Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-06-28
GIRLS EEADACH ES.

Languor ard headache in girl may
seem q slight malady to teacher used
to the subjugation of her own feelings,
but it will not do to take this ground.
Headaches mean functions out OF order,
and the way to harmonize physical re-
lations is not to treat them as If moth
ing was the matter. The headaches of
ths schoolgirl have q relation to the
hysterical breaking down OF mature
womanhood, and neglect OF the early
symptoms makes it no easier to cure
final arrangements.
The indulgent mothers are nearer
right then the strict teachers, as long
as the food of children remains what 1t
il. When the system is oppressed with
digestive injuries, steady tas king the
brain is a sure way to overthrow the
nerves altogether. The harm done
Young people by bad feeding and
stri,t schooling together has laid the
train for many a middle age of i'm
vaired usefulness and invalIdism. At
boarding schools, where the fare Is
of various degrees of unwholesome
plainness. headaches and Mysteries
spring from two causes-indlgestlon
and want of fresh air.
The diet of schools and students
everywhere needs special supervision,
which it will not have till the skill of
the physician, cook and gastronome
combine in one person. Doctors are
not so far out of the way when they
ordain for i'll nourished rich girls the
least amount of study which will be
tolerated by school authorities. They
see further into life than college presI-
dents and do their best to make the
frail outfit of strength last into the
future.
Natures instinct for self-preserva-
tion prompts much of the shirking
which tries the souls OF high minded
teachers. Let them take this enconr-
agement to heart and make themselves
allies of nature instead of waging per-
petual wasting war upon her. Slmpli-
fy study to the last degree, shorten
tasks till they cannot be burdensome.
Then insist on recitations being letter
perfect and the pupils able to give II
good explanation of what they learn,
putting it at once to some practical test
as the only infallible way of fixing it
in mind. You will get better resu'tS
than with your pressure systems aud
train the mind to reason and hold
what it receives, which 1t cannot do
with your crammlng.
1t took stout, beef eating Englishmen
I % wage CromwelHs revolution, and
equally we'll fed descendants to raise
our own. At the rate our people are
physically falling OF it is doubtful il
they will ever raise spirit for active
protest against the most atrocious bur-
dens again.
Experience proves beyond question
that the condensed activity of modern
life cannot be kept up without ample
supplies OF the food which is readIest
converted into nerve force, and that is
beef and muttOn and other flesh which
leeds on grain and grass, and also
cereals and milk. The latter is a most
important food, supplying the mater
ial needed for making tissue in the
simplest form and the most easily
, assimilated.
All the young love apples, and one
Or two should be eaten before break
last, and the same before dinner. Then
walk around leisurely. Let this be
about half an hour before your meal.
Play if you choose, but do no work.
Then eat lightly of beef, mutton, fowl,
Or fish. Use apple sauce or bsk ed
apples. Eat vegetables that you like
N moderate quantities. Let pastry en-
tIrely alone. You do not need it. You
have eaten enough. For supper par
take of fruit sauce aud cereals. Drink
chocolate if you find it agrees. With
this diet yol will gain strength faster
than with more meat and less fruit.
You will not lay on fat, but muscle,
aud your whole physical economy will
grow without being constantly Irritsted
or clogged.
RolliD, speaking of the athletes of
Greece, says that their chief food was
figs, nuts, soft cheese and coarse bread.
Modern Greeks are peculiarly athletic,
and their food is black bread, with a
bunch of grapes and some figs. The
bostmen of Constantinople rejoice in a
splendid physical development, yet
their diet is chiefly bread, with cher
ries, figs, dates, mulberries or other
fruit. In short, the experience of man
kind shows that simple food, including
much fruit, conduces to strength and
longevity.
OF fruits in America the apple takes
first rank, aud it is fortunately the
most plentiful. 1t is among fruits
what wheat is among cereals. 1t con-
talns everything necessary for nutri-
ment and has the advantage of being
easily digested. The stomach can dis
pose Of it in eighty-fiv minutes. Ripe
apples. pears and plums. all eaten raw,
correct acidity of the stomach by salts
contained in themselves. The finest
physique DIR. Maurice ever knew was
one "built from childhood on milk,
fruit, corn and wheat" This was how
the cannibals used to feed the children
designed for their great feasts. The
fruit, cereal and milk diet made the
flesh particularly tender, healthy and
appetizinG. These cannibals knew a
thing or two. The person DR.. Maurice
mentions has absolutely perfect di-
gestion.' That person ought to go
around for a show for the benefit of his
fellow-countrymen. They would pay
we'll to see one who had absolutely per-
feet digestion and ii would ba worth