Evening star., 1895-06-01

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HETHg1 " had unimpaired di-
W.T. ~ gestion and a heal
Y 'NA2s@r thy stomach.
One dyspeptic in
the house will sour the whole family.
Nine-tenths of the human race are born
with tendency to stomach troubles, and
the mothers finish up the business by per-
mitting the.r childrens internal organs to
become the dumping ground of all the
trash in the shape of sweets and acids and
stale fruit that pennies will purchase at
the nearest corner grocery.
Begins In the Cradle.
1t begins tefore that, even. The baby in
the cradle has to take it's dose of ignorant
mothering. 1t cries; possibly pin, band
too tight. roll in it's clothing that presses
it's tender flesh is irritating 1t. More than
likely "a little indigestion" from it's last
overgorge of bad breast milk has given it
the collie. The worried mother, thinking
that feeding" Is the best medicine for
crying baby, and knowing that with its
mouth full it can't cry, Immediately pro-
ceeds to nurse it.
The baby fills itself up to the chin, kick
ing and squirming, and often trying to get
away from the breast, but pressed back.
In utter exhaustion it falls asleep. to
awaken i'll about ten minutes with shrek
that would make Cheyenne blush. For
two straight hours that poor little victim
of mothers ignorance or Incidence will
writhe in the agony of collie, it's tender
stomach tormented with deluges of pare
goric, peppermint, catnip tea and lot of
other messes, which fill it up till the tiny
sufferer calls nature to aid and throws all
the horrible stuff up and then it falls
asleep, perspiring, white and limp.
For hours it's little frame will be sore
and aching. and it will moan If stirred:
Yet in less than twenty-four hours it will
have to go through the same experience.
Is it much wonder that the weanling is
fretful ard dubbed a cross baby?
Just fill an adult up on sweets and ices,
bread and meat and pastry. Let his stom-
ach get to grumbling; then take him to
big dinner and fill him up again. You can't
safely remain in the same house with him
till he gets over his i'll temper, headache
and indigestion.
With the constant irritation of soured.
undigested food the child's stomach gets
into the same diseased condition, and un-
less 1t has a constitution of iron it de-
velcps into a whining, peevish, nervous
youth and dyspeptic adult
The remedy for this condition of affairs
lies in finding what suits each ones needs
in the way Of sustenance, and then serv-
ing just those things at stated periods.
Long fasting is as fatal to good health as
much feasting. Both extremes should be
avoided by those who wish to retain good
compilations and perfect health. Regular
ity in all the conditions of life is absolutely
essential to one who has inherited weak
digestion. and just as essential to one who
has good digestion and desires to keep it.
Feeding the Baby.
AS the start for poor digestion begins in
the cradle there is a good place to start to
remedy a national disease. Have regular
hours for feeding the baby and feed it then
and no other time. Overheating. fits of
temper, worry and anxiety, acid foods. tea
and coffee, these and a dozen other things
feed disorder and indigestion to the baby
through the mothers milk, and the effect
will show when the little one gets colcky,
sleepless and has Drotracted. spells of cry
ing. baby should nurse once in two
hours for a month, once in three hours
for four months, and once in four hours
after it Is five months old. The mother
who will establish such regularity of meals
for her baby, and not let it gorge itself,
will find that it will readily accommodate
itself to them, and never trouble her with
demands for nourishment between times.
But if she has a habit of catching 1t up
every time it cries and feeding it little
the youngster will soon learn that 1t has
but to shrek and 1t will be taken up. Ba-
bies are cunning creatures and perfect
tyrants
A perfectly healthy child ought to eat at
regular intervals. say, four times day;
have only plain food and sufficient to sat
isfy hunger, but never be permitted to
gorge itself on any dish of which it is par
ticularly fond. The habit of "piecing' is
almost criminal. Indeed, that diseased
stomach will turn a man into criminal is
a scientific fact. If a child is not strong
it's digestion will be naturally weak, and
1t should have its food carefully prepared,
and eat a little oftener, because 1T does not
eat so much at time, and the human body
has to have fuel to keep 1t running prop
erly.
Care of New Diet.
If you say diet to a man who calls in
doctor he flies into a passion and declares
that he will eat what he wants and when
he wants it, and that it does him no harm.
Probably If he had needed the warnings of
nature and been moderately careful of his
diet the doctor would never have been
called. Your own good sense will tell you
that If you throw water on the brightest
fire it will smother 1t and long enough con-
tinued will leave blackened mass of ruins.
Hence, if you eat things that you know
have always disagreed with you you can't
help knowing also that you will put out
the fires of healthy combustion in your
body, and that if you keep up the indiscre-
ton YOU will at last wreck your health COM
pletely.
Women are the most careless. indis-
eliminating eaters in the world. I heard
woman say at a restaurant table recently,
where she was lunching with friends, that
pie did not agree with her and that milk
always soured on her stomach but that
in hurry with her shopping she always
took pie and milk, to get through quickly,
and then finished of with some chocolates
to "munch" on.
1 looked at her plate and she had two
kinds of pie, and a glass Of half cream and
half milk. When she got up to leave, l
saw that she was afflicted, as indiscrimin-
ating eaters generally are, with large
abdomen Her habits of eating, as dis
played in her luncheon, very largely ac-
count for it. She ate things that filled
her up" to put it coarsely, and caused
flatulence, distending the stomach with
gases. Drinking great quantities of liquid:
such as tea and coffee. or a great deal of
milk or water, will distend the stomach in
the same manner, and cause the uncom-
Portable "full' feeling, of which SO many
women complain, and which is only
species of indiges tion.
Bolting ones food is another way of
superinducing fatty folds about the abdo-
men. Nearly everybody eats too fast, and
a failure to properly masticate ones food
is sure to bring on a disagreeable hour,
while the overworked stomach is grum-
blingly performing Its labor.
To Keep Good Temper andLooks.
The woman who wants to be considered
bright and handsome and charming has
got to pay strict attention to her diet, If
she ever suffers with attacks Of indiges-
ton. because one attack brings second