The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-11
NATURES HEALTH RULES.
How to Live Long In Spite of Bacteria
 and Other Dangers.


 If the man who can't reason is insane
 the man who will not reason Is a volun- tary lunatic Ninety per cent of our ills
 in life are preventable. A smile and a kindly greeting costs nothing, Is even
 good for you, and makes every one about
 you happy and your warm friend. Good l thoughts are contagious.
 | If person gets angry or grabbed, sour
 morose, peevish, even for an hour, scl- | ence has proved that digestion is impair ed, secretions impeded and blood toxins 1 (poisons) generated and he is likely to be sick. Self-respect cheerfulness, and a l good conscience, with grit, will keep you The best things on earth are inexhaust- ably abundant. This is a great age for germs; all sorts of diseases are their
 work, It Is said. They are scavengers,
 and If you will keep your blood tissues pure sweet and clean, they will find no abiding place with you Oxygen and ozone | will kill all the bacteria, if you will but | breathe the free air. People go to the | country to the mountains, to get air and | there fill their lungs about fingers , length below their chins. They will sleep
 in room closed up so that the air would | poison a snake, then wonder why they | don't get well. No need to be sick if | you will fill your lungs. Churches and | halls are poisonous dens from want of ventilation.
 On the walk you get the smoke of 1 cigar ten feet from you. In crowded as ] semblies and cars you get to sample the 1 air over again and again from every 1 lung within the walls. Sunshine will kill bacteria. It's very
 cheap. Try It. Water will dilute tho
 toxins and carry them away. It is mod
 erately cReap and really the people should 1 occasionally drink it.
 | Water q natUrpS UniVerSay solvent.
 will clean your skin and the inner man
 as well. It Is largely oxygen, Is an acid,
 and will keep you from drying up and l getting bilious and sour and scowling.
 Our bodies are 80 per cent water; that Is | if we use it, and 1t behooveth us to nour-
 ish, lubricate, and lixiviate our abused l bodies with it. The average citizen of : either sex will get up after a poor coffee ] or tea poisioned sleep, take a cup of l strong coffee, and the drug satisfies any 1 stray remnants of appetite for food and l creates a distaste for water. They walk
 about like dried up. sallow, smoked her
 rings and get thinner, all secretons clog | ged, the liver swamped. Next day it's l cathartics Have good sense; go to the | hydrant, not to the drug shop. Water, | air and sunshine, so cheap, so full of life,
 sweet health bloom and vigor, yet we
 use as little as we can of them and sur | Vive.
 | Every muscle In the human body should | be used little. at least, every day. Read 1 or study out about fifty calisthenic exer- clses Don't sit down and petrify or os- 1 sfy, but get up a circulation and breathe deeply. Get the habit. It pays to breathe. 1 Try it. If the heart futters during your | stooping twisting, kicking, limb swing {, ing exercises, just go slower, very slowly, | but keep on and your heart will learn to behave itself
 Bad health Is a foolish sin and s almost
 
 indulge in fads, but read up on hygenic Hlbiects Fletcher's book and others ar5 in the city library. Diet means die-out.
 Eat what an unabused appetite calls for,
 but be sane about 1t. Use your teeth. It's a lovely exercise. Don't eat in q
 worry and don't eat In a hurry unless you want to be an angel. Chew your food till you swallow 1t unconsclously. Taste it., relish 1t. If you are not hungry it is a sin to eat. Food not needed, not as simulated is nearly poison. We all over eat.
 If you ought to eat and need 1t you will relish the plainest food. Then if you eat slowly. chew properly, and taste your food you will not overeat. Consumption can be prevented and cured in the city without a tent or a bed on the porch or roof If we do not use tobacco, coffee whisky, tea, beer and other poisonous trash and drugs, and live sanely and give nature a chance. Nature tends to heal to health. if not interfered with by follies | Dyspepsia is a criminal offense against nature. It is more psychological than gas trological. Cheer up and eat what you want eat properly, stop using poisons. breathe, exercise, drink in air, sunshine and pure water. The time 10 drink is
 when you are through eating. To drink ! much during the meal may wash down , the food and prevent proper flow of liva. Don't drink lot of cold water into aa1. Ina ftH-1 fc- q day will lubrcate you. Constipation is the cause of nine-tenths of ills ! Coarse food, apple skins, bran, anything for roughness and bulk and water will cure It. Healthy morals, efficiency. hap ! piness, and long life are cheap. Try it.