Significance of Pain

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Frederick M. Rossiter, cM D.

PAIN is to the body what the violated for the overstimulation of any sense conscience is to the soul. It is "nature's causes either pain or depression. kind harbinger of mischief." It is a Pain is not an attempt on the part of sign-board of danger, warning us to nature to• relieve itself, as in the case "flee from the wrath to come." Pain of fever, but it prompts relief. While "is a fruit, which, unsuspected, ripens pain is an evil, it is not an unmixed within the flower of the pleasure which evil, being in most cases, a penalty for concealed it." Only by means of the physical transgression. So pain may be, special senses do we experience either if heeded, a blessing in disguise. physical pleasure or pain ; and every The pain suffered by the human race sense that may conduce to our pleasure is a part of the penalty for sin. Pleas- has an equal penalty attached to its ure and pain go hand in hand. Over- abuse. The person who regards the indulgence in the pleasures of the table, senses as servants, and treats them sitting long at the wine-cup and neglect- wholesomely, will be compensated for his ing exercise, squandering the physical moderation by enjoyment and pleasure; forces, are pleasures that yield as fruit but if he becomes a servant to his senses, the torturing pains of headache, back- all nature's laws are outraged, and his ache, rheumatism, gout, and neuralgia. senses will turn upon him and become The glutton must pay for his intemper- his tormentors. ance by suffering the excruciating pro- However, the dividing line between test of an abused stomach. It would, pain and pleasure is a difficult one to indeed, be a great boon to many a gas- determine ; for what would be pleasure tromonie sinner if he always had a sen- to one individual, would be pain to an- sitive stomach; for those who suffer other. There is a law in the action of pain after taking food, are less likely drugs to the effect that a medicine that to make digressions in eating. will stimulate when given in moderate Pains are troublesome, and injurious doses, will paralyze if given to excess. and evil . in their effects upon the pa- So if any pleasurable sensation is con- tient to the extent that they interfere tinued to excess, it will become painful; •with his rest, rob him of his sleep, take 32 LIFE AND HEALTH

away his appetite, exhaust his nervous of origin. Irritation of the solar plexus system, depress all functional activity, behind the stomach may cause headache, and aggravate any local disease. pain in the back, between the shoulders, Pain is a symptom, and not a disease, or under the shoulder blade. Pneumo- and may be beneficial, as it prompts nia frequently causes pain in the abdo- one to seek relief at once ; for its pres- men of the same side. Pleurisy may ence indicates that there is disease. No produce pain in the region of the stom- one symptom of disease so prompts one ach. Gall-stones cause pain under the to obtain relief as does pain. right shoulder blade. Intercostal neu- Pain serves the same purpose to the ralgia causes pain in the region of the patient that the danger bells do to the heart, and is usually taken for heart- engineer. It may be necessary to stop disease. or reverse. Pain is usually referred to the end of There is great danger in the absence the nerve, but in reality it is only felt of pain, for grave changes may take in the brain ; for every part of the body place unnoticed, as is the case in organic has a location center in the brain, and a diseases of the kidneys, of the liver, of certain part of the brain receives all the the heart, and other organs. Pain is of sensations of pain. In fact, the irrita- great importance to the physician ; for tion causing a pain may be entirely con- it enables him to locate disease, and to fined to the brain, and yet the pain be determine its nature. referred to some part of the body. Pain calls for rest. If not regarded, It is obvious, therefore, that pains in- lasting injury may be done. Pain dicate a disharmony in the body; that prompts various intuitive measures for there is inflammation, or too much blood, relief, such as pressure, pinching, rub- or too little blood, or poisons in the bing, putting the finger in the mouth, blood, or exhaustion, or mechanical ob- or the hand to the eye, drawing the structions and interferences. In health knees up, holding the breath ; or it may one has the sensation of well-being, and cause crying, which is a great relief, pains are of rare occurrence, and of a and lessens the pain in many cases. The temporary nature. louder the crying, and the deeper the As there is no pain without a cause, breathing, the more the mind is dis- the fundamental principle in the treat- tracted from the pain. Pain, when ment of pain is to remove the cause. severe, produces a dread of its return, There is an alarming tendency in this and stimulates one to avoid it in the day, both on the part of the patient and future. on the part of the physician, to stop the Pain in the sympathetic nerves or pain by some narcotic or opiate, and not nerve-centers gives rise to sensations of seek for the cause. Pain is an important heat, burning, fulness, weight, constric- symptom, and when suddenly dissipated tion, oppression, dullness, uneasiness, by a drug, the life of the patient may tenderness, pricking, and stinging. be endangered. Pain carried by cranial or spinal To stop a pain with drugs, and let nerves is characterized as darting, tear- the matter rest there, is crying "peace ing, lightning, stabbing, gnawing, bor- and safety" when there is none. Drugs ing, aching, throbbing, and sharp. may depress the sensory receiving cen- A reflex pain is one that appears in ters so we are not conscious of pain, but a part of the body remote from the place the cause of the pain continues. As SIGNIFICANCE OF PAIN 33 already pointed out, pain calls for resorting to drugs. While this tempo- relief. But the relief, as a rule, may be rary relief is secured, the effort should temporarily obtained by means of hot be made to ascertain and remove the applications, cold applications, electric- cause of the pain. ity, or massage, without the necessity of North Yakima, Wash.

The GirlGirl of Foutteen A Talk to Mothers and Daughters Margaret Evans, al. ¶D.

THE girl just ripening into woman- world. In some parts of South America hood, noble-hearted, truthful, and pure, they are sewed up in hammocks, and possesses a beauty unrivaled by any placed on strict diet. The Hindu girl other of the Creator's handiwork. The in India remains for days in a dark transformation period does not come room, living on little more than bread suddenly,— not in a day, nor a month, and water. These customs are absurd, nor a year. Little by little she leaves and are the result of primitive supersti- the realm of girlhood to travel the tion ; yet it is interesting to note that difficult road to womanhood. As a rule, they all enjoin simplicity and quietness a woman continues to grow and develop of life while passing through this critical until the age of twenty-five years, but time. the most critical time of all her life is The girl should be relieved of taxing the period of puberty, which is charac- duties of every description. Work is terized by psychic and physical changes wholesome, and to get tired is whole- so important as to deserve the most care- some; but at this period it is best to ful attention. occupy both mind and body with light, Young girls are often quite reckless congenial employment. Whatever stimu- regarding the care of their bodies. They lates the emotions or taxes the nervous do not realize that their whole subse- system should be avoided. Severe quent lives will be influenced in no small mental application is highly imprudent. degree by the manner in which they care The mind should be kept in a calm and for their health at puberty. It is con- undisturbed condition. Many a mother sidered of such importance among many whose rugged rearing has given her a races of the world that we find special robust frame and a sturdy nervous sys- regulations existing among them for the tem, takes infinite pains and pleasure in care and management of girls at this denying her daughter the very training transition period. Some of these are that made a woman of her. She leads grotesque in the extreme. In certain her daughter into pleasures and ditties African tribes, the girls are shut up in beyond her years. Forcing mature func- huts for more than a year, and are not tions through an immature organism is a allowed to step on the ground. In crime which generally lies in a mixture Borneo they are placed in dark cells for of ignorance and vanity on the part of many months, and are prohibited from parents who wish their children to excel associating in any way with the outside in attainment. A girl will accomplish 34 LIFE AND HEALTH much more in the end if she will at this kind and affable, she is now likely to be period leave the busy schoolroom, and cross and irritable. Her disposition be- spend as much time as possible in the comes uneven, and she is subject to spells open air and in God's beautiful sun- of depression and despondency. shine, and be relieved of severe burdens Around the girl during this time of of every kind. Unusual demands are critical change should be thrown a gentle being made upon the system. Within and protective care, and she should be a year or two, the angular, awkward girl treated with the considerate kindness develops into a creature of graceful and and sympathy which her condition de- symmetrical curves. Her breasts expand, mands. Instead of feeling that this new her hips broaden, and she grows physical function is a hindrance to her tall and slender. The hitherto inactive happiness, she should be taught that the and incapable generative organs increase proper development of all her bodily in size and take on new activity, and it functions only makes her of greater value is this awakening which is making itself to the world. Sex is God-given and en- felt throughout her whole organism. nobling. Upon it depends home and There is also at this time an inner family ties. The strongest devotion, the awakening of forces which influence her grandest glory, the purest bonds of re- strangely. She does not understand her- lationship are made possible through its self, and hence it is difficult for other influence. The self-respecting girl will members of the family to Understand hold such noble thoughts in her heart her. She experiences vague longings for concerning herself that with the awaken- things romantic and non-practical, and ing of the reproductive system will also she often becomes sentimental and emo- come an increased desire to develop into tional. She is inclined to form false and all that is possible of sweetness, grace, visionary ideas of life. Her tastes, which beauty, and true loveliness. Her desire up to this time have been those of her will be to grow more modest and young brothers, from whose general womanly. Maidenly modesty and re- physical form she did not greatly differ, serve are the only safeguards to this new are now considerably changed. The power and mystery which are beginning romping, rollicking girl becomes shy, re- to dawn upon her. tiring, and self-conscious, and womanly Suitable practical employment of mind characteristics take possession of her. and body will help to keep the emo- While as a child she preferred girl com- tional impulses under control. It is not panions, she now finds pleasure in talk- time for her to enter society or entertain ing to the opposite sex. New desires and gentlemen friends. Her thoughts should emotions arise, and she gives up many of be called to other themes. She should her childish ways. She begins to ques- become interested in gardening and out- tion the "whys and wherefores," and side employment. Her mind should be demands reasons for the course laid out kept healthfully occupied. She should for her. While, as a child, she was study nature, flowers, birds, trees, in- willing to accept unquestioningly the sects, clouds, and the causes of natural commands of her parents, she has now phenomena. She should begin to select reached the years of independent her own wardrobe, design her own thought, and can be managed only dresses, spend her own money, and plan through the power of reason. If of a to live within her means. Sentimental nervous temperament, though usually and sensational reading should be es- THE GIRL OF FOURTEEN pecially guarded against, and she should wishes to become a grand, noble, and not allow her mind for one moment to useful woman will count carefully the revel in the fanciful or unreal, emotional cost to herself and to the race before she or romantic. Thrilling love-stories will yields to any sinful indulgence. She find within her physical being a response that will tend to prematurely develop will seek the good counsel of her mother, bodily functions and make her a woman and will not be overanxious to reach the long before her time. But the girl who full stage of womanhood.

r.):::3a+—Cetd.** Letters from a Physician to His Son

MY DEAR Sox : Your letter was re- almost as nearly fatal to your usefulness ceived, and the contents were noted. I as to follow worldly plans ; for it would am glad to see that you appreciate my rob you of an incentive or motive for ma- motive in writing you upon the im- king earnest efforts. portant subject of "right ideals." I knew a young man who believed the From your infancy you have known Lord had called him to the medical work. that the indulgence of pride and self- He was humble and conscientious, being seeking is not becoming in a Christian. unwilling selfishly to push himself for- In my letter you read that worldly ward, as he saw some of his classmates ideals and worldly plans are snares laid do. After his graduation he received an by Satan to entrap ambitious youth ; and appointment, but soon after, being mis- you ask, "Does not God want a young represented by one who selfishly sought man to rise to a high position ? Am I his place, he quietly resigned. In that to sacrifice all hope of gain and self- way the good work he was doing was advancement ? " hindered. Afterward, gaining a more Certainly not, my son. God does intimate acquaintance with the Lord, he want you to make the most of yourself, learned to regard himself as an agent but not for yourself. He does not ask of God to do a certain work. Standing you to sacrifice all hope of gain and self- in that attitude, he could easily resist an advancement, unless such hope is effort of another to supplant him; for prompted by selfish motives only. God he knew God's will. would stimulate the ambition of his Thus you may see that there is no people in behalf of the cause of the middle ground to be occupied by one truth, and for the salvation of the lost. who has abandoned worldly plans and The law of heaven will cause one to ideals, if he would become a successful strive and sacrifice for others; the cus- worker for the human family. To toms of earth cause one to strive and abandon worldly plans without adopting sacrifice, but only for self. the heavenly, would be followed by em- During the forty years of Moses' barrassment and loss. shepherd life he lost his ambition for It is no mark of humility for one position and power, and God had to willingly to underestimate his own stimulate it again before he could make capabilities. Jesus, though in appear- him the leader of his people. To sacri- ance like other men of his time, did no fice all hope of advancement might be boasting when he called himself the 36 LIFE AND HEALTH Light of the world, the Son of God. John manity, is right, however prominently it the Baptist was not immodest when he may bring one before the world. told the people that he was the fore- In your last letter you wrote of one of runner of the Messiah, of whom the your classmates, who, though he is con- prophets spoke. scientious, and is regarded as a Chris- I knew one to refuse to undertake a tian, is oversensitive about almost every- certain missionary work, claiming, that thing. I have seen such persons, both he was unable to do it as it should be men and women, and I at once recognize done; and in his refusal, he lost a bless- the class to which he must belong. In- ing. Generally those who have charge of deed, there is a period in the life of many young persons during which they go appointments to such positions are better through just such an experience. One judges of the abilities of the one chosen who sympathizes with himself a great than he is himself. deal, and keeps up a lookout for slights Selfish ambition is wrong, being wholly and insults, can generally find them. of Satan. By it the devastation and Pride and selfishness combined produce bloodshed of the wars of the ages have sensitiveness in any one. been caused. Holy ambition, being born Affectionately, of an earnest love for God and hu- YOUR FATHER.

How a Gitl Cured Herself

SUCH is the title of a fascinating story, the conversation, the result being that told by a healthy woman of fifty, of her her woman's "won't" was aroused. She own struggles with consumption, after refused to accept the soothing mixture, she had been given up to die by the and determined that if she had only six doctors. It will be found in " The weeks to live, she would use that time in Natural Cure of Consumption," by C. E. getting her system free from the medi- Page, M. D. Fowler and Wells, pub- cine she had already taken. lishers, New York, 1884. She had seen in an old almanac (not Dr. Page describes her as being one of the patent medicine kind) a " Sure "straight as an arrow, active and merry, Cure for Consumption," entirely differ- looking more like forty than fifty," and ent from what she had been doing, which then follows a graphic account of her appealed so strongly to her judgment struggles with the dread disease, told in that she resolved to try it. Briefly, it her own language. consisted in fresh air, exercise, and In her early womanhood, after a pro- simple diet. tracted period of nursing some of her She insisted that, as she was to have relatives, she began to decline rapidly, only six weeks in which to live, she and was finally given up by the doctors, should have her own way, and she had who refused to attempt anything further it, though with vigorous protest from for her. The last one said she could parents and relatives. not possibly live longer than six weeks ; Out into the garden she was taken but he was finally persuaded to leave each day, and laid on the lawn. There, some soothing drops. She had overheard with a trowel she dug away. The first HOW A GIRL CURED HERSELF 37 day she could scarcely turn on her side ; dig a little, first on one side, and then but she dug a hole as large as her fist, on the other ; and by the time my six and then rested. Then she turned over weeks were up, I could dig a pretty good on the other side, and made another hole. grave for myself if they had wanted to She perspired some, her cough loosened, bury me." By this time she could stand and she began to "raise." alone, and walk- a few steps. At night windows were left up, not- The more she did, the more she could withstanding the horrified protest of do, and the more she could eat; but she relatives. Dainties were prepared as took care not to overwork, and special usual, but refused; for she was resolved care not to overeat. to eat nothing until she could relish Some time later, she sent for the plain graham bread, and potato without young doctor who had last prescribed seasoning. That very night she relished for her. He had meantime been away a piece of graham bread the size of her from the place, and was surprised to two fingers, though, previous to this, learn that she was still living. He con- she had for some time experienced no sented to come, willing to do anything he desire for food. could to help her or give her ease; and Daily she was taken out, and gradually you can imagine his surprise when he she was able to make larger holes in the saw her, perfectly well ! lawn. She says : "I found fresh air, She had called him in order to tell flavored with a little exercise, a better him how to cure his patients of tuber- `expectorant' than those I had been culosis. taking. I began to feel hopeful — the novelty of the idea — digging for my But, sensibly enough, he realized that life ! I took a desperate view of it. 'Six the cure would not work on the ordinary weeks to live ; I'll die fighting,' I said to patient. myself." Perhaps nearly every one has wit- She refused to eat more than one nessed cases somewhat similar — a brain vegetable at a time, lest she might be not ready to die, full of courage and tempted to overeat, lose her appetite. hope, ready to grasp at a straw, re- and thus spoil everything. "I was im- sourceful — refusing to die ! The very pressed," she says, "with the idea of word that would cause some to sink in `earning my living' at outdoor work, despair — " only six weeks to live !" — `by the sweat of my brow,' and not to acts like a tonic, and stirs the brain up eat more than I earned by the exercise." for a determined struggle for existence. "I had renounced my coffee and tea; It is not so much a question in such I ate no grease of any kind, nor meat,— cases as to the lung power, but as to bread, fruit, and vegetables only,— no the • brain power. A determined brain salt or spices, pastry, pie, puddings, nor can pull through a pair of damaged cake, nor 'sweets' of any sort, except lungs. the natural whole sweet furnished by The method used in this case was not nature in the form of vegetables and what would be recommended now by sweet fruits." [Many physicians would lung specialists. The tendency now is to say a consumptive could not be cured on avoid work while the fever is up. The such a diet.] diet chosen by her is quite different from "After a while," she continues, "I that of many of the sanatoria, where could raise myself up and sit erect, and meat is apt to be one of the standbys. 38 LIFE AND HEALTH It is possible that many other persons difference? — In the mind. But was with lungs not so damaged as this young there no merit in the course she woman's, if placed by a physician on adopted? — Certainly; but the treat- the identical treatment, would fail to ment was rendered far more efficacious make a similar recovery. Where is the by the mental attitude of the patient.

Controlling a Cough Without Drugs

AMONG the various causes of cough taken without medical advice. This is other than that caused directly by tu- true also of the glycerin tablets men- berculosis may be mentioned smoking, tioned above. irritation of cold sheets at night, expo- Patients with tuberculosis cough most sure to sudden differences of tempera- frequently in the morning, either before ture, wind, dust, exertion,— such as or just after rising. This cough is us- rapid walking, talking, laughing,— pleu- ually caused by some secretion which risy, and many other things. Unques- has to be gotten rid of. The cough tionably, the first remedy to be tried which is productive, in other words • for a cough should be the open-air cure. which is accompanied by expectoration, It is astounding to observe how quickly is to be separated in its treatment from many patients lose their cough when a dry, hacking, unproductive cough. they "take the cure" faithfully. In The mucus which accumulates in the others, however, the cough may be so lungs during the day, and especially severe that the mere fact that they lead during the night, has to be gotten rid of, an open-air life may not be sufficient to as was stated at first, and the cough is enable them to control their cough.. the best means of freeing the air-pas- At this point, it may be well to recall sages from the accumulated mucus. In the fact 11.nt in some instances the cough a few patients the mucus can be expec- is undoubtedly due in part to nervous- torated without coughing. Such are in- ness, and can be largely controlled. deed fortunate. However, when a pa- There are many simple devices which tient has great difficulty in raising in one can follow for controlling the cough. the morning, and is troubled with severe Probably the best of all is rest in a coughing, a cup of hot milk, a cup of reclining position, avoiding talking, and [cereal]. coffee, or a glass of hot water especially hearty laughing. Coughing with a few drops of aromatic spirits of during the day can frequently be con- ammonia (ten to fifteen), or with lemon trolled by sips of cold water ; tablets of juice, is very often a great relief. This Iceland moss, slippery elm, or glycerin; should be taken, if possible, before the cold water with a little lemon juice or patient rises. Coughing is then made orange juice ; very slow, deep breaths, much easier. This, too, is an excellent holding the breath, and many other such means of preventing that dry, hacking, devices. Many of the widely adver- obstinate cough which is often followed tised cough remedies, either in tablet or by vomiting. liquid form, may have a deleterious ef- A tight cough at night is often helped fect on the stomach, and should not be by a cold pack on the chest and neck. CONTROLLING A COUGH WITHOUT DRUGS 39

