The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-23
EIanlth Hints.

For Night Sweats-Night sweats may
often be arrested by sponging the body ut
night with very hot water 1t is also
great help toward toning up the skin to
rub the body briskly in the morning with
a bathing towel wrung out of salt water.
The salt enters the pores and stimulates
the skin to healthy action.
New Remedy for Stoutness-The latest
French cure Ter oyer-fat has, at least. the
merit OF novelty. The person trying 1t
must never eat but one thing at a meal.
There is no limit as to quantity. But one
thing must suffice, be 1t meat, bread fish
or vegetable. The cure is simplicity
itself, aud has some ground of reason be-
hind il.
Hot Rooms Bad Air and Wrinkles
Wrinkles are the index of nervous condi-
ton. Upright lines between the ewes
indicate mental trouble, thought, care or
temper more than physical illness Fine
Melted lines about the eyes denote nerv-
Gus exhaustion and the depression which
follows overstimulus. Women are likely
to get them from living and sleeping in
close, hot rooms. The latest scientific
writer on the subject 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 sensitlveness
to the air, which, noxious or
pure, is our chief nutriment.
inhaled by gallons hourly. When the
nerves are deRdened by close air, the fine
muscles lose their tone, the tissues of the
face shrink, and these shrinkages become
wrinkles. At first thew are fugitive; a
weeks watching may write the face over
with cross-hatching of fine lines, and an
other week of rest will restore lost tissue,
fat and fluids to fill the space and smooth
the face again.
Recreation in Lung Disease-The Journal
of The american Medical association recon-
mends to invalids afflicted with lung dis.
ease that they shall take exercise, but
always exercise with an object. LET the
daily walks and rides have some purpose,
il nothing more than the performance of
the domestic erraDds OF the family. II
he loves art and music, his taste should be
eratifed. There should be a moderate
indulgence in out-of.door sports, as
bicycling. bail, surf-bathing when
allowable, horseback riding and skat-
ing Our lady patients have their
ymnastics-tricycle, horseback riding.
anc skating-and OF great importance,
their vocal gymnastics. This will expand
( the lungs and strengthen the pectoral and
respiratory muscles, being a pleasant rec
reation, and at the same time most ex-
cellent means OF bathing the air-cells with
oxygen and teaching the vocal organs the
proper performance OF their functions.
After few weeks OF judicious practice
the dimensions of the chest will be found
10 have increased from four 10 FIVE inches.
Practicing at the piano, needle work or
any employment which requires close
application and necessitates contraction of
the chest walls in its performances should
be forbidden"
To avert wrinkles the nervous and over
taxed must rest and eat nourishing food.
The neuralgia should eat roast fat and
make food tempting with condiments.
adding TO their fare the sound, coarse
/ bread which contains phosphate to feed
their starved nerves, and is the great regu-
lator OF nutritive function. Too often the
trouble is not so much what people eat but
what they don't eat, and do not get pro-
| vided for them at table. Leanness and
wrinkles 90 together We seldom see a
] florid plethoric woman with them, as the
supply OF food keeps the skin in repair.
Steaming the face is the fashionable treat
ment to remove wrinkles, but it is an idea
| OF American adoption, il not original.
French specialists deprecate steaming.
| They say that IL makes wrinkles worse
] when the practice is suspended and assert
that IL causes falling OF eyelashes and eye
! brows. The intensely hot sieaming NAV
have that effect in certain states of the
blood, and it must cause determination
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