The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-24
SUGGESTIONS FOR WOMEN.
How to Avoid Insomnia and Enjoy
Good Health.

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HOW to Avoid Insomnia and Enjoy
Good Health.
MOVES BEACH. WESTERLY, Aug. "a
few weeks ago l received a letter from a
stranger asking the following question:
suppose woman, If you please, 80 years
old, who has lived fashionable life ever
since she was born. Suppose. at this age.
tired OF the Thousand aud one comDlaiilrs
caused by late hours, tight corscts and rich
10 u, she turns over a new leaf and dresses
and exercises sensIbly, and eats only those
/ articles OF diet which science saws can be
easily digested and perfectly assimilated.
As the result of your observation and ex-
perience, would you say that this woman
| should at once be relieved from her pains
/ ana discomfortsg
| L answered this communication in the
/ negative, with my reasons An abused and
| Unnamed stomach cannot be Immediately
| healed. Internal organs that have been
crowded out of place cannot at once resume
their normal functions neither can iga-
| menus that have been stretched by improper
standing and the terrible strain of over
much dancing IN narrow shoes ard French
| heels-for these are the most successful of
all the lengtheners of uterine hgaments-
and the reason for this is the constant effort
| or the body TO adapt itself to cramped
pedal conditions Muscles are strained
nerves rasped and the delicate internal ma
chlnery, which would run like clockwork If
| given MALT the attention we give 10 our
tImepleces, gets permanently demoralized
and out of order
After week or two l received another
letter from my unknown correspondent.
| Il thank You very much for your letter :"
she said, and may as well confess that I
expected to trip YOU up. You have said so
much about what women shall eat and
| what they shall wear, that | expected you
| would plophesy an Immediate cure for
those who turn from the error of their
| ways. had turned from mine, but at the
time wrote suffered no less than before.
But am now slowly gaming aud begin to
get an occasional breath from the bottom
OF my lungs, and do not feel like committing
murder at every meal. The sea moss blauc.
| mango recommended by you | eat twice a
day, and as nerve soother and stomach
comforter 1t certainly has no equal"
IL this woman has patience and courage
to persevere she will probably, before very
| long, know what it is TO feel Thoroughly
well and strong. But relaxed muscles and
llgaments, rasped nerves and inflamed
mucous membranes must be given time, as
we'll as proper conditions, for recovery.
10 every intelligent, thoughtful woman
the reason for my frequent quotations from
private correspondence will be apparent. A
letter from one of these sufferers-and thew
! are scattered all over the country from
| Maine to acknowledgements the keynote
| OF general pain; one woLnan's experience
| Is the experience of others, and if she can
| obtain relief by means of common sense
| measures, others are influenced by her ex-
ample.
Another correspondent who seems gener-
| ally we'll Informed, but who is wefullv
astray on hygienic subjects, takes me to
| 70 GL al .,-I,,
lures on hot bread" The writer is "never
very WE'LL" and she has no appetite for
anything scarcely, excepting warm biscuits,
| preserves and cakes and pies" If she did
| not eat what she wanted she would not eat
anything" and ''it must be better to eat
something than to starve to death"
| This is the feeblest inanity, aud from one
point or view quite unworthy of serious
| consideration But fool though this girl is
she represents large class, and my expert
ence has proved that even such simpletons
| can have some sense knocked into them A
| physician from Philadelphia, and re-
| nowned specialist in nervous disea es. to Id
me not long ago that very large percen l.
| age of the patients brought to HIM more or
less mentally affected were made so from
insomnia produced by dyspepsia. "And, d"
he added, with an emphasis which | am not
| likely to forget, 81 believe that dough is
largely instrumental in inducing this dis
| easen
| "DoughW replied.
Eyes, madam, dough. Take your hot
biscuits, for instance, that look as white as
snow and as light as a feather, and scrape
| out the inside and work it a bit between
your thumb and fingers. What have youi
Why, dough, pure and simple-a wad, upon
which the gastric juice makes about as
| much impression as that breaker produces
upon that rock yonder. This dough cannot
nourlsb the body for an article of diet,
impossible to digest can have no assimilat-
ing power, and so the beautiful human
machinery, which would be glad to do It's
work smoothly and beneficently, is loaded
up with stuff that can only destroy
| 1t" In the course of converse
ton my companion spoke of a
delicious bread which could be eaten with
perfect safety by the most pronounced dys-
peptic. " hen | asked him for the recipe
he smiled, and drew from his pocket a
| small memorandum book. | have copied
what | found there word for word. Three
cups of middlings, three cups of Graham
flour, two great spoonfuls of sugar, one tea
spoonful of salt, and a Fleischman's
compressed yeast cake. Dissolve the
yeast in little warm water,
| and boil-be sure and boil-enough milk to
make a soft dough. When the milk is cool
| enough for comfortable use, mix thor
| oughly. Set in warm place to rise. In the
| morning mix into loaves, raise again and
| bake. Eat the third day"
There" said my friend, as | finished
copying. lis life and health and peace"