The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-06
HYGIENE FOR HOME.
Keep the Head Hot and Wet
and the Hair Will Fall.
CRIME DUE TO BAD COOKING.
Nearly all Wines Are Doctored 30 That
1t Is DifacuIt to Get the
Genuine Article.

A celebrated German physician has
come out with some practical advice about
badness, which should be carefully con-
sidered at this season of the year. 1t is
antagonistic to the French doctrine re-
Gently promulgated BY clever writer that
badness Is the sign of culture, and in the
course OF time We lose our hair, teeth and
other things supplied by nature. Heavy.
heating headgear in the summer time
cauSes badness much more than any
other one thing, and the man that
wants TO become bald should not wear
straw hat. Moisture is the deadly enemy
OF hair, and heavy, warm coverings OF
the head produce moisture rapidly. The
Russian and Turkish baths are like
wise condemned by the German doc
tor as instrumental IN producing bright,
shiny pates. The frequent use of any
steam bath produces moisture enough to
kill the hair, and the habitues OF such
luxury-produclng places nearly all have
bald heads. The seaside bathing also
comes In for its share of attention. Water
tight bathing caps should never be used,
and diving should be avoided as much as
possible. Wetting the head every day in
this way Will make the hair come out in
handfuis. He mentions instances where
men have become bald in six weeks from
continual diving in salt water. Washing
and wetting the hair every morning is
dangerous, while the various hair oils
pomades, coloring substances and other in
ventions OF the BARRIERS and per-
tuners are likely to produce badness
in similarly short time Finally
warning is given about the carrying of
scalp diseases by the dandruff. The dand-
ruff consists of small parasites. which viii
produce bald spots on the hacks of rabbits
and mice and spread there and these are
communicated from one head to another
by the BARRIERS brush. Two persons
should never use the same hair brush, and
the BARRIERS should be made to disinfect
their brushes before using them on several
customers. Frequent cutting of the hair
tends 70 Kill it, and make il drop out. and
the heaviest and most beautiful hair is
always found on heads where it is seldom
cut. This accounts partly for the fact that
women are never bald.
COOKING REFORM.
A curious cause of crime has been dis
covered, which has led to an important re-
form in cooking. Bad food and worse
cooking are indirectly the cause of much
crime and vice. and Professor Eggleston,
of Columbia college, is leading reform in
this direction, which is a great advance
upon the scientific cooking schools estab-
lisned for young women. Crime and vice
are looked upon as diseases which are the
result of diseased conditions and hence a
great deal OF the mental attitude which
produces crime is the result of bodily con-
dition:. Indigestibie food produces in
Hammatton and arrangement of the storn-
ach and of other organs of the body, which
causes predisposition to excuses
OF all kinds, a craving for stimu-
lants, until the man becomes brute The
cause OF all this, or greater part of it, is
bad food and poor cooking methods. The
scientific and sanitary conditions Of cook
ing have never been thoroughly investi-
gated and expoimEed, but the chemistry
OF cooking viii Hereafter be treated in
course of carefully prepared lectures which
will do much toward improving the con-
ditions of all. Besides improving the
food, the cost Of this cooking will be con-
siderably less than by the common meth
DDS. In several charitable institutions
this new reform is conducted, and the
movement will not stop until all of the
prisons and penal institutions are likewise
enlisted in the good cause.
IMPURE LIQUORS.
Right in connection with this subject
may be mentioned again some additional
facts concerning the summer use of impure
drinks. The use of beer, wines and other
drinks in hot weather is something enor-
nous. and many people gorge themselves
with impure products that render digestion
almost impossible. Nearly all wines are
doctored, disguised or falsifed to degree
that renders it extremely hard to get an
honest article. A very large proportion of
the brandy consumed all over the world is
made with little or no wine, and is
simply alcohol distilled as in the
preparation of whisky, and colored
with oil Of cognac. Brandy should
be the choicest and most agree
able member of the class of ardent spirits.
It should be prepared from the distilla-
ton of wine; when LOO gallons of wine
yield from 100 10 l50 gallons Of brandy,
consisting OF 30 TO 81 per cent. of absolute
alcohol. There is no preparation used as
food or medicine in which there IS SO
great variation IN quality as in brandy.
Beer Is likewise doctoFed and made dam
gerous. There IS now a growing belief
among sanitarians that salicylic acid is
being used more and more extensively in
the preservation of canned fruits, milk
wine. beer and other articles. To such
an extent has this been done in
Paris that the French government
has twice taken action upon the matter.
In beer the chief authorizations are yeast
and 5icarb0nate of soda. In some OF the
bottled beer salicylic acid is found. The
amount Of this acid required TO preserve
beer is about twelve 10 fifteen grains per
gallon. The acid. if taken continuously,
tends TO injure digestion and irritate the
kidneys. One cannot be too careful in
taxing these drinks in hot weather, and
when Drre kind iS fnunH IL ShOUid ia
taken in preference 10 all others. but even
then moderation should be the rule gov
erning its use.
A s. ATKINSON, NJ ID,
Pupils in schools for the Blind.