St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-17
HEALTH HINTS.
For Keeping Well, Getting Well
and Looking Well.

Recreation in Lung Disease The
Journal of the American Medical asso-
citation recommends TO invalids afflicted
with lung disease that they shall take
exercise, but always exercise with an
object: "Let the daily walks and rides
have some purpose, if nothing more than
the performance of the domestic errands
of the family. Ii he loves art and music,
his tastes should be gratified. There
should be a moderate indulgence in
out-of-dO0r sports, as bicycling,
ball, surf-bathing when allowable,
horseback riding, and skating.
Our lady patients have their
gymnastics tricycle.. horseback riding,
and skating-and of great Importance,
their vocal gymnastics This will ex-
paud the lungs and strengthen the pee
toral and respiratory muscles, being a
pleasant recreation, and at the same
time a most excellent means of bathing
the air cells with oxygen and teaching
the vocal organs the proper perform
ance of their functions. After few
weeks of judicious practice the dimen-
sions of the chest will be found to have
increased from four to five inches.
Practicing at the piano, needle work, Ur
any employment which requires close
application and neceSSitateS contrac-
ton of the chest walls in its perform
ance should be forbidden"
New Remedy for StOutness-The lat
est French cure for Over-fat has, at
least. the merit of novelty. The person
trying it must never eat but one thing
at meal There is no limit as to
quantity. But one thing must suffice,
be it meat, bread, fish or vegetable.
This cure is simplicity itself, and has
some ground of reason behind it.
For Night Sweats.-NIght sweats may
often be arrested by sponging the body
at night with very hot water. 1t is also
a great help toward toning up the skin
to rub the body briskly in the morning
with bathing towel wrung out of salt
water. The salt enters the pores and
stimulates the skin to healthy action.
Hot Rooms, Bad Air and Wrinkles
Wrinkles are the index of nervous con-
dition. Upright lines between the eyes
indicate mental trouble, thought, care
or temper more than physical illness.
Fine Melted lines about the eyes de-
note nervous exhaustion. and the de-
preston which follows OYerstlmulus.
Women are likely to get them from liv-
ing and sleeping in close, hot rooms.
The latest scientific writer OH the sub
ject says the air in our rooms should be
changed three times every hour. The
skin owes its beauty to the nerves which
control the fine, invisible blood vessels
of the surface, whose work lends glow
and transparency to the face. The
nerves in turn owe their sensitiveness
to the air, which, noxious or pure,
our chief nutriment, Inhaled
by gallons hourly. When the
nerves are deadened by close air, the
fine muscles lose their tone, the tissues
of the face shrink, and these shrinkages
become wrinkles. At first they are
fugitive; a weeks watching may write
the face over with cross-hatching of fine
lines, and another week of rest will re-
store lost tissue, fat aud fluids to fill the
space and smooth the face again.
To avert wrinkles the nervous and
overtaxed must rest and eat nourisEing
food. The neuralgia should eat roast
fat and make food tempting with condi-
ments, adding to their fare the sound,
coarse bread which contains phosphate
to feed their starved nerves, and is the
great regulator of nutritiye function.
Too often the trouble is not so much
what people eat, but what they don't
eat, and do not get provided for them at
table. Leanness and wrinkles 20 to-
gether. We seldom see fiOrid pleth-
Oric woman with them, as the supply OF
food keeps the skin in repair.