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In answering advertisements kindly mention "Good Health." CONTENTS. EDITORIAL CHAT: THOUGHTS FROM AN OLD BonR. 240, 241 The Increase of Cancer, A Preventable Disease, Tea, Coffee, and Cancer, Sir James Sawyer, Can- cer and the Lower Animals, Cancer and Health, CAMPING OUT FOR THE HOLIDAYS.—Wits A Book for Phi, kers, 242, 243 227-229 THE BOTTLING OF FRUIT. 244, 245 SANITARIUM METHODS OR NATURAL REME- DIES.—Illustrated. . " BRINGING THE BAR INTO THE HOME " A True Nature lure, Scientific Methods, Rest Our +Vho Should Visit the Sanitarium, Chronic 245 Disorders, A College of Health. " MAN AND HIS FOOD," 246 • 230-235 CLEAN LIVING AND CHARACTER.—An Ad- PAGE FOR WOMEN—The Value of Rest. 248 dress to.a Bore' Brigade. 235-237 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 250, 252, 254 A HOLIDAY ON THE CONTINENT.—UIUS. 238, 239 PUBLISHERS' NOTES. ' 256

Mr. Cross's book, which contains twenty-seven chapters, makes very interesting reading, and it LITERARY NOTICES throws great light upon the possibilities of the. simple diet. He has reproduced numerous dietetic charts issued by the U. S. Department of Agricul- Living on 3d. per Day. ture, which illustrate in a simple and practical way " How TO LIVE ON 3d. PER DAY," is the title the value of common foods, aid enable one at a. of a new book by Mr. F. J. Cross, the author of mere glance to see the composition of a pork chop,. "Character and Empire Building," and other dried beef, white bread, milk, macaroni, to mention, works. Mr. Cross was impressed by the statement only a few articles. There seems little doubt but of Mr. Philip Snowden, M.P., that in the city of that the fruitarian rarely experiences the feeling Bradford many of the working-class families were of tiredness and weariness, at any rate to the same obliged to subsist on the small allowance of 1}d. degree as the meat eater, and we believe he always per day per head for food. After making a careful possesses a better degree of physical endurance. study of food values so as to be able to get a good This is a book which no one who is interested in balance he cut down his allowance to 3d. per day, diet should fail to read. It is published by R. J and lived thus for one week, managing to have a James, 10-12 Ivy Lane, London, E.C., and the small surplus at the end. The following is a com- price is 6d. net or 1/- in cloth, the postage amount plete list of his allowance for the week :— ing to 2d. s. d. 2 loaves of white bread at 1 loaf of "Standard" bread,... 1 lb. oatmeal, ... DR. ROBERT BELL, F.R.F.P.S., has recently 1 lb. haricot beans, ... organized a society for the prevention and relief of 2. cancer, and we have been favoured with a copy of 2. his booklet, " The Prevention and Relief of 2 ozs. dripping, .. Cancer," which is No. 1. of the Cancer Crusade 5 ozs. margarine at 5d. prr It., • .• Series. Dr Bell holds that " cancer is not a. lb. potatoes, ... .• ..• hereditary disease." He believes that "it is, in I •.. ••• ••• every instance, an acquired disease, and is the Sundries, pepper and salt, say, .• • • • • direct result of a faulty mode of life." Therefore he concludes that cancer "is a self-imposed dis- Total, 1 8. ease " ; and he proceeds to tell us the means which. he regards as essential to both the prevention and Summed up in a few words the following para- the cure of this dread disease. The price of the graphs give the results of his experiment on what booklet is 3d., post free 3d., and it can be most people would describe as prison or workhouse obtained from the secretary, 15 Ranelagh Road,. diet :— Belgravia, London, S.W. "What surprised me on this and subsequent days was the freedom from oppression and the buoyancy of the imagination ; the machine ran freely, it was not clogged in any way. "I was able to understand what I had learned -EVERY MOTHER-, from other men who have tried simple living, viz. : who would do the beat for her child, both before and after birth, should send a post card to In tanttna Supply, 6 Catherine . the new joy 'of living they have experienced as a Court, Trinity Square, EX., fur FREE 13-01i. " The Baby result of light and suitable diet ; and to compre- in Health and Sickness," which gives thoroughly sound advice on r all that concerns the little one, including diet suggesticns for chit- hend a Franciscan Father who told me that his dren aged 2 to 6, and also special Instructions for 140 days of Pasting during the year were, he con- The Cure of Summer Diarrhwa.

sidered, beneficial even to his physical health." ••••••••••••••••••/.•••• In answering advertisements kindly mention "Good Health." I TRAN E TOS TAN BOROUGHPAR K SANI A• IU Good Health AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE Devoted to Hygiene and the Principles of Healthful Living. Published for the proprietors by elimpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, dt Co., Ltd., 28 Paternoster Row, London, E.C. ENTERED AT STATIONER'S HALL. VOL. 10. AUGUST, 1912. NO. 8. Editorial Chat.

The Increase HAPPILY we can claim the preparation of the soil,' the constitu- of Cancer. that many of the infectious tion, for cancer." disorders such as smallpox, typhoid fever, " The two chief operative factors in the and even tuberculosis, are on the wane at causation of cancer," according to Mr. the present time. It is true that we have Russell, " are long-continued irritation and only recently made a start as regards con- irritability : that irritation of a harmful sumption, but still we can truthfully sa'y kind may be produced by a variety of sub- that "The Great White Plague of the stances and influences, by toxic and irri- North " is steadily even though slowly tating food and drink of various sorts, as diminishing. But there are other diseases, well as by the ascertained irritants of the and among them the terrible cancer, which skin which are known to produce cancer, steadily year by year are multiplying in such as by the kangri worn in India, by our midst. The marked increase in the soot, coal-tar, paraffin, etc., on the hands, spread of cancer is not confined to the and by irritants in the mouth, such as a United Kingdom, but is equally marked on sharp tooth, chewed betel composition, the Continent and in the United States. tobacco, hot cigar-ends, etc., and by X-rays, The total deaths per million from cancer emanations from radium, and intense con- in the following countries in 1903 and centrated heat." 1905 were :- The author goes on to tell us that the 1903 1905 " irritability seems to be caused by many United States 686 721 of the conditions of civilization, sometimes German Empire 774 809 by overwork or worry (the poisoning Hungary 391 402 effect of which through the digestive tract Netherlands 990 1012 Spain 442 468 has been established), as well as by the chronic disturbance of digestion, and by Dr. D. J. Bryant, of New York, tells us many articles of food and drink of a kind that cancer of the stomach alone caused which increases toxicity, nervousness, or the death of ninety persons per million in acute sensibility, such as tea, coffee, exces- 1850 and 335 in 1890, or an increase of sive meats and sweets, etc." nearly 400 per cent in forty years. St 41 41 41 Diet and A GOOD deal of attention is A Preventable THERE seems good Cancer. given in this book to the rela- Disease. reason to believe that tion of diet to the prevalence of cancer, and cancer is a preventable disease, and we Mr. Russell concludes that " wherever welcome to our table a new book by the much animal flesh or other rich proteid Hon. Rollo Russell entitled, " Preventable food and much tea or coffee were taken, Cancer," which deals with this most there was much cancer ; that these drinks important problem. Mr. Russell believes produced predisposing effects in the course that " the habits of the nation, men, women, of generations ; that heavy beer-drinking and children, have a great deal to do with brings about a high rate of cancer mortalit) ;. 228 GOOD HEALTH.

