Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

Sometimes pneumonia settles in at the same
time the grip attacks one, and the two work
hand in hand. The case, then, must become
serious.
Severe attacks of malaria are also pretty
generally apt to follow the grip if one is
exposed to the air where the germs are
present. Night and early morning air
should be avoided The convalescents
should take their airing in the middle of
the day, when the sun is bright and warm,
and all marshy, low, damp places should be
avoided. Typhoid fever and scarlet fever,
although entirely distinct from the grip,
are very apt to become epidemic in regions
where the grip has held stronghold. The
germs of these diseases happen to find
favorable ground for developing among
feeble patients of the grip, and regular
epidemic is thus easily induced. Here
again the greatest precautioD is to boil all
the drinking water. Also be careful of the
milk and syphon bottles which are sent
around from the dairy and druggists Often
these bottles have been in households where
scarlet fever and typhoid reign, and some of
the disease germs are carried away. The
bottle establishments should be compelled
by law to soak all of the bottles in boiling
water before filling them again. but that
they are lax in this one can readily i'm
agine.
Physical Education in the Schools.
Some IL years ago the W. C. T. q. made
an effort to introduce in the public school
system, instruction in physiology and hy-
giene, with special reference to the effect
of stimulants and narcotics upon the human
system. They succeeded in this State, and
indeed, all but nine of the States have
adopted the law, and so successful was the
Union in its influence upon the public
schools that it has just now made new de-
parture. It is endeavoring to develop the
individual scholars call around" by devot-
ing part of their time to physical ethics.
Professorships in the schools devoted en-
tirely to the system of educating and de-
veloping the body are being established in
some of the schools through the efforts of
the Temperance Union. The, physical
ethics course will consist of instructions in
physiology, hygiene, vital chemistry and
physical teaching.
The chief idea contained in this new de-
parture is to enforce upon the minds of the
ment as the foundation of all success in life. |
The goddess of health will be enshrined in |
the hearts of all those who pass through the |
course. This education might be considered |
a preliminary to the Del Sarte system, or a |
school for this higher develop |
ment of the body in accordance with certain
ethical laws The perfectly developed body
is but an expression of the thoughts and
actions of the person, or at least should be.
1t was partly through the perfection of the
physical form that the Greeks, with their
models of health and beauty, accomplished |
such wonders in art and literature.
Milk for the Lean People.
Many cannot take milk in the summer
time, owing to the acidity of their stomachs
which curdles and sours it. In the winter
time, however, great many can gain sew
sral pounds of flesh by taking milk daily.
Such people should not drink the milk,
out sip it. Even the stomach that nauseates
1t the thought of milk will often retain it
# slipped or drunk with a spoon. When
Trunk down rapidly it enters the stomach
md forms the solid curdled mass, which is
hard of digestion. When taken gradually
he gastric juice separates it, and freely d.
rests it.
Lean, nervous people should try this if
hey would gain flesh during the cold sea-
ION. 1t is as good supplement to the meat
md fat diet now so generally adopted in
,old weather. A. S. ATKINSON, NJ. D.