The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-04-19
Be 4 cEMreNARIAN.
It l. Not q Question Of Medicine, but
the Proper Care of the Body.

It Is Not q Question Of Medicine, b,
the Proper Care of the Body.
Americans are often told they liv
at the pace that kills.
So they do, but they live longe
on the average than their ancestors
and longevity is likely TO be still
greater in future generations.
Lewis A. Sayre, the famous SUI
geon, in the course of a long tall
in his handsome Office on Fifth av
enue, told N. Y. Herald writer tn
reason for the extended term of life
Everybody, under ordinary cir
cumstances," said he, sought tt
live to be 100 years old. AS it is
people live from eight to fifteel
years longer than their forefather&
did. They have learned how to ca,
and drink ; how to keep their homes
ventilated and their sewers drained
and how to generally take better
care of themselves. Still they do
not live anything like as long as
they ought to, because they do not
yet live as they ought to. They
have too much to do, too much to
think about and too much care to
bear. Many are very much dis
tressed as younger men to know
how they are going to make sure
of a living. By and by, when their
reputation has grown, they are
driven to death with the work
forced upon them. If I had lived
anywhere near right in the earlier
part of my professional career
/ believe my life would have been
prolonged beyond a century. I
never used to know what it was to
be tired, hungry or sleepy. When
the decline begins the face loses it's
color, the plump, vigorous look of
the skin vanishes, and lassitude
takes the place of elasticity.
"Open CRATES are far preferable
to any other means of heating a
house, for they help ventilation,
which is an important factor in the
prolongation of life. | never allow
a furnace to be lighted in my house
except when there is danger Of the
water-pipes freezing up.
"One of the greatest dangers to
human life is the candy shop, which
destroys the stomachs of children.
Tobacco is decidedly injurious
when used to excess, the same as
liquor. A mild cigar, smoked after
dinner, hawever, has a soothing
effect, and the smoker sustains less
injury from it than he would from
off to work on a full stom-
ach. No injury will result from
sleeping after meal. Old people
are benefited by a nap after eating
Actors almost invariably take sup
per before going to bed, and they
are healthy set of men. Animals
afford an example. Feed two dogs
and let one curl up before the fire
while the other is taken out to hunt
rabbits. Then on the return from
the hunting expedition kill both
dogs. The stomach of the one that
has been sleeping will be clean,
while the food in the stomach of the
,ther will be found undigested.
The dog that has been hunting has
all his energies in the
,hase and the food has had no
,hance to digest.
"Whisky cannot be considered
INJURIOUS under all circumstances.
There are times when it is useful,
ike castor oil, calomel and quinine,
'ut it is not beneficial when used
8 beverage. l am not certain that
vater is not as harmful as whisky.
ce water, which people generally
ulp down in unlimited quantities,
aralyzes the nerves of the stomach
nd is one Of the greatest causes of
in this country. People
hould drink water at its normal
Boiling water drunk
n hour or so before meals is a val
able aid to digestion in many in
tances. The majority of people
at more than they ought, and they
lso eat too fast. In eating it is not
question how much person can
evour, but how much he can di-
est. Some people are better off on
wo meals day than on three.
Turning night into day-that is
'orkins at night and sleeping in
ne daytime-does not mean that
1e person who does it is doomed
, an early grave. Men who work
lights may live to good old age.
VILLAIN Cullen Bryant was accus- :
,med to work nights and attained
ripe old age. Still l consider that
eople who work during the day
nd sleep at night are better off.
ne thing is certain, person must t
ave sleep at some time, whether
is at night or during the day. 8
he average person ought to have
ght hours sleep. When l was t
oung I read that Napoleon only
'ok four hours sleep in twenty |
ur. l thought that no great man
eeded more than four hours, so '
lat was all I took. I found out
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