that in many countries the amount of rich sician, Sir James Sawyer, F.R.C.P., con- -and proteid food, and of theine, caffeine, sulting physician to Queen's Hospital, -alcoholic, uric-acid-forming, and other Birmingham : " I have long thought that poisonous matter consumed daily were very the accepted increase of cancer in England much larger than the amount required or in recent years is due to the increased disposable by the body ; that in many feeding of the population, and especially to -cases the food was four to six times the increased feeding upon meat. . . . The physiologically appropriate maximum ; and malady has many of the features of a local that sugary stuffs, alcohol, tea, coffee, etc., overgrowth of tissue elements, and such were habitually used in quantities ten to appears to be favoured by excessive feed- twenty times larger than would be pre- ing and especially by feeding excessively scribed exceptionally if these were used as and for a long time upon meat." -drugs, which many of them really are." 0 The author also shows by numerous statis- Cancer and the IT is interesting to tics that " all countries or parts of countries Lower Animals. which used much flesh, beer, tea, coffee, note that cancer is sel- etc., had an excess of cancer." dom observed in domestic animals and amongst the wild animals it is exceedingly rare. As we would anticipate, it is more Tea, Coffee, MR. RUSSELL brings a often seen among domestic animals than and Cancer. grave indictment against those that are living free in the wilds of alcoholic stimulants and also " hot drug the forest. According to Mr. Russell, " of drinks," meaning thereby tea and coffee. 2,647 animals specially examined in the " A drug, belonging to the class of potent New York Zoological Gardens, not one vegetable poisons, is the ordinary daily was found to be affected." Again, " among drink of many millions of people. More- 70,000 dogs treated at the Dogs' Home, .over, these drugs are usually drunk hot." only one case occurred ; among horses none The author further tells us that " the have ever been described in Germany. seven countries consuming the largest Cancer of the liver frequently occurs in amount of coffee had out of all the nations pampered dogs, rarely in horses or other -of the world the highest rate of cancer ; domestic animals. England, which consumed the largest " Of 215,307 horses under treatment in quantity of tea per head, has now about Berlin, only 103, that is 0.046 per cent, or the maximum cancer rate, when the rates about 400 in the million, of diseased horses are duly corrected. Last year, 1911, the were cancerous. Oxen were found affected amount consumed per head rose to 6.53 in the proportion of 7 in 5,705. Pigs do lb." not seem to show a higher percentage, but records are deficient. In sheep only seven cases were found among a large 50,000 Cancer THE author quotes from Patients. number, and at Halifax only one case the great cancer specialist, occurred among 6,800. Goats, deer, and Mr. Bashford, the following statement : rabbits are very seldom attacked in their " Every day of the year about 50,000 per- natural way of living. Monkeys, even in sons are suffering from cancer in England captivity, seem to be almost entirely free and Wales." And then we have the from cancer. It is stated that among the following startling statement : " Of all many thousands which have been kept in persons over the age of thirty-five now Europe, only about six cases have ever living, one man in every twelve, and one been reported." woman in every eight, will die of cancer." The author quotes Rayer and Leblanc It is not a pleasant thought for a woman to the effect that " carnivorous animals are past thirty-five to realize that she has just more prone to cancer, cceteris paribus, one chance in eight of dying from cancer. than herb- or grain-eating animals." 4 Sir James THE following statements are Cancer and MR. RUSSELL believes from Sawyer. quoted from the eminent phy- Wealth. his extensive study of the GOOD HEALTH. 229

cancer problem that the nations which have disease. The subject is an intensely in- adopted a plain, cooling, non-irritating, and teresting one, and no one can take up ' non-poisonous diet and drink are those Mr. Russell's book without a desire to that are least liable to cancer. He tells read it through. We are greatly indebted us " that the comparative immunity of to him for the vast store of information Africans and Chinese is real and not only which it contains, which makes it such apparent." On the other hand, " the a useful manual. The book contains some countries with the highest rates in the valuable appendices, and also a large num- world are Great Britain (corrected rate), ber of references to scientific works which Switzerland, Holland, Sweden and Nor- have been drawn upon for the information way, Denmark, Baden, Bavaria, Wurtem- which it contains. Preventable Cancer " berg.'' is published by Longmans, Green & Co., Among the author's conclusions we 39 Paternoster Row, London, E.C. It is quote the following, which sums up briefly printed in large type, on good paper, and the influence of diet and drink upon can- neatly bound in cloth, and the price is 4/6 cer :— net, or 4/9, post free. "Apart from exceptional customs, it .,_ scarcely exists among peoples, and in dis- tricts and countries, where the diet is Health Maxims. natural cool, and frugal, without irritating COLDS are easily " caught," but hard to or stimulant adjuncts. The use of water lose. as the staple drink is of effect in immunity. Good health is priceless, yet it is with- " Cancer has shown a very much larger out a price. - prevalence in rich than in poor countries,. Alcohol is a preservative, but not of and in the rich or generally thriving dis- the health. tricts than in the poor districts of civilized Coddle yourself and you invite pneu- countries. But this distinction tends to monia. become obliterated where the mass of the Why be afraid of a little fresh air in labouring population adopts a rich fare, winter ? including adjuncts such as copious beer, The best defence against disease is the wine, and spirits, flesh, coffee, tea, tobacco, simple life. and various foods usually taken at a high Cheap candy —expensive funeral. Whl. temperature, much above what the outer take chances ? skin can bear. In some cities where the Chew your food ; your stomach has no industrial population passes the well-to-do teeth. The hen swallows her food with- in alcoholism, etc., it has the higher rate out chewing, but she also swallows of cancer." grinders. 4 Colds are not caught from fresh air but A Book for " PREVENTABLE CANCER " Thinkers. from stuffy air. is a book for all thinking To neglect a sore throat is to give the men and women who are interested in the undertaker a job. problems of sanitation, hygiene, and the Pure air makes pure blood ; pure blood prevention of disease. 'We have every makes you disease-resisting. reason to believe that the principles set Sixteen to one. An ounce of prevention forth in this most excellent manual are is equal to a pound of cure.—Slainte. both reliable and sound, and, furthermore, •• that good cannot fail to result from giving 'heed to the instruction contained in this THAT Greenland and the Arctic regions book. It is true that we don't know nearly will become a summer resort in time is so much about cancer as we should like, Commander Peary's confident belief, and but if we put into practice the little know- Dr. Goodsell, physician of the expedition, ledge that we already have, we believe asserted that the dry air and constant sun- that we shall soon witness a fall in the light of the summer was a fine cure for death rate from cancer as well as other tuberculosis. -- Journal of the Outdoor diseases, for we regard it as a preventable Life. 230 GOOD HEALTH. SANITARIUM METHODS OR NATURAL. REMEDIES. liY A. B. OLSEN, M.D., D.P.H. MANY years ago the famous scientist, pointed superintendent of the Health physician, and writer, Dr. S. Weir Mit- Reform Institute, the name was changed, chell, of Philadelphia, read a paper before to " The Battle Creek Sanitarium " at the American Medical Association, in his suggestion. He coined the word which he drew attention to the advan- Sanitarium" from the Latin, sanitas,. tages of health institutions where patients health At that time Webster's dictionary could obtain a change of scene, rest, good defined the word " sanatorium " as " In feeding, massage, baths, electrical applica- England a health resort for invalid. tions, and other similar measures. He soldiers." recognized that the ax erage hospital of Sanitarium. that time made little or no provision for Gould's Medical dictionary defines. the use of natural remedies. What was " sanitarium " as a " health-station." It true of the hospitals then is largely true adds : " A place or institution where the- of most hospitals and infirmaries to-day, conditions are such as especially to pro- although in more recent years there has mote health and vigour." The National. been some very considerable advance- Medical Dictionary defines " sanitarium '" ment,, and now we find that many of as follows : " An establishment for the- these institutions are giving serious atten- treatment of disease, more especially mild or tion to the numerous rational remedies with chronic cases." These definitions convey which Nature has provided us. a fair idea of what the modern sanitarium One of the earliest of hydropathic stands for. Such an institution is much institutions was the Health Reform Insti- more than an ordinary hydropathic or tute, which was opened in September, 1866, water-cure, for water treatment is only at Battle Creek, Michigan, U.S.A. The one of the numerous natural remedies that original building was simply a farmhouse are utilized for the prevention and cure of which was fitted up with baths and was disease. then opened as a water-cure. Ten years A True Nature-Cure. Liter, when Dr. J. H. Kellogg, the well- known pioneer of scientific therapeutics A properly-equipped sanitarium may be- for the trettment of the sick, was ap- regarded as an ideal nature cure, that is, a. place where every feat- ure of the environment,. including natural sur- roundings, equipment, diet, etc., combines to• secure the best condi- tions possible for the re- cuperation of health and. the restoration of lost energy and strength. A sanitarium is not a pleas- ure resort or a place for excitement, or mere en- tertainment, but it is the: place where the cultiva- tion of health is made a serious business. The fresh air cure and the outdoor life are recog- nized as valuable means of rebuilding health and. MAIN HALL AT STANBOROUGH PARK SANITARIUM. strengtheningiSvorn-out GOOD HEAL1 H. 231

