The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-26
Schoolgirls
and Headaches
BY MARGARET E. sANesTER.

should never suffer from the hendish
torture OF an aching head I have had
no personal experience OF the kind,
never having known the misery OF a
headache in all my life, But / have
seen girls and women ia the clutches
Of the malignant demon. who fastens
his fangs in the nerve-centers and
racks the brain until the victim is al
most exhausted.
! once said 10 a girl friend: "Tell me.
blanche, shat is the worst thing about
headache" She answered: 1T is all !
worst. There is the boring Of a cork |
screw, the grinding of a coffee mill |
the creaking Of a buzz-saw and the !
pounding of trip hammer, all COM |
bined. when / have one OF my head !
aches, II is day coming on IN which /
l am wretched. il has day or endur- |
ance when / am moro dead than alive, |
and 1t has a third day when 1t is gong |
of"
Poor childl I did not wonder that |
such an inflction laid waste her life. /
Probably few people have this extreme |
OF distressing agony in the far toe COM |
mon feminine ailment, headache. But
thousands OF women begin their nitla-
lion IN the malady when they are about |
IA, and they never get rid Of II until
life ends.
The birthright OF a schoolgirl is un-
broken health. If yOu are jill in any |
way, there is a cause for it. Somebody |
has Numbered; either your mother, |
Your grandmother or yourself must De /
10 blame If the fault lay with your /
ancestors and they have bequeathed |
YOU a legacy OF Ill health. your task |
10 overcome il will be a little harder /
than If you have inherited what i may !
call the habit of being we'll. Still, one |
cannot lay the imputation OF mistake. |
or the responsibility Tor illness wholly |
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sickness 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 be- |
ing only half well. We disobey nature, |
and. let me add. we disobey Divine /
Providence. too, and then we piOusly 1
inquire why we are so often i'll.
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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 |
amy risk by selecting her own lens in
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specialist is Indispensable and viii save
ime, money and strength in the end, !
for here a headache is merely a warn
ing signal Of danger.
A headache often surings from a dis
ordered stomach. The fatal habit of
munching and nibbling between meals.
or the appetite for rich Tastry too free
~ INDUCED, or the penchant for candy,
that bane of school girl existence, may
account for the rebeliOus stomach.
when the stomach goes on a strike
there quickly follows the nightmare
known as sick headache. If girls would
carefully limit their eating of candies
and sweetmeats to a somewhat NEARER
dessert after a meal OF plain food,
these danties would DO them little
harm. But there are girls who fairly
Gormandize on bon bOns and sweets 1
could tell YOU tales Of girls with Tasty,
Sallow compilations and red, angry
looking pimples and very cross dtsDO-
stiOns entirely due in my opinion 20
their excessive eating of candy and
other confectionery. In its place, pure
candy Injuries no one, but il was never
meant 10 be a steady diet. IL is rather
by the way OF being "a sort of reward
of merit and a crown 10 little feast.
The trouble is that Oyer-eating OF
sweets surfeits appetite, and then one
does not care for roast beef and NUT
ton chops and rice pudding and baked
apples and other admirable articles OF
food. which give one good red blood,
and build one up in wholesome ViPOr.
If your mother has been wise she has
not permitted her school girl dau hter
10 taste either coffee or tea during her
childhood. These beverages should be
the sole consolation Of grown-up TeO-
ple, who may be supposed to under
stand the uses Of Il stimulunt. A grow
n s4f.sl all Iii. IL
or cup of tea under any circum-
stances. If she wants a warm drink for
breakfast on a cold morning. let il he
either cocoa or hot milk, 10th Of which
ARE nutritious and innocuOus. II You
wish 10 keep bright eyes and red chet ks
and 60 feel Ouoyant and well, let tea
and coffee alone until you are long
past schooldays. But drink an abund-
ance of cold water.
\ fruitful cause OF headaches is con-
stipation. Unless the physical system
zoe regular and the body periodically
relieved OF rubbish ana debris, 10 one
can hope 10 be well. Girls sometimes
neglect this important rule OF nature.
particularly If they are away from
home, or il they have not established
ia themselves a definite ana iuGexi Ie
order about the matter. One can never
neglect the periodicity OF nature A
girl who would be both beautiful and
well must attend 10 the necessary
drainage OF the body, an its every
form
still another caution NAV he rar-
dOned by the ambitious girl who goes
To school, who wants TO keep up with
her classes, and who longs 20 take q
high rank IN the studies she prefers.
Do not work too late at night. The
beauty sleep comes Before midnight.
DO your studying, so far ms YOU can,
by daylight. II you must work ar
right do so in room where YOU can
be quiet. and where you have the
alright light OF a Well-fllled lamp.
DO not wear tight corsets Have your
clothing loose and let it's weight hang
from the shoulder and not from the
hips. a headache may be due 10 pres
sure upon the lungs and the abdomen
OF a corset that is mistakenly supposed
10 insure good figure.
i wish 4 could persuade every eirl
ln the land 70 revere the Eous- ia which
she lives. The body is the souls
house. Body and soul are STRANGELY
united. III we abuse The body we suffer
pain; If we treat il with fairness and
give IL freedom. If We feel for 1t the
reverence we should, We so through
life cheerfully equal 10 the days work.
The foundation for a healthful. happy
life ~ laid i'm youth. You are building
Tor tomorrow. In many cases a head
ache Is more than A blunder: IL is q
sin. There are 10 doubt times when
this language is too strong 10 III the
occasion. but taking the great host OF
school girls as they are. they have no
need 10 be nervous irritable or in any
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