Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-12-01

To be free minded, and cheerfully
disposed at hours of meat and of
sleep and of exercise, is one of the
best precepts of long lasting"
II has long been an acknowledged
tact that health is the very founda-
ton Of happiness and usefulness.
both for men and women. and we
now recognize it as the cornerstone
OF beauty. We are only beginning to
learn the full significance Of that old
proverb Better an ounce of preven-
tion than pound of cure" and it is
the ounce of prevention that 1 want
you to have in overweight. Correct
habits of diet, clothing, sleep and ex-
erclse, according to season, will of
fer no encouragement to disease. but
when we see the habit of clothing,
according to season, totally ignored,
and Gods good fresh air treated as
though it were a rare article not to
be used, there is nothing left but to
crouch by the fireside and SOW seeds
of dependency and disease.
Health and beauty demand imperi-
tatiyely the absolute purity of these
four necessities, air water, food and
thoughts. So effective are these four
things that the woman with a delicate
constitution, if she abide by them.
can conquer the petty ailments and
enjoy better health than the robust
woman who constantly violates them.
1t is not simply a few breaths of
fresh air half dozen times a day, but
a continuous supply that the individ-
ual needs. We have learned that foul
air alone can induce colds, fevers and
the most insidious diseases, and that
in combination with improper food, it
causes a great part of human suffer
ing. The recent agitation of fresh
air schemes, as sleeping in better
ventilated rooms and out of doors
has already done much toward elm
mating disease and bringing the
longed-for glow in the cheek.
1t is a vicious habit to sit for
hours in closed room without ven-
tilation, breathing and re-breathing
the carbonic acid laden air, and the
evil effects Of sleeping in a room
where little or no air is admitted, are
even greater. Every adult needs
1000 cubic feet of fresh air per hour.
Less than this involves a re-breathing
OF the poisonous emanations thrown
off through the lungs and body.
Years have swept by the idea that
the fragile, sylph-like girl is the high
est type of beauty and that the dain-
ty little appetite is a mark of delica
cy and good breeding. Health re-
quires nourishing food, that is prop
erly prepared, in sufficient quantities
only. 1t is absolutely necessary that
the appetite should be regulated by
reason, and the woman who wishes
to cultivate her beauty must learn by
experience what agrees with her. Next
to the lungs the stomach is the most
abused organ in the body, and in nine
cases out of ten that organ reflects
its condition in the complexion. Ma
ture formulates such a perfect crea-
ture that the inward purity seems to
lend radiance to the translucent skin,
and Just as three-fourths of the world
are starved for fresh air, they are
stinted in the normal quantity of
water the body requires.
Cleanliness without and within!
No one thing has so powerful an in
fuence upon the structure of our
bodies and the texture of the flesh
as the water. we drink. Pure, good
water is one of the most potent fac
tors that ultimates itself in a peach
bloom complexion. It is never too
late to supply the body with better
material; it is never too late to strive
for any good thing we desire. The
drinking of hot water freely before
breakfast and bewteen meals has
hastened the cure of many pasty,
sallow complexion and there is no
simpler regulator of the internal
economy more eiicacious, for it
|cleanses the mucus membrane Of the
stomach. and stimulates the whole
ailmentary canal and the kidneys to
do their work, performing the neces-
sary Office of scayenger for the whole
body. It should not be drunk so hot