The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11

I on need more in summer TO keep your
strength during the heat. You need a
fall cleaning, and of course you need a
tonic during the cold winter. In word.
you were created that you might take
medicine, and medicine is made that you
| may have it to take.
my dear, you look yellow and peaked
and all run down; you must take some
thing. They say this new liver medicine
is wonderful for cases like yours"
And my dear obediently opens her
mouth and swallows the dose, though
there is nothing the matter with her ex-
cept laziness and need of sunlight. She
is pale-as grass is pale which grows in
the darK. All the doses she can take will
never make up that lack. She will simply
Join the ranks of those women and men
there is a great army Of them-who take
medicine instead of taking comm on-sense
care of themselves. The medicine habit
grows and fastens itself on one as fast as
any other pernicious habit. We all know
those who have lost faith in their. ply
sician because he gave them so little for
their money; ''just talked about diet and
baths and exercise! Never told me thing
to takep
These people, some from notions OF
economy and some from mania for TAX
ing something, begin to try every new
medicine, begin to read the symptoms on
the bottle and the wrapper and to find
they have them. If they are 'run down, 4"
and most of them are. from the hetero-
geneous messes they pour into tender
stomachs, each new remedy will for a
time stimulate. When the effect wears off
the victims look about for bottles new.
They grow to watch themselves and those
about them for the slightest look or change
to warrant dose of the -eigning mess.
A spoonful in the morning to wake them
is as necessary as a spoonful at night to
put them to sleep. Each meal must he
either preceded or followed by dose, ac-
cording to directions, and never day or
night is the tortured stomach free to do
its own work.
A woman works all morning in the
house, among the stuffy airs and odors,
and when in the afternoon there comes a
time Tor rest she sits behind closed win
dows and sews or reads, and to make up
for the air she has not breathed all day
she takes some medicine.
The genius sits bumped over desk half
the day, writing, and sits bumped over a
CRATE the rest of the day, reading. and de-
pends on eyeg glasses and medicine.
The young lady OF fashion dances and
hlrts in heated and lifeless air all night,
sleeps in a close room all morning and
wakens herself like a topper after spree
with seller.
Who would not need an invigorator of
some kind il the glorious sunshine and
the life-giving oxygen were denied us2
II some one could and would only bottle
a little fresh air and call it by nice long
name, to be taken three times day!
Once one gets the medicine habit the
power of endurance is lost. There are
pains we must bear and expect. There
are aches and stiffness after unusual
fatigue, there are headaches from over
eating or from worry, there are wakefnl
night hours. They cease with rest and
natures care, and what a weak will il
is which resorts 10 a little black bottle
rather than face few hours of wakefuI-
ness. Better get up and do something or
watch the quiet stars than to put demon
into ones mouth to steal away the will.
Many and many women grow so used to
exaggerating their own ills that they grow
Ill and die from their own imaginations.
and many more who are i'll from too much
of their own medicine become convinced