The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-10
GUARD YOUR HEALTH
SOME RULES BY WHICH YOU MAY
PROLONG YOUR LIFE.

PROLONG YOUR LIFE.
The Careful Enting Of Simple Food.
Regularity In Habits OF Living and.
Above All, Proper Breathing Are
Essential to Longevity.
Men and womer know less about the
care of their own health than of any
other subject. That is the Oldest and
plainest kind of fact. The farmer who
keeps his cows and horses alive and
well into very old age dies when he
should be in his prime. The woman
who knows all about the care of linen,
oilcloth, flowers. ETC., knows nothing
about her own mucous membrane or
the care of her children s teeth. Igno-
rance shortens by third the normal life
of the average man who passes so. It
kills outright thousands and millions in
early youth.
In some ways this may have been a
good thing. Men and women have died
when their active careers were ended
and the populations harried by the
struggle for existence were not bothered
unduly by the care Of the aged. When
SO bothered. as Eli Reclus SO grewsome-
" relates. it has been the custom of va
rious peoples to hasten the end for the
old folks even to the extreme of murder
Probably you take very solemn and
mysterious view Of doctors wisdom.
Learn that it amounts to very little.
The surgeon is remarkable chap, and
he has reduced cutting and slicing to
marvellous perfection. But his friend.
the pill and prescription giver, can
really do very little. He can only help
nature along to limited extent, and
the more he let's nature alone the better
it is for the patient as rule. With the
aid of drugs he can free the system from
clogged up state, and that is about all
be can do. When he has given you
castor oil or salts or something to make
you perspire, his work is done.
Will You kindly take, therefore, lit
tie advice and see if it does not improve
your condition? Eat remember
that what you eat does not give you
strength. 1t simply repairs the waste OF
tissues. Your food is as important to
Won as the oil on locomotives axles
not more important Do not imagine
that food to your body is what coal is
to the engine The engine gets it's
strength from coal. You get yours from
the air that you breathe. The Swiss
mountaineer with a few crackers will
climb all over the Alps, while you, full
Of all sorts of fancy food, cannot follow
him. The big dark men rowing your
boat on the Nile go all day on hand-
full of parched corn and handful Of
dates. They eat meat perhaps once
month-you could not begin to do their
work with ten times the nourishment
Do not starve yourself. ont of that there
is never danger Eat little while you
must work. Eat enough once day,
and do no work for two hours after-
ward, and dom sleep within two hours
of eating.
Eat very slowly-nothing can exceed
that in importance Eat simple things
and change your diet frequently from
one simple thing to another. Never eat
half grown things. Lamb. veal. young
animals of any sort are poisonous They
are as bad as green fruit. Nature means
that her creations shall reach maturity
and Furnishes those who kill and eat
them prematurely. Eat regularly, al
ways at the same hours, and chew care.
fully.
Pay great attention to breathing. In
that is the secret Of long life and ener-
gy. You know, probably, that your
blood, having accumulated the impuri-
ties of the body, passes through your
lungs to be cleaned. Through the lungs
impnrity leaves the body and through
the lungs the blood takes up fresh sup
plies of the strength on which your
work is done. The electricity Of the air
is taken up by the red blood corpuscles
and the life current goes back through
the system full of vigor.
Breathe in slowly and breathe out
just as slowly. If you work in an Office
stop occasionally to take ten very deep
breaths- 60 to your work when possi-
BILE on the platform of the car and de-
vote that time to proper breathing. One
hundred deep breaths per day slowly
inhaled and exhaled. filling your entire
lung capacity from the bottom to the
very top, will easily add two inches to
your chest measure in year. No young
man or young woman need have a fat
chest. Proper breathing will give you
proper lungs and hence chest of the
right sort.
Careful eating, simple food, slow eat
ing, long chewing; avoidance Of such
American crimes as hot cakes, hot
bread, hot biscuit, horrible hash, etc.,;
regularity in all functions Of the body
eating and sleeping at the same hours
and sleeping the same number OF hours
with extra sleep one day in the week;
careful breathing above all You can
live two weeks without food. You can
not live five minutes without air, and
that alone should make you understand
the Importance of the lungs
Try to make yourself strong and
healthy, and il you succeed use your
health omake your brain work. Thok
and talk tn your fellows and take an.