The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-04-20
HOW TO KEEP UP YOUR
HEALTH AND ENERGY

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The first duty you W to your work
and to your employer is to take care
of your health. Other things may en-
ter into it, but efficiency cannot be
gained except through health and pro-
per diet. Proper exercise and a requi-
site amount of sleep are the essentials
of health.
These essentials the average work.
ing girl can have if she will only take
the trouble. Plan carefully and train
yourself to observe the rules of the
plan after you have worked it out
theoretically.
Eating and sleeping are both largely
habits. mean this: twenty-five cents
worth of nourishing food is worth
more than fifty cents worth of food
that has next to no food value; and in
the same way, six hours Of natural
sleep induced by healthful WEAKNESS
is more recuperative than IL hours of
ftful slumber. You can as readily
form the habit Of eating healthful
foods and sleeping normally, and re-
stricting yourself to normal hours, as
you can get into a habit of doing 9TH
erwise. It's just a matter of starting
yourself in the way you should 60,
then the rest is easy
Find out what foods are most salts
flying and then vary your diet within
these bounds. A breakfast food in the
morning and coffee and whole wheat
muffins, a cup of chocolate or soup and
an egg for luncheon, and meat at
night, with fruit at any one of the
meals previous, make a fair basis to
build on, if your salary is small. Of
all the meals I should advise a good,
well-cooked breakfast, with plenty of
time allowed for eating it. 1t is the
gravest fallacy that the body does not
need food in the morning.
Personally, l can never understand
why girls do not more frequently club
together on this matter of living ex-
penses. 1t should be comparatively
easy to find three or four who IAN get
along and who will "play fair" divid-
ing labor and expense. This should
not be, however, unless it can be ar
ranged that each girl has some privacy
into the bargain. Every n needs
that much more essentially than she
needs some one to keep her company
at meals. In fact, l would suggest
that you take your luncheon alone, in
some quiet place, unless you feel the
need of companionship. If you are
eating very light meals, so that you
feel "too' hungry to eat' when meal
time comes around, keep some matted
milk tablets by you OF a bit of sweet
chocolate. If the society woman feels
the need of tea at four or five, surely
the girl who works should have some
thing. l think the last two hours of
the working day would count for much
more if more girls had something be-
tween luncheon and dinner. n
Be careful of your posture, of the
way you carry yourself, especially of
the way you sit. Not one girl in a
hundred does sit properly, so you need
not feel affronted hat l mention it,
nor secur in the fact that you do sit
correctly until you have tested your
self. Many a girl, most girls, I think,
sit on the end of the spine, instead of
solidly on the cushions nature has pro-
vided. 1t is so easy to slump-but if
you only realized it, that also is merely
a matter of habit. Acquire the habit
of sitting easily upright, and in sitting
or standing of havisg the chest up and
out.
Don't SLOUGH when you rest, relax,
but still be "alive." Do you know what
mean by that? Let me see if l can
explain it more clearly. In all your
movements be poised, free of tension,
controlled but still in full force; in all
your rest be relaxed but still alert