However, before attempting this, one It is needless to say that coughing is should get full details from his physi- exceedingly disagreeable to every one, cian how to apply it, and whether or including the tougher, and for this rea- not it should be used in his case. It is son as well as others it shouhl be con- usually applied as follows : Strips of trolled whenever possible. Further- cotton cloth of three of four thicknesses more, no one has any more right to and four or five inches wide should be cough without covering the mouth than placed over each shoulder and a wide he has to expectorate without taking binder about the chest from the arm care of the sputum. pits to the lower part of the chest. This Before taking any cough tablets, or should then be covered with oiled silk remedies other than the very simple ones or muslin, and a broad flannel bandage mentioned above, any one troubled with applied closely over the chest. In the a cough should consult a physician. The morning on rising a cold sponge, at doctor may be able to help him with least to the waist, should be taken at some simple remedy that may prove su- once. perior to anything referred to in this Some coughs are undoubtedly due to article. In any event, a patient should pleurisy, and it these cases counter-irri- never take any remedy without notify- • tation by application of some liniment ing his physician.— The Outdoor Life, of may prove of benefit. Saranac Lake, N. Y.

" BEFORE we can fight consumption THE only objection to a draft through with any chance of success, we have to a defective window is that the draft is get rid of the night-air superstition." generally not strong enough.— Oswald. oe AMONG nations who pass their lives WHOOPING-COUGH, a disease as little out of doors, catarrh and scrofula are dreaded by the laity and considered unknown. Not fresh air, but want of it lightly by the profession, is as much to is the cause of countless diseases, of fatal be dreaded because of its fatality as diseases, where people are in the habit of scarlet fever. It may cause less after nailing down their windows every win- effects than scarlet fever does, but it ter to keep their children from opening causes enough serious after effects to them.— Oswald. 9* make it a disease to be avoided.— Root. in Pediatrics. I AM somewhat of an enthusiast upon this subject of instructing the people, a* and especially the children, on the causes "As long as people live and sleep in of health and disease — how to gain the egg-box tenements with all the windows former and avoid the latter. In my shut tightly against the air that feeds opinion it is the most important teach- them, there are no doctors, and no ing that could be given in early life, and writers, and no medicines that can cure one that is sure to be followed by the them." And if they live in the open air most beneficial results.— William. B. and get cured, it will not be the doctors, Uhlrich, M. D., Address to Medical So- or the writers, or the medicines that ciety of Pennsylvania. cure them. The Caterham (England) Sani- interest. She was with us several weeks last spring and early summer. It shows tarium us that we can not always see the fruit OUR patronage continues excellent. of the seed sowing, and that time is often We are often at our wits' end to know required for the germination and what to do for accommodations for those growth : — who come. We are continuing to make "I often think of your words, and can various necessary improvements, and, plainly see the blessing that came of the thus far, have been able to meet all our sore trial. Had it not been for this [the bills promptly. Yes, and besides this illness], probably I should never have we have been able to do considerable been an inmate of your peaceable home charity work, considering the size of our — home in every sense. How many good place. We are glad for this. I feel things I learned there I can not tell you. keenly that we must keep the charitable One thing you will be glad to know — I feature in view all the time. While it is have tried to follow all the good in- right and proper to earn our way, and struction you gave us from time to time, pay as we go, we must not let the merce- and have never tasted tea since entering nary spirit predominate, nor refuse to your institution. I try to live as nearly deny ourselves in order that we may as possible as I did when there." help those whom the Lord may send to This poor woman was much afflicted, us for assistance. With careful economy and it had all come about through no and wise planning, I believe that we fault of her own. Her case is practically shall always be able to do some charity incurable, although she was much bene- work. fited by her stay, and I tried to show her Our Good Health magazine is continu- that the Lord would bring her a great ing to enjoy a wide circulation. We blessing out of it, if she would be patient have printed seventy thousand copies of and loyal. the Christmas number. The prospects So the Lord has already, during the are that these will all be sold, and there few months of our labors, given us sev- is likely to be a shortage. This has al. eral souls for our hire. ways been the case with this number in ALFRED OLSEN, M. D. previous years. The demand in every case has exceeded our most sanguine hopes. Cigna We have a nice family of workers, and SEVERAL weeks ago we made a trip to they are taking hold heartily, and are a country village, in company with our meeting with success. We have now two Chinese teacher and native woman. classes, with six members in each. Mrs. Selmon and the woman rode in a Recently I received a letter from a wheelbarrow; the rest of the party former patient, from which I will quote walked. It was noised ahead that we a few lines, as I know it will be of were coming, and the people left their THE MEDICAL MISSIONARY AT WORK 41 work, and ran to the roadside to look at people do not know the value of the us. Some came bringing their sick chil- large quantities of nuts raised here, dren, asking us to cure them. which are very cheap in price. Upon reaching the village, we were We have tried to find out the openings soon besieged by the sick — the old and for different lines of work. A doctor young of both sexes. When it was thoroughly acquainted with the French learned that a woman doctor was there, language, might find this a good place in the sick women came for help, bringing which to do missionary work ; and there their small children and infants. We is great need if medical nurses. had brought with us only a small hand- We ask the prayers of God's people bag of simple medicines, but we were for this needy people, and for his able to do something for almost every blessing to rest on us in learning the case. language and working for the people. The children had inflamed eyelids and We are of good courage, and are study- conjunctivitis (inflamed eyes). Many ing hard. C. E. RENTFRO. of the people came to be cured of their malaria. There were also many cases ONE of the gentlemen nurses from the of itch, and diseases of the scalp due to Friedensau (Germany) Sanitarium, has lice and dirt, and disorders of the in- gone to the city of Jerusalem, to take testinal tract due to the coarse foods. the place of our medical missionary The people were grateful for help, and nurse who died there last summer. urged us to come again. This place has a population of two ae hundred, which is the average size of the country village in this section. These OUR missionary nurse, L. Currow, who villages are quite numerous in this fertile is laboring in Fiji, writes : — farming region, being only from three "We have many Indian neighbors, fourths of a mile to a mile apart. At with whom we are very friendly, and any one of a hundred or of a thousand we propose keeping the outhouses for of these villages, we could have had the them as treatment rooms; for we can not same experience as at the one we visited. hope to do anything for white people if The sick abound, and a little simple Indians come to our treatment rooms. treatment will help the larger number of We have had some good results already them; and in helping them, one wins the in working for them, and I trust there way to their hearts, and can tell them will soon be some literature containing the gospel story with greater effect. present truth for these very needy souls. A. C. SELMON, M. D. "We have had some good cases and Hsiang Cheng Hsien, via Hankow, good results recently. The home and China. lease of land are from a patient, and I oe have just secured a testimonial from a business man whose wife was under a A Wozd From Portugal doctor's care for about fifteen months, A DESIRE for wine is implanted in the but he was unable to help her. With children. This, as well as flesh eating, the simplest treatment, in two weeks she or eating fish fed on the city's sewage, made a splendid recovery, for which we may be one of the contributing causes bless God. The husband is very grate- of cancer, which is very prevalent. The ful." Healing of the Soul Mrs. E. G. White

MANY of those who came to Christ for Like the leper, this paralytic had lost help had brought disease upon them- all hope of recovery. His disease was selves ; yet he did not refuse to the result of a sinful life, and his heal them. And when virtue from sufferings were embittered by remorse. him entered into these souls, they were In vain he had appealed to the Pharisees and doctors for re- lief ; they pronounced him incurable, they denounced him as a sinner, and declared that he would die under the wrath of God. The palsied man had sunk into despair when he heard of the works of Jesus. Others, as sinful and helpless as he, had been healed. He was encouraged to believe that he, too, might be cured if he could be carried to the Saviour. His hope failed as he remem- bered the cause of his malady, yet he could not cast away the blessed possibility of healing. His great desire was relief from the burden of sin. He longed to see Jesus, and receive the as- Again and again the bearers of the paralytic surance of forgive- tried to push their way through the crowd ness and peace with convicted of sin, and not a few were heaven. Then he would be content to healed of their spiritual disease as well live or to die, according to God's will. as of their physical maladies. There was no time to lose ; already his An illustration of spiritual as well as wasted flesh bore the signs of death. of physical healing is found in Christ's He asked his friends to carry him to work for the paralytic at Capernaum Jesus; this they gladly undertook to do. HEALING OP THE SOUL 43 But so dense was the crowd that had first glimmer of faith grow into a con- assembled in and about the house where viction that he was the sinner's only the Saviour was, that it was impossible helper, and had seen it grow stronger for the sick man and his friends to reach with every effort to come into his pres- him, or even to come within hearing of ence. It was Christ who had drawn the his voice. sufferer to himself. Jesus was teaching in the home of In words that fell like music on the Peter. According to their custom, his listener's ear, the Saviour said, "Son, be disciples sat close about him, and "there of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jeru- salem." Many of these had come as spies, seeking an accusa- tion against Jesus. Outside of these officials thronged the pro- miscuous multitude, the eager, the reverent, the curious, and the unbelieving. Different na- tionalities and all grades of society were represented. The Spirit of life brooded over the assembly, but Pharisees and doc- tors did not discern his presence. They felt no sense of need, and the healing was not for them. Again and again the bearers tried to push their way through the crowd, but in vain. The sick man looked about him in unutterable anguish. How could he relinquish hope, when the longed-for help was so near ? And immediately he took up his bed " and went forth before them all " The discourse was interrupted. The The burden of guilt rolls from the Saviour looked upon the mournful sick man's soul. He can not doubt; countenance, and saw the pleading eyes Christ's words reveal his power to read fixed upon him. Well he knew the the heart. Who can deny his power to longing of that burdened soul. It was forgive sins? Hope takes the place of Christ who had brought conviction to his despair, and joy the place of oppressive conscience when he was yet at home. gloom. The man's physical pain is gone, When he repented of his sins, and be- and his whole being is transformed. lieved in the power of Jesus to make him Making no further request, he lay in whole, the mercy of the Saviour had peaceful silence, too happy for words. blessed his heart. Jesus had watched the Many were watching with breathless 44 LIFE AND HEALTH interest every movement in this strange that the Son of man hath power on transaction. Many felt that Christ's earth to forgive sins," he said, turning words were an invitation to them. Were to the paralytic, "Arise, take up thy they not soul-sick because of sin ? Were bed, and go unto thine house. " they not anxious to be freed from this Then he who had been borne on a burden litter to Jesus, rose to his feet with the But the Pharisees, fearful of losing elasticity and strength of youth. And their influence with the multitude, said immediately he "took up the bed, and went forth be- fore them all ; insomuch that they were all amazed, a n d glorified G o d, saying, We never saw it on this fashion."

