St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-03-31
BY MARGARET E. sANGsrER.

&1rl VINO Wishes to Be Free from
Headaches.
By MARGARET E. SANGSTER
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
It seems too bad that young girls a
school. whose duty and privilege i
should be to enjoy perfect health
should ever suffer from the fendisl
torture OF an aching head. I have hal
no personal experience of the kind
never having known the misery of /.
headache in all my life. But hav,
seen girls and women In the clutche.
OF the malignant demon, who fastent
his fangs in the nerve-centers ant
racks the brain until the victim Is al
most exhausted.
once said to girl friend: Tell me
Blanche, what is the worst thing abou,
a headache?" She answered: 1T is al
worst. There is the boring of cork.
screw, the grinding of coffee mill
the creaking Of buzz-saw and the
pounding of q trip-hammer, all com.
bined, when / have one of my head.
aches. It is day coming on in which
I am wretched, it has a day Of endur-
ance when I am more dead than alive
and 1t has third day when it is going
of.
Poor child! did not wonder that
such an infiiction laid waste her life
Probably few people have this extreme
~ a3afroScSn0 In fh4 %n~ $<~r
common feminine ailment, headache
But thousands of women begin their
initiation in the malady when they are
about Ia, and they never get rid Of II
until life ends.
The birthright of schoolgirl is un-
broken health. If you are i'll in any
way there is a cause for it. Somebody
has Numbered; either your mother,
your grandmother or yourself must be
to blame. If the fault lay with your
ancestors and they have bequeathed
you a legacy of i'll health, your task
to overcome it will be little harder
than il you have inherited what may
call the habit Of being we'll Still, one
cannot lay the imputation of mistake,
or the responsibility for illness wholly
on anybody else, because health and
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
inquire why we are SO often i'll.
When a girl has persistent head
aches and can assign no reason for
them, she should visit an oculist. A
great many headaches come from stra-
bismus, or unequal sight. II the nerves
Of the eyes are strained there is almost
certainly the probability that head
ache will follow. have known head
aches entirely vanQuished by the sim-
pie recourse to doctor who prescribed
the proper glasses No girl should
ever run any risk by selecting her
cwn lens in such a case. A visit to q
Trustworthy specialist is indispensable
and will save time, money and
strength In the end, for here head
ache is merely q warning signal of
danger.
A headache often springs from dis
ordered stomach. The fatal habit Of
and nibbling between meals,
or the appetite for rich pastry too free
~ INDUCED, or the penchant for candy,
that bane of schoolgirl existence, may
account for the rebellious stomach.
When the stomach goes on strike there
quickly follows the nightmare known
rs sick headache. II girls would care
fully limit their eating of candies and
sweetmeats to somewhat meager
dessert, after q meal Of plain food.
these dainties would do them little
harm. But there are girls who fairly
gormandize ON bon bons and sweets.
could tell you tales Of girls with pasty,
5allow compilations and red, angry
looking pimples and very cross dispo-
Iitions. entirely due in my opinion to
heir excessive eating Of candy and
other confectionery. In its place, pure
ANDY Injuries no one, but it was never
meant to be steady diet It is rather
By the way OF being sort of reward
# merit and q. crown to a little feast.
The trouble is that over-eating ct
'weets surfeits appetite and then ons
loes not care for roast beef and NUT
on chops and rice pudding and baked
lpples and other admirable articles of
God, which give one good red blood,
Ind build one up in wholesome vigor.
II your mother has been wise she
las not permitted her schoolgirl
laughter to taste either coffee or tea
Turing her childhood. These bever-
Iges should be the sole consolation Of |
;rown-up people, who may be sup
'osed to understand the uses OF q stim-
liant. A growing girl should not
rink cup OF coffee or = cup Of tea
lnder any circumstances. II she wants
] warm drink for breakfast on cold
morning, let 1t be either cocoa or hot
milk, both OF which are nutritious
nd inocuous. II you wish to keep
right: eyes and red cheeks and to feel !,
and well. let tea and coffee
lone until you are long past school
avs. But drink an abundance OF cold
1ater.
A fruitful cause of headaches is con-
upation. Unless the physical system
9 regular and the body periodically
elieved Of rubbish and debris, no one
an hope to be well. Girls sometimes
eglect this important rule Of nature, I
articularly IL they are away from
ONE, or II they have not established
! themselves definite and inflexible
rder about the matter One can never