The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-08-13
ORDINARY LAWS OF HEALTH
NEGLECTED BY MOST WOMEN
Inordnae Luncheons Eaten When Shopping Frled Caps
for Morning Wear-How To Make Scent for the
Tresses At Home

"a VO one who is III Is happy. nor
IN Is their influence inspirlt-
VI ing and hoalthful; on the
- contrary, for every invalid
or complaining person in the families
OF my readers there are sure to be
others II there Is not called halt at
once in the wrong ways of living AID
thinking. Health lies In the direction
OF practice or functional activity of
all bodily organs, skin. stomach, bow
els, kidneys, nerves and brain. I'm
perfect functioning of one reacts upon
another The woman who has deli
cate throat" or Chest" is prone TO be
the woman whose skin is neglected.
whose chest and throat are heavily
clothed with furs. whose abdomen and
eXtremities are too thinly clad, whose
eliminative functions, bowels, kidneys
and skin, are badly performed, and
whose eating OF foodstuffs, either In
quantity or quality, are above her
needs. Her cells become cloeged as q
result Of imperfect chemical change,
her whole organism filled with clInk-
ers, as Is the improperly cared-for
crate, range or furnace fire. Just as
the ignorant servant keeps adding
coal to the fire, more and more effec-
tually shutting off every opportunity
for draft. just so the average indi-
vidual is prone in these conditions to
stoke the human furnace with more
and more food, to abstain from drink
ing water and from bathing for fear
of taking cold Conditions then arise
which indicate the heavy burden i'm.
posed upon all the cellular activities,
whose active interchange Of courte-
sizes, so to speak, Is absolutely essen
tlal TO health.
The cells primarily and then the
organs OF the body were only made
to perform certain functions safely.
There Is a natural limit to the de.
mands which may be made, and whero
this limit Is exceeded the system suf-
fers. Either the body as whole or
that part of Il which is attacked un-
dergoes change leading TO further
changes. either functional or anatom-
ical. Changes like these cannot take
place without n permanent weakening
OF the body. To illustrate the habit
of lndiscreet and excessive eating at a
shopping luncheon may be followed
by an attack of acute indigestion, a
sick headache, an intestinal catarrh
or constipation. The next indiscre-
tlon will be followed by untoward re.
suits more surely than before BY
each subsequent attack the organs
involved are more or less permanently
weakened. Let this go on and ull.
mately there may come the actual
| changes which spell organic disease.
AS 1t has been said before all are
not equally susceptible. Given two
people who alike indulge in the same
dietary or other indiscretlons, one
may escape any serious trouble, the
other may become the victim OF
Brlght's disease. 1t cannot be told
which one will suffer thus-hence the
need of care on tho part of everyone.
Increasing years, excessive strain in
the way of getting on In life, privations,
grief, shocks, exhaustion, all these
things increase the tendency to mis-
chief, which will seriously derange
the bodily mechanism and result ip,
preventable disease.