Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-17


with in organs which are the subject
of increased circulation or a physio-
logical congestion at definite times 1t
does not take long to set up conditions
which tend to disease.
insufficient clothing of the lower
part of the body and extremities, the
getting of skirts damp and wet and
sitting with them on, wet feet, chilled
extremities are also contributory con-
ditions. The many nervous phenom-
ena which women manifest from time
to time and which they are led to be-
lieve come because of their sex are
preventable. To obey natures laws or
live normally in all ways means per-
feet action, no matter what the organ.
Under the conditions of modern civil
lization it is best that the average
woman should command times of rest
and quiet during the recurring period
ical function.
There is no need of an abnormal
watchfulness of self. This is all wrong.
But there is need of fresh air, sun
shine, exercise, baths, proper eating,
healthful dressing, regular hours, suf-
ficient sleep, work varied with diver
sion, mental poise, interested intelli-
gence, cheerful AMI hopeful attitude
toward life and avoidance of living
over in ones mind or in conversation
trivial round, the petty details of life
and it's carking cares. The conscious
effort of every woman should be to
cultivate an attitude above and be-
yond these things.
In relation to all the interesting pho
nomena of life nature is ever the best
teacher. Her pages may be read by
everyone, old and young, to their in
telligent delight and physical better
being.
Living, growing things, whether
plant or animal, have the power, none
higher, of passing the blessing of ex-
istence on. Trees, plants, animals, the
human animal included, must live
physiologically in order that in the
perpetuation of their kind the beauty
of life may be maintained.
The function of the cell requires en-
ergy, and if the energy with which
the living mechanism is endowed is
spent wrongly or too lavishly, that
function becomes impaired.
Youth is not of necessity the time
it is felt in this way. This is left for
later years, when it is more difficult
for the cell to function by reason of
impaired energy. On the other hand,
energy that is misspent, misdirected
or unduly exhausted detracts from a
we'll proportioned physiological life
The growing, developing boy or girl
should not be permitted to spend en-
ergy required for the functions of the
cell in over mental development, ex
treme physical hardship nor yet dis
sipation. At the time of adolescence
energy is called upon in new direc-
tions and if lavishly used, abused or
exhausted in wrong directions there is
not left sufficient for the perfect per-
formance of all the functions charac-
terizing the body. This wrong expen-
diture may be in pampering the ap-
petite for food, which does not neces-
sarily mean the eating of very highly
seasoned, spiced and indigestible food.
1t may mean equally an overindul-
gence in the ice cream. candy, roast
beef, coffee or tea of everyday life.
Study, exercise, amusements, wise
and wholesome in themselves, may be
carried to a point of definite harm.
Simple living natural living = is
clean, radiant blood is not the one to
suggest impure thoughts and actions
to the brain it feeds.
Nothing is more pernicious for the
growing, developing girl than the
habit of sitting or lounging in over
heated rooms indoors from which
fresh air is excluded, with a novel,
loading up her cells with the concen-
trated cloying sweet of candy, choco-
lates especially. The condition in
duced in the thousands upon thou
sands of cells is the same as that of
the horse attached TO the overloaded
farm wagon or city truck-the burden
imposed is beyond his capacity.
The same truths apply to boys as
girls, to men as well as women. The