Evening star., 1898-09-17
WHEN KISSES TASTE SALTY.
It's Sign That Her System Holds
Too Much Chloride of Sodium.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

FROM tne Chlcago Chronicle.
Il 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
very hot day in quiet corner of down.
town resort known as the den of the Five
O'Clock Club.
She's not sick abed, 1 hope" was the
sympathetic reply.
No: she's around all right and seems to
be in the best Of health and spirits. But
SEe's got so lately the salt just simply
ooZes out of her every time | get her angry
or excited. l noticed it first when 1 kissed
her one day not hong ago in making up
little Spat we had
The other fat man braced up in his chair
and showed the deepest interest. Il know
L know Re broke IN. My wife has only
just got over IL. Don't your wife's lips
teste Ii rock salt every time you kiss
her?'
Rock aaltI Like saltpeter, sometimes"
But that's when she's in a bad temper.
All the time, though. she persprres 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 physicians call ii hyperi-
drosis, but it's worse. That means to per-
spire too much; but this salty wife disease
and, by the way, it is very dangerous
doesn't seem to have a scientific name. 1t
leads to sudden death unless taken care of
radically"
The fat man with the salty wife" un-
cured drained his glass Of beer ne-vously
and asked the fat man with the cured
salty Wife to tell him all about 1t.
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 tissue and fluid and
is present III the blood in tolerably con-
slant proportions. 1t is introduced with the
food, either as part Of it or a flavor. Now
in the body there goes on constantly phe-
nomenon described as osmosis-a fiitering of
the life fluids through the tissues or MEM
branes. The salt helps this-1cts force.
1t also helps to keep up the solution of the
albumenoids. When the supply by the food
is maintained the salt is discharged through
all the channels of elimination in o 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 dimin-
ished supply. This shows how necessary
salt is to health. Another funny thing, the
more you take into you in excess of phySi-
cal necessity the less you let go of, and the
less you take in the more you lose by elm
ination. Strange, isn't it?
Now this salty woman disease is rot
common, and the doctors don't seem to
know much about II, except that it is dan
gerouS. 1t seems to be phase of EerVolIs
disorder that causes the salt to leave the
system without having performed its prop
er work. When the nervous system Is un-
duly excited-that is to say, when you
make your wife hot at you or she gets out
of sorts with the children-aIl 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 degrees Of salty
taste you get from her lips.
What comes of this trouble9'
I'm time it causes anaemia, general
breaking down of the nervous system snd
death from heart failure"
Can it be cured?"
Yes; you want to send your wife to a
doctor at once. He will have to arrange
her diet for her and give her some nedi-
cine to loosen up the glands of the system
and get them to working. Our physician
gave my wife an old formula cf iodlde of
potassium and mercury, and couple of
days after she started taking It / cidn't get
any more salt in my kisses, although /
touched her up once or twice TO see IL her
temper was also losing its had taste 1t
takes several weeks treatment to complete
the cure"