The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-07

ton. venison, goose. and anything that
is cut off a pig. Devote yourself TO
chicken. lamb. game. sweetbreads,
brains. and the more delicate fish, when
simply cooked and served without rich
sauces. Avoid lobster and crabs ana
every fried dish, but enjoy oysters and
clans.
"Of vegetables never touch tomatoes,
cucumbers and all salads that have a
vinegar dressing, for an inadequate
stomach Is busy manufacturing more
powerful acid han the system can en-
dure. Eat lightly OF potatoes, dried
beans or peas and raw onions. but let
yourself indulge freely i'm green beans
and peas. carrots. turnips and we'll
I cooked green's. 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 of from the rheumatic,
however wholesome they may be Tor
I others, and. strangely enough, where
grape and orange juice will set a mans
Joints to ~throbbing, he can help himself
safely and freely to lemon and lime
juice. A divine healing quality is found
i'm the acid Of both these fruits. There
is but one sentence To cover the use Of
sugar: Don't eat il in any form what
soever. 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 whiskey
and brandy, gin and rum are not so
injurious, If taken sparingly and al
long intervals. they are best abJured
and water and milk substituted. In
the past 10 years mineral waters have
been consumed i'm enOrmou quantities
by rheumatics i'm the belief that they
afforded especial aid. and they are eff
ficacious, chiefly, though, from the fact
hat they are very pure, and that the
use of them induces a patient to imbibe
an unusual quantity Of sweet cleans
ing 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
equal salutary effect on the system.
II must be pure, however, and filtered,
IL there are any doubts about its clean
illness. This liquid. taken slowly, in
small tumblerfuls, and for the most
part between meals, VIII largely serve
the purpose Of mineral water. Not
more than a tumblerful is wholesome
at each meal, and il is best not to take
the water just before or after eating
or on getting into bed.
a rheumatic must be nourished, and
most especially one who has a languid
appetite. Three meals a day are not
enough for such a patient. Between
breakfast and lunch ana between lunch
and dinner a fresh egg. beaten up in
sweet, fresh milk, is an excellent slim
ulant. more valuabl than all the milk
punches ever devised. All these rea-
sonable courses do not lead to a cure,
though, unless exercise that is regular
and never tinted is taken every day.
First of all, don't pretend to try for
athletics or violent motion of n kind,
since il 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 oNertoXes the tortured
nerves and muscles, but If you will take
a zane and walk quietly for a mile or
two. or if the weather Is dry take your
gun and go proving through the fields
and woods in search of game, or, lack
ing interest in that, try to cultivate a
taste for hunting botanical or entomul-
Cgical specimens, the exercise then
serves as a onic. The main point is
TO use the muscles regularly. In Wei
weather bedroom gymnastics serve as
an excellent substitute for the more in
teIligent outdoor pleasures. but only
i'm wet weather. Care must be taken
never To exercise So violently that any
danger is incurred from cooling off too
suddenly.
The average American puts consider
able faith in baths. and naturally pre-
fers the stimulating cold water. This
IS well enough when the twlngeS are
not severe and the joints are not swol-
len. In violent attacks Of rheumatism
IL is most essential To avoid cold water
and substitute a hot daily bath. dis
solving in the water a piece of sulphur
as big as a hens egg. Such a bath
may not seem so in~vigorating as the
cold water, but IL taken rapidly, fol-
lowed by brisk towelling, with no sud
den after exposure for an our to any
cold d]rauEhts, the hot dip is as braC-
Ing as the cold.
Last on the list Of aids to the rhreu-
matte is massage. II is one of the few
real aids to relief in severe attacks.
Amateur rubbing is often of as great
injury as genuine help, but a good
Swedish m~asSeuse can help an Invalid
over the hardest places, and really help
10 tone up the system. \ rheumatic
must. moreover. submit In the unpleas-
ant bondage OF fiannelS-not the thick
s~wathings that the patient American,
in his steam-heHted house. dutifully
puts on i'm October and wears until the
LIST Of June. but close. light weight fan
nels, and in 50 changing a climate as
| that Of the Northern states every rheu-
matte should own several sets OF ilan-
nels OF various degrees of weight.
These must be shifted off and on as
/ the Thermometer rises and falls, so that
al no time need the body be exposed
or overlooked. but invariably carefully
protected. This is the whole tactics OF
war against rheumatism, and it's the
only way that modern science can as
sumo To battle such a dire enemy "a
| human well-being."