Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-04-01

TO nave my patlentS nugg1ng Unolr
melancholy can assure them. Gloom
sets but uneasily on that fair brow,
and I would Danish it. I do so by
plainly telling you that romantic, even
poetic as such feelings may be, they
are, nevertheless, the result of a little
dyspepsia Or Indigestion. I can i'm
agine you seated by the window, the
shades not yet drawn down, the lamp
not yet lit, and saying to yourself:
81 see the light of the village
CLEAN through the rain and mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes DER me
That my soul can not resist
And I stand behind you and whisper
these words: "Take Gregory's pow
der before breakfast to- morrow morn
ing" Terribly unromantic Of me,
confess. [ can have no poetry in 10y
soul, you say. o, yes, I have; I am
full of it, but keep it diluted with
little common sense.
Now, joking apart, pleasant melan-
choly, delightful depression of spirits,
or feeling that the world is all wrap
ped in gloom, and that you prefer it
like that, is one of the first symptoms,
not of dyspepsia only, but Of species
of hyprochondria that may end in a
state of mind and body the very re-
verse of pleasant; in utter wretched-
ness, mayhap, in weary days and
nights, till life itself becomes burden
the bearer would fain lay down. I do
not say that young women are prone
to this ailment, which is but species
of exaggerated ennu6 and moroseness,
but do tell them that giving way to
melancholy of a careless nature, is
permitting the thin edge of wedge
to enter heart and brain. OF course
my heart goes out more to the bread
winner than to the woman who has
little else to do than to brood over
her sorrow, hunt doctors up or hunt
them down, and try-with persist
ency worthy of better cause-every
quack remedy advertised in the pa
pers.
The word ssanaemia' is derived from
the Greek, and literally means, want
of blood. In reality, however, it is
not lack of blood, but poverty of it,
which causes all the trouble. Work
of all kinds, bodily or mental, or mix
ed, necessitates corresponding
amount of waste tissue, and if this
waste is not supplied by blood making
want of sufficient exercise or fresh
air, the food is not properly digested,
poverty of blood -an8mia = is the
certain result.
The very first feeling of illness is
WEAKNESS. Duties must be perform
ed but they are not gone into with the
heart and will and if she be conscien-
tious woman, she will often be trou
bled with the thought that she is not
doing all she ought to for her employ
er. Work should be blessing,-it
should be done con spi1itu and con
amore, as the music books say. If it
can not be so performed, it feels as if
it were curse instead of a blessing.
If critical examination of the face
is made now, paleness Of the skin will
be apparent, but more so on the gums
and inside of eyelids and lips. There
is often headache in the morning, fire.
quent flushing of the face and back
ache. There may be noises in the
ears, and loss of appetite, and an un-
rested feeling on getting up in the
morning. People who SO suffer are
apt to think the very worst of their
state of health; they are, moreover,
often cross and peevish without a
cause, and this makes mental matters
worse.
Well, now, this state of an8mia, or
poisoning of the blood, is, worse luck,
more common at this season of the
wear. 1t would be more easily got
rid of if the bright summer were
around US, but now all is gloom and
storm and murkiness, and though you
feel that walking would do you good,
you can not take it. But say you can
and must. You have no time in the
morning, and it is night, perhaps, be-
fore you are 'off duty" But despite
the snow and the darkness, half an
hour in the fresh air, with the mind
free and untrammelled, will do you
world of good. You will not get well
without such exercise and fresh air.
I shall speak of medicine presently,