The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-15

Need for Sleep-"The crying need of
American women, says physician whose
speciality of nervous diseases brings him in
contact with plenty of the nervous type of
the sex, sis sleep. Over and over | tell
my women patients: Sleep all you can,
nine, ten hours every night, and, no mat
ter how much ct night, sleep surely one
hour of daylight Many OF them reply:
Il don't have time to sleep during the day.
Take tune, l say you'll get it back good
measure, pressed down, running over
Then they can't sleep in the daytime
That is nonsense. They may not the first
few days; but very soon, after persistently
making the effort every day at a certain
time, the habit will be formed and will be
difficult to break.
Il believe ii the women servants in our
houses were allowed a haif-hour nap
every day, if more seemed impossible,
the mistress would find that she was more
than repaid in better service. But every
woman who can ContrOi her tiIac SHOULD
so arrange her duties ss 10 spend an hour
asleep every day. Take II OF OF come
thing-your fancy WORK. yoTr reading.
your children o clothes, yOur stopping
steal few minutes iron. hal dozen
occupations snd put them into the re-
ifeshmen. when only sleep can bring.
and you viii be- q healthier uandsoner
woman. s. better Christian. amt 81 con-
siderable more use ia the world il every
way"
Breathing Through the Nose.-Dr. J. NJ.
Buckley. who has been writing a series OF
articles on physical Culture" for the
Cbautduqtdn, says that breathing exer-
clses are of great value, most easily prac-
t,oaJ apI ,x,va avoallapt ract,lfo - not
necessary to have en- elaborate system.
The nOstrils are the proper organs of
breathing. Man. unlike some other ami
mails, is capable of breathing through the
mouth if the nostrils are obstructed, and
many from habit or debility continually
do so-a practice, whether by day or by
night, attended with many evils; whereas
every breath OF pure air q man inhales
through his nostris is a breath of life.
One exercise, requiring fifty or hum
dred times a day, requiring no more
than ten minutes all together. Is of th
greatest advantage and can be done out
of doors as well as in. at almost any sea-
son of the year. 1t consists of inhaiing
through the nostrils deep breath, retain
ing it few seconds. and then with the
lips adjusted as if one intended to whistle,
expelling it slowly through the contracted
orifce. There is no physiological objec-
ton TO exhaling through the mouth;
there are no muscles whereby the course
of the breath can be restrained through
the nostTils. but the lips contain sufficient
muscular strength Tor this purpose. Ii
students would rise from their studies,
bookkeepers from their desks, women
from their sewing reading, two or three
times day and take from fifteen to thirty
such breaths the result would surprise
them.
Consumption NAV be cured. if it has but
q slight start, by the strict observance of
com nonsense rules of health which are
known to everyone almost without teach
ing 0ftentImes physicians warnings and
instructions fail to impress the sick one.
She waits until death stares her in the
fsce before she heeds advice. But it lie not
always those best fitted to save life that
succeed in doing il. An outside observer
that never had seen a work on physiology
or any other medical work, and had never
heard of the tubercle bacillus even, may
be Just the person able to effect the cure
of lung disease. How2 How you ask.
BY appealing to the vanity of the patient,
or that OF the patients mother. This
succeeds best when the consumptive is a
young girl. If The child is indifferent to
her personal appearance her mother will
be. One cannot create a beautiful face,
but she can make herself most attractive
by cultivating fine carriage and taking
such exercise as will develop good figure.
During the growing period (which is from
childhood to twenty-five years of age)
both girls and boys should be obliged to
sit erect, the should be thrown back, the
head held up. the mouth should be kept
closed and the breathing done through
the nose. In walking step quickly and
misunderstanding. staggering steps never