The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-01-23
GOOD HEALTH AT HOME.
Excelent Advice About Eating
and Exercising.
Dyspepsia. the Root of All Ailments, Can
Be Cured by Proper Exercise-Hot
Air or Sun Baths Beneficial
Other Health Hints.

The healthy man is the happy man.
Then there are very few happy men
In the world, because there are COM
paratively very few healthy men.
Nowadays men all seem to have some
ailment. The majority of them have
dyspepsia, and this is the cause of all
their trouble. The true reason that
there is so much dyspepsia and other
ailments in this world is because men
don't know how to live or how to keep
healthy. They sleep irregularly, eat
irregularly and improperly and take
little or no exercise. To keep in health
one must exercise. All can not by
taking this exercise become great ath.
letes. but they can so develop their
bodies as to be always in healthy
condition.
The exercise that should be taken is
such that will develop all the muscles
OF the body. There are several ways
of exercising, of which will speak
presently. First of all l will tell how
man should live. OF course, in writ
ing this | am taking for granted that
the health student is in fair state of
health. On rising in the morning the
best thing to do is to rub the body
we'll with pair of flesh gloves or
brush This will remove all refuse
matter that has come to the surface of
the skin during the night. 10 keep
in health the skin must be cared for.
There are I, 900, 900 peers in the human
body, each one is a quarter OF
an inch long and if they were
all placed end to end they
would reach distance of twenty
eight miles. These pores or drains
must act necessarily in order to main
tain health. for if they become torpid
or INSTRUCTED, the efete matter which
they fail to throw off is reabsorbed
into the system, resulting in diseases
of all kinds, particularly consumption,
govt, rheumatism and Indigestion.
The Importance of a clean skin can
not be overestimated. The skin is too
often regarded as q covering only, in
stead of complicated piece OF ma
chinery, scarcely second in it's texture
and constituencies to the ear or the eye.
Many treat it with as little reference
to its proper functions as If it were
nothing better than q bag of their
bones. 1t is this reconsideration for
the skin that is the cause of d very
large proportion of the diseases in the
world. If, as claimed by some scien-
lists, four-fifths in bulk of all we eat
and drink must either pass off through
the skin or be turned back upon the
system as poison, and that life de-
ponds as much upon these exhalations
through the skin as upon inhaling
pure air through the lungs, it must be
of the most vital Importance to KEEP
that channel free.
Washing won't fill the bill. The fact
is that the skin Is kept too dirty fol-
practical use; especially is this the cast
with persons of sedentary habits. They
may wash and battle in the ordinary
way as much as they please, but they
can not by such means be thoroughly
purified, for their skin has become 81
torpid that it has lost that health,
action that would tend to keep then
CLEAN by the natural process of sweat
ing There is this objection, also, t.
mere "ater-bathing, that the skin alb
serbs the water. and weak persons ar
frequently made weaker by the wash
ing, while Others get only a temporar
and questionable benefit from it. Tn
Russian bath is the best kind of bat
to take, the dry heat drawing tn
moisture through the pores of the ski
and so purifying them. But to retur
to the morning after the rub with tn
gloves; it is a good thing to spong
yourself with salt water. The sa
hardens the skin, acts as di.
lnfectant and prevents rheum;
tism No exercie but the rut
bing down should be taken befor
breakfast. Then comes the clothing
In cool weather always wear wool mex
10 the body. 1t is much better an
much warmer than silk. Those VIII
are inclined to dyspepsia should hav
aa extra ban6 of flannel round tn
stomach. That is to keep the boile
NOT and the machinery well at work
mear a moderate amount of clothing
uoht try to put on enough to kee
t0ushly warmed, Keep yoursel