The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-21

! and served without rich sauces. Avoid
lobster and crabs, but enjoy oysters
and clans and refuse every fried dish
OF vegetables never touch tomatoes,
cucumbers and all salads that have a
vinegar dressing, for an inadequate
stomach is busy manufacturing all and
more powerful acid than the system
can endure. Fat lightly of potatoes,
dried beans, or peas, and raw onions,
but let yourself indulge freely in green
beans and peas, carrots, turnipS and
we'll cooked greens. For all the starch
your body needs rice is the proper
source of supply. An abundance of
well-cooked rice is worth all the bread
and beans and potatoes put together.
Strawberries, raw pears and raw
apples are cut off from the rheumatic,
however wholesome they may be for
others, and strangely enough, where
craps and orange juice will set mans
joints to throbbing, he can help himself
safely and freely to lemon and lime
juice. A divine healing quality is
found in the acid of both these fruits
There is but one sentencelto cover the
use Of sugar: Don't eat it in any form
WI atsoever. Americans make the best
sweetmeats in the world and suffer
most cruelty from their use of them.
Almost as sweeping a denunciation
may be made of all liquids save water
and milk. Beer, claret, port and cham
payne act as a sort of poison on the
rheumatic system, and though whisky
and brandy gin and rum are not so
injurious, if taking sparingly and at
long intervals, they are best abjured
and water and milk substituted In
the past 10 years mineral waters have
been consumed in enormous quantities
by rheumatics in the belief that they
afforded especial aid, and they are eff
ficacious, chiefly, though, from the fact
that they are very pure, and that the
use of them induces a patient to imbibe
an unusual quantity of sweet cleansing
liquid.
Il am willing to say that where min
eral waters are not easily obtained.
any pure water taken at the rate of
two or three quarts a day. has an
equally salutary effect on the system.
1t must be pure, however, and filtered,
if there are any doubts about it's clean
Iiness This liquid, taken slowly, in
small tumblersful, and for the most
part between meals, will largely serve
the purpose of mineral water Not
more than a tumblerful is wholesome
at each meal, and it is best not to take
the water just before going or imme-
diately after eating or m getting into
bed.
LAS I told you at frs a rheumatic
one who has a languid appetite. Three
meals day is not enough for such a
patient. Between breakfast and lunch !
and between lunch and dinner a fresh
egg, beaten up in sweet, fresh milk, is /
an excellent Stimulant, more valuable |
than all the milk punches ever devised Y
All these reasonable courses do not |
lead to cure though, unless exercise
that is, regular and never stinted, is |
olrar Low n al
pretend to try for athletics or violent |
motion of any kind, since it is just as
injurious to strain the aching limbs as |
to let them lie inert
For example when rheumatism at |
lacks the knees, to swim, to bicycle or |
play golf simply overtax the tortured |
nerves and muscles. but if you will |
take a cane and walk quietly for mile |
or two, if the weather is dry take your
gun and go prowling through fields |
and woods in search of game, or, lack /
ing an interest in that tryeand Guilt |
vate a taste for hunting botanical or
specimens. the exercise
then serves as a tonic. The main point
Is TO use the muscles regularly. In wet {
weather bedroom gymnastics serve as
an excellent substitute for the more in
outdoor pleasures, but only in
wet weather. Care must be taken new
ar to exercise so violently that any
danger is incurred from cooling off too
suddenly
THE average American puts consid-
erable faith in baths. and naturally
prefers the stimulating cold water.
This is well enough when the twnges
Ire not severe and the joints not swol-
en-. In violent attacks of rheumatism
is most essential to avoid cold water
ind substitute a hot daily bath, dis
solving in the water a piece of sulphur
Is big as a hens egg. Such a bath
nay not seem so invigorating as the
old water, but if taken rapidly, fol- I: