The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-01-11

think it manly to smoke, chew tobac-
co or drink whisky.
Nothing is so expensive and destruc-
tive to a city as an epidemic of dis
ease and death, costing thousands OF
dollars and destroying valuable lives
The Hon. w. j. Clapp, in his ad-
dress of welcome to the American Pub
lie Health Association, which not long
since met at Memphis, Tenn, said:
Memphis is a great and growing city,
whose vital statistics now challenge
comparison with those of any other in
the Mississippi Valley; that less than
a decade ago was generally regarded as
a pestilential hotbed, whose doom was
irrevoeably fixed, and whose very eX-
istence was considered a menace to
the general welfare.
This doom was averted, the city
placed upon the highway of pros
perity, by the indomitable energy and
unsparing self-sacrifice of the citizens
who. when overwhelmed with Attic
ton and stinted in the very means OF
living, expended more than million
Of dollars in local sanitation"
Before these sanitary measures We're
adopted and carried into effect the city
of Memphis was on the verge OF bank
ruptcy; now its finances are prosper
Gus, its business has greatly improved,
and the city is growing in population
and resources.
Sacramento would be paid back sixty
or a hundredfold if the city authori-
ties were empowered to expend hail
that amount in supplying the people
with a better quality of drinking wa
ter This should not be overlooked.
Where there is any doubt in regard
to the purity of the water, it is a safe
plan to boil it, and when it settles pou'
off from the dregs.
To reoxygenize it, take two vessels,
hold them two or three feet apart, ana
pour the water from one into the other
for a few minutes.
| The following will add to its safety
as a drink: Pulverized alum, grains
boracic acid, 3 grains; water l gai-
lon Mix and strain.
When five to sixty grains of alum
are taken at dose, it constipates the
bowels. but in the proportion here CIV
en- it is perfectly safe.
Boracic acid is employed in diphthe-
ria. fetid quotations and in septic dis
eases. preventing putrefaction and acts
as a sanitary agent.
We all have. more or less, what Is
called reserved force" 1t is latent
power reserved for an emergency.
MANY exhaust this reserved force
before the emergency overtakes them.
How? BY being up too late at night
bv exhaustive exercise, by sleeping too
little, impairing the brain, shatterlhg
the nerves, diseasing the stomach ana
weakening the vital force of the heart
action. Therefore when the uneXpect-
ed demand for the reserved force Is
made upon them it is not forthcoming
and death claims the victim. what
preserves this reserved force, and what
will restore it if it is lost? Nourish-
ing food well-regulated exercise, walk
ing in the open air, judicious labor
rest. bathing, plenty of sleep in we'll
ventilated sleeping apartments, and "A
merry heart which doeth good like a
medicine"
Drinking beer in large quantities
kaans the gastric and other juices OF
the stomach diluted, and greatly re-
tards the process of digestion.
This rule holds good in reference &c
water or any other beverage until tne
food is digested. The best time to
drink is at the completion OF the meal
and not again until three hours AFTER
Beer drinking brings on hypertrophS
of the heart; the delicate valves are
also irritated and inflamed by the &C
ton of the 10 per cent. of alcohol whlcn
il contains, operating upon them Beer
drinkers endanger their lives, anu
NAV fall dead at any moment. Al
cohol and the excessive fluids thus
taken into the system give the kidneys
double work, and hence invite aus
ease of these secretive and eliminating
organs. DIR L. w. o-NO =" ~ A--''