The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-06-06
High Cost of Living Affects
School Teachers in America.
Personal Hygiene.

The State Board of Health, al
ways solicitous for health conditions
in Florida, is giving some good ad-
vice for summer use.
The dangers of the warm season
affect the digestive system and the
alimentary canal more generally
than the respitory or the circulatory
systems, although pneumonia is not
an infrequent summer disease. For
this reason everybody should be es-
pecially careful with regard to the
diet, both as to eating and drinking.
The first and fundamental rule is,
be clean, keep clean, inside and out
side. A bath every day is neces-
sity just as much as the daily break
fast. An all-over bath in the morn
ing and sponge bath at night are
none too much. The increase of the
visible perspiration leaves unpleas-
ant excretions on the skin, which be-
come unhealthful if not removed fire.
quently and thoroughly. Massage
the skin, keep it lively and glowing.
The average person should drink
more in the summer than in the win
ter, to supplement natures efforts to
wash the boy through the pores of
the skin.
What should be the summer drink
Water, ice water if you want it and
don't drink it to excess, Most of
the soda fountain beverages are pal
atable and harmless, but with the
average person any drink that con-
talns a flavor of sweetening is
thlrst-produCer rather than a quench
er, so after ALL water, lust plain,
clean, cold water is about the best
of all summer drinks.
The great and only danger from ice
water is its excessive use. To per-
sons who are overheated or who work
in high temperatures, ice water is
seriously dangerous. 1t produces
congestion, better known as cramps
in the stomach. Acting on the ner
vous system, it has a tendency TO
bring about paralysis. Men working
before the furnace in rolling mills or
as stokers in the holds of steamships,
soon learn the danger of ice water,
although some lose their lives in
learning.
Excesses of all kinds should be
avoided. 1t goes therefore without
saying that over-indulgence in alco-
holic drinks should be Stunned in
summer, or winter. This is not ad-
vised from the temperance viewpoint,
but from that of the best physical
welfare.
Don't drink malt beverages to ex-
cess. In moderation they NAV not
be harmful; they may be beneficial
under certain conditions and for GER
tain individuals.
Be careful in eating. Don't COR
mandize. Too much is worse than
none at all, especially in summer,
Eat ripe fruit, but be sure it is not
over-ripe. Eat vegetables well cook.
ed. Remember that meat diet is
heating. 1t is like the fuel under
the boiler that keeps steam up for
working. But there are other kinds
of fuel. Meat is especially harmful
when it is cooked with large amount
of fat. Too many persons believe
with all their souls that meat is q
necessity, but it is really surprising
how we'll strong, healthy person
can exist and work hard with no meat
at all, or with very little, taken at
only one meal day and that the din
ner or heaviest meal. Most of us
eat too much meat, a good deal more
than we need.
When meat is fried, it retains 3
large proportion of the fat in the
form of grease. 1t is not whole
some. In large quantities it imnoses
heavy burden on the digestive or
gans. Florida people as a rule, eat
too much fat with their food. They
would be better without it.
Better cooking would save a good
deal of suffering and probably a good
many lives. 1t would make many
men more efficient, more productive
laborers, whether they work with
their brains or their muscles. Cook
ing is an art, but it is too often made
a drudgery.
In warm weather dress light
Don't wear heavy clothing. Don't
follow the dictates of fashion when
they prescribe garments unsuited to
the climate and the prevailing tenn
peratures. Heat has killed more
than cold.
Don't hurry. Start a little sooner
and you won't have to run. Be mod
crate in every way and living won't
De nearly so burdensome as excuses
md carelessness make it.-State
Board of Health Notes.