Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-09-26
COMMON SENSE
IND temper
The Dentist and Doctor May
Often Do More to Cure These
Than TIE Most Jealous Of
Ministers Can Do.

- l'i ms vi temper W men. II lut
~ truth We're known, they
should he taken to the doc
tor. The healthy human animal is, as
a rule, happy ANA good naturod.
The same may. III Il measure, be said
Of their elders. OF course being cranky
gets to be Il habit with many persons.
but the habit usually began in some
physical arrangement. If you feel
cross and out of sorts take stock of
your physical condition. DO you fail
to sleep well? Have you Il poor appe
tite? Are you afflicted with head
aches? Are your eyes troubling you:
What about your digestion? They
may be TO blame, and your spells of i'll
humor and naStiness can then be more
effectively miniStered to by the family
physician than by the clergyman.
1t Is Il fact that often tempers can
be cured. just as many a physical Ill
can be cured. by proper attention to
some law of health which is. whiting
ly or unwittingly. being broken.
Take the fact so often forgotten that
poison in ones system works havoc on
the nerves.
And by noison is not meant the poi
son that is bought in druggists shops.
but the poison which is generated il
the body from various causes.
IT, for instance. decayed teeth or
decayed stumps of teeth are allowed
to remain in the gums a constant slow
poisoning IS set up from putrefactive
matter in the mouth, and this affects
the nerves
Now. poisoned nerves are very apt
to get what we call ION edge" which
is a polite way Of saying that the per-
son suffering from them is irritable.
snappish, peevish and generally un-
pleasant in temper.
In this case the temper isn't nearly
so much fault as a misfortune The
affected person is suffering and. un-
luckily. making others suffer. too. from
ignorance of the fact that the nerves
ought to be restored to a healthy con
dition by removing the source of. thei
poisoning-the decayed teeth.
There is another fertile cause OF
pollution of the blood. and that is con
stipation. 1t is responsible for tire
mendOus amount of Ill temper.
A dose of EPSON salts will often
speedily cure an attack Of III temper.
A dessertspoonful taken In big tum
blerful of hot water half an hour be-
fore breakfast will often cut short an
attack of 1.-The blues" and remove the
irrta bility which has been making
one ell to live with"
Another very good temper cure"
especially useful to those who object
to or cannot take unpleasant doses. 'e
a good pinch of epson or glauber salts,
taken every morning for a week or two
in ones early cup of coffee.
One often hears of overeating as
cause of bad temper. and no doubt 1t
is so. but undertaking is just as fire.
quent cause Of i'll temper. especially
in the young and growing and in those
who lead strenuous lives.
Ill nourished nerves are just as apt
to get ION edge" as poisoned nerves.
Poor food. particularly FOOD 0enc1eut
in fat. gives rise to nerve starvation.
and starved nerves are responsible for
neuralgia. peevishness and temper.
This does not mean that you should
eat the fat of meat if it does not agree
with you. You can get the most d.
gestible form Of fat in good butter and
in cream.
The wife of well known physician
said that since she began to give her
husband plenty of cream with his food
his temper-which had been very ir-
ritable-had greatly improved.
He has no idea that this pleasant
remedy is given him as specific for
his temper. 1t is given casually IN
coffee. with fruit, etc.-a regular
amount every day-and his nerves are
thus nourshed and have ceased to be
Oh edge.