Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-31
By Mime. Lima Cavalier
A RE you tea or coffee drunk.
Do you blush easily, and at

Do you blush easily, and at
the wrong times and places?
Are you irritable?
Have you q hobby?
All these seemingly unrelated
questions have bearing upon what
ijwill talk about to you to-day. 1t is
the army of soldiers within us
which easily become traitors. They
are the nerves
An eminent medical director of
an asylum for the insane in your
country borrowed-he did not saw
ne had coined-the phrase, brain
storms" An English authority has
recently said that much tea and
coffee drinking causes nerve
storms" Recall the excessively
nervous women you have known.
They have all been, unless illness
caused their state, addicted 10
much tea or coffee drinking, or to
the other foes to the nerves.
alcohol or cigarettes.
The active principle OF tea is
theme. That OF coffee is caffeine.
Both are powerful poisons. II Is
this poison at work In a minor de-
gree that gives you the impression
that they are nerve stimulants.
Caffeine Is the stronger and has a
more direct and powerful action ON
the nerve centres. Most persons
drink too much coffee. Nervous
women drink too much when they
drink any.
" you have either habit and
IND II very hard to foreswear
them drink cocoa instead, for
cocoa 10 undenlably a food. A great
dietlelsn compared Its nourlshInq
Qualities with those Of the egg; In.
deed ehrlstened II "a vegetable
egg" II contains nitrogen In the
form OF gluten, much fat, some
starch, and q mild stimuisnt Of
lts own, theobromlne. AuthorL
ties on food have placed u beside
the egg In the rank Of perfect
foods.
II 10 we'll that you know the
proportional amounts of alcohol
In the various wines and liquors.
In whlskey, brandy, and eln, for
example, there 10 fifty per cent
alcohol. " you drink a glass Of
brandy you are drinking halt a
alassfui Of alcohol. In tho esse
Of sherry you drink quarter Of q
glass Of alcohol. clarets and
bursundies contain one-tenth to
cne-twsntleth alcohol. Beer 10
about one-fifth alcohol. Should
any enc order you to drink a glass
OF pure alcohol you would think
he was crazy and would probably
call for help; but there you have
the table Of the amount you con-
sumo, at dinners or wherever
these are drunk.
In thIs age Of the demanded
equality Of the sexes II seems
heresy TO say that women may
not drink and smoke " men do;
but Nature herself has raised that
bar. Drinking Is an evil for both,
but greater evil for women. So
Is cigarette smoking, for women
are OF more highly keyed nerv-
Gus system than man. "more ae-
tive In thought, more intuitive, Of
keener perception, her nervous
system 10 more likely 10 Develop
the unstable state says one Of
Ensland's greatest medical -au-
thorities.
II you do none OF these against
which have uttered . warning and
you are still irritable you should con
slider your manner of sleeping and
kind Of food. In London while |
was singing there last Winter | saw
q bed especially invented for nerv-
Gus persons. The principle was
the same as the rocking Of the
cradle for infants. except that the
motion was quite opposite. The
bed was tilted az gentle slope
toward the foot II was fixed at its
centre and from this point by q ne
chanical contrivance was slowly
lowered and raised. producing a
gently soothing motion that gradu-