Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-07
ILLHEALTH IMMORAL
SOME PERSONS PERSIST IN MAX
ING THEMSELVES SICK.
Kate Epson Clark Gives Rules to Moth
ers for Children-Food to Be
Avoided.

From the New York Tribune.
Spend q part OF every day in the open
air. l never gave that rule to any woman
who didn't indorse 1t, and never knew one
that observed It.
Eat temporarily. You can eat the most
indigestible things II you partake of them
only in very small quantity. 1 have found
that out by more or less perilous expert
ment
such rules as have proved most beneficial to
yourself.
Sleep eight hours every night.
Take as little medicine as possible
Breathe deeply.
Do some useful work every day; not en-
broidering dog collar. but something USE
full.
Believe In something enough to be enthu-
siaStic about it.
The newspapers and the authorities are
full of rules for preserving the health, and
they don't agree. Sometimes we don't know
what to do. but these few plain. funda-
mental rules are agreed upon by all.
Ii we fail in what is expected of us
through ill health we cannot keep our APP
p0fntmentS, cannot I'LL our obligations, can
not perform our duties-the result Is just
the same as If 1t were through meanness or
selfshness. II we are non-entities in life
through iii health the result is just the
same as II 1t came from stupidity.
That Mince Pie.
A good proportion of Illness Is immoral
because 1t comes from deliberate willfulness,
and sickness brought on deliberately is i'm
moral. 'Oh. that mince pie. know 1t will
give me headache, but It's so good l can't
resist it" an old man 1 knew used to say.
So he would consume the deadly triangle.
and then his wife and daughters would
have to fuss with footbath and Ice bandage
and fan him for hours-a whole family made
wretched to allow a silly old man to eat in
digestible food. BY the time a person Is
thirty he ought to have the sense never
again to eat or do any avoidabe thing
which Injuries the health and children
should be trained absolutely to refrain from
any amusement, practice or article of diet
that Injuries the health.
But We women-what will we not do at
the behest of fashion? We shall never have
strong and healthy race until women
think more of health than they do of fash
ion. The rules already given are general
put have two which are special and for
men and women. The one for men Is Let
tobacco and whisky alone:" the one for
women is, Wear your clothes as loose as
a mans"
Really. you can be just as stylish with
your clothes that loose. said Mrs Clark.
earnestly. and If she followed her own
RUE her appearance certainly proved the
1ou won't have insomnia If you get
heaithfly tired every day. said She La
boring men never have insomnia Your
life won't be empty IL you do some useful
work every day. You'll keep young and
wen III you are interested enough In some
thing to be enthusiastic about it. En-
thusiasm isn't fashionable nowadays It's
fashionable to be blase and Indifferent
Questionable Things.
Convictions aren't fashionable, either
It's fashionable to be broad" Men would
almost rather be called immoral than
narrow nowadays. But If you will tell me
how to build up strong moral fbers in
our characters without strong moral con-
yictions 1 would like to7know It.
Sincerity Is the salt Of life. No insincere
person can attract permanently. Our Sa-
vior condemned only two sins by name,
and one of them was inSincerity. Affecta-
ton can never charm.
Cheerfulness is the most attractive of
all virtues, gratitude the most uncom-
mon. Courage Is the quality that keeps
all the rest from spelling.
Tolerance Is a beautiful new, modern
material. which the later ages have built
into the mansion of our lives. 1t is beau
tiful to see how ROmanists. Hebrews,
evangelical Christians. Unitarians. eth
ical culturists and theosophists work to-
gether on our health and charity boards
of Brooklyn. The broadcast expression of
religion today Is In the great humani-
tartan movements. Good government and
sound political economy rise from the
spirit of love and fraternity and are i'm
possible without it.