The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-06
Health Hints and
Rules Of Hygiene
Suggestions That May Save You Many
Doctors Bill.
WISDOM FOR THE HOUSEHOLD
These Hints Don't Cost Much, Arc Not
Copyrighted. and IL They Don't DO
You Any Good, They'll Not
Do You Any Harm.

TiSiuly enforced Dy our BrandtatnefS.
AS matter of fact" it bluntly re-
marks, 'physiology is all against the
early rising theory. Physiological ex-
pertinent appears to show that man
does not work best and fastest in the
early morning hours. but, on the con-
trary, about midday. The desire to
rise early except in those trained from
youth to outdoor pursuits is common
~ sign, not of strength of character
and Vigorr of body, but of advancing
age. The very old often sleep much,
but they do not sleep long. long
deep sleep. the sleep of youth, requires
FOR It's production a thoroughly elastic
vascular system. The stiffenng ves-
sells of age are not so completely nor
so easily controlled by the vasomotor
nerves. Hence shorter sleeps. Thus
paterfamilias, who goes to bed at II p.
m.. warts to get up at 8 or 6 a. m. and
looks upon his healthy son, who prefers
to lie till s, as a sluggard. When this
foolish Interpretation of q proVerb
about the health and wealth to be got
from early rising is combined with the
still more foolish adage which says of
sleep, six hours for a man. seven for
woman and eight for fool then we
have vicious system capable of work.
ing great mischief to young people of
both sexes"
An engaging writer is one of our med
ical journals thus recounts the symp-
toms of n familiar disease: Energetic,
care-free individuals laugh at the sug-
pa Of ut hIt 10
nerves, and say it is only imaginary.
But thousands of women will testify
otherwise People of sedentary habits,
who spend all their time indoors, fire.
quently become morbid, brooding and
irritable. The failure of any member
of the family to reach home at the
usual time brings forth gloomy fore
bodings of disaster; the absence of any
one at night causes, floor walking and
tears, even though such person be of
mature years, sound health, and abund-
ant ability to care for himself. a pro-
jected journey is overcast by recitals
of horrible accidents. Meals are un-
satisfactory; clothes never fit, no one
sympathizes or condoles with the suf-
ferer. The reasons of house nerves are
legion. Introspection is one. Let wo-
man sit at home day after day, week in
and week out, and analysis of every
thing and person within her ken natur-
ally follows, herself included. A wo-
man who studies herself, her wants and
desires, her ailments and loneliness, is
on the fair road to an asylum did she
but know it. The woman who stays at
home because she might get sick by
venturing out in the cold or because
her neighbor can entertain better than
she can, or dress better-or perhaps the
habit has become fixed by degrees to
that extent that it is like parting with
a tooth to get out of the routine-this
is the woman who broods and fancies
and cries over mental pictures of catas-
trophies that never happen, and meets
troubles which never come. The cure
is simple, but few follow it. Throw
away your medicine, and go visiting.
Patronize all the gayeties your pocket
book affords. Take long walks in the
sunshine, and whenever a morbid
thought comes think up a necessary err
rand, and it will dissolve like mist be-
fore the sun House nerves can be
cured, but only by natural laws. Med
icines dull but do not cure.
A distinguished English scientist,
William Kinnear, in a magazine article,
insists that the secret of perennial
youth is to be found in the use of dis
titled water and phosphoric acid. He
says that death, or disease that pro-
duces death, is caused by the deposit
in the human system of calcareous or
earthly matter, and that the drinking
of distilled water, which is itself a
great dissolvent, and the use also of
from ten to fifteen drops of diluted
phoshoric acid in each tumberful of
water, will remove such deposits and
prolong human life to the very latest
limit. This savant has an absolute be-
lief in the beneficial effects of pure
water upon the human system, and he
charges not only such diseases as ty-
phoid and other fevers to the use of
impure water, but he also alleges that
nearly all the ordinary ills of life are
conveyed into the system by contami-
mated water. Statistics recently given
by a medical magazine demonstrated
that the publication of the water sup
plies of twenty great cities in the world
led to an immediate and decided de-
crease in the number of typhoid fever
patients in those cities.
Just now, in France some of the doc
tors are endeavoring to find remedy
for what has borne the clumsy and mis-
leading name of electric sunstroke."
This modern affection frequently be-
falls workmen employed in factories
where metals are fused or welded by,
the arc process. The light produced
during the period of connection is, of
course. intense. and even at a distance
of thirty feet the rays produce pain
full, hot, pricking sensation, like that
of burn. on such uncovered portions
of the body as the throat, face, and
more especially the forehead. The skin
of the parts affected Is said to become
either copper=colored or assumes
bronze hue; the eyes. in spite of black
glasses. are so intensely daZZled as to
be useless for some minutes, after
which anthopsia or yellow vision sets
in, everything appearing saffron-col-
ored the conjunctiva are inflamed and
there is gritty feeling as of sand
under the eyelids; there is frequently
considera BILE pain, also sleeplessness,
and in some cases fever. The physi-
clans have discussed the effect of the
binding flash with much learning, but
have as yet produced no better remedy
than that which would naturally sug-
gest itself to any layman-perfect rest
in subdued light.
HEALTH FOR THE MILLION:
1t IS injurious to battle within two hours
of any meal.
To whiten the hands use oatmeal instead
of soap to wash the hands. This will have
tho effect both of softening and whitening