Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-04-02
NATURES TONES.

Today is spring! On this date, the
list of March, spring is officially
ushered in by the Weather Bureau.
Perhaps We have already felt
spring" in our systems, especially on
the warmer days. Our bones may
have felt an ache or we may have had
that tired feeling" or, as frequently
happens, nothing tastes good" and
our appetites have gone on strike.
five can take that tired feeling and
that "spring fever" by the forelock,
as it were so much the better. Why
do we feel. these peculiar symptoms
withithe coming of warmer weather /?
Do we really need tonic or a visit
to the doctor?
No, we need TO give our bodies a
good spring housekeeping, that is
all. Here we are, busy housewives,
scrubbing and securing, putting
housefurnishings and clothes out to
air, beating and resoysting, but how
about our poor, old bodies that have
done such a lot of work tor us the
past winter, keeping US warm and
enabling US to get through good
season of work, study and entertain
ment? Are we going to forget them?
All winter we nave been "stoking
up" pancakes, sausage, hot roasts,
heavy soups, doughnuts, pie and
many other fuel foods have been con-
sumed. In order to keep US warm in
the low winter temperatures our
bodies have worked and burned hard,
and now. just like other furnaces,
they are filed with clinkers and
ashes. We call those by other scien-
ti6c Games, but they are the refuse
and some of the waste products left
after the winters stocking, which we
must get rid of.
Nature is the wisest doctor and the
one with longest experience just
about the time we begin to feel that
nothing tastes good she offers US en-
tirely new foods to tempt our ap-
! petites. The bright-frine ed little
dapdelions appear on the lawns, the
chives an6 young onions sprout
quickly. An early crop of spinach is
pushed along. Radishes make their
first appearance and asparagus fol-
lows not long after. Here, then, are
some OF the products from nature q
drug store.
( At this season the body Graves the
green succullent foods: it also needs
acids and bitters to stimulate it. We
find these qualities 10 the foods men
toned above and in others Indeed
most of the called bottle tonics are
only concentrated dandelion and
similar herb connections. How much
better to take our medicine from ma
ture than from bottle Let us then
plan Our spring menus with this idea
IN mind-to lessen the amount of fat.
fried and meal foods. and to substi.
tute green vegetables instead. Fatty
foods of all kinds should ne avoided
il this in-betwixt ses 500. Lighter
meats, like chicken nd ;, should
be substituted for beef, pork and
mutton Deserts can become simpler
tpuddings may take back seat, anG
the cooler forms of sweets take their
lplace.
While it is not necessary nor wist
to pay high prices for the new vege
tables as they appear, III ad-
dition to our regular meal, it is wifi
to spend some of the money for tina
meal on the spring fruits and yege
tables. If we cut down on meats ant
fats, we will be able to afford rhu
barb, spioach and the salad plants
We will find that we feel better an,
are less "loggy" if our diet include
some OF these spring medicines