The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-19
WOMAN 5 WORLD

.,-se, said the doctor to the girl, if you
-,sb 10 be healthy, happy, and wise, to
-, nothing of being beautiful, you will
- we'll to let tea coffee and cocoa alone.
!, safe TO say that in this country those
..ings are doing more harm among women
Nm alcoholic stimulants. Yes, of course,
Ire are some women who are overload
Of alcoholic beverages, but they are not
"a he compared to the class of women who
are incorporate with those three eminent
!, respectable drinks that 1 have men
toned
.oThere are people who hold up their
hands in holy horror at the idea of alco-
bol in any form, who have no conception
hot a woman can be seriously injured
This applies 10 men almost equally-by the
excessive use of the three so-called harm
loss beverages to be found constantly on
our tables.
..The Germans and the Scandinavians
are devoted to coffee, the English, Irish,
and Scotch to tea, and the Latin races to
wine OF the three l should say that the
wine was the least injurious,
taken for instance the
French take it. This does not mean
that l am arguing in favor of wine; 1 am
only trying to impress upon you the in
ilJriousness of the inordinate use of the
other things.
THE trouble is, to go back to first prin-
eples, that our lives are entirely too ar
tifeal and they are becoming more and
more so. Take laborng man, and he
can drink two or three cups of coffee in
the morning, then he goes outside to work,
perspires freely, his oxygenation is per
feet and he is not affected. An ordinary
healthy person can take a cup of coffee
In the morning, a cup of tea at noon, and
cup after dinner coffee at night with no
1 evil effects. That is not an Incorporate
use. but from the artificiality of our lives
even that may be too much.
Then the ordinary housewife I think,
Is too much the slave of her cook to be
sure that her coffee will be well rhade and
Il her tea absolutely fresh and ser,Fed with
out first having been left standing. 1 will
4 say this that l do not think the ordinary
woman not a neurotic is so much given to
the overindulgence in these stimulants as
the lower classes. She has too much to
take up her mind But she does not always
get sufficient exercise to throw off the eff
fects Oh yes, there are goBf the bicvcle
but take the ordinary society girl at this
time of the year, what regular healthful
d exercise does she have? Isn't she so en-
gagged in the round of her social duties
that she does not have time for anv that
will give her the oxygenation that she re-
cures ana set her skin to working salts
factorly.
Cocoa? Yes, 1 said cocoa. It is inst as
bad as tea or coffee, though ii is recon-
mended as perfectly innocuous Whoever
says That is-well, they do not know as
much as they should. There are substances
In all three that act as astringents on the
capitlaries which supply the nutrmeut de-
fNed from the food TO the different parts
Il OF the body. You can see what is the re-
suit if their action is imperfect. the body
Is moi nourlshed and the system is over
ioahed the different organs are overWork-
cd and you can imagine the results. That
Is When the woman says she is bilious has
nervous prostration, pains in the back of
her head, and can't imagine what is the
matter 1t is tea or coffee, and it NAV he
rheumatism or govt, or any number of
things later
ii Is like fire in the stove; you must
keep your CRATES from being clogged or the
hre VIII NOT burn brightly You Will see the
results when the clinkers are raked down
ana the fresh flames burst up Perhaps
tnere Is lsinglass in the doors. but you can
t'AAis NiSdl SLOW through 1t, II is
exactly the way that you see the clear
Ifesh blood through the skin of a pretty
hedlthy girl. 1t is pleasure to see IL. and
means a great deal more than mere an
peaTance
Tea, coffee and cocoa are stinnulants
you come into the house tired OUT and take
cup OF tea You will feel braced UP i'm
mediately. Good thing? Yes that is a very
sooo thlng, but you can see then what a
Suihuiant II is, and you must know that
you 40 not need TO keep your heart whip-
PEG up like that constantly 1t is like the
poor, tired horse. You keep whipping him
ana ne VIII 60 but finally he gives out al
osether and nothing will make him start
lake some professional women teachers
ana stenographers, they feel the benefit
VI 'he stimulant and use it, but they lead
1e'ehIary lives, and they cannot stand il
ou see II all comes back to that first
nlncpe' the artifciality of our lives, the
else. VI eNei-
Then take meat That is another good
'lns mat Is very bad in excess That is
going 10 become national question in tbis
ouiliy' Meat is cheap here, and we eat
oo huch or it. There is large amount
VI nitrogen in 1t, more than We can as
day. ''iieS
We take in this large amount of fueI
Use the skin does not act; what can he is
more or less perfectly utilized for nutrl-
.iltnI more is laid up in fat, and even then
mere remains quantity to be disposed Of
aH1 me organs of our body are as unable
~ handle It as the street cleaning depart
'ienl this last heavy snowfall.
oss ne next generation is going to feel the
o, OF all this-the children who are
e,Eeh tea and coffee and meat in large
quantities. The mothers are too induIgant y.
ule children have anything they ash fo,,
my are working hard in school, inactive.
p u what IS the result? We are going TO
"anS race of weak men and women
fople eat altogether TOO much any
~ ~ It Is ridiculous the amount that is
raten and the way people pamper their an
peul'es' Il is physiologically absurd that
iHe cannot eat this cereal and cannot
"a a' llat, They can but they do not wish
of - good idea to study the menus
u the vegetarians a little for ideas of a
healthy diet We might eat more cheese