Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-08-13

BROTHER GARDNER LECTURES ON
THE LAWS OF HEALTH.

Medical Science Steps In and Causes Some
Changes In the Colored Brothers Pro-
gramme of Life-Extravagance of Judge
Cabifrs Wife-HIrs. Penstocl's sat Home."
my frens," said Brother Gardner as
he arose in his place at the last meet
ing of the Limekiln club, II had some
thin to say to you few weeks ago on
sanitary matters. I find dat most of de
members didn't know what was talk
in about, an I shall darfore try to ex-
plain myself mo- cl 'arly. De word san
itary' refers to health. 1t refers to de
food you eat, de water you drink, de
house you lib in an de sort of bed you
hev got to sleep on. Waydown Bebee
got de idea dat it was some sort O.
smoked fish, an he inquired for it at six
different groceries. Giveadam Jones
thought it related to religun, an Shin
dig Watkins has got Jonah an de whale
an sanitary all mixed up. What I want
ed to tell you an what tried to make
plain was dat de time had come when
de GUILD man must pay some attenshun
to de laws Of health.
eur instance, it has bin diskivered
widin de last two vars dat de breath of
three dawgs sleepin under de fam 'ly
bed in a clus room am pizen to de hu-
man system. Ebery GUILD man has a
soft spot in his heart fur dawg, but
de time has arrove when either de fam ly
Or de dawg should sleep Oh an ole piece
of carpet in de woodshed.
Cup to y ar ago nuthin was thought
of gwine to bed in room wild bar'l
O. soap grease, but it has bin shown be-
yand doubt dat mo- dan millyun
GUILD people hev died off on dat ac-
count. Seems like gwine to good deal
O. trubble to remove dem things out
doahs at night an bring 'em back in de
mawnin, but we can't afford to take no
chances.
cts a great savin O. bedclothes fur
de hull family to jump into one bed, an
you am all dar in bunch in case a
burglar breaks in or de stovepipe sets
de house on fire, but medical science
has diskibered dat it's powerful bad Oh
de health an should be stopped. 1t may
come hard to Samuel Shin, who has on
ly got one bed and 'leben chill en, but
he'll hev to hustle around an git some
straw an spread on de floor.
1t has bin de habit of de Guile man
fur de last 200 vars to sleep wild his
feet outer bed. He probably got de hab-
| it from dreamin about coons an pos
sums, an he wanted to be all ready to
jump outer bed an run 'em down, an
nobody found fault wild it till few
months ago. Den medical science step
ped in and diskibered dat sleepin wild
de feet hangin out interfered wild de
circulation of de blood an brung OH
catarrh an lots O. other ailments an
shortened a pusson's life by vars an
Vars. De rest o. you kin do as yo' like
about it, but I hev bin sleepin lately
wild my feet tied under de bedolothes,
an l believe de change has dun me good.
"We must look out for de sanitary
bizness in de food we eat an de way we
eat it. De baby may like raw turnips
an bananas, but he shouldn't be filled
up to de chin On 'em jest befo' goin tC
bed It's heap easier to gulp down q
billed egg widout foolin around, but il
dat egg am gwine to shatter our sys
tenn all to smash we had better stop to
cut it in two an butter de halves.
"Dar am likewise another matter
which / wish to refer to dis evenin, al
dat am de weakness of de Guild people
in gineral for putin on style, as it is
called, We hev examples of it almost
cherry night i'll dc week. Way back il
December de wife of Elder Penstocl
Civ an at home. De elder owns his
house an am purity we'll fixed, an ht
kin afford SIGH things. Twas dar as one
of de guests an while thought de cid
er was leetle extravaganza in de way
dey served up fried eggs at fo'ty cents {
dozen had no criticism to make. What
pains me am what follered dat party.
ga week later ledge Cabiff's wife
had de same kind Of a circus. De jedge
as we all know, has de hardest kind O
work to git taters an meat fur his nine
chillen, an half of 'em hev to 60 b ar
fut all winter. His wife didn't want tt
be outdun, however, an so she had 6
crush. She had three kinds O. cake
two sorts o. cheese all TO- kinds O. colo
meat, an ode dress she had on nebbel
cost less'n 80 cents yard. Oar was q
heap O. people dar, an cherry body had 8
good time, but de last guest was hardly
outer de house when de jedge was
around tryin to borry So to make up hi
month rent. Since dat time de fam'ly
has libed mostly on bread an water, ar
de parlor clock has gone to de pawn.
shop to buy fuel.
II doan' speak Of desc things in 6
complainin way, but it pains me to SET
what leetle sense sum folks hev Putin
on style an swellin around am all right
fur de folks dat hev got de cash down
in DER pockets, but all wrong fur dc
folks who heven't." M. QUAD.
The Bow and the Beau.