The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-06-18
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stantly craved maple sugar taught her
stomach to desire fruit instead. Every
time it craved the sweet she gave it a,
taste of fruit, and pretty soon she
learned to like the fruit better than
the sweet.
Don't try to reform your diet sud-
denly. You cannot break off all at
once You must do. so by degrees. If
ysu stop eating all your accustomed
foods the result will be disastrous in
deed. Make the changes gradually
but about the fresh air treatment
In the afternoon get out and do stunts.
If you cannot get in a gymnasium go
up on the housetop. In Washington
there is a house with fiat roof ali
around which there is built a tall fence
which is screened off so that no in
quisitive eye can penetrate. And
upon that roof a party of young wo-
men frequently practice gymnastics.
They run and jump and make typical
athletes of themselves.
IF there is no roof or no gymnasium
a vacant room will do. You must ,ex-
ercise until you are tired. 1t is the
greatest cure for weak and tired nerves
that ever was
And the woman who was nervous
herself and who had succeeded in cur
ing herself tripped away to indulge
in her well beloved athletics.
If you are tired in nerves and worn
in body there are things which you
must not do.
You must not sit in a close room with
a number of persons all breathing the
same atmosphere. This is d lesson for
the tired out working woman 10 pom
der if she can.
Tho vrorls5Oc woman D,mct aat
irregularly if she be inclined to be
nervous. And the more nervous she is
the more methodically must she at
tend to her appetite.
If the working woman eats at Il let
her observe the hour with fidelity. A
minute before or afterward seems little,
yet it is upon these minutes that the
comfort of the stomach hangs. The
gastric juices are accustomed TO re-
ceive their portion at a certain time
and that which comes later gets
poor reception.
Don't, if you are a working woman,
try to eat and remain seated after
ward Digestion depends largely upon
gravitation and it is good thing to
take walk after meal
Never, if you ere nervous. lie down
directly after eating. This will arrest
digestion and make the person who
does it extremely irritable, if not
drowsy.
Don't. if you are nervous, attempt
to sit more than an hour at a time.
Even the working woman can manage
TO rise, move about and, perhaps,
throw open the window.
Nervous women who suffer from in
somnla can rise and throw wide the
WINDOWS and blinds. Open the door
II possible and let the air circulate
through. There is a nervous woman
who is troubled with shortness of
breath. Each night she arises at mid
night, throws open the windows, airs
the room and goes back to sleep again.
Nothing viii do but a freshening of
the room.
Don't try, if you are nervous, to do
much talking. Women who talk a.
great deal are sure to grow more and
more nervous. They bring on their
nerve trouble by constant use of the
vocal organs and the consequent drain
upon the brain is severe Keep still,
stop talking, if you do not want TO be
nervous. More nervous invalids are
made by the talking habit than by all
the other bad habits in the world put
together. And it is nervous people
that are usually such great takers.
The more nervous / feel the more |
talk said nervous invalid. r
Nervous women are usually awk-
ward. 1t is part of their nervousness.
They should exercise, and as they ex-
ercise they will acquire grace. 1t is |
a double stunt, so to speak. Take ath-
letic exercises and grow in grace as
well as in nerve force
My husband is dyspeptic and merry
ous," writes a woman. What can be |
done for him? He has taken so much |
medicine that he is walking drug |
shop
This is one of the cases where rest |
and not exercise is needed. Give him !
the right kind of a breakfast. let him |
get out in the open air in the morning, |
see that his lunch is all it ought to be, |
and let dinner be perfection. In the |
evening go out. Don't stay home. a |
case of nervousness was cured by |
nightly rides in the open trolleys.
And there are special stunts for the |
nervous woman, the woman whose
back and head always ache a little |
One of these is the running exercise.
Let her get down on her hands and
feet. Do not touch the knees TO the ,
ground, but start as though you were :
/ runner going TO run a race. Start I
upon the race, race across the room ,
and back again. This viii be all the
exercise you will need for one day.
When you rise be sure to stand per-
'ectly erect a few minutes, long
enough to give the heart time to re-
sumo its normal beating. This is ex-
remedy important, for the heart will
smother and the lungs will have a
cramped feeling when you
irst resume your normal position.
All the running exercises are good.
Try running slowly, with both arms
lplifted, taking deep breaths all the
While. This is easy and restful. Run
,lowly. taking long steps, with both
rms in the air, breathing deeply all
he while When you run throw your
.ibows back. lift your hands, square
,our elbows and get all the exercise