Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-10
Bodily Conserva ton and Discipline


THE instinct of modern intelligence is against waste
This principle is being applied with increasing rgor
in matters of business and government; but in the
matters that most deeply affect our happiness and
in lfe-our bodily resources and expenditures
the systematic conservation and scientific development
of efficiency still woefully neglected.
How one best utilize the resources available
for the development and improvement of the natural
defenses of the body?
The should be obvious. Dig up your family
history, take it to your DOCTOR and ask him to examine
and you up going concern. 1t he Shoes you
out of his office because you have not the obvious signs
of cancer broken down heart kidney, go to a
progressive man. who is alive to modern ideas in
medicine. DO not require minute information and fix
your mind on the workings of your body; but put the
responsibility on your DOCTOR and insist upon knowing
the things that will njure you, and those which will
specially benefit and strengthen YOU
This is the simplest way to get in the right path: and
the best to keep there to have body perod
caly inspected, just is customary to inspect well
ordered business institution Good habits easily
formed, and when established life becomes
dition of moving equilibrium, free from fussy anxiety
and uncertainty regarding what to eat drink and do
If your family history sound your doctor will tell you
that combination of sound stock and living is
we'll nigh invincble and will put you well forward in
the race, instead of among the ALSO rams If your
family history is "spoty, he will tell you to keep off
the thin ice there is plenty of the pond in the
safe places.
This means cutivating self control, not only of APP
petteS but of emotions The toxin OF fatigue has been
demonstrated but the pOlsons generated by evil temper
and emotional nonessentias have not yet
been determined although without doubt they exist
Explosions of temper emotional cyclones and needless
fear and panic over disease misfortune that seldom
materializes, are simply bad cell habits. By proper
ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible
to cultivate tolerance, pose and real courage without
being lobster a "bromde."
The man whose daily work interests him is specially
fortunate His only risk is that of being led into
sve and exclusive attention to his business profess
Contrariwise, the whose work is monotonous and
repellent is in hard But instead of accumulat-
ing the poison of discomfort, effort should be made
to balance avocation against vocation Aside from the
ordinary, intermittent relaxatons and anusements
many of which, by the way, often injurious to the
overworked and nervous, the steady influence OF some
harmless fad, sport Or mental pursuit dlssocated from
should be avoided when physically exhausted and vice
Diet and Exercise
TN early life an excess of nutrition well borne but
as physical activities and there is less need for
food the habit of eating heartily continues and often
grows apace. The result steady departure from the
proper balance of waste and repair Depending the
amount of exercise TAKEN the supply of food should be
cut down after forty years of age and the proportion
of meat in the dietary decidedly reduced. Meat is
seldom required more than day except by the
poorly nourished consumptlve and after forty that
should be the limit.
According to Metchnkof microbes in the large in
testne responsible for old age usually see it,
in other words, diseased condon,-and to neutral
ize this tendency he advises the milk diet Emil
nent authorities dissent from this view; but all agree
that constipation life shortener and in most
is due to neglect of function abuse of cathartcs
The spinal center that presides the bowel functions
can be trained to do its work by regular habits free
drinking of water between meals plenty OF vegetables
and fruit exercise, bathing, massage, ETC.; but the
regular use of catharcs renders this center and the
bowel muscle inert and unresponslve to ordinary slim
uli.
No matter how "chesty7 you may feel about your
muscularity, remember that mere muscle is not health
and may be burden. Moderate exercise at all ages
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violent competitive sports endangerng his life. Walk
ing swimming, golf hill climbing billiards, pool, gar
dening croquet may all be INDUCED in by the eldery
but violent sports and prolonged physical labor search
he md often hasten deqenerative