* * * In the home of the paralytic there was great rejoicing when he returned to his family, carrying with ease the couch upon which he had been slowly borne from their presence but a short time be- fore. They gathered round with tears of j o y , scarcely daring to be- In the home of the paralytic there was great rejoicing lieve their eyes. The paralytic in their hearts, He blasphemeth. Who found in Christ healing for both the soul can forgive sins but One, even God ? and the body. He needed health of soul Fixing his glance upon them, beneath before he could appreciate health of which they cowered and drew back, body. Before the physical maladies Jesus said, "Wherefore think ye evil in could be healed, Christ must bring relief your hearts ? For whether is easier, to to the mind, and cleanse the soul from say, Thy sins be forgiven thee ; or to say, sin. This lesson should not be over- Arise, and walk? But that ye may know looked. AND HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS The Mistress of the Household

Mrs. M. H. Turford

To rule a house well calls for the be brains as well as hands, there is al- exercise of the highest qualities,— abil- most sure to be confusion. She very ity, experience, perseverance, industry, soon discovers whether or not her mis- kindliness, charity, and last, and by no tress understands the details of house- means the least, good temper. work. The actual performance of the The duties of a practical mistress are task may devolve upon the servant, but onerous and exacting. Domestic skill the mistress ought to be able to see when can not be acquired without training. work is properly done. No help can Domestic work is elevating, not de- succeed unless the mistress herself is grading. In every other occupation orderly and methodical in all she does, that a girl takes up, time and money are not only having a place for everything, expended on the training. Why leave and everything in its place, but also a out housekeeping? Training in this time for everything, and everything branch of education is just as necessary, done in its time ; a proper tool for every- since the happiness of the home depends thing that requires a tool; and a division upon the manner in which the lady of of labor, so that for every duty which the house fulfils her duties. has to be performed some one person The mistress of a well-ordered house is responsible. should have complete knowledge of When household work is systematized, every part of it. If she understands there is not Much fear of confusion or how work should be done, how clothes neglect. It is the special duty of the should be mended and cared for, how mistress to plan the work so that too food should be chosen, cooked, and much does not fall on one person or served, and how rooms should he cleaned, the probability is that all parts on any one day. It is impossible to draw of the house will receive due attention. out a plan that will suit all require- The woman who has had no training ments ; in every househld this must vary in the management of a household has according to the size of the house, the no more right to marry and take up the number of the family, and the means management of a home than a man has at disposal, but there is a certain uni- to undertake a business of which he versal standard of perfection at which knows nothing. The results are usually a mistress should ever aim. just as disastrous. If a servant has to (To be continued) 46 LIFE AND HEALTH

Bananas like many others, was accustomed to eat. She did not know that the fully ripe THE banana, being very nutritious, banana is not nearly so apt to cause easily digested, and easily prepared for digestive disturbance as the half-ripe food, may well take high rank as a food ones usually sold in the stores. fruit. In the tropics it is a staple ar- The same is true of persimmons. ticle of diet for millions of natives. They are not at their best until — to all Year by year its increasing cheapness appearances — they are decayed. One is making it more a regular article of not acquainted with the fruit, on being food in temperate lands. offered a perfectly ripe persimmon would Bananas Baked be likely to think it was rotten. So Skin as many bananas as you require. with bananas. When they are perfectly Dip each one in lemon juice and gran- ripe, they appear as if they were ulated sugar, then roll in bread crumbs a trifle "spoiled," and the housewife or fine granola. Place side by side in desiring to set a good table would hes- an oiled baking dish. Bake in a hot itate to serve them; but people who pre- oven for ten or fifteen minutes. Serve fer fine flavor and good health to appear- hot. M. H. T. ance will choose the ripe bananas. A simple and healthful method of Very recently one of the most prom- preparing bananas for the table is to inent of British medical journals called bake them in their skins Some can attention, in its columns, to the fact digest bananas in this form who can not that people in temperate climates are use raw bananas. accustomed to eating bananas before they are fully matured. 3E

" WHO bought those bananas They're not fit to eat." Waste in Using Pineapple Two young men, married, were at- tending college. They rented apart- MRS. M. H. TUXFORD NOT every woman who appreciates the ments in the same house, and, for con- pineapple at its full value realizes that venience, had their meals in common, she is wasting a goodly portion of the the wives taking a week, turn about, at fruit when she throws away the core and purchasing and preparing the food. peelings. These, chopped fine and It was the younger wife who asked the cooked to extract the juice, yield a goodly above question. She was used to the amount of flavor, excellent as a founda- nice yellow bananas. Anything showing tion for sauces and jellies. a hint of blackening the skin, she sup- Again, not every woman who realizes posed to be undergoing decay, and unfit this knows how to care for the juice of for food. the solitary pines she uses throughout She had not learned that in their na- the season, since one alone would be in- tive countries bananas are rarely eaten sufficient for any of the purposes men- until the skin is darkened and the pulp tioned; or if more, there may be no soft, almost like a custard. She had not incentive to use the usually discarded learned that a banana, kept until it portions at the time. reaches this condition, is decidedly more Whenever pineapple is used, whether delicious than the unripe bananas she, one or a dozen, chop fine the peelings HEALTHFUL COOKERY 47 (which should be first well washed), When the house is repapered, the un- eyes, and core, and simmer slowly in sightly hole for the stovepipe is covered water enough to cover. When every up, and again it is but a tiny spark that particle of flavor is extracted, strain it, causes immense damage, setting the pa- add sugar to taste, and heat again, seal- per and then other things on fire. Un- ing in cans exactly as you would fruit. protected gas jets, the lack of a place One pineapple core and peeling will fill of safe keeping for the various inflam- a pint can with juice of sufficient flavor mables the household needs, perhaps to serve as a foundation for sauces, or their careless use — filling an oil stove it may be further reduced, making it at night or when lighted, opening a strong enough for other purposes. package containing gasoline at night, This canned juice, too, may be saved reading under a light after applying a and used when apples are plentiful, hair tonic containing alcohol — all are when, combined with them, a delightful recorded in the history of many result- jelly will be the result. The otherwise ing disasters repeated in kind day after discarded portions of three pineapples, day. in conjunction with a half peck of ap- ples, will provide a daintily flavored jelly, which will be a revelation to the housekeeper who tries it for the first Keeping Olives time. A GREAT many inquiries have been I have personally tried this recipe sev- made in regard to "keeping" olives. eral times, and found it satisfactory. Olives are the least perishable of all AC fruits. Any one may keep them indef- initely by giving attention to the fol- How Dwellings Catch Fite lowing rules : In cold or cool weather MANY a home has vanished in smoke, simply keep them weighted down under says Good Housekeeping, because tim- the brine. This is absolutely essential, bers were less than one inch from smoke as they will ferment in a few weeks if pipes or flues, walls less than four inches allowed to float around on top of the thick proved unresisting, stovepipes brine, especially if the weather is warm. came nearer to woodwork than the When spring comes the olives that have twelve-inch limit, or the double collar not been used should be canned either in inclosing three inches of air space was glass or tin. The same process that is not there as a protection. used in canning any other fruit applies Furnaces, too, have often caused mis- in canning olives, only they should not fortune — not the furnace, but our neg- be cooked so long. They should merely lect to have at least twenty inches of be heated through to the pit, but the open space between it and the timbers tissues should not be broken down. One above, or because the metal shield to hundred and ninety degrees — not quite protect those timbers was not large to the boiling point — is about right. enough, and extending, as advised by Even after fermentation has begun, they experts, four feet in front. Often, in- may be saved by canning. Canned olives deed, a fire has exposed the fact that a will keep ten years or longer if perfectly filling of sand or other solid matter be- sealed. See November number of Lm' came so heated by pipes or furnace that AND HEALTH for valuable recipes for us- wood in close proximity ignited. ing olives.— W. S. Ritchie. Conducted by George A. Hare, M. S., M. D., Jo'wa Circle, Washington, D. C.

