The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-28

dry. Many farmer has gone to the
grave in the strength of his manhood
because he has not promptly put off
wet clothing. 1t is impossible 10 keep
from getting wet, but if one gets caught
in the rain or sleet, do not sit around
in wet garments. Get them off as soon
as possible, rub dry, and put on dry
warm clothing. Needing such advice
will save many spell Of sickness.
Snow is almost worse than rain, If one
has 10 work out when snow is falling
which melts as it falls. Overwork is
another cause of i'll health. Many a
farmer in the busy season thinks it his
duty to do two days work in one, and
many work like the one who said he
believed in the eight hour system, eight
hours in the forenoon and eight in the
afternoon. There may be times when
there are very strong reasons for work
ing from four in the morning till nine
at night with only time for hurried
meals. 1t is great tax on mans
strength to do this day after day, work
ing hard in the field and then having
to milk dozen COWS and do lot of
chores. In the winter many farmers
have an easy time, but some get lum-
bering jobs which take them out in the
Geld in all kinds of weather. 1t is
hard thing to have to get up at four
o'clock every morning in the winter, no
matter how cold to do work in the barn
by lantern light, but it is not 80 bad if
one can go to bed early. The farmer
who works hard in the summer ought
to rest up in the winter, but his sleep
should be taken in well ventilated
room. Have plenty of pure air in your
sleeping rooms, and air them out well
every morning. 1t is not best to sleep
with the cold wind blowing onto one,
but be sure the air is sweet and pure
which you are taking into your lungs
all night.
The errors in food are so many that
in brief article like this one can
scarcely touch upon them. One of the
worst things farmers DO to their stom-
achs is the eating at all hours, eating
late at night, eating heartily when
tired, eating and going right into hard
work. All these things are the "little
foxes" which spoil the power of the
stomach and make the average Ameri-
can farmer dyspeptic when he is only
middle.aged man. Then the great
quantities of fat meats, rich gravies,
pickles, pies, and great quantities of
drinks, hot and cold, which are taken
while eating, all these make pain and
loss for the farmer, make patient for
the doctor, or patron of the druggist.
The writer of this has spent a large
part of his life on farm, for eighteen
years he carried on farm almost alone,
and though not at all strong, he had in
all those years to lay off but few days,
once from the grip and once from ma.
laria, and he did not use five cents
worth of medicine in that whole period.
II has been the needing the advice
herein given and care in other ways
which has warded off disease. But the
greatest evil the writer had to contend
with has been the pressure of hard
times, low prices for farm products,
and the struggle to support large fam
lily of children on small stony farm.
The only remedy for this is faith in
God and the keeping on doing what
one can, trusting instead of worrying,
and doing the next thing. l would
counsel every farmer to seek to know
how to take care of the health of HIM
self and family. And the same coun-
sci is applicable to every person and
every family, for sickness is disturb
ing element in any home and to every
person. 1t is not difficult to learn some
thing of the care of the health.
The physiologies used in the schools
give some excellent suggestions as to
the care of the health. There are also
many other books on health which
give good advice on this subject. Prob
ably one of the best ways to learn about
the care of the health is to subscribe for
some good health periodical. One of
the best of these is Good Health, an il
Illustrated magazine of eighty pages,
published monthly at 81 per year. This
magazine is a teacher of how to pre-
serve the health, how to make happy
homes. and how to bring up the chill
dren BEAUTIFULLY. The monthly visits of
this periodical for year would be worth
vastly more to home than dozen
visits Of physician and would cost less
than single visit from him. We have
seen men harassed and tormented by