The Irish standard., 1901-04-20
WIEN The EARTH IS FROZEN.
Important Pnints in the Care Of tho
Body During the Winter
Season.

The period when frost reigns SUI
prcmc and the earth is frozen is but
a limited one. In the United States
it is barely three months, for Novem-
Der and March are usually more or
less open months. This is the season
when we must make every eNertion
10 keep out the cold and keep in the
heat. says the New ork Tribune. We
must maintain good bodily health if
we would avoid cold and the attendant
evils that come with it. 1t is even
more important, in order to keep warm
| III winter. 10 keep he fires of the body
active than The fires of the house. We
must take plenty of exercise and
breathe plenty of pure, fresh air in
order to maintain oxygen for the fires
OF life in their best condition, and we
must ca, plenty OF food to supply these
Tires, which keep the body warm. We
need plenty OF fats, oils, starch and
sugar i'll winter. We need them at all
seasons OF the year, but in greater
quantities in winter or cold weather
than III warm Weather. We get these
fatty foods from animal fats and vege-
table oils. j has been proved that even
pork. though The most difficult of all
fresh meat TO digest. contains so large
a percentage OF fat that it makes
most valuable food for people of good
digestion in cold weather. Sailed
meats. il should be remembered, are
less di%es,ibc and less nutritious than
fresh meat. This disadvantage of salt
meat. however, may he entirely neu-
trall%cd in winter. when the frcsh meat
is poor in fats. as veal is. and the salt
meat rich in fats as pork is. Sugar,
like fats, is valuable winter food,
which supplies fuel to the bodily fires.
preserved lruitsArr more useful winter
foods for this reason than fresh fruits
or canned fruits. Fresh fruits are re-
ir'shln%. but contain very little nutri-
l"n. They are chiefly valuable rs
1000 III summer. because they are anti
scorbuics. This quality is also pos
sessed by preserved fruits, and this
is another rcaon why they should be
used. Our own natural taste is prob
ably the best guide we can have in
the selection of our food. In this mat
ter certainly an ounce of practical ex-
prrIrncc is worth a pound Of theory.
The baby who cries for sugar expresses
natural need which wise mother
will CRAFTY. Few people feel any de-
sire for fresh fruits in zero weather,
nut anyone who is fond of bonbons
Will eat them. Wheat is a valuable
bodily fuel. because of the starch it
supplies. as we'll rs its gluten, which,
like the alhuminous substances OF
meat, cheese. eggs and other foods,
builds up the new tissues of the body
which replace he old ones, continual.
~ being broken by the fires of life,
and as continually replaced as long as
life lasts.
When we insist, as some people do,
that certain food will supply all the
needs of the body. we must prove it
is Il fuel. and also Il tissue builder.
There is no food that is this, though
wheat probably comes as near TO this
MS anything we have, but while life
can be maintained on proteid diet it
requires the digestion and rejection Of
vast amount of unnecessary SUBJ
stances. 1t has been proved that the
digestive powers are taxed the least
when the diet is n mixed one, wisely
selected according to the season, from
the foods which the human race by long
experience has found to be good and
proper for its needs