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45. Anaemia—Iron in Foods.— J. F., Mass. Use general tonic treatment, systematic " What foods should a person eat who is pale physical culture taken with good judgment; and needs iron? What food contains a large an outdoor life, with cheerful, pleasant, light amount of iron?" exercise, abundance of rest in bed, eight or Ans.— If there is no other disease present, ten hours' sleep, good food, electricity given a person suffering from anaemia needs, first by an intelligent nurse, massage. of all, good, wholesome, nourishing food, nicely 2. It may be, but is far more likely to be prepared, appetizing in appearance, and taken due to intercostal neuralgia. The only way in amounts sufficient to supply a little more to determine is by an examination. than the waste of the body. He should spend 3. Would not recommend its use in powder, five or ten hours in the open air. Both sun- but if a small quantity is added to the water, shine and cold are splendid tonics. Exercise there is little objection to its use. is essential, but must be taken with good 4. No. judgment, always stopping short of a feeling of exhaustion. Abundant sleep is a necessity; 47. Sleeplessness.— L. S., Ill.: "Can I do not less than ten hours. Such foods as straw- anything to cure sleeplessness? I can not sleep more than two or four hours during the night, berries, spinach, tomatoes, and apples contain and have tried almost everything with no bene- a larger amount of iron than most foods, but fit; am growing nervous. I know of no good should not be relied on for nourishment. Use reason why I should not sleep. Can you help them with an abundance of nourishing foods, me? " such as rice, zwieback, malted breakfast food, Ana.— Sleeplessness may result from one of malted nuts, eggs, good bread and butter, many causes. It may be due to worry, to mental pecans and English walnuts, and other similar activity, to too much or too little blood in good foods. the brain, to overwork and exhaustion, drug habit, coffee, tea, tobacco, cold feet, or con- 46. Darkness on Standing — Pain n Heart stipation. Yes, it is curable. Look for the Region — Tooth Wash.— A subscriber: " 1. What is the cause of darkness before the eyes cause, and remove it. on rising from a stooping position? and If from worry, stop; get a clear conscience how should it be treated? 2. Is dull and and a bright hope — the happiest condition in sharp pains in the region of the heart, and soreness at times in left side, a sign of or- the world; every one can have it. Read your ganic heart-disease? If so, what should be Bible daily, and believe the promises are for done? 3. Is baking-soda a good wash for you personally. A consciousness of having a the teeth? 4. Is it injurious to the enamel?" right purpose for the present and a bright Ans.— 1. Usually due to weakness of the hope for the future will bring a peace of heart. On suddenly rising from a stooping mind that will cure many a distressing case position, the heart, if weak, does not quickly of sleeplessness. Don't overwork, worry, or send the blood to the brain against the influ- use tea, coffee, tobacco, or other narcotics or ence of gravity, and the lack of blood in the drugs. If feet are cold or head hot, balance brain causes the blindness and dizziness. circulation. Take several hours' enjoyable ex- Nearly every one experiences something of ercise in the open air, take a cold hand bath this on attempting to rise suddenly after in the morning as a tonic, a hot and cold foot- being confined to the bed for a week or bath in the evening, and a full bath of ninety more. degrees to ninety-five degrees at bedtime. If QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 49 the bowels are inactive, use a cold enema scrub them thoroughly clean with soap and every other morning for a short time. water several times a day, dry them on a towel, Some cases where the mind is active and and immediately apply the following hand the head congested will find that a light amount lotion: — of food taken in the evening or near bedtime Tr. Benzoin Comp. 2 grams — a cracker or glass of malted milk, or hot Alcohol 2 grams Glycerin 2 ounces milk, or a little fruit or fruit juice — will call Water 4 ounces the blood from the brain to the stomach, and Mix the benzoin, alcohol, and glycerin to- induce sleep. This last is not an ideal method, gether, then add the water, and shake. and should be resorted to only in emergencies, Wear a pair of gloves night and day for but it is far more restful than wakefulness. a short time, and your hands will be entirely 48. Feeding the Baby.— Mrs. C. L. H., well, and your trouble will be at an end. Mich.: "1. How soon should a baby be fed Never use glycerin alone on the hands or faze. something besides mother's milk? 2. Of what It will dry and crack the skin. should the food consist? 3. When should it begin to eat fruit ?" 51. Heart-Disease.— Mrs. L. C., Conn.: "1. What is the cause of very hard pains near the Ans.— 1. Under perfectly normal conditions pit of the stomach, extending upward over the a baby should have no food but its mother's right lung? Feels like a hard cold on the milk for one year. lung. When I walk, it aches very hard, and the pulse gets so weak that I can hardly stand 2. Little by little starchy food, such as up. 2. My jaw-bone also aches at times as if gruel; rice, potato, or bread, may be care- I were biting on something hard. 3. Does the fully given. heart and pulse ever stop beating for a min- 3. A little mild fruit or fruit juice may ute? If so, I should think mine does. 4. be given as early as other food. As a general I have had some cough during the past week." rule, when nature provides the baby with a Ans.— 1. From your letter we think you are set of teeth to chew with, give it something suffering from valvular disease of the heart, to chew. or from disease of the right lung. For val- vular disease of the heart careful regulation 49. Wearing Overshoes.— A. H., Vt.: of the habits, very light exercise, good food, "Does the wearing of rubbers or overshoes make one take cold? Is it not better to wear abundance of rest and sleep, together with the rubbers than to take the chances of hav- tonic treatment, such as cold hand bath, hot ing wet feet?" and cold to spine, hot and cold to stomach and liver, salt glow, and massage, will give Ana.— The rubbers or overshoes as commonly good results. In your condition one should worn are a very common cause of taking cold, remain in bed at least ten hours. Should but if worn properly, they are a protection carefully avoid all sudden or violent exercise, from danger of taking cold. Being absolutely sudden shock from cold bath, or any disturb- impervious, they should be worn but the ance of the stomach. Anger, excitement, or briefest possible time; if worn for a length any violent passion is very dangerous. Val- of time, they cause sweating and tenderness of the feet; and if worn in the house vular disease of the heart can be wonderfully improved, and even bad cases may live many at all, they make the feet tender and years. very sensitive, so that when taken off, the 2. Doubtless a reflex neuralgia pain from person is almost certain to take cold. Wear chest. them only when going outdoors, and remove 3. The heart sometimes skips one or more them immediately on entering the house. beats — actually stops beating for a moment. Change the stockings frequently, and take a 4. Your cough is from some irritation in hot and cold foot-bath daily. Rubbers worn the lung, although the heart may be the real properly are a great protection. cause. We advise you to go to a good phy- 50. Chapped Hands.— J. S. L., Mo.: "My sician and have a careful examination. Your hands chap and bleed. I use glycerin, but case demands it. they do not get better. I suffer greatly with them. Can you suggest anything that will 52. Decay of Teeth.— G. F. P., Ohio.: cure them?" "Please tell me what causes the teeth to decay when they are not broken in any way, and Ans.— Yes, if you will stop using glycerin, when they are cleaned every day." 50 LIFE AND FLEAL111

Ans.— Bad nutrition, lack of vigorous use, I have sean it Frequently Claimed that mos- and bacteria. The teeth, like a muscle or any quito Corry yellow fever and malaria Fever I have been advised to youse Tobackco as a other tissue, are nourished by food and exer- Preventive as thay do not bother those that cise. Good food and exercise are both es- youse it What will keepe Flees of a Person. sential for good teeth. Chewing dry food is the only way to secure strong teeth. As soon Ana.— It would not be safe to say that as the vitality of the teeth is weakened, they fleabites do not cause rheumatism; for rheu- will be attacked more readily by bacteria, matism is probably in most cases caused which are always present, and will show signs by the presence of a germ (streptococcus) in of decay. the blood. We can not be certain now that these germs are not sometimes introduced into the body by means of fleabites, although there 53. Glasses for Children.— Mrs. J. C. L., N. C.: "1. Should children under twelve years is no definite proof that they are so intro- of age wear glasses if their eyes seem to be duced. It would be interesting to know weak t 2. Why do so many more children whether there are others who have noticed that have weak eyes now than twenty years ago'," fleabites are followed by an attack of rheu- Ans.— 1. Yes. Whenever a child suffers from matism. weakness of the eyes that can be improved by I have lived where one could take the cloth- glasses, the defect in refraction should be ing off over a bath tub, and catch as many as corrected by a good oculist. A poorly fitted seventy-five fleas, and yet I did not have rheu- spectacle may be very injurious; a perfectly matism. But then the fleas did not bite me fitted glass is a great blessing. — perhaps because my hide was too thick. 2. More days spent in school; more hours The only sure preventive I know of for flea- spent in close work with the eyes; higher bites is to go where there are no fleas. nerve tension in the home; intense personal As to whether tobacco will act as a pre- competition and rivalry, even in child life; ventive of fleabites, it is reasonable to suppose less free, leisurely life in the open air, all of that the flea has some choice regarding its which result in a keener sensibility to nervous food, and that it will not accept tobacco- irritation, so much so that even the irritation poisoned blood when it can find any other. of defective vision which used to be overlooked The flea does not have to make an exploratory and passed by unnoticed, becomes unbearable. incision in order to detect the tobacco flavor; By all means correct defects in children's it is everywhere in evidence, on skin and cloth- eyes. ing, for the sweat-glands are making a stren- uous effort to expel the poison from the system. 54. Tobacco for Rheumatism.— What is As between the poison of tobacco and the youir opion abut Flees Bites Causing Rheuma- poison of rheumatism, many would choose the tism. I am a Carpenter by traid and am former as being less painful; but the difficulty working in the Cuntry and From place and is that there is no certainty that tobacco is I have nodieed that when working wher thay have Plenty of Flees thay bite me wory Bad a preventive, and one might have two poisons and Soon I am troubled with Rheumatism in his system instead of one.— En.

