The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-07
BY Mime. Lima Cavalier

Do you blush easily, and at
the wrong times and places?
Are you irritable?
Have you a hobby?
All these seemingly unrelated
questions have a bearing upon what
will talk about to you to-day. It Ia
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 say
ne had coined-the phrase, brain
storms" An English authority has
recently said that much tea and
conee drinking causes nerve
storms" Recall the excessively
nervous women you have known.
They have all been, unless illness
caused their state, addicted to
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. 1t 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.
Ia
find II very hard to foreswear
them drink cocoa Instead, for
cocoa Is undeniabIy food. A great
dletIcian compared Its nourishIns
qualities with those Of the egg, In
deed christened II "a vegetable
e9g." X contains nitrogen in the
form Of gluten, much fat, some
starch, and a mild stlmulant OF
Its own, theobromine. AuthorI-
ties on food have placed IL beside
the egg in the rank of perfect
foods.
II Is we'll that you know the
proportional amounts Of alcohol
In the various wines and liquors.
In whlskey, brandy, and gin, for
example, there is fifty per cent
alcohol. " you drink glass Of
brandy you are drinking half
slassfuI of alcohol. In the case
OF sherry you drink quarter of a
glass OF alcohol, CIarets and
buraundies contain one.tenth TO
one-twenteth alcohol. Beer is
about one-fifth alcohol. Should
any one order you to drink 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-
sume, at dinners or wherever
these are drunk.
In this age OF the demanded
equality of the sexes it seems
heresy to say that women may
not drink and smoke If men do:
but Nature herself has raised that
bar. Drinking is an evil for both,
but a greater evil for women. So
is cigarette smoking, for women
are of a more highly keyed nerv'
GUS system than man. "More ac-
tive in thought, more intuitive, of
keener perception. her nervous
system is mere likely 70 develop
the unstable state" says one Of
England's greatest medical .au'
thorities.
IL you do none OF these against
which | have uttered a warning and
you are still irritable yoL should con-
slider your manner OF sleeping and
kind Of food. In London while |
was singing there last Winter | saw
a 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 at gentle slope
toward the foot 1t was fixed at Its
centre and from this point by me-
chanical contrivance was slowly
lowered and raised. producing
gently soothing motion that gradu-