The log cabin Democrat., 1915-04-27
THE VALUE OF HEALTHFUL
 LIVING HABITS.
Dear Children:

THE VALUE OF HEALTHFUL LIVING HABITS. Dear Children:
 Please read every word of this column and if there are some things you can not quite understand, put them away in a corner of your "mem- ory box," and bye and bye they will come to you and help you to live so that you will be as old as Methus- lah-if you want to.
 Mrs Albert N. Tanner. It is on old saying, but true one, that 'good health is made up of lit tie things" Not the great tests of physical strength make the athlete. They reveal him, but days and even years training made him.
 No prize is produced in day. It is a long process to train the colt that some day will win the "Subur- ban"; the work must begin with the trainer long before the colts birth.
 So, too, health and strength are largely dependent up the little things of life, especially upon the way we live from day to day. But our Habits of Life, which so largely determine what we are, seldom receive our seri- ous consideration.
 We campaign against the fly, dis ease germs, dampness, and dirt, but how many are there who campaign against careless or unhealthful hab- it's, which do so much to wear the life, both physical and mental. The Influence of Habit. It is much easier to kill fly than habit; we can see the one, but not the other. If flies have slain their thousands, unhealthful and injurious habits have slain their tens of thousands. It is recognized that the life we lead must be well-balanced, moderate and regular in all things, free from continuous or sporadic excesses of any nature.
 regularly or even intermittently ab- use any mental or physical force, is to exact heavy toll.
 The high tension under which so many of us live is largely due to the "habits of life" and the result of inn moderation in some form-either in our work in our pleasures. Over-work may soon develop into habit, everyday may do the same, and both have the same effect of les sening our efficiency.
 The way we eat our food is largely habit. There was truth in the old saying "To eat happily is to eat heartily"
 Many acquire the habit of mixing worry, work, and haste with their food and it always has been a bad and pernicious mixture. Nerve strain anxiety and hurry should be forgot ten at our meals, and we should ac- quire the habit of eating in a happy and cheerful frame of mind, and then we can "eat happily"
 The Mouth and Teeth. Care of the mouth and of the teeth is a habit of no small importance. The teeth so often disclose evidences of thought lessness in an individual, and at once indicate good care or the lack of it. In no small measure We can estimate the degree of health by the condition of the teeth, for it is the duty of the teeth to so prepare our food by tear ing and grinding, that with the aid pf the tongue and cheeks it may be kneaded and incorporated with the saliva. Then, and then only, is it ready and fit for the processes of the other digestive organs, without caus- ing them undue labor or difficulty,
 Food Mastication. Unless our food is well masticated before it enters the stomach, trouble is sure to follow, for digestion should begin in the mouth the moment the food enters it. Only when the food has been thoroughly chewed so as to disinte- grated, can the juices of the stomach convert it into materials which are readily asborbed into the system, and transformed into the tissues of the bod. Thus eating hurriedly is very detrimental to health, and one can easily understand how the indigesting of large pieces of food irritates the stomach.
 Acquire then the habit of eating ] slowly and of allowing the food to