is suffering from Bright's disease requires different food from the mere dys- peptic. When the liver is torpid, the stomach on strike, and the bowels following suit, the diet must be regulated most carefully in order to obtain the best results. Scientific feeding i s the solution of the dietetic question. As far as possible stimulating, ex- citing, and irritating foods are avoided. It is a well- known fact that animal flesh of all kinds, whether it is obtained from healthy or diseased animals, con- ELECTRIC BATHS AT STANBOROUGH PARK SANITARIUM. • tains a varying amount of different waste pro- nerves, and therefore as far as possible the ducts as well as matter which is under- patients lead an open-air life. Pure water going putrefaction. It is these organic is recognized as the best means of cleans- poisons that give the stimulating properties ing the body both externally and internally. to beef-tea, chicken broth, and the numerous Indeed, water is undoubtedly one of the meat extracts on the market. Beef ex- most ancient of all remedies, and its tract is for all practical purposes almost efficacy in the cure of many diseases which identical with the kidney secretion, and afflict mankind is so marked that we can people do not take it for its nourishing only wonder why its virtues are not more properties but rather for its stimulating widely t ecognized. 'effects. Besides animal flesh in its vary- Besides an abundance of pure air ing forms, all kinds of drug drinks, includ- and pure water, the body also re- ing tea, coffee, and cocoa, as well as alcohol, quires pure, wholesome food for its sustenance. The patient who is suf- fering from some disease, more or less serious, which is slowly undermining the constitution and destroy- ing life requires, above all things, pure nourishing, digestible food, with which to rebuild the body and reinvigorate the failing strength. Great care is always taken at a sani- tarium to adapt the diet to the requirements of the ,individual case. A dia- betic patient cannot take with advantage the same food that a rheumatic patient requires ; one who DRAWING ROOM AT STANBOROUGH PARK SANITARIUM. 232 GOOD HEALTH. are tabooed. The sanitarium table is The presence of disease of one kind or• nevertheless bountifully laden with an another means interference with normal abundance of wholesome, nutritious, and functions, and more or less derangement of appetizing food which can be taken freely the organs. The object of treatment ought to. without risk of any disastrous or untoward be to remove the cause of the disorder as after effects, and it is a common experience far as it is possible, and then substitute the- for those people who have become emaci- best conditions possible for the recovery of ated and run down in health to begin to health. Everything that is done for the- gain weight during the first week of their patient is done with a purpose in view, and, experience with the natural diet. that is to enable the body to throw off the. And it is to be noted that the appetite disease, and thus make recovery possible. is by no means always a safe guide. A There is no delay in arranging for the: patient may crave treatment o f the- for something which newly-arrived pa- can only do him tient, and after the: harm, and which he physical examina- should at all costs tion already referred strictly avoid . to, the patient is. Nevertheless, every assigned a trained. effort is put forth to nurse who gives the make the food not treatment as pre- only digestible and scribed by the I esi- nourishing, but also dent physician. This. attractive, t as t y, treatment is varied, and appetizing. from time to time according to the re• Scientific Methods. quirements of the: A patient entering case and to the a sanitarium has his judgmett of t h e- history taken by the physician who per- doctor and after- sonally supervises. wards receives a and watches each careful physical ex• patient under his amination. T h e care. - attending physician The baths are both makes a complete numerous and vari- physical inventory PHOTOTHERAPY AT CATERHAM SANITARIUM. ed, including n o t of the patient's only common water health, ascertains the organs that are baths of varying temperature, but also the sound, and also endeavours to discover brine, alkaline, acid, sulphur, pine, and those that are weakened or diseased. Nauheim bath.t1 Faradism, galvanism, Various analyses are made of the blood, or the sinusoidal electric currents are also• stomach contents, urine, etc., for the pur- administered through the bath. Full pose of ascertaining the activity of the baths, hip baths, sitz baths, leg baths, foot eliminative organs and the purity of the baths, arm baths, etc., are available. blood. Within recent years much attention has. After a full and complete investigation been given to electric light treatment, and has been made of the health of the patient large cabinets are available for taking• the treatment is prescribed according to electric light, the head only being ex- the requirements of the individual case. In cluded. Both incandescent light and arc a well equipped sanitarium there is no lamps are available for this purpose.. routine treatment but each case is dealt Electric light in the form of photophore is with on its own merits. Furthermore, the used for treating various parts of the- underlying principle that is followed is to body such as the chest, one or both thighs, treat the patient rather than the symptoms. or some other part. GOOD HEALTH. 233 • N

Fomentations, hot packs, and cold corn- treatment such as massage or a few tonic ipresses as well as sprays, the Aix douche, baths. In a well-ventilated room with -the Vichy douche, and other forms of the windows wide open, or, better still, douches are at hand with which to adminis- lying out on a private veranda which can ter these forms of hydrotherapy. be utilized day and night, such patients Trained masseurs and masseuses are pre- soon find themselves refreshed, and in the pared to give massage as well as Swedish course of a few weeks are once more able manual movements, both active and pass- to return with confidence and fitness to ive. The Schott treatment is combined their daily task. The ideal place for the with the Nauheim baths. Deformities rest cure is in the country where the air is such as curvatures of the spine, if not alto- pure and fresh, and where the surround- gether fixed and incurable, are often dealt ings breathe forth life and health and with very successfully. Vibratory mass- courage.- -age is administered by means of an elec- tric vibrator, and vibration is also adminis- Who Should Visit the Sanitarium. tered to the entire body by means of the There are few people nowadays who vibrating chair. A special instrument would not benefit very largely from a few affords cycle exercises or horseback exer- weeks' visit to a well-regulated sanitarium. cise, and there are ample facilities for Boarders are always welcome as well as numerous forms of body training and patients who require treatment of one kind physical culture exercises. or another. The prevention of disease The electrical department includes all and the maintenance of health receives forms of electricity. The high frequency just as much attention as curative treat- current is well to the fore, and has been ment at the sanitarium, consequently found to be very useful in dealing with many persons who want to know how to many nervous disorders, and also rheu- live, how best to care for themselves, what matic and neuritic aches and pains. The to eat, how much to eat, what exercise to diathermic current is especially useful in take, etc., etc., receive a hearty welcome dealing with fluid accumulations in the at these institutions, and every facility joints, and the wonderful Röntgen or possible is given them for getting the in- X-ray treatment is ready for those who struction and the information that they require it, and also for diagnostic pur- desire. Those who feel overburdened with poses. the cares of life, those who are suffering Let no one suppose that each patient from worry, nerves, and overwrought receives all these treatments. The com- muscles, those who are in feeble health bination of remedies will be found to be as and possibly have been delicate for many various as the patients, each one receiving years, those who have lost appetite, and that form of treatment which best suits with the appetite both strength and en- his case, and is most likely to promote the durance, those whose nerves have become restoration of his health. upset and disordered, those who have diffi- culties with the digestive organs and may Rest Cure. be suffering from fermentation, flatulence, A sanitarium is an ideal place in which gastric catarrh or stomachache, a torpid to undergo the rest cure treatment which liv4r, sluggish bowels, constipation, or is identified with the name of Dr. Weir numerous similar disorders connected with Mitchell. Those persons whose nerves the nutritional organs, and a large number are unstrung, sensitive, and irritated, who of other ailments too numerous to mention, have been worried in their professional or are cases that are always benefited by san- business life, who perhaps have become itarium treatment. What such patients re- discouraged and disheartened, and find quire physiological treatment rather than that they no longer have the full control drug medication. Many of them have re- of their nerves, require above all things sorted to drugs and medicines but without quiet rest, with a bright, pleasant atmo- benefit, and perhaps given up all hope of sphere and a spirit of good cheer, as well regaining health. Before settling down to as good feeding and some gentle tonic an invalid's life, such patients ought to 231 GOOD. HEALTH.

give a fair trial to the natural system of a chronic nasal catarrh in time leads to therapeutics that a modern health institu- disturbances of the ear, and deafness tion of the kind which we have described more or less marked results. Many of the affords. chronic cases of deafness which in time Chronic Disorders. unfortunately become incurable can be And there are a host of chronic disor- traced to catarrh of the head. Space fails ders which require sanitarium regime, good to even mention the numerous horde of nursing, skilful treatment, and the personal chronic disorders which would be suitable supervision of the resident physician. for sanitarium treatment. But let the There are numerous forms of rheumatic reader bear in mind that no infectious and gouty disorders which render life more cases at all are ever received at a sani- or less miserable and seriously interfere tarium. This includes not only infectious with the activities of business or profession fevers, but also pulmonary consumption. without actually keeping the victim in bed. Sometimes there is a history of rheumatism A College of Health. or gout covering a period of many months To put it in a nutshell, the average well- or even years. Then there are various equipped sanitarium is distinctly an edu- chronic chest complaints such as asthma, cational institution and might properly be bronchitis, winter cough, etc., and kidney called a College of Health. Much atten- diseases, including chronic Bright's dis- tion is paid not only to the cure of disease, ease. Diabetic patients and those suffer- but equally to the prevention of disease. ing from heart troubles whether functional Patients as they recover from their dis- or organic rarely fail to receive marked orders are encouraged to live and care for benefit from a sojourn at the sanitarium. themselves in such a rational way as to The vast host of neurasthenic patients maintain their health and improve it still suffering from disordered nerves of one further. With this end in view lectures form or another, many of whom have lost on physiology, sanitation, personal hygiene, all hope of restoration, oftentimes find diet, physical culture, dress, and similar that the regular sanitarium life, the whole- subjects are given at frequent intervals, some,non- irri tating usually twice a food, and the tonic week. Disease is baths and other not regarded as a treatments, soon mystery, but disperse their rather as the result aches and pains, of disobedience of and restore t h e the laws of nature. nerves t o their The body is re- normal tone. And garded as the tem- then there is ca ple of God, and all tarrh in one form healing that takes or another which place is recognized is so common now- as divine healing. adays. What such Man is not the persons require is healer, b ut the systematic a n d Great Physician, efficient treatment the Creator of man, carried out by only is able to trained nurses un• heal. All that the der proper super- best physician can vision. Catarrh is do is to correct a disorder which is wrong habits and too often looked assist the natural upon in a light forces of the body fashion, but not ELECTRICAL TREATMENT AT CATERHAM by utilizing good infrequently SANITARIUM. food, fresh air, sun- GOOD HEALTH. 235 shine, baths, electrical applications, mas- individual case, with the quiet life and sage, and numerous other tonic curative the comforts of home away from home, it measures. With an atmosphere of hope is small wonder that the chronic invalid .and good cheer, with the assistance of is soon also infected with hope and con- well-trained, smiling nurses, with careful fidence and speedily receives amelioration attention to all the requirements of the of suffering and disease. I