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"THAT the practise of medicine to- CHILD labor means two evils, physical day is not what it should be, is due under-development and illiteracy. . . . largely to the position of the laity on That children should be sacrificed for this point — their aversion to taking the support of adults, no matter how advice instead of medicine. They will indigent, is a reversal of the law of na- consider the question of prevention, in ture. . . .Child labor is the truest form the shape of anti-bilious pills, for ex- of race suicide.— From an editorial ar- ample, but not at the expense of their ticle in Journal of the American Medical lawful follies." Association, Dec. ICI, 1904. Consumption of Narcotics Sense and Will-Powez HERBERT N. CASSON, in an article en- A'PRIVATE letter from J. R. Bradford, titled "Are Your Lungs White or of the Philadelphia Sanitarium, calls Black ?" says some things which seem our attention to the following statement to prove the opposite of what he is en- of the Internal Revenue Department in deavoring to establish. He says : — their report of the tobacco industry in "Last year a professor secured the Pennsylvania, New York, and New lungs of an Eskimo, a Londoner, and a Jersey : — coal miner. . . . The Eskimo's lungs "In the past year Pennsylvania has are pure white; the Londoner's lungs manufactured and put on the market are a dirty brown; and the coal miner's 1,827,475,138 cigars, New York 1,411,- lungs are jet black. The Eskimo had 535,248, and New Jersey 406,061,979," kept his lungs clean, not because he The doctor adds: "This makes a grand knew more about breathing than the total of 3,645,072,365 cigars, each one of Londoner or the coal miner, but because which has a killing capacity of one he lived in a land of snow fields, and medium-sized dog. At the minimum spent his time in the open air. It is a price, that of five cents each, there will curious fact that every Eskimo who is have been burned up, when this amount brought to our large cities dies of con- is consumed, $182,253,618.25 — this from sumption in a few years." three States in the Union. Does it re- On the face of it, this seems to indi- quire much of a prophet to foresee the cate that it is dangerous to have nice end of this continued increase in the white lungs when you come to live in a manufacture and consumption of to- city. The mortality from tuberculosis bacco." among Eskimos in the large cities is When to this appalling summary of one hundred per cent! No other class, narcotic poison in cigars alone is added so far as we know, reaches so high a the still more deadly cigarette, opium, figure. cocain, patent medicines, and alcohol, The ordinary brown-lunged or black- which are all increasing annually more lunged individual has probably become rapidly than our population, need any more or less immune to the effects of thoughtful man wonder why railroad dust; but the white lungs of the Eskimo accidents, insanity, cancer, and suicide give way before the "white plague" in are increasing at an alarming rate? a short time. These facts cause every thoughtful man Clean lungs are excellent, but they to pause. Reader, we invite you to join may be a disadvantage under certain us in our work of educating the youth circumstances. If two persons attempt regarding the destructive effects of these suicide by taking say ten grains of pernicious poisons. G. A. H. morphin, one of them, who is a morphin 52 LIFE AND HEALTH fiend, will probably survive, while the ieines are fairly good products, based other will succumb. Natives of tropical on the prescriptions of some successful countries are slightly affected, if at all, physicians ; and he considered the coun- by the malarial fevers which cause some terfeiting of these medicines to be more of these regions to be known as "the censurable than the adulteration of white man's grave." food. Many cases might be given of acquired Any one who will study the advertis- partial or total immunity caused by a ing pages of the newspapers, and notice more or less constant contact with the what a large proportion of the revenue injurious conditions. of the papers must come from the patent The white lungs of the Eskimo do not medicine advertisements will readily un- render him immune to tuberculosis. He derstand why these periodicals should be is unusually susceptible, and when he friendly to the patent medicine inter- lives in an air filled with tubercle bacilli, ests. his lungs, though not so brown as others, Adulteration or fraudulent substitu- are soon dotted with little tubercles. tion of any kind, whether of medicine Mr. Casson well says: "Some of the or of foods, is deserving of the severest greatest men in the world have had con- condemnation and punishment; but we sumption, but most of them had the can not agree with the Times that the sense and the will-power to cure them- adulteration of patent medicines is selves. Napoleon, Goethe, Van Moltke, worse or more censurable than the adul- Emerson, and Cecil Rhodes are five teration of foods. cases of cure." If adulteration be practised at all, it Sense and will-power will cure almost is far better that it be confined to intox- anything; at least they will cure many icating liquors, tobacco, patent medi- cases that have been given up by ex- cines, tea, coffee, spices, and other things perienced physicians as absolutely hope- in themselves more or less harmful, than less. that the necessary and wholesome food The man with "sense and will-power" substances be adulterated. (I like that expression) will stand a much better show in the battle against The claim that some patent medicines tuberculosis than the man with white are made from the prescriptions of cer- lungs. The Eskimos lack the brain tain successful physicians does not alter quality necessary to combat disease. the fact that they are a power for evil The story "How a Young Girl Cured rather than for good. Herself," in this issue, gives a good No reputable physician would pass out example of what is meant by "sense and his prescription for indiscriminate use will-power." by people who do not know what is the real nature of their trouble. The primary object — we might say, Adultezation oz Substitution of the only object — of the patent medicine Patent Medicines man is to create a good market for his A WASHINGTON evening paper re- product ; so it is, with him, a question cently contained an editorial article of skilful advertising,— playing upon condemning the practise of counterfeit- the credulity of the masses,— rather ing patent medicines. The writer went than a question of efficiency in his on to say that many of the patent med- drugs. EDITORIAL 53 Within the past year, the Ladies' be suppressed by law, as well as all pa- Home Journal published what they sup- pers that help to advertise them. posed were the ingredients of a certain ge widely advertised nostrum, based on an analysis made some years ago. The Japanese Diet The proprietors of the medicine proved that it contains no such ingre- THE following quotation, taken from dients at the present time, and the the Christian Register, is said to be from Ladies' Home Journal was under the a letter just received from a correspond- necessity of making an apology. ent in Japan: — Now there is no reason to question "I have seen many of the sick and that at the time of the analysis, the med- wounded on the trains lately. You icine contained just what the analysis never saw a healthier-looking lot of sick claimed ; but it is easy for the proprie- people. They were fat, and looked as tors of these concoctions, when their for- happy as possible, though minus legs mulae are published, to make up an en- and arms and eyes. They are most won- tirely new formula. It may have derfully cared for, and do not have different characteristics, almost entirely fever after their wounds as other people but if the label and shape of bottle are do. Some say it is because they do not retained, with the same color, and per- eat much meat. It has been learned haps the same flavoring, it will sell as that they get on better on their own readily. rice diet than on meat rations." In other words, it is the name of the New ideas move slowly against old "remedy," rather than the contents of prejudices. There are people of fair the bottle, that is important. education, and seemingly quite intelli- But why is it, if these things be so, gent, who still believe the earth is flat. that people use these remedies, and are No argument or demonstration will con- ready to swear by them, believing them vince them otherwise. to be possessed of almost miraculous There are people among the laity and powers of healing? — Suggestion; noth- among the medical fraternity who be- ing but suggestion : cures wrought by lieve that a non-meat diet is wholly in- the skilfully worded advertisements and adequate to the needs of man. It is the expectation of the patient. Repu- probable that with some this idea is so table physicians, who do not believe in firmly rooted that no amount of testi- drugs, have like remarkable successes mony from investigators, and no amount with bread pills and colored water. of evidence from peoples who eat no The most valuable of the patent med- meat, will suffice to dislodge the error. icines are those that are entirely inert. But we see evidences in other quarters containing nothing but a little flavoring that the ice is breaking. Those who are and coloring matter, and relying on the open to conviction are learning from the glowing promises of the wrappers for experiences of the Japanese army what their curative properties. they have failed to learn from the ex- But the remedies that contain some perience of smaller bodies of non-flesh drug stimulants, to deceive a person into eaters in this country and elsewhere. the belief that he is better, and to tempt One great argument against vegeta- him to larger and continued use of the rianism has been, "The great conquer- drug,— these are the things that should ing nations are flesh eaters." This ar- 54 LIFE AND HEALTH gument will no longer hold good. It ment at first ; but the more I studied never counted for much to the student the matter, and the more I observed, of history, who learned that some of the the more firmly was I convinced that most victorious nations of the past were when there is distress or uneasiness of practically, if not strictly, vegetarian. the stomach or intestines, the diet is not just what it should be. The fact that ae the neuralgia or headache has disap- Appropriate Foods for Stomach peared is evidence that in some ways it Disozders is an improvement on the old diet. But a careful and experimental study of the I ONCE had the idea that a stomach case will usually result in a diet which could be getting better and yet feel is not open to the objection that it re- worse. I accepted the philosophy that lieves one trouble by causing another. under very bad treatment the stomach may get so bad off that it will no longer ae give any indication of the mischief that is being wrought by dietetic errors ; and Milk for Adults that in the dietetic cure of some other YOUNG, sucking animals always have disease, as rheumatism, or neuralgia, or in their intestinal secretion a ferment headache, the improved regimen which which digests milk-sugar. From the cured the headache, might, as the stom- fact that adult animals do not normally ach was partly restored to the normal, have this secretion, it has been argued cause distress of the stomach. So I that milk is fit only for the young. But used to explain such expressions as, "0 one investigator has succeeded in in- doctor, I am glad to report that my ducing the formation of this milk- rheumatism is better, but I am having splitting ferment in old rabbits by feed- a lot of trouble with my stomach, which ing them milk for a while. is unusual with me." Pawlow's researches indicate that in A little philosophizing with the pa- many other instances the secretions may tient usually sufficed to quiet matters, be changed to conform to the diet. for a time at least, and so the explana- This will explain why dogs and cats tion satisfied me until I saw the follow- and other naturally carnivorous animals, ing statement from Van Valzah: — may be trained to live fairly well on a " If the diet is correct, the discom- vegetarian, or largely vegetarian, diet. fort of which the patient complains will We see here a wonderful provision of be relieved. There is something rad- nature, enabling animals to exist under ically wrong in a diet which increases varying conditions. We also learn why the subjective symptoms, and the pa- people often do poorly on an unac- tient will be the first under the circum- customed diet, even though it be a diet stances to protest. When the diet does on which others thrive. not diminish or relieve the discomfort And we understand why it is neces- of which the patient is conscious, all sary to make dietetic changes slowly. that can be said is that the diet is do- The secreting organs gradually become ing no harm. The correctness of the educated, if we may use the word, to diet is in proportion to the relief af- produce a ferment that will act on a forded." certain class of foods, when that food is I was inclined to question this state- habitually eaten. EDITORIAL 55

