The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-16
HOME HEALTH CLUB
Diseases of Wofhen Concluded.
Someone has said. "Ten me wha

Diseases of VTofhen Concluded,
 Someone has said. '"Ten me what you eat and will tell you what you what you are.'' We might almost say Tell me what you eat and how and when you eat it and I will tell you what your physical derangenents are"
 When children are overfed it has tens matur1ty.- mat ts-. Early maturity organs and functions which should have laid dormant until the mind and body were sufficiently developed to handle the added responsibility The girl who is forced into early n1atur- ity by the use of rich, highly concen- trated foods, and by being forced in school and into society for which she is physically unprepared, is laying the foundation for all sorts of future troubles, both physically and men tai.
 Young men as well as young wo- men. whose moral training have been to avoid every act that convention might censure-never to do anything prudent-but who have been left to the ravages of imaginings, will suffer functional Arrangements and i'll health.
 An impure mind although without overt act is injurious to health The laws of health are no resp ecters disapproval on the debauched mind as well as on the debauched bod ies.
 NERVOUSNESS. = Who does not know what it is to be nervous? Ev- cry one knows what nervousness means, yet few know that nervous people are divided into two classes; namely, those who have irritab1eness and those who have weak nerves.
 THE REMEMBERING individual is in most instances born, and not made. Those who develop into real types of inconsistencies are those born of parents who failed to impart to them a stable nervous system. Look about you, and you will find no diff fculty in picking ouut several girls of your acquaintance who have only a small store of nerve energy and who are using this up as fast as they can Is there no treatment for these unfOrtunates? There is. While it would be impossible to give them a a new nervous system, the one they have can be strengthened and built up .so as to give them many more years of useful life
 DIET without doubt has a marked influence upon the development of any individual. Rich, highly concentrat- ed foods hasten maturity, induces pre- cocity, and do not furunish the Sys- build a strong well balanced body. Course, heavy foods build a rugged active body which reaches its zenith too early and then subsidies A well known physician and writer says this: Farmers and their wives die early; there is an appalling waste of life Tn all branches or society, but nowhere as great as in the country, due to overwork and improper eating-bread potatoes, meat, pie, cake and pre- serves. Only in the summer and then only for short time does the farmer have green vegetables. The farmer knows the importance of grass for his stock, but his family can live on dry foods the year round. It is a well known fact that country people, who by all rights should be the healthiest people, show by far a great CT percentage of sickness than the city people. Long hours, overw Orl1, and improper eating and poorly ven tilated homes are the cause. Home training and environ nients have their influences upon the life the young girl and determine to cer- tain degree. her physical and mental or moral make up
 If the mothers of the next genera. ton are to be strong and capable wo- men, the fathers and mothers of this generation must do their part. The mare, but some of thenns overwork the m others of their children.
 Health subjects which twenty years ago were unknown. or if known were tabood, are now being discussed pub IicIy, through the press and from the pulpit-eVerywhere- The effect for good is ren1arka bic, as manifested by better health, higher moral ideas and ideals, and greater efficiency and at tainnaent.