CLEAN LIVING AND CHARACTER.—Concluded. (An address to a Boys' Brigade.) BY J. JOHNSTON, M.D., Honorary Battalion Surgeon. Alcohol. Lord Kitchener, Lord Roberts, Sir STILL another evil of boys' smoking is John French, General Baden-Powell, the danger of its inducing a liking for alco- and others—because they know from holic drink. experience that our soldiers and our sailors It is true that a great many smokers fight better and endure fatigue longer with- are abstainers ; but they are generally out alcohol than with it. grown men who have sense enough to see The same is true of our Arctic explorers, the danger and power enough to resist the who one and all refuse to give it to their temptation. But that there is a strong men because it weakens them and lowers temptation for a young smoker to take their resistance to cold and fatigue. alcoholic drink is undeniable — and this Examples of this we have in Nansen, chiefly for these two reasons :- Captain Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1. One effect of the smoking is to induce Captain Peary, and Amundsen, all of an unnatural dryness of the mouth and whom are uncompromising opponents of throat, which often requires something alcohol. stronger than ordinary water to relieve. Therefore, boys, whenever you hear The temptation is to take some alcoholic anyone say that " drink " strengthens or liquid to do this ; and the smoker often even helps a man to do his work, you can finds that he can go on smoking again after tell him that it is not true—that you know he has had such a drink. better—that it really weakens everybody 2. Then there is the temptation of the who takes it, and does them a great company " the young smoker is so apt amount of harm besides. to find himself in —so many smokers being If you want, then, to grow up fine men drinkers, and he feeling that he does not —to become as fit as you can and to keep want to look singular, or be thought less of your fitness all the time—you will keep than they. teetotal all your lives ; for you may be One of the fallacies regarding alcohol is assured that drink does no real good to that it seems to give strength and help to anyone—and it may do you a great deal of the body while it really weakens it and harm. A Clean Body. lowers all its powers. This is the reason why it is shunned by all But some of you may be wondering our great athletes—swimmers, rowers, what all this has to do with "Cleanliness." cricketers, pedestrians, etc.,—and by all Well, I'll tell you. gymnasts, jugglers, aviators, chauffeurs, There are two kinds of cleanliness, viz., and by everyone whose work requires cleanliness of body and cleanliness of strength, alertness, and precision of muscle mind. and nerve : in a word, which necessitates Cleanliness—or clean-ness—of body can a man being at his best. only be got by frequent washing, and. by This, too, is the reason why so many of frequent and regular changes in our under- our great generals and naval commanders clothing; and something of the neces- are abstainers and discourage the use of sity of this may be realized when you alcohol among their men—such as know that our skin contains some three 236 GOOD HEALTH. thousand pores to the square inch, and a boy is liable to become a slave is one to that these pores are to our bodies some- which I shall take this opportunity of thing like what the sewers are to our referring because it is a very serious one. town. It is common enough among boys, but We know that if our Corporation were is seldom referred to, because it is prac- to allow our sewers to get clogged up, tised in secret and is regarded as one to be the health of the town would suffer. So, ashamed of and therefore to be concealed. if we allow our sewers—the pores of our I refer to the practice known as self-abuse skin—to get choked we, too, will suffer. —the abuse of one's body in a certain You, therefore, see the necessity of way : and I want to warn you boys, one keeping the skin clean by frequent wash- and all, against this, and to tell you, as a ing, not only of the hands and face, but all doctor and a friend, that it is one of the over the body. most harmful things which you can do to This " all-over " washing is too much yourselves; because it not only weakens neglected. Some people never get a good your whole body—exhausting your strength wash except when they go to the seaside. and enfeebling all your powers—but it You know the story of the little boy who pollutes your mind, degrades your whole went on one of the day trips to Blackpool, nature, and prevents you from becoming a and when he was bathing, one of his mates clean-bodied and clean-minded man. It is exclaimed : " Eh, Billy, heau dirty theau a practice to be shunned as one of the art ! " " Dirty, am I ? " he replied, most harmful to your entire manhood. " well, I shouldn't be, for I had a gradely Character. good wesh when I wur here last year !" A Clean Mind. I have said that good health is one of our most precious possessions. But there Cleanliness of body is one of the best is another which is no less precious—and means of helping us to be healthy, and in that is, good character. keeping us so. By this I do not mean merely a reputa- But it will help us in another way—it tion for being a decent, respectable work- will help us to clean-ness of mind. For man. I mean that thing in the mental and just as a dirty body tends to make a dirty moral life of a man which corresponds to mind, so will a clean body help to make a the backbone in an animal. clean mind—so true is it that cleanliness You know that there are some animals is next to godliness," that is, goodliness. which have no backbone—no vertebral You see, therefore, how far-reaching a column—and are hence called inverte- thing is cleanliness. Beginning with a brate animals. They are so flabby and so clean body, it tends to a clean mind ; and flexible that they can be bent in almost a clean body with a clean mind will natur- any way, whereas those which have a ally result in clean habits ; and from backbone are more rigid, and more diffi- clean habits will come a clean life. cult to bend out of shape. Habits. Now, just as it is the backbone which gives strength and firmness to an animal, Habits ! How easily are they formed so is it " character " which gives power and how difficult to get rid of ! and " grit " to a man. " Habits are soon acquired, but when we strive But it is unlike the backbone in this, To cast them off, 'tis being flayed alive." viz., that while a man may owe something Everything we do is either a habit or of it to his parents or his ancestors, it is may become one. Do a thing twice and largely a quality of his own making, and it will be difficult to avoid doing it a third he cannot get it in its perfection without time and almost before we know where we striving for it. are we may find that not only do we And it is well worth the striving for, want to repeat it, but that we can hardly because there is nothing in all the world help doing it so that, in fact, we are no better worth having ; and, coupled with longer its master but its slave. good health, it is a man's best and highest Now, among all the bad habits to which wealth. GOOD HEALTH. 23T

I f we take the word itself we shall find or a Liberal—all these things are non es- that it really means "something written, sentials and may be put aside as unimpor- engraved, or chiselled out" ; and just as tant. The important thing is what the an engraver cuts letters deeply into the man himself is—what is his nature—what- brass or stone or marble, so do we cut our are his principles what is his character.. characters—what we are—deeply into the The kind of "character" which each, tablets of our life, where they riot only member of the Boys' Brigade should aim can be read by others, but are bound to at—the kind of man he should try to. influence them for good or evil. become—is not the selfish, grasping man And this cutting of our character is very who tries to get as much as he can for- largely the result of our every-day actions himself, and to give as little as possible to —our doings, our thoughts, our emotions, others- not the arrogant, domineering man our habits—everything we do, every who is feared for his power—but the man thought we think, every word we utter, who is gentle and kind, sympathetic and, every habit we form—helps or mars the considerate for others— the man who tries formation of our character, and forwards to give rather than to get his giving or hinders its development and growth. being not necessarily of his money but of Our life is therefore largely a school his love—the giving of himself. where we have the' opportunity of improv- " When I give," says Walt Whitman,. ing our personalities - of helping or harm- " I give myself." And in doing this—in ing our character—of elevating ourselves giving himself and his love to others—a man. to a higher, or of degrading them to a lower, will find that he has got more than he has. plane of being. given that in helping others who needed Character-building, then, is one of the his help he has helped himself in the- privileges of our lives—and the building best of all possible ways, and has been put may be either a mansion of noble thoughts upon the road to becoming the kind of and beautiful deeds, filled with the sun- man that the officers of the Boys' Brigade- shine of disinterested love and of ennob- would have him become. ling aspirations, or it may be a prison-cell filled with the foetid atmosphere — the stifling miasma of selfishness. It is for The Unfit. this building that we are so largely respon- sible - it is our life's work—and it is our ATTENTION is being drawn in New- proudest possession. Zealand to the question of the propaga- Nay, more, it is a possession which will tion of the unfit, and a case is cited in, endure the longest, for while our bodies which a man, who had been eight times in. and everything that we can now look upon an asylum, was the father of ten children,. will one day vanish away, the character each of whom was a charge on the com- which we are daily and hourly forming munity and, therefore, a handicap on, will endure for ever. Thus our most other families. In a new country it is- valuable possession can never be taken probable that they will be less diffident in from us. seeking a remedy than with ourselves,. Is it not well worth while, then, boys, where custom and tradition enter so largely for us to try and make our characters as into the question.—National Health. perfect and as beautiful as we can by trying to become as good and as true men as possible ? NURSE GIRL : " Oh, ma'am, what shall. You see, it is not a question of getting I do ? The twins have fallen down the but of becoming not a question of having well ! but ,of being. It matters not, therefore, FOND PARENT : " Dear me ; how an- what a man gets or has how much or noying ! Just go into the library—very- how little money he has it matters not gently, so as not to disturb F ido--and get either what a man believes, either in reli- the last number of the Modern Mother's- gion or politics—whether he be a Church- Magazine '—it contains an article on How- man or a Nonconformist, a Conservative to Bring Up' Children.'" i238 GOOD HEALTH.