Dr. Densmore may be a little extreme but, "What will start a goodly stream of in advising a monotonous diet,— the shekels flowing my way ?" same few articles clay after day and These men are energetic. They do week after week,— but this is preferable not hesitate to say things favorable to to the kaleidoscopic variety furnished their product, through mere conscien- by the average modern cook, and stuffed tious scruples. They have no time for into the average modern stomach. that. Probably their blazing advertisements SE have done some good. Many of them Advertisements as Educators contain good hygienic suggestions so NEARLY everybody is willing to be forcibly put that they compel the at- well. tention of even the unthinking. So anxious are many to get well, that es e they willingly help in the support of druggists and patent medicine men, People eat too much, too fast, too swallowing concoctions the composition sloppy food. of which they know little, put up as a They take too little exercise, too little money-making scheme by men of whose air, too little sleep. character they know nothing. Many drink excessively of tea and Willing are they to do anything but coffee,— or something stronger,— which stop some of their health-destroying any observing person can not help see- habits. ing is fatal to health. Yes, willing, of late, to go through Even those who would question that a series of muscular contortions, or to a moderate amount of these beverages eat power, or chawa bita, or roasted is harmful can not help realizing that grain with some other fanciful name. they are injurious in the quantities used, —if they but stop to consider the mat- 9E! ter. A popular demand creates a supply. i** "Necessity is the mother of invention." So health specialists have sprung up The persistent advertisements of the like mushrooms after a rain. They are cereal coffee manufacturers are accom- here in response to a demand. plishing some good in causing people In their turn, they are endeavoring who would not read an ordinary article to increase the demand by ingenious on hygiene to lessen the amount of their and persistent advertising. • tea and coffee, or substitute therefor Patent medicine men, physical cul- some less harmful bran mixture. ture men, electric belt men, food factory The man who says, "Weakness is a men, are carrying on a crusade of edu- crime," who shows half-tone cuts of cation, and incidentally enriching the "superb manhood" with well-developed periodical men and themselves. biceps and calves, who gets us contests for development of physical strength, leads many persons to appreciate the There is a difference, of course, but benefits of physical culture. in degree, rather than in kind. Many times, no doubt, these things The question is not, "What is the are carried to extremes ; many times they scientific truth regarding this product t" are adopted as fads, and given up when 56 LIFE AND HEALTH the novelty has worn off : still they ac- presence of fats in considerable quan- complish good. They are educating peo- tity retards stomach digestion. ple into the belief that health depends largely on the individual. oe Not everybody is in the health busi- THE President of the Mississippi Val- ness primarily for the money there is ley Medical Association, in his annual in it. address, on "The Choice and Use of The writer does not wish to be under- Medical Literature," well says : "If he stood as making light of those who are is really to profit by the precious time honestly manufacturing an honest health spent in reading, the physician must product. There are such. His refer- be able to read with discrimination. In ence is to the men who exploit, patent medicine there is no such thing as an medicine like, some food, taking advan- authority. The critical sense must be tage of the credulity of the public, to ever keen and alert. The reader must amass sudden and enormous wealth. learn to be a judge." These words apply with equal force to non-medical readers of medical topics. Combinations Which Retard The admonition, "Prove all things; hold Digestion fast that which is good," is sound. AN investigator in the Harvard med- ical school has been studying the move- ments of the stomach and intestines by Don'ts foz the Portly giving food containing powdered bis- DON'T imagine you can preserve a muth, and examining by means of the youthful slimness after forty without X-ray. The bismuth casts a shadow, the exercise of some self-denial, for you and in this way indicates on the screen can't. the location and shape of the food Don't think you can drink beer sev- masses. eral times a day and avoid growing He used cats for his subjects, and used stout ; you can not. for foods, various forms of fats, carbo- Don't eat a substantial luncheon, and hydrates, and proteids, ground up into a heavy dinner in the evening, if you a mass having the consistency of thick wish to keep looking younger than you mush. He experimented with these really are. foods separately and in combination to Don't neglect regular exercise each determine the influence of the various day if you wish to avoid that thing foods on the movements of the stomach most destructive to the appearance, an and intestines. accumulation of fat about the hips. He found that " in a mixture of fats Don't think that a half-hour's saunter and proteids the presence of the fat is the kind of exercise that will reduce causes the proteid to leave the stomach or prevent obesity. The exercise must even more slowly than the proteid itself. be brisk and vigorous, not violent and Fat mixed with carbohydrates in equal overfatiguing. It should be of a cheer- amounts also causes the carbohydrates ful kind — bicycling, riding, tennis, to pass the pylorus at a rate slower than hockey, swimming. All these interest normal." the mind, and this prevents the body This confirms the observation that the from becoming tired too soon.— Clipped, News Notes

Pure Foods Da. VAUGHAN, in a recent address on the THE health authorities of Pennsylvania use of food preservatives, spoke of the danger have prosecuted three persons for using coal- of using formalin (formaldehyd), which in tar coloring in sirups. minute quantity prevents souring, but does not prevent the growth of the colon bacillus. It THE Department of Agriculture, Washing- removes the danger-signal, but not the danger. ton, D. C., has decreed that all canned goods The doctor commends the decision of the courts containing artificial coloring matter must con- that the presence of dangerous preservatives is tain a statement to that effect on the label. illegal, even when not used in poisonous quan- tities. A ST. Lours man recently paid one hundred dollars' fine for adding formaldehyd to cream NEw Yong is pushing the pure milk cam- and for diluting cream. Another paid twenty- paign. Milk dealers are being fined. One five dollars for adding formaldehyd to milk. large dairy company whose milk was noto- Let the good work go on! riously bad has been forced out of business. Producers are required to seal their cans with NEW YORK inspectors testify before the metal seals in order to prevent adulteration courts that more than ten per cent of the milk by middlemen. Producers of milk who meet sold in that city is below the standard es- certain stringent conditions regarding cleanli- tablished by law. A much larger percentage ness of premises, etc., and healthiness of herd, contains chemicals injurious to health. Pun- are furnished with tin-foil caps for their bot- ishment by fine having proved ineffective to tled milk, which may be so put on that they abate the evil, imprisonment will hereafter be can not be tampered with without detection. resorted to. This guarantees the quality of the milk, and of course makes the milk so labeled more A PHILADELPHIA society organized for the salable. purpose of supplying Pasteurized milk to needy children has nine distributing stations. More DR. SAMUEL L. WALTERS, in an address be- than half the milk distributed is furnished free fore the American Chemical Society, said that of charge, on a physician's certificate that the labels have come to mean nothing. So far has child needs the milk, and the parents are not the evil extended that it is almost impossible able to pay for it. The funds of the society to get certain articles which are true to their are raised by voluntary contribution. names. He says pure olive-oil in this market can be obtained only from dealers of the high- American Medicine well comments that there est standing. Cottonseed oil usually passes is no use legislating concerning the purity of for olive-oil. Low priced vinegar nearly al- the ice supply as long as blocks of ice are ways contains mineral acid. Pure maple sugar dropped on the sidewalk, and dragged in such is almost unknown. Cocoa is adulterated with a way as to gather the tubercle sputum and starch, ground shells, and sugar. Coffee is other filth on the walk. Why should it not be badly adulterated. Liquors frequently are required that the ice which starts out clean adulterated. shall be kept clean until it reaches the ice- chest? THEY have an ingenious way of solving the pure food problem in Italy. The Italian So THE papers have been reporting deaths as ciety of Permanent Chemical Inspection, a a result of eating cabbage containing certain private company, analyzes foods for producers worms. Two physicians, members of the Illi- who are its patrons, giving an official certifi- nois State Board of Health, visited the lo- cation of their purity. Patrons have the cality where the deaths were said to have oc- privilege of using the company's printed curred, and state that after thorough investi- guarantee of purity on their packages, and gation they are certain that the "cabbage buyers have the privilege of sending in for snakes" are a myth, and that no deaths have analysis (free of charge) packages of this resulted from any such cause. guaranteed product. Tt is expected that the 58 LIFE AND HEALTH guarantee will increase the sale of these ar- tion from the tonsils. A recent death from ticles as against articles not so guaranteed. purulent peritonitis (inflammation of the mem- If the company remains incorruptible, the brane lining the abdominal cavity) could be plan will in time solve the question of adultera- traced to no cause other than a pair of in- tion of foods in Italy; that is, provided buy- flamed and diseased tonsils. ers have enough interest in the purity of their food products to buy the labeled articles. THE French Yellow Fever Commission, as a result of their investigations in Brazil, report WHAT promises to be a valuable aid to the that yellow fever is never transmitted by con- effort to secure pure milk is a paper milk tact with a patient or his clothing or excre- bottle, made of heavy spruce-fiber paper, con- tions; that it is transmitted by means of a ical in shape to facilitate nesting. It is dipped certain kind of mosquito; that it is never in melted paraffin at two hundred and twelve transmitted during the day while the sun is degrees, then baked, so the bottle is perfectly above the horizon. These conclusions are prac- sterile. The paraffin prevents the milk from tically the same as have been reached by coming in contact with the paper itself. In others. actual test at the laboratory there was less leakage with the paper bottles than with glass As a result of the observation of one hun- bottles, the bacteria were fewer in number, and dred and sixteen cases of typhoid fever, Dr. the milk kept one or two days longer. The cost R. M. Harbin concludes that the rational is such that they may be used without in- treatment for this condition is a restricted creasing the price of milk. By this method, diet or fasting, continued for a period of one the customer will get his milk in a new sterile to three days, or until the active symptoms bottle, instead of in an old imperfectly cleaned are under control. As a rule, he finds that glass bottle. If the experimental laboratory fasting diminishes the systemic poisoning, and work on this new bottle is confirmed in actual as a result the temperature lowers. He con- practise, a decided advance will have been siders milk more harmful than solid food, be- made in the matter of supplying customers cause curds are formed. He believes that with with clean milk. fasting and hydrotherapy almost every danger will be warded off. Communicable Diseases DR. E. H. HAYWARD has made a series of THE Franklin County (N. Y.) Medical So- experiments demonstrating that the discharges ciety, which numbers among its members many of flies which have fed on tubercle sputum con- lung specialists who practise in the Adiron- tain tubercle bacilli capable of transmitting dacks (a favorite resort for tuberculous pa- the disease to animals. tients) has petitioned the State commissioners of education to "consider the advisability of Somz New York physicians suggest that the public instruction in the necessary hy- increase in pneumonia is due to the increased giene for the prevention of tuberculosis." tendency to live in poorly ventilated and over- Copies of the resolution were transmitted to heated sleeping rooms. The greater number the State medical societies of New York, the of deaths in New York from pneumonia occur State Department of Health, and the National in the apartment-house district. Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. It is thought that the governor-elect will touch THE New York Throat, Nose, and Lung on this matter in his first message. Hospital has opened a free dispensary for the treatment of patients suffering from lung Education in Hygiene troubles. Patients will receive advice and med- NEARLY fifteen thousand physicians of Eno..: icine, and even food and clothing when neces- land have signed a petition to have included sary. Consumptives will thus be enabled to in the public schools curriculum a course of remain with their families, and even to con- instruction in hygiene. tinue their occupation in many instances. THE State of Michigan has wisely provided ACCORDING to the Journal of the American for the instruction of children in health lines, Medical Association, there is a growing ten- by furnishing each teacher a monthly bulletin dency to attribute acute rheumatism to infec- containing practical and timely information NEWS NOTES 59 for the pupils. Each teacher is expected to twenty bacteria, showed only twenty-three bac- study the bulletin carefully, and make it the teria after the snowfall. basis of health talks for the children. FRAM a press dispatch to the Washington A GERMAN physician recommends a method Times we learn that a Paris medical authority of study in high schools which he thinks will declares that kissing is a healthful exercise: — accomplish the same amount of work as at "It is admitted that kisses carry microbes, present in much less time. He believes the but so much the better. The interchange of morning hours are much more favorable than certain bacilli is laudable, and it is not so the afternoon hours for study. He recom- much the bad bacilli, but the good ones, that mends that studies begin at seven, continue are exchanged. forty minutes for each period, instead of one "These good bacilli are really essential to hour, and dismiss in the afternoon for sports digestion. Kissing, therefore, is a natural or open-air work. therapeutic practise. This, though, is not a new plan; for it has " This has led some persons to wonder as been in use in some Seventh-day Adventist to when the kissing cure will be prescribed for dyspepsia." schools for years. SANTIAGO and other Cuban cities are back- Miscellaneous sliding hygienically to that extent that the A LABOR union movement in Cincinnati to State Department at Washington directed the abolish Sunday funerals is indorsed by the American Charge at Havana to call the atten- Evangelical Alliance, composed of the Protes- tion of the Cuban government to the present tant ministers of the city. The owners and condition, and express the hope that prompt managers of cemeteries will be asked to re- means will be taken to remedy the evil. In fuse permission to bury on Sunday. harmony with this request from the United States government, the Cuban legislature AT the laboratory of the Chicago Board of has appropriated one hundred and ninety Health it has recently been determined that thousand dollars for the purpose of cleaning even a slight fall of snow causes a marked the streets of Santiago and some other Cuban reduction of the number of bacteria in the towns. It is probable the work of cleaning air. A space of ten square inches which, be- up the island will not be confined to this in- fore a snowfall, showed ten hundred and itial work.

