The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-24

gerous is the effort to combine study and society. The girl at high school. living at home and trying to go to par- ties and concerts and other evening amusements, cannot maintain her proper rank in the class room.
 Briefly stated. unbroken health is within the reach of most of us. We are fortunate If we have inherited viz orous bodies from parents and grand parents. Yet If we have begun life with tendencies to delicate health. we may overcome them by resoIute will, careful dieting and generally hygientc living. An abundance of good, plain, nutritious food is essential to health.
 Thousands of school girls owe their dull eyes, sallow compilations, pimples and frequent headaches to constant too many sweets. A habit of eating between meals. nibbling chocolates and bon-pons is fatal to digestion and good looks. A girl who is half sick most of her time will lose her comehness, and as beauty is the birthright of school girls, which they should not sell for the modern mess of pottage in the con- fectioner's window. one cannot but re- gret the spendthrift folly.
 Equally fatal to health Is the habit of taking drugs. The girl who never gets far from the pill box will not have the high spirits and gay good humor which should be her portion. seldom see group of girls standing around a soda fountain without wish | ing that they knew the advantages oi drinking plain cold water. only that and l plenty of it, and letting sweetened | syrups alone. Fruit should take thu | place of pastry. and 1t Is better fo' l growing girls wholly to omit coffee
 and tea froIn their bill of fare. Brea. | at least day old is better choice foI 6 beauty than hot biscuits, and fried | food should not be chosen if anything | else can be had.
 Another secret of health for the l school girl is plenty of sleep. The beauty sleep must be taken before
 midnight. Go early to bed if you would
 be strong and equal to whatever yor have to do. The temptation to sit III 1 late because others do so is always | great, but 1t should be resisted. The school girls who read this tals may be thankful they are not situated as one girl was to whom a settlement | worker in New York said one evening | Mabel, you are looking i'll and fagged | You sit up too late at night after youI | long hours in the factory" Yes.
 said Mabel. T know 1t, but there art
 eleven or us to sleep In two rooms, ana
 my bed Is not pulled down from tho | pile of mattresses until nearly mid l night. l have to sit up. I have nc room of my own"
 The poor girl was not responsible for her short nights of rest To sleel long hours in vitiated atmosphere fl
 10 breathe poison, so a girl who doe' not want to be tired and languid mus have fresh air in her room all night.
 Nor must she neglect the daily bath The best complexion cosmetic that any
 one can rse Is water. cold Jr tepid, a.
 preferred. Every day of ones lif
 preferably in the morning, one should
 bathe from head to foot, afterwart
 rubbing hard with coarse towel, st
 that the skin may be in a healthfu
 glow.
 These directions may seem very prim
 .tive. but there are always those wh
 need them. Health is largely a mat
 ter of the will and of nindlng sirnpI
 rules every day. We may be well ] we will but take the trouble