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VOXENKOLLEN BATH SANATORIUM, CHRISTIANIA, NORWAY. A HOLIDAY ON THE CONTINENT. WE don't recommend a holiday on the are also both good and exceedingly reason- •Continent for those who are worn out and able in price, and one finds little difficulty broken down in health, whose nerves have in getting the accommodation required and *been sorely tried by the arduous duties and at a moderate price. harrowing trials of business or home-life, A cycle ride through Normandy or and who are in need of quiet rest as well as other parts of France, a walking tour in ;a change of scene and environment. Such Holland or Belgium, a good tramp in the persons would do well to spend their holi- Black Forest, or mountain-climbing in day at a modern sanitarium or hie them Switzerland, all have their special attrac- away to some small, quiet, out-of the-way tions and could not fail to provide anyone -seaside or country village or farmhouse, with a variety of amusement as well as an -where they can obtain the peaceful rest abundance of exercise and active, out- -which their nerves require, and also whole- door life. Those who are able to go far- -some and plain fare, with an abundance of ther afield would enjoy a few weeks in the fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, as well as Tyrol or a cruise to the Land of the Mid- -cream and other dairy products. night Sun. Far-away Finland has its But for those who are seeking a change attractions and Sweden is one of the most :and relaxation from the closely confined interesting of the Continental countries for -sedentary life of the modern business or summer travel. Spain, Southern France, professional man, the Continent offers and Italy are also countries of equal inter- -many attractions and many advantages. It est, but on account of the great heat of is a very simple matter nowadays to cross summer it is better to visit them later in the Channel, and travel on the Continent the year. -is for the most part quite as safe and also Many Englishmen when seeking a holi- -quite as comfortable as in England. There day on the Continent visit some of the are numerous cross-channel routes which many scores of watering-places for the afford both safety and comfort, and in a few purpose of combining baths of various brief hours one can reach Holland, Bel- descriptions with the outdoor life. Our late gium, France, or even Germany and King often went to Marienbad, one of the Switzerland. The hotels on the Continent modern Austrian spas. Marienbad is most GOOD HEALTH. 239, charmingly located aiming beautiful- hills plain fare is more easily prepared and less and possesses a high altitude and a bracing expensive than the average high living of climate. Here invalids and semi-invalids, the successful business man. Water, too, as well as many who are suffering from can be obtained at home, and we don't stoutness and various other major or minor think it is necessary to contaminate it by complaints, fall into a very simple and adding sulphurous and other salts, for in healthful outdoor life with little difficulty. our opinion it is the water that counts The ordinary routine consists of early rather than the salts which it contains.. rising, a walk to the pump-room or spring The outdoor life at one of our numerous to take the waters, which are not nearly as delightful seaside or country towns is also- unpleasant as some varieties, a plain break- possible. Still, the change of scene is- fast consisting generally of a special bread greater on the. Continent, but there is the-

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called zwieback with an egg or a little language problem which sometimes proves. fruit, another promenade, a mud bath or very annoying to the insular Englishman some other form of bath, rest, alight lunch, who has not acquired a foreign tongue. some water drinking, and more promenade, Just a word with regard to preparations. and a concert in the open air, an early, for a holiday. They should be as simple light, plain dinner, and early bed. The as possible. It is not wise to take a lot of doctors usually counsel most of these luggage. This applies particularly to the invalids to take but two meals a' day, the Continent where the freight on the extra. first one about noontime. It is not strange luggage is always high, and there is much that such a healthy, out-of-door life, com- bother in passing the customs. A good suit bined with bathing, and a simple diet, of clothes or at most two suits, change of benefits these people, and, soon dispels underclothing, with a few toilet articles,. their ennui, and gives them new zest for a mackintosh coat, and two pairs of boots, the activities of life. are all that the average matt requires, and Of course it would not be impossible to the less he carries with him the more com- lead such a life at home, for certainly fortable and successful his holiday will be.. 240 GOOD HEALTH. THOUGHTS FROM AN OLD BOOK. BY W. T. BARTLETT. BLESSINGS misused become a curse. controlled desires made the exodus from Side by side with the pure enjoyment of Egypt in vain for many of the children of the good things of life come grim oppor- Israel : "he called the name of that place tunities for feeling the pangs of disease. Kibroth-hattaavah : because there they If we would rack our bodies with tor- buried the people that lusted." Num. ments or deaden our nobler natures, we xi. 34. need only pervert the food and drink de- There was good reason for the prayer of signed for our nourishment from their Agur, "Give me neither poverty nor riches; proper use and make them means to gratify feed me with food convenient for me : lest artificial desires. I be full, and deny Thee, and say, Who is What is the true end of food and drink? the Lord ? " Prov. xxx. 8, 9. The man Et is suggested in the words of the Old who makes " a ,god of his belly," in the Testament philosDpher : " Happy art thou, phrase of the apostle, is an idolater of the 0 land, when . . . thy princes eat in due lowest type : he renders himself incapable season, for strength, and not for drunken- of knowing his Creator or recognizing the ness!" Eccles. x. 17. The drunkard drinks claims of truth. The table of such an one at all times for the pleasure of drinking ; becomes a snare, that which was designed the glutton is like him except for the par- for his welfare he makes a trap for his own ticular form of his indulgence. What was destruction, his eyes are darkened that .designed to minister strength for all the they cannot see. Ps. lxix. 22, 23. varied labour of life becomes the glutton's To give way to the cravings of the weakness and undoing. animal nature, regardless of its actual This was the road along which Sodom needs, is to be degraded in mind, to lose and Gomorrah travelled to their shame- self-control, and become petulant and ful end ; " pride, fullness of bread, and irritable. A man seldom shows himself abundance of idleness " (Ezek. xvi. 49) less manly than wh'n he subordinates made the descent easy. The same un- more important matters to the satisfaction

