The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-02

will decide in his own way While the
writer is a moderate user Of beers, he holds
that the less the pedestrian or oarsman
relies on drinks, and more on air and exer
ciSe the better for the health-seeker Still,
thos 9 who use alcoholic at home should not
go unprovided with a bottle OF sound
spirits to be used incidentally
Beyond this 1t is unwise to go, as in a chill
or when over-exhausted. But a good
draught of honest ale at the end of a morn
ings row or tramp is mighty reviver of
energy, and a pleasant recreation. To
some it may be heresy to say that on no
account should water from wells, rivers or
even springs be drunk unboiled. Country
water, however pure to the eve, is liable to
SOW the seeds of ailments which, months
alter ward, are ascribed to quite the wrong
causes. Filtration by no means always
purities 1t. Let it be boiled first, and then
1t matters little whether its flavor Is that of
hops. tea, coffee, spirit, red pepper or the iron
kettle. A few lemons are good things to
have on hand-better than all the druggists
concoctions that less successfully initiate
their qualities. They are splendid revivers,
delicacies and regulators. Diarrhoea and
dysentry not infrequently pay their unwe-
come compliments to the too easy going
camper-out. Impure water, the impure air
from river vegetation or other decaying
matter may bring it on, and also improper
food or proper food improperly eaten. As
prevention is better than cure, it should rot
be beneath sensible persons consideration
to take ordinary care in watching over his
unwonted surroundings.
Malaria is a convenient term for impurity
OF the atmosphere, which, when inhaled by
us, sets up a general arrangement of the
system. The air of marshy places is always
dangerous, and some day our learned men
will perhaps be able to agree upon the pre-
else way the poison enters our bodies and
what it does when it gets inside. At present
we can only be sure of one great fact,
namely, whatever malaria may be we are
better off without 1t. Nostrums for its
cure invite our patronage at every street
corner. lt is not our province to dis
cuss remedies, but it is in order to
quote the following from the travels
! OF the famous Silliman, now somewhere in
the neighborhood of a century old. He
writes: "The Dutch, though not drunken
people, drink raw gin and recommend it to
strangers to repel the fever and ague.
They have very great faith in its efficacy"
When you voyage to Holland, where the
land lies six feet below the level of the sea,
you will find a swamp or a dyke every
quarter mile you go, yet you never saw a
healthier people, thanks, they still say, to
their favorite schnapps. There may be a
moral to this. When we camp out In a
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moral out.
Henry NJ. Stanley finds time to tell us all
about the minor details of his great feat In
Africa. It will be useful to learn how be fed
his European companions so as to get the
most hard work out of them, in a tropical
climate, without injuring their health. DIR.
Livingstone found that each man did better
on an allowance of two pounds of meat per
day than on any amount of cereal
food. They needed good deal
of fat, and boiled was preferred to
roast. Walking on level surface is
equal to raising one-twentieth part of the
weight of the body through the distance
walked. In other words, man weighing,
with his clothes, $50 pounds who walks one
mile on the level, does work equal to lifting
1857 tons one foot high. If he walks twenty
miles he has lifted 353 4 tons foot The
peddler whose ordinary days work was the
carrying of 2S-pound load twenty miles,
did a task equal to lifting 419 tons
foot from the ground. A young
man in ordinary health and of average ao-
tivity ought TO put in as his daily holiday
exercise the equivalent of not less than $50
tons lifted one foot. The writer, though
neither a trained pedestrian nor gymnast,
has frequently walked over thirty miles
as a holidays exercise without special
preparation, and at least half dozen
times has done over fifty miles between
early morning and night. Nothing is
pleasanter: the art of easy going is soon
acquired. In my walks l found that
good diet was breakfast, tea, bread and
butter. fish and fruit; lunch at the half
distance, a good juicy beefstealI and pint of
ale; a cup or two of tea, with bread and
butter and lettuce or spring onions; and at
the journeys end comforting bowl of
soup, followed by whatever kind of fish or
fowl might be tempting, and a nightcap of
hot toddy. Wake next morning as hungry
as a hunter and as lissome as weasel.