New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-06

HOW TO BE WELL AND MISERABLE.

ward a remarkably large amount OF advice about wha1
to do preserve health and live to be hundred
old. There IS any lack OF advice from ths
health and longevity experts, but winter
always call out an especially large supply
II the people OF this country lived up to half the adj
vice given them by physicians and scientists who have
got hold OF theories. and 1t worked we'll they
claim sickness would be almost unknown. Fig
uravey speaking most Of appear to be- very tall
tree and and disease germs sitting around
the foot OF It bowling and trying to climb and get
We may SIT down to our breakfasts, but tho food
Is adulterated and we don't cat the right kind We
60 to our Offices but the air isn't fit to breathe and tho
silver quarter get In making change after luncheon
has typhoid fever germs IT, We lie down TO sleep
night but the isn't properly ventilated and the
electric currents don't go right And over all our
daily life, when we eat, work. play, sleep while va
stay at home aud while we travel, hangs the dread
monster, scwer-gas. Sewcrsas has been known TO
chase a strong healthy man all the way through
Harlem and half across Westchester County, gaining
on him at every jump
These various enemies OF the human race VIII also
cooperate a surprising extent. IL has been SHOWN
by recent elaborate experiments carried on py Dr.
Foogay, OF Boston, that malaria will frequently ges
hold Of man and hang on till comes up ana
finishes him. Dr. Foogay has also shown that thero
is nothing safe in this world except bran pudding ana
a vacuum, and he is preparing an indictment against
the vacuum.
Personally, have always tried 10 live the way
these theorctiea, gentlemen advised in most things
Take for instance the Of the electric cur
ronts. This is something you do not hear about as
often as sewer-gas tobacco, but when you do see
an article the subject It IS deep. Several years
ago read a paper by Professor Cr2ybone, In which
he showed that you should sleep with your head
toward the north the electric currents on their way
l he hfatV
right way. Tho plan looked reasonable and adj
justed my bed TO meet Its requirements. few years
after equally scholarly article by DR..
Alhead in which he proved that the electric currens
shouldn't pass from the feet to the head but from tho
head TO the feet and, therefore, we should all sleep
with our heads toward the south. / turned my bed
Now at this late date, there elaborate re-
port Of recent cations By Professors DRY ana
Scar in which 1t is shown that the electric currents
are for the body matter how they pass through
and the minimum Of danger IS found In sleeping with
the head toward the east or the west have aga n
YEARLY turned my bed. Perhaps after awhile IT will
get so | get up in the night and change IFS posi-
ton. II any Will show me a bed hung on
pivot / will buy II. / quietly working on bed
stead myself which be wound up Ike CLOCK and
will revolve all night and occasionally get up on It's
hind casters and prance about the room and turn few
| handsprings
If you are who wishes to retain his health you
should rise at 6 O'Clock in the morning. You have
slept, OF course, in chamber the windows OF whcn
open, allowing free access and circulation OK tho
air. II the bedclothes should happen to be blown OK
at O'Clock you might get up then. though this is .
disputed point DR.. Harpever claiming that you shouid'
while DR.. wthercd is positive that in order to 30
regular in YOUR habits you should stay In bed till
g. even without the clothes. Regularity, the doctor
says is the keynote of life, and the man who gets up
some mornings at and others at 8, does SO at his
| peril ,.
practice with dumb-bells for ten minutes 60 Out
doors and walk brskly up hill for ten minutes run
for ten minutes, practice high jumping and hand.
springs for five minutes Enter the mousse ana "s
down to breakfast a. exactly O'CLOCK
Remember that Everything depends on what you do
not eat DIR. Husks. of Philadelphia, has made tho
food question life study and you cannot do better
than to follow his advice. In the first place, you
must not eat meat in any FORM Meat is not natural
| food OF man. The man who eats meat Is weak tho
one who makes diet Of vegetables Is strong. ms
is illustrated DR.. Husks has ably pointed out, even In
the animal kingdom; tho stronger and more ROBUST
animals feed vegetable matter while the weaker and
less active are meat-eaters To show the forco OF
this II will only be n essary to call attention to
the weak and nerveless lion and the powerful ana
aggressive lamb the dcbitaed tiger and the hearty
hen.
Dr. Huslss cannot Of course. recommend all Kinds
If vegetable food, but has prepared iist OF thhgs
which he considers comparatively safe Wheh ho'
adulterated and which have not been exposed to dis
ease germs or sewergas. You may select for peaR-
fast not above three dishes from the following s''
Macaroni graham gems, oatmeal. cracked wheat,
hued oats husked corn, patent infant food hominy'
string BEANS warm water, oats IN the sheaI' corn-
starch pudding, taploca sage, bran, shorts ana mill
feed DO not overload your stomach Keep your
appetite under control at any cost Remember thao
YOU eat to live and live eat If the bran or tho
frOm
table DO not, beg Of you, become victim OF bran.
The oatmeal is recommended best to start tho
bre on II may take either Che form OF musn,
cruel poridge. Each is made bg the addition OK
water 10 Jhe oatmeal, but wide difference Is mahe
in the cooking, the nlush being cooked over slow hre
quick fire. Bran biscuits make an excellent second
course DO not forget to prae'ise ,he
coarser part retained for the biscuits. DO not over
eat
You Will unfortunately have TO drink something
experiments by Professor Rollingsone In an atempt 10
prove that drinking any kind of fluid is simply haot
having failed Dr. IIusks cannot for an instant
consider anything but water. Tea and coffee arc
dangerous We can learn much to what to eat
ard drink from a study Of the lower animals, whose
tastes and instincts have not been corrupted as have
mans. The does not drink tea, nor, Tor mat
matter, coffee either. If man was not enfeeoled by
generations Of coffee and tea drinking he might DC as
large and strong the COW.
Nothing but water should be drunk for breakfast.
or indeed. other meals. II should be as near as
possible at temperature Of ninety eight degrees SO
as 10 avoid cracking the enamel off the teeth or In
Turing the Innings Of the stomach. AS many OF mo
disease germs possible should be removed from tho
water before using by boiling, and, II possible dis
filling. Even then you Will swallow large num-
Der Of germs every time you drink. You should Of
course have filter In a recent paper DR.. Wachem
strongly recommends DR.. snachem's filter and during
the course of address delivered the other day by
Dr. snachem he spoke highly of DR.. wachem's filter.
Dr. Searchparty. who has patent ventilatOr 10 sell.
speaks highly OF both filters. Probably you had
better get both. The cow docs not use filter. bus
COWS not men.
Rise from the table promptly at half past 7, with
a slight feeling Of hunger. You will thus know that
you have not eaten too much. No matter IL tho
third dish Of bran does look tempting. do weakly