The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-02-22
HEALTH CLUBS
PRINCIPLES
How to Take Due Precau
tion and Safeguard Your
Health.

sibly be brought under its influence
in the slightest dogree, TO be brave
Put there is a difference between brav-
cry and carelessness, and t1ere IS one
kind of fear that is much to he COM
mended Always fear 10 do wrong.
Never fear to do right Carolossness
is wrong, whether it DE carelessness Of
yourself or others. You wourd con-
slider II criminal in one vno had q
contagious or dangerous disease to
go into a public place and thereby
spread the contagion. When, by care.
lessness, YOU contract a i,fsease. you
not only en1anger yourself but your
friends WITH whom you are brought in
personal contact At any ratio you
place yourself hi condition TO be-
come trial and a burden 90 them IN
taking care OF YOU during your ill-
moss. Ordinarily this care is lg9ur
Of love, when It must be given, but 1t
is highly reprehenslblc and useless TO
cause your friends such work. anx-
iGy and sometimes expense, when II
can be avoided.
1t IS not with any disposition TO be.
come alarmists that we speak Of "cv-
erday dangers" but ~ call attention
to the hcc .less-cvcn foolish-incur-
renee OF danger to your own health
and that of others.
just think minute. See that dirty
chap over there with n sore mouth,
uncombed hair aul a general appear
ance CT hlthiness? He is evidently
the victim Of his own Incidence or
general "ornarlsness," How would
you like to take q cup of water from
his hand? Worse: how would YOU
like 20 take drins from q cup or
glass that you knew he had been
drinking from? The very thought Is
sickenlng, isn't lt2 il is almost sicks
ening to ask the question. But those
Who look after tho nealth Of others
have to do and say a great many un-
pleasant things.
Wei, just remember that every
time you take q drink from and pub
lie drlnking-cip or other vessel Of the
kind, that some such person may have
drank from Il, the minute before you
| did, and left upon It's edge whore you
may get them, the microbes OF somo
awful disease. But, you say that
! kind Of persons are not to be seen
on sleeping and drawirg-roCm cars,
or even respectable day casr, about
decent hotels and the like. Just re-
member that scrofulous and syphiltlc
! diseases, the most contagious, insld-
ious ana dangerous, are easily con-
Iveyod by ahe bacili Of the disease
germs 50 inhnitosimally small that tho
I particles of the air you breathe are
sometimes larger; ana not only the
wealthy and nigh everywhere, but ev-
en- royalty may be hereditary or acute
sufferers from such diseases.
At Hot Springs, Arkansas, the mos;
famous Of an places for abe cure, by
lthe waters. OF sypEilltic ana mercurial
diseases, the frst-class hotels do not
make even Il protence of furnishing
bath-towcls to their guests, but for
fear OF promoting contagion, require
every guest to supply his own BATH
towels The managers OF those hotels.
doubtless under tine instruction OF
resident physicians, do not risk a1
safe, such articles, even though thor
ou2hly Numbered. But little less
dangerous are the public towels any
where. Have your own drnking-cup
with you, wherever you go, as scrLpu.
lously as you would have your own
tooth brush, and carry your own toilet
; araclos when you start On even the
= brlefest tIip, where 1t Is possible that
such articles may be needed, for even
a moment.
These admonltions and everything
akin to them should be taught by
= parents, in the schools, and all the
time. The approach OF disease IS in.
visible ana insidlous, and for this rea-
son 1t Is less guarddl against, in the
smplos; matters. If a malady like
consumption or pneumonia, which ;wi
were lately shown by a capable and
distinguished specialist in vital sta
tstics, In Chicago, carried away nCar-
ly 80 per cent. OF those who died n
that city last year, should come WIFI
the roar Of lion or the noise of a
great gun, tho utmost means OF de-
fense or escape would instantly be
oiganized. And yet neither herd OF
roaring lions on n battery az greaI
guns Is so dangerous as these i,laeases
ard many others that are entirely pre-
vontable by cdrefulness In all the ways
so frequently set forth In these lee
lures from the Home Health club.
In The advice Of Moses, commanded
Z. by the Most High. to be given to the
] Children Of Israel in the passage o'
[ the Wilderness, on hygiene and san
r itaaion, these everyday dangers were
9 shown and directed to be guarded
r against "thus to put away evil ou
OF Israel"
y This subject may seem ilLs.astefu
/ and almost uneanny, but II Is one o
n utmost Importance, ana should be re
$ garded from that standpoint
3 10 be brave IS vne thing to ID
:, careful Is another, and there is no rc1
= son why they should in the least
+ initiate against each other. and thi
: IS what is meant by the adomnitlon
4 To guard againa. "Eevcryday Dan
n gers"
: All readers OF this publication ar
at liberty 10 write for ynformation per
+ tanning to the subject OF health a
c any time. Address all communication
e to the Home Health club. or DR.. DayA
g H. Reedcr, La Pol.e, Indiana, Will