The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-26
HEALTH RULES.
Some Interesting Facts for Dyspep-

tics.
| BROOKLYN, n. Y, Jan. 22.-Though not
a professed mental scientist" l am,
nevertheless, strongly intrenched in my
| conviction that dyspepsia, as limited in my
! letter of last week. Is to very large extent
a self-inhicted disease. The failure TO
! breathe properly, caused by the disuse of
the abdominal muscles, in turn affects the
vigor of the stomach. In such cases the
respiration, confined TO the upper and
weaker part of the lungs, greatly limits Q
supply OF oxygen, and this, of course, i'm
| poverishes the blood and renders it harder
| for the body to do its work. Women,
who from real or fancied weakness, sit
and reciine great deal, or those whose
| occupations compel them TO exercise the
| hands d arms and upper part of the chest
| only, as in hand sewing or embroidery, or
| those who use only one set of muscles in
| operating the sewing machine should prac-
| tlce the rules of proper breathing a dozen
| times day, at least, and take few Gales
thenic exercises, which will not only develop
| the muscles, but which will set the blood to
| circulating freely and properly. At these
| times the windows of the room, rain or
| shine, should be opened wide, and the lungs
be treated to that rarest of all COM
mon thingS-pure air. Indeed, this letting
| of fresh air into the room is the greatest
help even in the chilliest weather, and
|
| Even two minutes, three or four times day,
| spent in the endeavor to take pure air into
the lungs properly, has been known to pro
duce magical results in the cure of dyspep-
STA and The removal of superduous adipose
tissue. Surely, so infinitessimal an amount
of time would not be likely to interfere very
! seriously with ones business.
There is a fashionable dressmaker in New
| York city, who employs several girls.
| These girls are compelled to promise upon
| entering the establishment to strictly OBJ
serve the HYGIENE rule laid down by the
| head of the house when she first went into
| tusineSs. Twice in tho forenoon and twice
in the afternoon, these employees are put
through a gymnastic drill The windows
are opened and the mistress appears The
| shop may be full of customers, but nothing
| is ever allowed to interfere with this
short, but most delightful period OF
re axation and health saving. Some of
these young women may wear corsets, but
| they are merely supports, no string ever
being drawn tight in that establishment
| At IL o'clock luncheon is provided which
consists of soup, with barley or some nour-
| ishirg cereal, good raj ed bread and butter.
and for the sweets which girls are not only
fond of, but of which the wise employer un-
| derstands the necessity, some simple ielly
or blancmange Of light cookies are pro
/ vided. A glass of milk caps the climax of
this most nutritious meal. The effect of such
care upon these daily workers is most
marked Many of these girls
enter this establishment narrow-chested.
pale and unnerved. In a couple
OF months they are transformed
| When the days work is over they go to
their homes, refreshed instead of exhausted,
and the evening hours can be properly util-
lied by pleasure or study. This proves
that the body is not the exacting and dom
ineering machine that we have been trained
to consider it, and that it really takes but
very little time and a modicum of common
sense to insure some enjoyment of life as
well as shapely, erect figure. "The Breath
of Life" then is the very first consideration,
| for all practical psychologists will tell us
that there can be no sound health in any
body where the blood is not properly
oxygenated, and this is utterly impossible
unless one breathes with abdominal muscles.
1t seems strange that the suffering of the
stomach for countless years has not devel-
| oped more Intelligence in its care 1t is sim
gular that the dyspeptic will persist till he
dies in putting Things into his stomach that
he knows his stomach cannot digest. Take
what we are pleased to call THE Staff of
| Life, for instance. Bread forms the foun-
dation, and large part of the filing of our
daily bills of fare, but what sort of stuff is
it usually: How many housekeepers know
how to make bread that can be eaten with
relish and perfect safety? To inveigh
against hot bread is to make oneself very
unpopular, especially with those who
suffer most from its use, but good, hot bread
is not one hundredtb part so hurtful as poor.
cold bread. Bread underbaked, or made of
impure materials. or au excess of pure ma
terlals, such as strong acids and alkalies,
might almost as well, as far as health is
concerned, be eaten before it is placed in the
oven as afterward. Let us look at the usual
biscuit. What is it? Simply wad of
dough between two slightly Drowned covers.
Now, II these covers were hard, and the
teeth had some service to perform in their
mastlcation; in other words, if this
material could be converted into a
substance that the gastric juice could get
| hold of, and then the stuff between the
crusts were thrown away. the machinery OF
the stomach would not be clogged as it is
now. Let the reader take a hastily made
biscuit, remove the crusts, and then press
the inside closely in his hand. Let him work
it over little, and what does he holds
Simply wad of dough, upon which the
digestive organs can make no more i'm
preston than upon gutta percha. A
gentleman returned from his bust
ness the other morning after
a couple of hours absence, with
an ago izing headache 81 can not under
stand it," he said with sickly smile and an
infantile Ignorance OF physiology, but L
only ate four of Mary's nice soda biscuits,
and slice of ham for nv breakfast l
suggested that when pound or two of india
rubber was forced into the stomach, that
the latter usually had to call upon the head
for assistance TO put it through, and |
| longed to add that it was pity that the
head which was put on top for the very evil
dent purpose of ruling the other parts of
the body, hadn't sense enough to keep the
most important part of the human anatomy
from the necessity of such a strain. But /
forbore.
There is no lodging the fact that one
pregnant cause of ill-health is to be found in
badly made, inadequately baked, risen-at-
the-monent dough. Saleratus has destroyed
as many stomachs, by first irritating ard
then iltiaming the delicate mucus men,
brane, as whiskey or brandy, and ''wads of
dough" have put an end to more lives than
| war, pestilence and famine combined. AT
least this is so asserted by our most scien-
tific psychologists. ELEANOR KIRK.
Phthisis a Persistent Foe.