Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-16
HEALTH is AMONG THE VIRTUES
1t Ii Now Admitted That It In q Moral
Obligation to Keep Well

1t Ii Now Admitted That It In q Moral
Obligation to Keep Well
In a recent paper on 1.-THE Right
Education of Girls" Miss May Hoggen-
botham, the head Of the domestic sci
ence department of the Drexel institute.
pertinently says that "among the con-
victions that the earnest spirit of the
10Th century is blowing deep into the
minds of men are the dignity and pre-
ciousness of human life and the moral
obligation that rests upon each and
Ill to preserve that life in health and
yigor for as long period as may be
possible"
After emphasizing the fact that the
lime is coming when pestilence and
disease shall no longer be looked upon
Is violations of Providence" and
showing, too, how physicians, boards
Of health and Legislatures labor in vain
to establish healthy conditions, while
the great mass of housekeepers are ig-
uorant of sanitary principles" the pa
per continues:
details as well as the theory of santa
ton. She should understand what is
meant by good air and good water
under what conditions they become
contaminated, and what means of pre-
Tention are in the power of the house
keeper. The serious and imminent dam
gers to life and health that may arise
from defects in water supply and drain
age Of the house can often be averted
by intelligent oversight and knowl-
edge of what defects to lookfor.
When women know what is meant
by good plumbing, good woodwork,
good sanitary conditions generally.
builders will not dare to rely Gas many
do now upon frescoed walls, tawdry
mantel cabinets, SNOWY stationary ward
robes and beveled glass doors to sell or
renthouses that have thin walls, wretch
ed floors, mean woodwork, meaner
plumbing, and unsanitary conditions
generally.
Upon proper diet more than upon
any other one thing depend the health
and condition of every human being.
Life itself is matter of nutrition, and
mans earthly destiny turns on the
consideration of his diet. 1t involves
his strength, both of body and of mind,
and it largely determines his DISPOSE
ton. We all recall the case Of Carlyle,
who made things hard for himself and
those around him because he was the
miserable owner of diabolical ar
rangement called stomach" If Car
lyle had possessed the knowledge Of
foods that is possible to the schoolgirl
or boy of to-day he would have been a
better man, and his wife and mother
happier women.
No argument is strong enough to con-
vey the full significance of the mothers
responsibility to her household in the
matter of foods. In those periods of
infancy and early childhood which are
beyond the control of the Individual,
it rests with the mother to supply the
food that will best build up the tissues
of the body, keep the blood pure, and
supply the heat and vital energy to
keep the bodily machine in motion.
dency to biliousness, headache, poverty
of blood, nervous hysteria. She can
combat all with proper diet at the
right time. With the knowledge at
tainable to-day it will be disgrace
for the woman of the future to exclaim,
as thousands do now: "Oh, yes; it is
unfortunate-my mother, grandmoth-
er, have had it. 1t runs in the family"
Albany Argus.