The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-26

has biundered; either ysrdr mother. your. grandmother or yourself must be 10 | blame. If the fault lay with your ancestors and they have bequeathed you a legacy of i'll health, your task 10 overcome 1t will be a little harder than | if you have inherited what l may call the habit of being we'll Still, one can not lay the imputation of mistake, or | the responsibility for illness wholly on anybody else, because health and sick ness are very largely in our own hands. Nature makes for health and does all she can to keep us away from pain and anguish and irritable nerves and the handicaps that come from being only half well. We disobey nature, and let me add, we disobey Divine Providence. | too, and then we piously inquire why we are so often i'll. When a girl has persistent headaches and can assign no reason for them, she should visit an oculist A great many headaches come from strabismus, or unequal sight. If the nerves of the eyes are strained there is almost cer- tainly the probability that headache will follow. have known headaches entirely vanquished by the simple re- course to a doctor who prescribed the proper glasses. No girl should ever run any risk by selecting her. own lens | in such "a case. A visit to a trust worthy specialist is indispensable and | will save time. money and strength in | the end. for here a headache is merely a warning signal of danger.
 1 A headache often springs from dis ordered stomach. The fatal habit of munching and nibbling between meals.
 or the appetite for rich pastry too free- lly indulged, or the penchant for candy, that bane of schoolgirl existence, may account for the rebellious stomach. lwhen the stomach goes on strike there
 quickly follows the nightmare known | as sick headache. If girls would care
 srliv limit their eating of candies and l swaetneats to a somewhat meager des-
 sert, after a meal of plain food, these l daintIes would do themAlittle harm. But
 there are girls who fairly gormandize
 on bon bons and sweets. l could tell
 YOU tales of girls with pasty, saliow
 complexions and red' angry iooklns
 nimples and very cross dispositions, en- | tIreiv due in my opinion to their excess
 sive eating of candy and other confec- | tionery, In its place, pure candy in- l turea no one, but 1t was never meant 10
 he a steady diet. It is rather by the
 way of being a sort of reward or merit 1 and a crown to a little feast The
 sro,,hie is that over-eating of sweets
 snrfeits appetite and then one does not 1 ooro for roast beef and mutton chops
 and rice budding and baked apples and
 athar admirable articles of food, which oive one good red blood. and build one un in wholesome vigor
 , IT your mother has been wise she has not permitted her schoolgirl daugh- , ter to taste either coffee or tea during Der childhood. These beverages should
 ho inc sole consolation of grown-up reonIe, who may be supposed to un- . Sorstand the uses of a stimulant
 -rowIng girl should not drink cup of eaefee or a cup of tea under any cir ] s,,nstances If she wants warm
 Srink for breakfast on a cold morning. Int if be either cocoa or hot milk, both nT which are nutritious and fnocuous It vou wish to keep bright eyes and rad cheeks and to feel buoyant and } vell. let tea and coffee alone until you . are long past schooldays. But drink
 on abundance of cold water.
 Il fruitful cause of headaches is con-
 situation. Unless the physical system So regular and the body periodically
 rslIeyed of rubbish and debris. no one
 aon hope to be we'll Girls sometimes
 Oeglect this important rule of nature, naTticularly if they are away from
 home. or if they have not established
 in themselves definite and infiexible
 nrder about the matter. One can never
 osrlect the periodicity of nature. A
 nirI who would be both beautiful and
 ,aII must attend to the necessary | rra og fhA hodv in fla avery fcrrn