Mexico Missouri message., 1915-12-23
HOLIDAY AILMENTS.
How TO Avoid Condition Brought
About by 0veTeating.
Plenty Of Vigorous Outdoor Exercise
Will Help Digestive Organs As
simulate Food--8etter Than
Doctors Prescription
BY IRENE WESTON

~ - MAN people udDlLuHiiy AooA
more or less out-of-sorts for the
few days following Christmas that
Christmas ailments have come to be
recognized as a necessary aftermath
of the festivities.
OF course, the children will always
overeat themselves; If they were not
allowed to eat all sorts of indigestible
things, they would feel they were be-
ing cheated out of half the Joy of the
gay Christmas season. AS a matter of
fact, it is not the children at all who
make up the bulk of sufferers from
Christmas complaints. 1t is the grown
ups who, simply through carelessly
neglecting to subscribe to one simple
rule of health, frequently find them
selves more or less unhappy inside,
and more tired and run down physical
ly at the end of the Christmas holi-
days than before them.
OF course, children do overeat them
selves more often than grown people.
They rejoice, however, in the posses
sion of powers Of recuperation which
grown-ups, even in the prime of life,
can only look back on with envy. Too
much plum pudding, too many sau-
sages with turkey, too many sweets
between meals, may bring on a sharp
digestive upset, but in a few hours all
traces of 1t have disappeared, and the
one-time sufferer is soon eager for
more of the rich foods which caused
him pain.
With grown people, after-Christmas
ailments are not so much due to indis-
criminate eating of indigestible foods
as to an utter neglect Of any precau-
tions to adapt their systems to the
new conditions which reign during the
Christmas holidays.
Take the case of the average father
of family who leaves all office work
behind. How does the change affect
him? In the first place, the dull mo-
notony of his days is broken in upon
and his brain can relax from the high
pressure of the Office. This much, of
course, is a change in the right direc-
tion. All work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy physically as well as
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staying at home has drawbacks of it's
own, for 1t means less exercise, which
in it's turn should suggest cutting
down of the food supplied to the body.
Too much food and too little exer-
tion are almost certain to upset the di-
gestion and clog up the various organs
whose duty it is to separate the waste
matters from the good in the food we
eat and rid the body of those poison
Gus products.
The remedy 10 perfectly simple.
There is no need to stint yourself of
the good things Of the table. Eat,
drink and be merry, within fair mod
Grafton, of course. However, you must
help your digestive organs by taking
plenty of vigorous outdoor exercise.
A two hours walk before the mid.
day meal, round of golf or some 9th,
er outdoor game with the children in
midafternoon, and a brisk two-mile
walk in the half-hour before the eve.
ming meal will be found worth more
than any amount of doctors prescrip
tions directed towards relieving the
first symptoms of biliousness, the
mental irritability, disturbed sleep
sour taste in the mouth, loss Of appe
tite, ETC., which are such a common
aftermath of the Christmas holidays.