion; exercise they
take none. Perhaps they do not dissipate-
they have not superfluous vigor enough for
that. They arc eternally ''coddling'' them
selves, and doing all they can to become deli
cate and tender. They are always ailing and
always dosing with some drug. Ii they have
no appetite, they take this to give them one;
ii they have eaten too much, they swallow
that TO avert the bad effects. When they do
not sleep, they try ono thing; for q headache
another, for palpitation of the heart or q
stomach ache a third, and SO on. Undoubt-
eddy, too, they have convinced themselves
; they have some chronic and serious disorder,
/: and for this they are under the care Of Il
, physician.
/. But one thing further is needed to make
: them utterly miserable, and that is to be
t come devourcrs of ndiscrilninatc medical
t literature. With their habits, and in the
: state of mind which those habits must inev.
@ .itablv produce, that alone would cause then
= to imagine themselves afflicted with "all the
ills that flesh is heir to- Every disease they
Q find described they are sure they have, until
II Ill fancy, they become n mass of ailmen
II such as. if it should occur in reality
II would constitute u monstrosity in tn
d annals of medical science. If they hav,
e not gone too far, all they need is t.
II live properly, stop dosing, forget thei
AILMENTS" and then join q gymnasium, bu,
or hire and ride u saddle horse, or Il bicycle
take long walks every day and otherwise eS
crcise wisely, and they will be what the
= have neve- been since they were children
: healthy, and, as u consequence. happy.
Leave of your winter clothes late in til
u spring. and put them on early in the IL,
/" tum,.' This is n very old injunction, and /
!, some respects it is wise, while III others ther
u verse. Ii, following it literally, Il person
~ late autumn puts on his thickest winter tlai
- ncls and calls into service his heaviest owe
!. coat, he is sure to suffer in consequence b
II fore warm weather comes again. Yer
v many people in this way make themselv'
- what is popularity termed tender-unusuall
susceptible to cold-and hence, are fir
Qucntlv ailing during the winter.
THIN. MEDIUM AMI THICk.
II, Every one should have for wear at lea
il three sets of underclothing-tho thin, IN
TX diam and thick-that the change may |
nc gradual. Now is the timo for underclothin
N of medium thickness. AS for overcoats, the
up should not be heavy i'll late autumn viii
Is, there will Yet be warm days, when OF
or would swelter in Il thick coat, and if once a
hg rustomed to 1t, there would bo very gre
al danger Ill leaving it of. For well men
re sedentary pursuits, who can walk to al
en- from their work, it would be far better
they were dressed q triae light; 80 II!