The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-29
THE HABITS OF HEALTH.
Good Physical and Mental Habits
Make Strong and Happy Men
and Women

Health is really habit. The habit
of living right. We are about nine
tenths habit, anyhow, and if we get into
right habits of living we shall have
little trouble in keeping ourselves in
prime condition, physically and men
tally, says Medical Talk for the Home.
1t may be little hard at first, re-
curing some self-denial to break up
bad habits and to get started right, but
after the good habits are once estab-
lished the benefit from them will be
SO delightful that there will be no temp
tation to fall back into the old habits.
If you get into the habit of going
without breakfast, or eating just light,
wholesome breakfast of cereals and
fruit, soft-boiled eggs and whole wheat
bread and butter, you will find your
self feeling so much better that you
will no longer crave a horrid breakfast
of hot biscuits and bacon, pancakes and
strup, or fried potatoes and sausage.
You will wonder how you ever thought
such breakfast was nice at all, and
you will really crave the wholesome
breakfast So you will find it for din
ner and supper. After you form the
habit of eating only clean, digestible
food you will have no desire for the
other, and will feel so full of vitality and
good nature that you will never want
to go back to the old, bad habits of
eating.
Bathing is habit, too If you only
take bath once a week you will not
think a daily bath necessary because
you don't know anything about it. You
will not miss it because you are not in
the habit of taking it. But just COM
mence to take bath every morning or
every evening, and you will soon find
that it would be great deprivation to
60 without it. A cold bath in the morn
ing followed by a quick towel rub will
make you feel so good. SO wide awake
and so full of life, that you will find
it just as necessary to your comfort as
eating or sleeping. The morning bath
will soon become just as much habit
as putting on your clothes, combing your
hair, or washing your face.
Get into the habit of breathing prop
erly. 1t is just as easy to breathe deep
ly, using the diaphragm, as it is to use
only the chest. Expand the lungs and
fill them full of air every morning, and
every time through the day you think
of it. You will like to do it after awhile,
and finally you will be breathing deep
ly all the time without giving the mat
ter very much attention. Your lungs
will be so much stronger and your blood
SO much purer.
But good physical habits are not ALL
The mental habits must also be reg
ulated. If you are in the habit of talk
ing about every little i'll, pain or ache,
stop it right off, and talk health instead.
Speak kindly of your body, think that
every organ is in perfect order doing
its work naturally. Don't think that
you have to tell somebody every time
your head aches, or your heart palpi-
tates, or your stomach refuses to digest
some horrid food you have forced upon
it. There are so many other things to
talk about. Just leave your little COM
plants and aches out of the CONVERSE
ton. 1t is just habit you have fallen
into of talking about yourself. and You
can form the habit Of talking about
more interesting and cheerful things
if you want to. and you will be far
more delightful person to talk with.