The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-16
HOME HEALTH CLUB

COMFORT AND HEALTH: The ,,e.rsS,Y, who travels much knows som etbine of the discomforts or a poor bed. Not many of the stay-at- homes ever stop to think that nearly ona-tfa1rd of life is spent in bedss It IS only those that enjoy the solid com fort of a well made bed that realize fully how greatly the health may pc affected by being conpeled to spend night after night in a. ped tnat IS lllmpy or sags down in the middle Ike a sailors hammock
 | have known cases of real sick ness primarily caused by bed. In many cases the sufferer gets up in the morning feeling more tired than when he went to bed There was no real rest and sound refreshing sleep until the exhausted body gave up just oe- fore time to get up in the morning
 When one looks at the mater from "a nractica1 common sense standpoint he at once realizes that at least ore- third of his life can be spent in real luxury of a kind that will increase his comfort and health in a surpris- ing manner. I have slept comfortably on the soft bosom of mother earth with only a blanket for a bed, but Sthe same blanket would not give me rest and comfort on an old coil or worn wire spring bed. Even a well made mattress will not compensate of poor springs.
 believe that T have tested nearly all kinds of modern beds and a few that were not modern, but I have not yet found anything more comfort able than the good ofd-faahioned box spring. covered with light but well made felt or hair mattress. The sex pense of such bed, that will give comfortable rest to tired body is very small compared to the amount Is
 Thinking about, the other two thirds naturally reminds one of shoes corsets stiff hats and high collars. If you could see all of the poor tortured and deformed fet that the chiropo- dist is called upon to care for to say nothing of the cases that are compel. led to resort to the surgeon for help you would wonder how in the world pride ever urged pou to wear a shoe that cramped or pinched- your toes Not long ago a man eanr1y 50. years of age came to me for advice about having a. surgeon remove couple of toes from each foot because they were so deformed that he could not wear a small and what he called a, stylish shoe. I think the operation will never be performed and unless that skull of his is ..soIid ivory he will henceforth wear sensible shoes.
 High heels are a form of torture that prevents freedom and grace of movement, broken down arches are the cause of much suffering that is many times called Rheumatism, Scia-i tica or even NLumbago. Corsets are to blame for many cases of Prolap@ sus and by interfering with the cir culaffon help on such troubles as Ii- broid tumors, u1ceration and nnal-pos- ition of the womb. The stiff, uncom- fortable hats of men aid in destroy ing the hair and are probably one of the reasons why so many more men than women are bald.
 CLUB NOTES
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 Dear Doctor: I will write about the use of buttermilk in hot weather and in hot climate. lived three years in central Texas, a section where very little fruit was raised, and often but few vegetables.
 During the warm weather it was a custom quite general ip the coun-, try to churn every day and have 1l- Fo,