Omaha daily bee., 1895-03-11
CARE OF THE BODY.
Mrs. Jenness Miner's Lecture on Food an
Cleanliness.

Cleanliness.
Mrs. Jenness Miller recently delivered
lecture in st. Louis on 'efhe Artistic Care Of
the Body" s'Nh
Mrs. Miller began in her usual unccnven-
tional way: 81 want to call your attention to
the sickly, nervous girls Of 1S the broken
down women OF 40. and the decayed, decrepit
wrecks Of so and 70 and then ask you If you
think this Is the way the Creator intended us
TO be. believe that II we knew the laws
which regulate health, the woman Of 80 would
look younger than the girl Of is does today
and the woman of 20 would be still in her
prime. But the trouble is women don't know
these laws. You are going on to extremes in
the matter of culture, but are absolutely ig-
norant of the practical, simple rules which
ought to govern everyday life. | was invited
to lecture once before one Of the most highly
cultured woman's clubs in the country. They
read philosophy in the original Greek, and
studied sculpture and architecture, and had
representative abroad to dig out antiquities,
and you may imagine 1t was with good deal
Of trepdaton that | ventured before them.
But when asked them whether they could
tell me the number of bones in the human
body, only one woman raised her hand. She
said it was either forty or 240 she had for
gotten which. You may say as she did, that
bones is a coarse subject TO talk about, and
you don't see what difference it makes how
many there are but l say that II you don't
understand anatomy you don't know how to
take care of your body, and you're not fit to
have a body. Suppose you had new house,
fitted out with the latest inventions, electric
bells, sanitary plumbing, etc, would you as
sensible woman walk into this house and say:
i dent want to know anything about these
things. 1t is enough that l have the house
don't care to notice It's anatomy? or
course not. You would want to know the
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that you could get the best use of its inn
provements. So, if you don't know the struc-
ture of the bones and nerves and muscles, and
how each one is related to the other, how are
YOU going to know whether you are not vast
ing your nervous energy, or whether you are
giving each part its proper nourishment?
"Oliver Wendell Holmes says What your
cook gives you is what you are and it's a
fact. In the next twenty-five years we are
going to make a wonderful improvement along
this line. We are going to do away entirely
with the individual family kitchen, where
half the food goes into the waste barrel. In
stead of ignorant girls who have no knowledge
of the nutritive qualities of different kinds Of
| food we will have in our cooperative kitchen
scientific highly educated chefs who will act
not only as cooks, but as physicians. In the
| time to come, If a member of the family gets
a bad complexion, she will go to the cook and
say, Chef something must be done for this
| complexion and he will be able to prepare
| her food so as to remedy the ailment. There
| isn't the slightest reason IN the world why
| people should ever have rheumatism or neu-
ralgia. One is the cry of starved muscles, the
| other Of starved nerves, and the simple cure
| is to change the diet. ..E 4.
| But as we can't have the scientific chef
| for some years to come, l am going to give
you few hints that you yourselves can act
upon In the first place, there is oatmeal.
| ta,it,, nr an,ili nfp For
breakfast 365 days in the year, and think
they are really doing the right thing when
| they force their children to eat 1t. | would
like to have somebody present me one actual
reason why oatmeal should be eaten. You
say, 1t is good Why is it good? oh, every.
body says So Exactly, and what everybody
says is always wrong; 1t is of all foods the
most difficult Of digestion, yand when soaked
| with cream ard sugar is utterly abominable
But you say, The Scotch eat oatmeal, and
they are strong people, But what suits the
Scotchman won't suit the American at all
He has d temperament that can be nourshet
on oatmeal but the American temperament
and the climate, too, is altogether different
| We are a conglomerate race, and we need
complex food. l believe in courses, and
think soup should always begin the dinner
Then should follow an entree Of meat cooked
so as to get out every particle Of nourish
ment, and then there should be a vegetable
one is enough-then a nice fruit sauce Of
fresh fruit in its season. or ice cream, bu
when you have one, don't have the other
And above all things, don't load your table
with pies and cakes. They are not nourlshing
they only bloat the body.
"When you have studied out the question
of nourishing the body, you have done
great deal, but one other thing is also yer.
important. The body must also be kept clean
| venture to say that not one woman in
| dra5 ic no in1a Sb
leaves the cradle until she is laid in her grave
And l will take any one Of yol who have neve
had a Turkish or Russian bath or Swedis
massage-I will take you twenty minutes afte
you leave your bath tub and prove to yo
that you never have been clean. A questio
! has been asked me 5000 times, | am sure
Mrs Miller, what do you do for the complex
ion? and I want to answer it now by sayin
J that after five years investigation | have com
to the conclusion that there is nothing tina
you can put on this little patch that will b
of any permanent benefit, and don't be de
luded by quacks into believing that there II
? The only way is to treat the skin an orgar
use the sun BATH the Turkish towel, and friC
! tion--by that mean rub the skin gently wit
the tips of three fingers, using a rotary me
, tion. l cannot speak too highly of friction
l When you wish to take a water bath, don
r use the tub but take the stimulating vapor G
shower bath. / don't endorse extremes;
think the water should be about 20 degree!
But people use too much water. The be:
German and French specialists are sayin
nowadays, Water on the face only once
day Instead of water use the Turkish mi
, ten. Too much water washes the skin ava!
and leaves only dry, leathery substance.
, For the hair the best stimuant Is bee
! marrow, rubbed on the scalp, and sun bat
Z does the hair as much good 1t does til
body. A friend of mine oosened her hair an
sat in the sun half an hour each day durin
g the summer months last year, and her hea
e is now all covered with little fuzz abol
e two inches long.
. There is no reason why any one should /
y ugly" said Mrs. Miller, in conclusion; ian
y If l were to live at home quietly, as you d
I could sleep in the same bed each night, an
: could choose my articles Of diet / think
i could make myself the most beautiful wcma
n that you have ever seem"
: BOOMING A RAILROAD.
: The Orators Last Sentence Did the Bus