GENERAL VIEW OF BATH-HOUSES, MARIENBAD. GOOD HEALTH. 29-I of his desires after gustatory enjoyment. dainties on which he feasts only cloud his The camp of Israel made the most con- perception and judgment. Against such temptible exhibition of itself when it delights the wise man utters a warning weakly surrended to this childish spirit. word : " Be not desirous of his dainties for Slavery, if only associated with the flesh- they are deceitful meat." Prov. xxiii. 3. pots of Egypt, seemed preferable to liberty Again he admonishes: "Put a knife to thy that involved a little hunger. Exod. xvi. throat, if thou be a man given to appetite." 2, 3. As they yielded to the longings Verse 2. " Riotous eaters of flesh " are stirred within them by the contrast between classed with " wine-bibbers," and together the manna of the wilderness and the fish, they shall come to poverty. Verses 20, 11. the onions, and the garlic of Egypt, freedom In the man of rebellious spirit, who seemed as nothing to the people, life was becomes a danger to society, such as the not worth living, and grown-up men sobbed law of Moses did not permit to live, may like babies for the luxuries that were be seen the product of animal indulgence. passed away. Num. xi. 4-10. Israel When the reluctant parents yielded their was given the meat for which it craved, rebellious son to the judges for execution but the concession marked a decided check of the death sentence, they were to do so in their moral growth: " He gave them with these words : "This our son is stub- their request, but sent leanness into their born and rebellious, he will not obey our soul." Ps. cvi. 15. Multitudes pur- voice ; he is a glutton, and a drunkard." chased the passing gratification with their Deut. xxi. 20, 21. In this description is very birthright, even as impatient Esau foreshadowed the character of all whom had sold his for one dish of lentil soup. the great Father must finally destroy as In time Esau repented bitterly of his unfit for any place in His redeemed uni- foolish bargain, but it was too late, and verse. To yield to the demands of a per- his story stands as a warning to all who verted appetite, and be deceived by its are tempted to set undue value on the promises of pleasure and delight, means to appeasing of a clamorous appetite. He unfit oneself for higher things, to deaden " found no place of repentance." Heb. xii. and destroy the conscience, and to lay 17. The very capacity for repentance up in store for after years a bitter harvest dwindles and perishes where self-indul- of suffering and disease. " Whatsoever a gence becomes supreme. There was a day man soweth, that shall he also reap. For in the history of Israel when a call came he that soweth to his flesh shall of the from God to penitence and mourning, but flesh reap corruption." Gal. vi. 7, 8. instead of responding to this unwelcome appeal, " behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh and IT is my experience, and I could con- drinking wine : let us eat and drink ; for firm it by innumerable proofs, which to-morrow we shall die." me without a shadow of doubt, that of all Doubtless it seemed to the revellers that conceivable methods of fighting the drink they had risen above the fear of conse- evil, the personal example of total abstin- quences : but in reality they had fallen be- ence is by far the most efficacious low the moral level where repentance and When twelve years ago this became nobler things were possible to them; self- clear to me, I did not hesitate to seize indulgence had degraded them below the this weapon, and up to this day I have level of reasoning men and sons of God : never for a moment had reason to regret " It was revealed in mine ears by the Lord that I did so. I have to thank total ab- of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be stinence, not only for its beneficial results purged from you till ye die." Is. xxii. in regard to my own powers of continuous 12-14. work, but also for the satisfaction that The self-satisfied wisdom of the epicure comes from being consistent, and from and the glutton teaches him no higher seeing the unmistakable effects of the in- lesson than to sacrifice all for present en- fluence of my example in the struggle joyment. But whoever adopts this philo- against alcoholism.—Prof. Dr. Kraepelin, sophy miserably deceives himself. The in Deutsche Gut Templar. 242 GOOD HEALTH. CAMPING OUT FOR THE HOLIDAYS. BY H. J. STONE. READERS of GOOD HEALTH will not Two cups ; 13. Two plates ; 14. Two knives and forks ; 15. Two teaspoons ; 15a. One butter dish need to be told that the healthiest way to (covered) ; 16. Two dessert spoons ; 17. One spend a holiday is to camp out. No other condiment box ; 18. Two towels ; 19. Soap ; 20. form of holiday lends itself so thoroughly Canvas water-bucket ; 21. Canvas wash-bowl ; to the application of those principles for 22. Mop ; 23. The usual personal sundries and change of underclothes which this magazine stands. No life pro- vides fresh air, exercise, and that subtle The following hints may help in the communion with nature of which all the selection of the articles above mentioned.. poets of health have sung, so abundantly (The numbers refer to the figures against as camp life. Therefore, 0 apostles of the various articles in the list, and on the the healthy life, to your tents ! if you have photographs). them ; and if not, may we tell you how to No. 1. If you are cutting down the proceed. initial expense, a gypsy tent in cotton lawn We will suppose that two friends wish to is quite a good form of tent for two-floor spend their holidays under canvas. In space about 6 x 6i ft. The " Cottage " the first place, if you do camp out this is a more roomy tent but will need a fly holiday you will surely want to camp out sheet or a double roof. Either of these again. Therefore don't hire your equip- should be made in the lightest cotton lawn. ment ; it is too expensive. Purchase the No. 2. These should be made with lightest outfit you can find, and the best exeptional care in bamboo with brass fish- you can afford. It will prove more eco- ing-rod joints and each in two sections. nomical in the end. No. 3. Rubber is the best material for What you will need depends much on this purpose, but lawn painted with accordian," or other waterproof paint, will serve, and is less ex- pensive. The ground sheet should cover nearly all the floor space of the tent, and should have eyelets in the corner for pegging out. No. 4. Three dozen twisted meat skewers from the local butchers will serve admirably for tent pegs. No. 5. Jaegar lamb's wool fleece is perhaps the best material, but any warm blanket or rug of dark material may be Photo by FL J. Stov'e. CYCLE AND CAMP KIT. sewn into the shape shown in the cata- your habits of diet, and the locality you logues of Jaegar or Gamage. The impor- choose for your site or sites. The follow- tant point to remember is that a specially- ing may be considered indispensable :- cut sleeping-bag bulks less than one blan- 1. A tent; 2. Poles; 3. Ground sheet; 4. Pegs; ket, and is more effective than two. A 5. Two sleeping-bags ; 6. One eiderdown quilt, good warm sleeping-bag, therefore, is or two blankets ; 7. Acetylene cycle lamp ; 8. " Primus " stove ; 8a. Half-pint spirit tin ; 9. only next in importance to the tent for Set of cooking pots in nest, with frying pan lid for comfortable camping. ditto; 10. Wind screen ; 11. Gauze toaster: 12. N o. 6. Vegetable down quilts are pre- GOOD HEALTH. 2+3 ferred by many on humanitarian grounds. No. 23. These will suggest themselves They are cheaper but bulk rather more and the camper soon learns what to leave than eiderdowns. Both are light and at home. serviceable. Intending campers are warned against No. 7. Acetylene gas is advised because the so called light tents and camping oil is fatal to rubber ground sheets. A equipment advertised by general dealers. good light is essential when reading or The novice will do well to join the Ama- writing in the tent on the long evenings. teur Camping Club, 4 New Union Street, No. 8. The "Primus" stove is almost the only one that can be relied upon in a gale of wind. Care should be taken to get the pattern with de- tachable supports, so that the body of the stove may be carried on the cycle frame or apart from other kit. No. 8a. The pattern with brass screw cap is best. No. 9. Aluminium kettles or pots (about three) to nest one in the other, with frying pan lid and detachable han- dle, are now made and Photo by IT. J. Stone. serve well. No. 10. To protect the " Primus " stove Moorgate Street, London, E.C., where lie when starting up, a wind screen as shown will get the best advice, and the right in the photograph should be made from articles for his kit. half a yard of lawn and four-umbrella ribs. The ribs protrude from the bottom of the Packing and Carrying. lawn four inches and stick into the ground. The accompanying photograph shows No. 11. A five inch square of fine wire one method of carrying a double outfit on gauze for placing over the flame of stove a cycle. Many prefer to distribute the when toasting bread. weight by attaching a bag to the handle Nos. 12 and 13. Choose flat-bottom bars. Panniers, if used, tend to keep the cups and plates in white enamel of the weight low, and they should be fitted with lightest weight. They vary considerably. dog chain clips for safe and quick attach- Nos. 14, 15, and 16. Aluminium again ment. In the equipment shown the left and as small as possible. pannier contains articles, nos. 1 and 3 ; the No. 17. Screw cap aluminium boxes right pannier, nos. 5 and 6. Nos. 2 and 10 to hold pepper and salt are useful for those are in the pole case, strapped to the back who use these condiments. stays, and the "Primus" stove body at- No. 18. A light towel. tached to the frame by a clip. All other No. 19. Soap in aluminium case. articles are in the dust-proof rush basket No. 20. In waterproof canvas, wide at on the back carrier. the bottom and narrow at the top for many Choose a site with a good view from obvious reasons. the tent door and sheltered from the wind No. 21. Also in waterproof canvas. by trees but not under them. The No. 22. A penny mop from the local Amateur Camping Club supply their store with handle cut down—a very useful members with a long list of official sites little article. in the British Isles. 244 GOOD HEALTH.

