The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-24
Keep We'll.

A death from advanced age is rare.
Most people, in effect, commit sui
eide; not long ago a distinguished
sanitarian declared that most men
dig their graves with their teeth"
cannot follow my good friend that
far, but 1 am willing to express the
belief that suicide committed thru
overinduIgence in food or drink, or
both, is not at all uncommon.
1t is probable that most of our
physical ailments and the large ma
Jority of premature deaths are the
result of wrong habits of living. the
ignoring of the laws of hygiene.
Goethe, the great German poet. once
said, he Prussian is a born brute,
and civilization will make him ferO-
cious." Using the same figure, it can
be said that most people are born
healthy, but their method of living
makes them sick.
We must know what the laws of
hygiene are and understanding, we
must make practical application OF
our knowledge in right living, other
wise, we go to premature graves.
Improper diet, wrong feeding, lack
of fresh air and sunshine in our sleep
ing rooms, immOderate and intemper-
water drinking and booze, drug and
patent medicine addictioo are some Of
the sins of American life
What is hygiene? 1t is the science
of right living. Where must it be ap-
pHeu2 Here and everywhere. Who
When snail it be applied? Now, all
the time. Who will heed and apply
it? The wise! Who will not heed
and apply it? The foolish,
Robert Louis Stevenson, dying of
consumption, wrote this as mis- last
message: Il am set up at the cross
roads to warn you to flee from the
hebetude TO come. And 1 say unto
you, keep well; and 1 say unto you
again anu again, keep well"
Questions and Answers.
Question. How can a house be rid
of house Centipedes, better known as
housand-legged- and for what
reason do tnaY bother around the
house, and where do they come from?
MRS. &.
Answer. The so-called house cent?
pedes or nd-legged-worms are
considered to be perfectly harmless,
so far as their relations with people
are concerned. Indeed, it is supposed
they feed on other insects, particular
ly lilies. If they are SO numerous as
to be a pest, ordinary insect powder
sprinkled about their runways is u.s.
ually effective
Question. Is it possible for nature
to take care OF a slight attack or piles
if person remains still, or does not
- =.
Answer. If it would be possible for
person to remain still and mot
strain himself the condition of the
piles would, at least, be no worse but
ordinarily the condition known as
piles would, at least, be no worse, but
ordinarily the condition So known
is not inclined to get well of itself
without treatment. The question as
whether treatment should be consid-
cred is one for the individual to de-
eide, based on the extent and the
nature of the affection. In a general
way, 1 would say that 1t would be the
part Of wisdom to secure medical ad-
vice and treatment.
Question. I wondered If you would
dare advocate certain methods of
birth control that really would be for
the good of the people2
A READER
Answer. Speaking in general and
to the mass, 1 would say that the
kind of Birth control this country is
in need of is that of having larger
families than is now the present Gus
TOM One of the matters of more or
less concern, If not alarm. is the fact
that the average American family,
and by that / mean those who trace
their ancestry back to or beyond the
Civil war, are having smaller and
smaller families, and it has been re-
Gently pointed out that many of the
older families have become entirely
extinct This, then, is the sort of