The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-01-23
HENRY /. BI0SSAT, Business Manager


some life in you. Next comes break
fast. No cocktail before breakfast,
mind. Just sit down at your table and
eat slowly. Commence with some oat-
meal and milk. Then if you have any
brain-work to do during the day eat a
roll, some eggs and drink cup of cot
fee. Those who have hard physical
work might eat meats, but no one
should make heavy breakfast. Don't
read your morning newspaper while
eating. BY reading while eating you
draw some of the blood away from the
stomach to the brain when it should
be assisting in helping the organs to
digest the food After resting for
q few minutes start off for your
business, and, if possible, walk.
Don't walk fast, but gently, and in all
kinds of weather. The meal of the
day should be taken at noon or soon
afterward. 1t should be plain and sub
stantial, and what one fancies most.
OF course any one troubled with dys-
pepsia will choose dishes easy to d.
gest. Dyspepsia is the foundation of
all diseases, and dyspepsia is caused
very much by the dinners that are
eaten. Don't drink while eating. Drink
before meals or after you have finished.
but not during the meal. The food
should not be eaten too hot, and hot
bread or biscuits are very bad. Walk
home from business in the evening and
take a light supper. Before retiring
it is a good thing to sponge your body
with salt water again. Never sleep in
any clothing you have worn during the
day. Always have the top OF the WIN
dow open to give fresh air in the room.
Never have fire in the bedroom, but
have plenty of covering on the bed.
Many men are troubled with
insomnia. These men are usually
of sedeutary habits. They are in
their office all day doing brain work.
Their brain is tired and they can't
sleep. If they would get up and take
some exercise in order to get physical
ly tired they would soon sleep. Men
and women don't walk enough. If
they have to go a mile they must ride,
and if they have to go three blocks
they have to get on q car. Eight
hours sleep, 1 think, is the proper
quantity. The day ought to be divided
into three-eight hours for work, eight
hours for play and eight for sleep.
Rowing boat is the best exercise
any one can have. Next to that comes
machine-rowing, then sparring and
then swimming. All these exercises
bring all the muscles of the body into
play. Bicycle-riding, / think, Is very
bad. The exercise is good for the
muscles of the legs, but for no others.
The chest and stomach muscles are the
most important ones to keep we'll A
man can live without his legs.
Then bicycling makes a man stoop and
become round-shouldered. Rowing is
admitted by all authorities to be the
most beneficial of exercises, because it
calls into play every muscle in the
body and gives to each one a full and
equal share Of work. Five minutes of
brisk rowing will produce a rapid cir
culation of the blood, free perspira-
ton, cause the lungs at each inspira-
ton to fill themselves to their full ca
pacity, and thus enlarge the chest and
vltalize the blood, without unduly
straining any of the muscles. This
condition of the body can not be OBJ
tanned from any other form Of exer-
| else in the same time without making
one set of muscles do all the work, and
so seriously tanning them. Rowing,
therefore. is an excellent substitute for
the gymnasium.
Those Of either sex who lead a seden-
tary life suffer, with rare exceptions,
from some form of dyspepsia. These
troubles can be permanently cured by
| proper exercise, while medicine affords
only temporary relief. In these dis
eases the exercise of rowing is espe-
cially beneficial, for in taking a stroke
the body is first doubled up and then
stretched out producing a movement
of all the internal organs, invigorating
and strengthening them, and soon re-
suits in a radical cure.
Another trouble that men and wom-
en- suffer from is weakness in the small
of the back, making them round,
shouldered, ungracefut in their car
riage, cramping the chest and lung
room and causing them to sit with q
bowed back. Rowing is tor this an
absolute specific, for as the muscles o.
the back become strengthened (and il
is surprising how quickly they gair
strength) it is found to be much easier
to sit or walk erect than bent over, az
formerly.
If ladies would devote a small por
ton of each day to this exercise, they
would soon secure that freshness 0
complexion and roundnesS of limb 81
indicative of perfect digestion and cir
culation, and nervousness" would b,
unknown except as a memory OF tn
past
The rowing machine should not b
; exercised more than ten minutes at
l time. 1t is not so much the amount o
exercise taken that does good as tax
4 ing 1t regularly. Light exercise i
better than heavy, and one shout,
never Keep exercising until he j
9 tired.
t Many persons are troubled a grea
deal with sore throats. Sore throat