Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-31
HINTS ABOUT HEALTH.
AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION WORTH
 A POUND OF CURE.

Advice to the Man Who Is Always Dosing
 Himself with Drugs-Something About
 Underclothing-Hes.l and Feet-Negli-
 sence of Ladies.
 The great secret of unvarying health is, before everything, to have body in high state of vigor, and once having that to keep 1t. There is less wisdom in studying the ways of curing an ailing frame than i'll giving your attention to those of obtaining a hardy one that never becomes ailing. A proper physique sheds pains, aches, disorders, illnesses, dis eases and epidemics as a duck does water, and enables its owner to laugh at doctors bills. It confers upon its possessor 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 in life and make you alive all over, without overworking you; shun care and worry; be systematic ill your habits; avoid dissipation; sleep enough eat plain, whole some food, the best of its kind; and, above all. devote yourself methodically to some athletic pursuit, such as will give you exercise all round, and spend all the time you can in the open air. Then forget you have a 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 | sanitary and hyGienic sin. They eat un- healthy food at irregular and unreasonable hours; they work too hard and worry too much they pass their lives within doors, in Ill ventilated rooms, sleep with tightly closed windows, and fear puff of pure air as they would the breath of contagion; exercise they take none. Perhaps they do not dissipate- they have not superfuous vigor enough for that. They are eternally "coddling" them I oil %1oxr %@h cate and tender. They are always ailing and | always dosing with some drug. If they have no appetite, they take this to give them one; if they have eaten too much, they swallow that to avert the bad effects. When they do not sleep, they try one thing; for headache | mother, for palpitation of the heart or a stomach ache third, and so on. Undoubt- edly, too, they have convinced themselves they have some chronic and serious disorder, and for this they are under the care of physician.
 But one thing further is needed to make | them utterly miserable, and that is to be- come devourers of indiscriminate medical l literature. With their habits, and in the state of mind which those habits must inev- itably produce, that alone would cause them to imagine themselves afflicted with ''all the ills that flesh is heir to-" Every disease they find described they are sure they have, until, | in fancy, they become 0 mass of ailment such as, If 1t should occur in reality, would constitute a monstrosity in the annals of medical science. If they have not gone too far, all they need is to live properly, stop dosing, forget their ''ailments," and then join gymnasium, buy or hire and ride saddle horse, or bicycle, take long walks every day and otherwise ex- ercise wisely, and they will be what they l hoy hooy1 cip ftnxyx o6, healthy, and, as q consequence, happy. | "Leave off your winter clothes late in the spring, and put them early ill the au- tumn." This is q very old injunction, and in some respects it is wise, while in others the re- verse. If, following it literally, person in fate autumn puts on his thickest winter tlan- nels and calls into service his heaviest over- coat, he is sure to suffer In consequence be- fore warm weather comes again. Very many people in this way make themselves what is popularly termed tender-unusually susceptible to cold-and hence, are fre- quently ailing during the winter
 THIN, MEDIUM AND THICK.
 Every one should have for wear at least three sets of underclothing-the thin, me dium and thick-that the change may be gradual. Now is the time for underclothing of medium thickness. As for over coats, they should not be heavy in late autumn while there will yet be warm days, when one would swelter in thick coat and if once ac- customed to it, there would be very great danger ill leaving it off. For well men of sedentary pursuits, who can walk to and from their york; it would be far better if they were dressed a trife light; so they would feel slightly chilly on first going into the open air. Walking would sooh warm them up, and the discomfort felt would en- | haf fial wi iS enjoyable at this season.
 ''keep the head cool and the feet warm. " Here is another antique health saying. To keep the feet warm is certainly an essential to health, but about having the head cool in winter is matter of discussion. The head certainly should be comfortably covered. Probably the Derby hat, so popular, would be sufficient protection, even ill midwinter, for those men who walk much, or whose work is largely indoors For car drivers and others, who are much exposed to fierce winds, thick, warm Sahts or caps are absolutely needed. They might wear fur caps, but men who arc not constantly forced to encounter such hardships as they certainly do not need head coverings of fur and are infinitely bet ter without them; for there are many days in winter when they are uncomfortable, keeI the head too warm, and hence are productive of colds. Every one knows that, when the feet are not properly protected, a cold is the common consequence If the head is insufh ciently covered, the same result is scarcely less certain.
 At the present day, but few ladies pretend to cover their heads, even in winter-tht fashionable bonnet Is surely no protection Much sickness among them is due to that neglect, and where it occurs with cottor stockings and thin shoes-and, therefore, colo feet-it is surprising that so foolish a persor lives through one of our hard winters Among Shakers, and other classes of womeI who pretend to wear comfortable head cover ings, there is infinitely less sickness thal among their fashionable sisters, and much O. the immunity Is clearly assignable to thi difference in dress. Heaven hasten the day when women will correct this most grievou fault of theirs and return to hoods, or some thing like them, for winter wear. As fo keeping.the shoulders and upper part of th chest amply protected from the cold, womel know well it's importance to health, ant nothing which can be written will infuenc l them n the QliOhteSt daprea -ROSfoO Haral ld