The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-10
FOR WOMEN'S READING
THE PREVAILING DYSPEPSIA MAY
BE CURED by PROPER DIET.
Women Dress for the Social Whirl in
Gay and Glittering Apparel-Bits
of Feminine Gossip.

when doctors disagree, what are we 60
ing to do about it?" asked nervous dys-
peptic, after years OF experimenting on
foods OF various sorts. And. sure enough,
says a writer in the New York Ledger,
what are we going to do about it? One au-
thority cuts off all food OF certain kind;
another restricts in an entirely different di-
rection; another advocates the coarsest
sorts of foods; others rush 10 raw meats
and kindred extremes. And, when all is
said and done, there is just about as much
dyspepsia and suffering and general misery
as there was before the experiments were
tried, and nothing seems to be gained but a
stock OF miscellaneous ideas on diet that
prove the most abject failures as far as re-
covery and comfort are concerned.
One of the greatest difficulties in the way
OF the treatment of dyspepsia is found in
the customs of the modern table, or. to put
1t more accurately, the fashionable table
Almost all people who profess TO live well
indulge In what is called French bread three
times day. This is made of -four that has
almost all of the nutritious properties bolt
ed out of it. Some day these people are
brought up with round turn OF agony,
and then they change TO Graham bread
and find that it does not agree with them.
Surely it does not, and for the best of
reasons. The digestive apparatus is i'll, and
should be treated in reasonable way and
not given sudden and enormous quantity
of coarse food to digest and assimilate.
Whole wheat -four bread is the proper
kind for such people, but with their French
bread they take concentrated foods, highly
seasoned dishes, soups that contain cayenne
pepper, mace, herbs of various Sorts and
are rich beyond the possibility OF delicate
organization to struggle with. They eat sal
ads, with dressing containing mustard and
cayenne pepper, and then do not know ex-
actly what IL is that distresses them. Very
many people have peculiarities of constitu-
tion and digestive id.osyncrasies, but they
Will not take the trouble to find out which
OF these things it is, or what article of diet
causes them such discomfort. Sometimes
the pain so quickly follows the Indulgence
in certain dish that there can be no mis-
take about 1t, but, as rule, they have an
idea that everything they eat dstresses
them. This is the merest nonsense, as they
would discover If they took the trouble to do
80. If the dyspeptic will adop- for five days
a diet of crackers and milk, or, what is
better, whole wheat flour waters, home
made. and then carefully take up one dish
after another and study their effect, it will
take but little time to decide on the OBJ
lectionable articles. If gymnastic exercises,
cause people pain, they let them alone, In
less the sternest necessity drives them 10
perform such duties; but when it comes 10
curbing the appetite, they steadfastly refuse
to do this, choosing ratheri to complain,
dose, worry and wear their lives out.
1t is possible to select from the great mass
OF palatable dishes those that will not ag-
gravate tendency to dyspepsia. in nine
ty-flve cases out of hundred the dyspeptic
is either fond Of good living or is too lccr
to buy the common necessaries of life. Dys-
pepsia is easily durable, and there is no
good and sufficient reason why people should
suffer from it all their lives and make them
selves their families and friends wretched
in consequence