THE BOTTLING OF FRUIT. THE four essentials for successful fruit may sometimes be more serious, a con- bottling are : Sound fruit ; Ripe fruit ; tagious skin disorder. Further, some of Clean fruit; Effective sterilization of both the small fruit, such as strawberries, lie in bottle and fruit. contact with the soil, and may not always It is of the greatest importance to select be protected with a clean bed of fresh the very best and finest fruit for bottling, straw as would be desirable. Again, there and any fruit which gives evidence of un- is the transportation of the fruit, and it is soundness or even has become stale, is un- not always covered during transportation safe for bottling purposes. It is a great as it should be, and there is exposure to mistake to think that poor and inferior the dust and grime of the market-place, fruit, or fruit that has been kept for some and afterwards of the greengrocer, so that days, or any sort of fruit, will do for there are ample means of contaminating bottling. Such fruit, no matter how well fruit with dirt. Therefore, after the fruit it is cooked, is very liable to ferment and has been stemmed and all the imperfect give trouble. and unsound fruit carefully picked out, it Again, the fruit should be ripe but not should be rinsed in several waters which over-ripe. If fruit is bottled in an under- may be tepid or cool, in order to remove ripe state it can never acquire the pleasant the dust and dirt and any foreign particles and delicate flavours which are only fully which may be present. When the final developed in ripe fruit. It may be easier water shows the absence of any further when bottling on a large scale to select filth then the fruit is drained, and is ready fruit which is not ripe, but the results for bottling. obtained will not be nearly as satisfactory It is equally necessary to see that the as they might be, and the flavour of the fruit bottles' are thoroughly cleaned with fruit will be quite inferior. On the other soap and water as well as the rubber rings hand, over-ripe fruit usually means un- and both the glass and the screw tops. sound fruit, and therefore it should be After they have been cleaned, the bottles strictly avoided. with the accessories should be sterilized The prime necessity of cleaning all by boiling for some twenty minutes or fruit thoroughly must be obvious when we more, when they are ready for the fruit. stop to consider the class of people who There are two simple ways of bottling make up the vast majority of fruit-pickers. fruit, and the first we shall describe is per- Few of this class are likely to take pains haps both the easiest and the most satis- in keeping themselves, their hands and factory, provided one has an ordinary their clothing, clean, when picking fruit, copper, and circular board, which will fit and doubtless many of them are more or into the bottom of the copper, and which less afflicted not only with filth, which is has been punctured with numerous holes removable by soap and water, but with what about half an inch or more in diameter. The sterilized glass jars are first filled with the *Excellent fruit bottles can be obtaired from the " Pit. man " Health Food Co., 147 Aston Brook Street, Birming. clean fruit, and then placed on the false ham. See their advertisement on page 253. wooden bottom of the copper, and the GOOD HEALTH. 245 glass stoppers are laid loosely over the stones from apricots although not essential, bottles. The copper is lighted and suffi- Plums which have been halved and stoned cient water is added so that it rises to also have a better flavour than when the within about two inches of the tops of the stones are retained, and the same is true of bottles. When the fruit has been suffi- cherries although it is tedious work to ciently cooked, boiling water, or a thin stone them without a machine. syrup which is made by adding sugar to Fruit juices may be put up in the same boiling water, is added to each bottle until way as the whole fruit, but in this case the it is completely full to the brim, atter fruit is thoroughly cooked in a saucepan which the glass cover is fastened with a and disintegrated as much as possible by screw top. It will be necessary to screw frequent stirring with a spoon, and then down again after the bottles have cooled, the juice is removed by a suitable strainer and then they are ready to be stored away while it is still hot. The best results are for winter use. obtained when the juice is strained a Another method is to cook the fruit in a second time through several thicknesses of saucepan, and then by means of a ladle buttermuslin. After it has been strained and funnel pour it into the sterilized jars sufficiently the fruit juice is once more which are then standing in the boiling sterilized by boiling, and then it is ready water or have just been removed from it. for bottling. Delicious grape juice or un- The rubber rings, glass covers, and screw fermented wine may be prepared in this tops are taken from boiling water and the way. bottle is screwed down as soon as it is completely filled. One of the disadvan- tages of this method is that the fruit will " Bringing the Bar into be disintegrated and mashed so that it will the Home." not preserve its natural form and look THERE are a few journals and maga- as well as when the bottles are prepared zines which refuse to publish the adver- by the first method. However, either one is successful if the directions which tisements of such pernicious articles as we have given have been thoroughly car- whisky, brandy, and cigarettes, but for the ried out. most part the number of these high-class The best place for storing bottled fruit publications which possess a conscience as is in a cool, darkened but well-aired cellar, well as a legitimate desire to make money, where there is no danger of frost in the is still so small that their influence is little winter time. It is a good practice to ex- realized by the general public. We take pleasure in quoting the following para- amine carefully each bottle of fruit about three or four weeks after bottling or even graphs from a letter in which the pub- sooner to see that it is in a perfect state. lishers of " Everybody's Magazine " ex- If the covers have not been screwed down plain to their advertisers why they refuse tightly and air has been allowed to enter, to advertise whisky and cigarettes :-- the fruit will ferment and spoil. Some Whisky and liquors generally we decline be- housewives make the practice of standing cause we never had any respect for the saloon business, and do not care to be a party to it ; the fruit upside down on the table for especially we do not care to bring the bar into twenty-four hours in order to make sure the home. that the covers are perfectly air• tight, after We decline cigarette advertising because we do which it is stored away. Fruit which has not care even remotely to help any boy acquire the insidious habit which undermines his health been prepared and bottled as we have dir- and his morals. ected will keep for many years and then be as perfect as when first stored away. We should like to see this custom Plums, of which we have such an abun- adopted generally by all magazines, journals, dance and such a large number of varie- and the daily press, but there is but one ties, always bottle well, and the same is means of bringing it about, and that is for true of cherries, apricots, pears, and apples the readers to make an earnest protest as well as blackberries and other small against such advertisements, and, in the fruit. It is well to remove the skins and case of necessity, to refuse their support to, 246 GOOD HEALTH.

all journals which persi4t in advertising Mr. Hunt holds that " Man is neither carnivorous nor herbivorous, and the shape of his jaws, his these deadly drugs. As a rule the pub- dentition, and the details of his digesti% e canal lishers are keen about giving the people afford proofs that he was originally formed a what they believe the people want, and if frugivorous animal." To support this view he they find that a considerable number of quotes the following from Baron Cuvier's classical work on anatomy : "Comparative anatomy teaches their readers are opposed to their adver- us that man resembles the frugivorous animals in tisements of cigarettes, for example, we everything. the carnivorous in nothing. . . . Man may depend upon it that such advertise- resembles no carnivorous animal." ments will be dropped promptly. We Chapter II contains a most interesting record of some of the most famous food reformers, should like to see a campaign started for beginning with Pythagoras and including such the purpose of purifying the public press well-known names as Plato, Seneca, Plutarch, by the deletion of all advertisements of Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Diogenes, alcoholic beverages and tobacco generally, Rousseau, Linn us, Newton, Shelley, Sweden- borg, Franklin, and, perhaps most recent of all, as well as cigarettes, and also the numer- Fitzgerald. ous secret remedies and quack nostrums, Mr. Hunt tells us that in 1908 the national bill all of which are undermining the health of for imported meat amounted to f49,489,000. This the nation, and helping to multiply disease sum certainly must have been very much exceeded for 1911, but we have not the data at hand. The and misery. following table, which was prepared by Sir William Earnshaw Cooper, demonstrates at a glance the Infection by Cats. importance of the economic phase of the question. ADKINS, The first column indicates the variety of food ; DR. medical officer of health the second column, its nutritional value in grains; of Devon, reporting on the outbreak of and the third, the cost :— diphtheria in the village of Coleridge, Amount o states the district medical officer was able Variety of Food. Nutrition Cost. to find evidence of infected cats having lb. Macaroni, 3112 grains, llj been the source of the disease. Four cats lb. Cheese (Dutch), 996 " 16 2 lbs. Potatoes, 8360 " had died from throat trouble, one being the 7468 " 4i pet of the first case affected.—Public Amount of Health. Variety of Food. Nutrition. Cost. 2 lbs. 2 oz. Beef Steak, 4108 grains. 171 " Man and His Food." 2 lbs. Potatoes 3860 •' WE note with pleasure that the problems con- 7468 " 1 8a nected with nutrition are receiving ever-increasing attention. It is not a little significant that laymen The chapter dealing with tea and coffee is a very are contributing the largest part of food reform important one, and in our opinion is neces Ary to literature, but this is because they are in advance make the book complete. There is no doubt but of the average doctor who is strongly inclined to that many people do regard tea and coffee as conservatism as regards diet. It is a well-known nutritious drinks, but this is a great fallacy, and fact that laymen also led the van in popularizing more active and earnest efforts ought to he made hydrotherapy, or water treatment, and it only to teach the truth about these drug-drinks, for that seems natural that they should also be very is really what they are. Dr. Tebb, the public largely instrumental in the introduction of a saner analyst to the Southwark Borough Council, esti- system of diet than that which generally prevails. mates that the average tea drinker takes 3.6 grains We welcome to our desk a new book entitled, of caffeine and 9 7 grains of tannin daily. This is " Man and His Food," by Mr. Edmond J. Hunt, a full dose of c fleine according to the British one of the regular contributors to Goon HEALTH, Pharmacopoeia, and the constant use eat- after which also contains a sympathetic introduction by year of habit-drugs of the nature of tea cannot fail Dr. Alexander Haig, M.A., F R.C.P. Mr. Hunt to produce a more or less pernicious influence deals with the problems of diet reform in a upon the nervous system as well as the digestive broad and generous spirit, and the work which he organs, and sooner or later cause neuralgic pains, has produced indicates thoughtful study and palpitation of the heart, nervous irritability, head- painstaking research in the various branches of aches, insomnia, dyspepsia and many similar evils. the food problem. The book consists of ten " Man and His Food," is a book that should chapters with the following titles : I. Man and receive a hearty welcome in all food reform His Food ; II. Pioneers of Food Reform ; III. centres, but we should very much like to see it The National Aspect of Food Reform ; IV. The circulated far more wiJely among the rank and Economic Aspect : V. Its Relation to Health, file of our population. We can scarcely think of Strength and Endurance ; VI. The Humanitarian a better book for introducing food reform in new Aspect; VII. The Spiritual Aspect ; VIII. Con- circles The price is only 1/- paper covers, and 2/- cerning Bread ; IX. Tea, Coffee and Cocoa ; X. in cloth, and it is published by R. J. James, 10, 11, The Simple Life. 12 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, London, E.C. ADVERTISEMENTS. 2,-17