Good Healtl?

Benjamin Keech Goon health is priceless, for gold can not buy it; Money nor land can the choice gift attain. Trite is the saying; no one can deny it; Search the world over in vain, The cup of false happiness drain, And always you'll find, after life's foolish pleasures, That good health is one of the greatest of treasures. Good health is priceless, yet comes for the asking; Once you have lost it, have faith to regain. Give to your being a heartless self-tasking. Harmony dwelleth again, When ariseth the earnest refrain Of prayers that are wrung from the soul steeped in sorrow; Request the choice blessing; it cometh to- morrow. t;() LIFE AND HEALIII teaching. So far as we are able to do LIFE AND HEALTH so, we expect to see that anything which (Continuing Pacific Health Journal) does not fulfil this specification is kept out of our columns. To this end we AIM: to assist in the physical, mental, and moral uplift of humanity through the individual and the home reject all advertisements of drugs, pat- ent medicines, tobacco, tea, coffee, G. H. HEALD, M. D. - - Editor liquors. These can not buy our space G. A. HARE, M. S., M. D., Associate Editor at any price.

Subscription Price, 50 cents per year We reject all advertisements that we To Foreign Countries - - 75 cents think make extravagant claims. Some periodicals do not believe in this. They Published monthly by say it is the province of the reader to ReWeccv and Herald Publishing Association judge between the false and the genuine. 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C., U. S.A. Advertisements of health foods we will accept, provided their claims are Entered as second-class matter June 24, 1904, at the within the truth. We will not, for in- Post-office at Washington, D. C., under the Act of Con. gress of March 3, 1879. stance, advertise Blank's Cereal as a "food drink" or "able to make red blood," when we know it is not. Other THE New England Sanitarium, lo- health magazines can do it if they wish. cated at Melrose, Mass., was burned To us it seems like betraying the con- January 1. The fire started at nine fidence of our readers for gain. No o'clock in the evening in the room of doubt our indorsement of these foods a nurse who overturned a lamp. would be valuable to the manufacturers, The women employees fought the fire, and we could add materially to our re- while the men assisted or carried the ceipts in this way ; but to us it would patients out of the building. seem a prostitution of the paper to a It is probable that the sanitarium will very unworthy cause. be rebuilt, as the location is ideal both as regards healthfulness and beauty of surroundings. Agents Wanted We are glad to learn that there are accommodations in the cottages and sur- Everywhere rounding buildings which will enable Lad:es and gentle- men, to wham we of- the sanitarium work to go on while the fer a very desirable new building is being erected. and lucrative busi- ness. Liberal terms. Handsome Profits. sv Price, with bottle of solution and circular of instructions, $1.00. Fur Our Advertisements terms to agents address A HEALTH magazine should not carry BATTLE CREEK INHALER COMPANY, any advertisement which would be likely 29 Aldrich St. - Battle Creek. Mich. to mislead the readers of the magazine as NEW OLIVES for sale; fine quality, good size, to the true worth of a certain product. at 70 cts. per gal. Have 500 gallons of last year's at 40 to 50 cts. Also Olive Oil, Oranges. Our readers have a right to expect that Lemons. a small amount of extracted Honey. anything carried in our advertising col- Freight on Olives to N. Y. 81.23 per too lbs, proldding there are i8o lbs. or more. Order early. umns is an honest preparation, and in W. S. RITCHIE, harmony with the principles we are Corona, Riverside Co., Cal Teachers Should Know

THAT it is not necessary for children THE origin of most disease is fear of to have the usual diseases of childhood. fresh air, and no fear of what goes into That these diseases are usually spread the mouth.— Page. at school. That a "cold," a sore throat, sore THE causes of eye-strain in children eyes, or sudden evidence of indisposi- are found in refractive and muscular tion on the part of a child may be the irregularities, in the unhygienic and starting-point of a fatal epidemic in the badly illuminated school and study school. rooms, and in the sally and unreasonable That it is the teacher's moral duty in demands made on the brain and nervous every such case to see to it that the child system of children by parents and edu- does not endanger other children. The cators. At the very age when the tissues child should be sent home with written are most yielding and soft, and the instruction to the parents to consult a whole nervous system is tingling with physician. new and unanalyzed sensation, before If the school law does not back you experience has had opportunity to teach in this, then do it on the strength of the value of economy of time and effort, your own moral force and personality. mental and nervous loads are put on Better even lose your position than have our children that could not be borne on your conscience the sacrifice of a under the most ideal conditions.— Dr. number of little lives.—Ed. Clayborne.

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The Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium is a well-equipped and well-regulated institution for the treatment j of all chronic disorders. It is the only Sanitarium in the Rocky Mountain region intelligently employing the same system of rational treatment and conducted on the same general health principles as the Battle Creek, (Rich ) Sanitarium. The buildings are equipped with all modern conveniences, including Steam Heating, Electric Lights, Elevators, Gymnasium; Baths of every description, including the Electric-Light Bath, Massage, and Manual Swedish Movements; Electricity in every form. Classified Dietary, Laboratory of Hygiene for bacteriological, chemical, and microscopical investigations; Experienced Physicians and a well-trained Nurses of both sexes. No contagious or offensive diseases are received in the institution, No consumptive patients are received. p). Special reduced rates are made to winter patients from November I to June 1. Write for catalogue and c card of rates. q Address Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium Boulder Colorado St. Helena Sanitarium

LOCATED 76o feet above sea-level and overlooking the beautiful Napa Valley, surrounded by lawns, I flower gardens, and natural groves of ever- cy green. 1. THE CLIMATE C q especially during the winter months is de- lightful, being sheltered from the cold coast 1. winds by a range of hills, while the fine altitude places it above the winter fogs and frosts of the lower levels; also assuring a pleasant summer temperature. a EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE q 1. is modern and complete in detail. Build- ings are fitted with splendid steam heating appa,atus, electric lights and call bells, telephones and elevator. Complete apparatus and appliance for the treatment of Invalids by up-to-date rational c and scientific principles in Hydrotherapy, q Electro-therapy, including X-Ray ; mas- sage, etc. A full corps of physicians and trained nurses. Surgery a specialty. J AN IDEAL WINTER RESORT Tubercular cases not received. p The largest and best equipped institution west of the Rocky Illustrated booklet sent on application. Mountains following the BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM system and methods of treatment. Address

C SANITARIUM, CAL. ST. HELENA SANITARIUM R. R. Station and Express Office, St. Helena