The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-20
Health Hats

Dyspepsia-Sleep greatly aids dyspep-
tics. An hours sleep before dinner even
a short nap, greatly rests the stomach and
enables 1t TO undertake digestion. A little
rest before all meals-but ten or fifteen
minutes-may avert an attack of dyspepsia,
and certainly render less severe the attack
OF those suffering from it habitually.
To Make Hair Grow-The first essential
is TO have ones system in good running
order; to accomplish this one should have
regular meals, regular and sufficient rest
ing and sleeping hours and refrain from
excuses of all kinds, and the bowels
should never be permitted TO become con-
stipated. diet largely composed of oat-
meal and brown bread greatly promotes
the growth of hair 1t is a well-known
fact that those races that consume the
most meat are the most hirsute a milk
diet will not supply the elements neces-
sary for the growth or nutrition of the hair
and consequently falling out results.
Caring For the Misunderstanding upon
the necessity OF caring for the mouth and
fauces, a sanitary writer in the New York
hdeDendent says: THE foulness of air
and the need of ventilation is not so much
because of the carbonic acid in the air as
from the organic matter in mobile or de-
cayIng state. Especially where there are
assemblages, as in schools and public
rooms, the bad breath of a dozen persons
Is more polluting than that of hundred
whose mouths are in perfectly healthy
and normal condition. Hence we cannot
too much insist upon mouth rinsing and
frequent cleansing of the breath as indis-
pensable to young and old. Often there is
need to add the use of some pleasant dis
lnfectant as thymOl. borax. etc. The sub
lect IS q most important one, not only in
relation to the health of the individual
but TO the prevention of disease. 1t is now
we'll understood by physicians that in
those who are exposed TO disease we are APP
parently able sometimes to prevent conta-
gion by early and close attention to the
mouth and it's secre;iOns. Children should
use the toothbrush if, for no other reason
than that, as consequence, there is rims
ing of the mouth. The use of ordinary
boraX as a mouth wash is valuable"
The Cellar-In planning for the preser-
walton of health, as III the prosecution of
all other affairs, it is well to begin ct the
beginning. One OF the beginning places is
the cellar under the house. In thousands
OF dwellings the cellar is the lurking place
of pestilent disorders. This should not be-
In the prize essay of the American Public
Health association the following careful
rules for cellar construction and care are
laid down, which are so good they cannot
BIO too often reprinted:
Every dwelling house, even that which
has but one room in it. should either have
a cellar or should be raised sufficiently
high from the ground to allow free sup
ply OF air under it. The walls of the cell
lar should be perfectly water and air-tight.
1t is better, In making the excavation, to
fhaa - e. Ii l. L
than the line on which the outside of the
wall will stand; then, after the walls have
been built, pack the space with clay or
gravel. In this way the walls of the cell
lar are more likely to be kept dry. II
built OF brick the walls should be hollow,
consisting OF a thin outer wall TWO or
three inches from the main wall. The
two are firmly held together by OCCASION
ally placing brick across from one to the
other as the walls are being built. Unless
this is done moisture will pass through a
brick wall 1t matters not how thick il may
be.
The cellar floor should be OF concrete,
about six inches thick, and covered with
Portland cement or asphalt II the soil
be very damp thing should be placed
under the cellar floor and carried out be-
meath the wall 10 a larger tile, which
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some suitable receptacle.
1t Is absolutely essential to a healthy
house that its cellar should be free from
dampness and ground air. In order TO
secure these requisites the walls and floor
OF the cellar must be well built, even if il
becomes necessary, on account of increased
cost, to deprive the superstructure of
some OF its ornamentation.
The cellar should be we'll supplied with
light by having windows above ground.
or by sunken areas in front of the win
dows. The window sashes should be
hung on hinges, so that they may be
easily opened when the cellar needs an
airing.
If the cellar is to be used for several
purposes as the location of the heating
apparatus and the storage of fuel and
vegetables, it should be divided into COM
partments, the temperature of which may
be kept at different degrees.
Basement bedrooms are almost univer-
sally unhealthy, and should be used only
in cases of absolute necessity. 1t is also
best not to have tile kitchen in the base.
ment, especially ii the room directly above |
be occupied. If stationary wash-tubs be |