The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-16
of These
Poisons-Use
the Antidotes
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
TT ERE are few poisons to fight
III shy OF, girls ..
old enough, and wise enough, TO keep
away from poisons, but you're not
my dears. There are isidious poisons
that the oldest and wisest of US don't
recognize.
There are, for instance, the poisons
OF foul air and fatigue
When the poison of foul air gets into
your lungs, it makes you susceptible to
all sorts of diseases. 1t is a poison
that saps your life blood and leaves
your cheeks pasty and unhealthy look
ing and your eyes dull.
There is no greater robber of good
looks than foul air.
Foul air includes that other poison,
fatigue. You can be healthily tired by
long walk in the fresh air or by
hard outdoor work; but there is no
poison in that fatigue. The fatigue
that poisons is that which comes from
working in company with dozens of
people in airless rooms.
The wise, far-sighted employer
knows that fresh air means good work
and he sees that his workrooms are
well ventilated.
There are poisonous foods. too
feodA that you like, perhaps. but that
are indigestible. Every girl who
snatches a hurried luncheon of soggy
pie and coffee is poisoning her dtges-
ton and making herself a victim of
nervous indigestion.
Milk. eggs. soup and rice are all
as cheap as pie and coffee, and far
more wholesome. Try them for
change.
OF all the blessings that can be be-
slowed upon you, health is the most
precious. A healthy body makes a
happy heart. If you are tired and mis-
cradle, dragging yourself from one
blamed If you fail to appreciate the
blue of the sky and the gold of the
sui.
But If you are strong and well, no
work seems too hard, and you. are
happy merely through the joy of ex-
istence.
By avoiding some of the poisons I
have mentioned you may do a lot to-
ward securing health and happiness.
So much for the bodily poisons; now
for the mental.
The list of mental poisons is so long
that 1T is hopeless to try and enumer-
ate them; a few will do.
There are envy, hatred, gossip, bad
temper CHATS a violent potson), I'M
charitableness, sulkinesS; oh. there are
many, many of them.
Your heart is like a shell In chem
lists shop, filled with bottles labeled
with the names of emotions.
The day you take a dose Of bad tenn
per polSonS the day Tor you and every
one with whom you come in contact
Bad temper is a far-reaching poison
for under its influence things are done
and said which can not be recalled.
A spoonful Of gossip may poison the
life of some one of your acquaintances.
You don't mean harm, nor realize what
you are. doing, but the poison of gossip
Is most insidious.
You all know how hatred can poison
the head and disfigure the face.
And envy; no poison is more biting
and corrosive than envy.
Observation-Disclosures is a cold. slow pois-
on that deadens and para1yzes the
heart
There is another mental poison, the
poison that suggests impure and vul-
gar thoughts and puts a wrong mean
ing and conception on things. 1t is
nauseOus and unWholesome poison;
keep it out of your hearts, my girls.
Don't you think you can try to keep
all these mental potsons out of your
mind.
Kindness is the great antidote for all
hearts
Be on the watch for them don't let
the ugly. insidious poisons creep in I'M
Gwares.
Try to keep both mind and body pure
and wholesome
A healthy mind and healthy body
mean happiness; try and get it, and
hold It