The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-26
WHEN KISSES TASTE SALTY.
It's Sign That Her System Holds
Too Much Chloride of Sodium.

Too Much Chloride of Sodium.
Chicago Chronicle: 81 don't know
what in the world can be the matter
with my wife these DAYS" said fat
man to his fat friend. They were TAX
ing a heating glass of beer to cool off
on a, very hot day in a quiet corner
of downtown resort known as the
den of the Five O'clock club.
She's not sick abed, l hope" was
the sympathetic reply.
NO; she's around all right, and
seems to be in the best of health and
spirits. But she's got SO lately the salt
just simply oozes out of her every time
I get her angry or excited. | noticed IL
first when j kissed her one day not
long ago in making up little spat we
had
The other fat man braced up in his
chair and showed the deepest interest.
IT know, know" he broke in. My
wife has only just got over it. Don't
your wife's lips taste like rock salt
every time you kiss her?'
crock salt, Like saltpeter, some
times"
But that's when she's in bad tenn
per. All the time, though, she perspires
salt"
so much so that it gets into her eyes
and almost blinds her"
I've been through it with my wife;
know all about it. The physician calls
it hyperidrosis, but it's worse. That
means to perspire too much; but this
salty wife disease-and, by the way,
it is very angerous-doesn't seem to
have a scientific name. 1t leads to sud
den death unless taken care of radi-
cally."
The fat man with the SALTY wife"
uncured drained his glass of beer ner-
vouSly and asked the fat man with the
cured salty WIFE TO tell him all about
it.
you see, it is this way began the
one whose wife was safely out of the
pickle. Sodium chloride, or common
salt, really exists in every animal It's
sue and fluid, and is present in the
blood in tolerably constant proportions.
1t is introduced with the food, either
as a part Of it or a flavor. Now, in the
body there goes on constantly a phe-
nomenon described as osmosis-a filter
ing of the life fluids through the It's
sues or membranes. The salt helps
this-acts as force. 1t also helps to
keep up the solution of the albumen-
oids. When the. supply by the food is
maintained The salt is discharged
through all the channels of elimina-
ton in certain proportion. If the
salt supply is cut off from the food,
none passes away from the system. The
blood holds on to it's diminished sup
ply. This shows how necessary salt is
to health. Another funny thing the
more you take into you in excess of
necessity, the less you let go
of, and the less you take in, the more
you lose by elimination. Strange, isn't
it?
Now, this salty woman disease is
not common, and the doctors don't
seem to know much about it, except
that it is dangerous. 1t seems to be
phase of nervous disorder that causes
the salt to leave the system without
having performed its proper work.
When the nervous system is unduly ex-
cited-that is to say, when you make
your wife hot at you, or she gets out
Of sorts with the children-all the pores
Of her body discharge salt in Volumes
She gets so in time that you can tell
her moods by the difference in the de-
gfees of salty taste you get from her
lips"
What comes of this trouble?''
In time it causes anaemia, general
breaking down of the nervous system
and death from heart failure
Can it be cured ?"
Yes; you want to send your wife to
a doctor at once. He will have to ar
range her diet for her and give her
some medicine to loosen up the glands
IF the system and get them to working
DUR physician gave my wife an old for
nula of iodide of potassium and mer-
curry, ana a couple of days after she
started taking it I didn't get any more
salt In my kisses, although l touched
Ter up once or twice to see if her tenn
per was also losing its bad taste. 1t
axes several weeks treatment to COM
OF hn