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A. "OVALTINE" with MILK. One tea. cupful (6 fluid ounces) without Sugar = 170.6 Calories. B. "OVA LTINE." One teacupful (6 fluid ounces) without Milk or Sugar = 717 Calories. */) C. MALil EXTR ACT with COD LIVER FURTHER, NOTHING IS LIGHTER, MORE OIL (containing 17 per cent by weight Cott Liver Oil). One dessertspoonful READILY TAKEN, MORE DIGESTIBLE (x8 granaries) = 62's• Calories. 100 OR MORE EASILY ASSIMILATED THAN D. NOURISHING STOUT. One tea- OVALTINE". cupful i6 fluid ounces) (Alcohol not counted) = 46,2 Calories. E. MEAT AND MALT WINE. One THIS EXPLAINS—WHY IT 16 SO FOOD FOR wineglassful(a fluid ounces) (Alcohol not counted) = ao.78 Calories. GROWING CHILDREN—WHY IT BENEFITS P. COCOA. One teacupful 16 fluid ounces) THE NURSING MOTHER—WHY IT PULLS (without Sugar or Milk) = 1,4 Calories. ROUND THE CONVALESCENT—WHY IT G. BEEF EXTRACT "TEA." One tea- cupful (6 fluid ounces) =5.59 Calories. FATTENS UP THE THIN & ILL-NOURISHED. • • 10

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In answering advertisements kindly mention "Good Health." 248 GOOD HEALTH. A PAGE FOR WOMEN.* CONDUCTED BY MARIE BLANCHE. The Value of Rest. to talk about trying to keep juvenile, won't it? You may perhaps—I don't say you will—but you IN this busy age, this century of advancing may play pranks with yourself without suffering knowledge, of the necessity for regular physical while young. However, when a woman gets to exercise and mental occupation, the claims of rest say forty or thereabouts she must turn over a new are too often crowded out from all our thought. leaf and take at least some little care of herself, We are far too busy trying to cram eternity into unless she wants to feel as threadbare as a moth- an hour. Between starting-point and terminus eaten mat and to look "as haggard as a murderer." we allow ourselves no leisure at all. True, we do Now if you feel or look anything at all like this hear something now and again about the " idle after systematically neglecting the duty of rest, rich," who are supposed to dream away their days don't turn round and accuse nature by saying she on a bed of roses, in the lap of luxury, pampered on has handicapped you with a miserable constitution down cushions, idle, selfish, overfed. Thank and feeble health. Nature is probably not to heaven such things are the exception rather than blame, she has done her part, do yours. Or if the rule. The really idle rich are a very small perchance it is true that you have a weakly con- community indeed, for riches generally bring with stitution and as woman will rather pathetically them duties and calls both mental and physical, and very foolishly say sometimes " nature has to say nothing of the labour of social affairs, and dealt me ill cards," then undoubtedly the right if you take the trouble to enquire into the details answer comes : " let wisdom make thee a good of the lives of rich men or women, you will not gamester." Take care of yourself, do the very find the majority of them quite as lazy as you best you can with those ill cards that have been imagine. dealt you in • the shape of an indifferent constitu- It has been said that absence of occupation is tion, and never let the rush and turmoil of this not rest, that a mind quite vacant is a mind dis- strenuous age cheat you out of your daily rest, let tressed, and this is very true, for idleness when it nothing on earth interfere with it. Play those ill has become a sort of habit, a kind of chronic sloth cards with great care and in the long run you will is not by any means rest. Quite the contrary, be the winner. You will come out top as the say- and paradoxical as it may sound, it is in fact just ing is. And when you are quite old your cheek those few who are habitually idle who are in will still glow with the tints of nature's own hand reality habitually fatigued. For them there is no painting and you will in all probability be a much enjoyment of rest, for just as surely as the person more comely-looking and attractive old lady than who feels no hunger enjoys no food, or the man those of your contemporaries who have hurried who knows no thirst finds no pleasure in drinking, and scurried through life at the express speed that so the individual who labours not enjoys not rest, has allowed no time for even one hour's quietude that sovereign reward the, refreshment, and the in the day. The following comical epitaph is medicine of honestly tired mind and muscle. not without significance:— Without rest we become jaded in body and brain, "Here lies a poor woman who always was tired, reduced in our powers of endurance, and our ac- For she lived in a world where too much was tivity of thought, an exhausted nervous system, a required, weary worn-out, irritable, physical wreck, and all Her last words on earth were ' Dear friends, I am because we have ignored the simple rule of a daily going rest, so easy for many, so difficult yet not impos- To lands where's no cooking, nor washing, nor sible to many more, and apparently so distasteful sewing, to all. Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for me Very few women I think, really grasp the trues never, meaning of rest. They feel the need of it, that is For I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.' quite obvious, they even admit the importance of it, but they grudge the time given to it. There is ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. so much to be done. The days no matter how H.H.—I do not quite understand what you say about long, are never half long enough, and so that your hair, is it falling out, or what ? No, you must not attempt to stain it, unless you use some harmless prepar- hour's rest, so much needed, is ignored, or at best ation of your own making, such as a stain made from compromised and some domestic duty is done green walnuts would be. But why do you wish to change its during the so-called hour of rest. This is pure colour, and why do you object so much to grey hairs? They farce. It is playing fast and loose with the matter, are generally so very becoming and soften a face wonder- fully when it has lost its roundness and colour. Brush it and the woman who only allows herself this scant well every day, morning and night, and wash it thoroughly apology for relaxation is simply fooling herself and about every four weeks. Do not out it too often, and do not she is fairly certain to grow old much earlier than use curling-irons for your hair. if she had dealt more wisely with herself. The J.T.—Yes, wash your face once a day, at bedtime for break-neck pace, the no-stop system is fatal, and preference, with soft, warm water and soap, and when you then when age with his stealing step hath clawed have dried it rub in a tiny quantity of the ointment. Use rain water when you can procure it and rinse off all soap you in his clutches it will be rather late in the day before drying. Dry with a clean, old towel, I say old because new towels are so stiff and irritating to a sensitive 'Correspondents should address Marie Blanche, Bunny. skin. I am glad the ointment has done your skin so much view, Claterham Valley, enclosing stamp. good. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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Wise Cooks Use MARMITE (The Pure Vegetable Extract). AWARDED SILVER GILT MEDAL, ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1909. MARMITE is absolutely pure. 10,640 PACKETS Is an invaluable pick-me-up. Sold at the IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION. Strengthens as well as stimulates. Everyone was delight?d with it and repeal. orders c.tine Is easily digested and economical. 1 along while our Exhibition so s open. Is recommended by medical pro- MADE FROM CLEAN, SOUND, 4* fession. WHOLESOME FRUIT AND NUTS. Is used by Food Reformers and A food of Ow highest value for young and old. Delicious Vegetarians everywhere. as a sweetmeat or for sivi et sandwichrs. Wonderfully sustainiwz. A berm to cyclists or tourists on account of its conci•ntra,e1 nutriment. THE: LANCET says: "This entirely vegetable ex- SOLD IN PACKETS, 1d. and 4d. EACH. tract possesses the same nutrient value as a well- prepared meat extract." SAMPLE 2 LB. PACKET Obtainable at ail Health Food Stores. and a copy of the latest edition of our booklet," A Guide to Good Things," sells post free anywhere in the Gutted Xiiitalsin for 61., or fli- I o Islet is free for ld. stamp. on receipt of ld. stamp L FREE SAMPLE to ray postage by . . .

B. SHEARN & SON 9 Marmite Food Extract Co., Ltd., The World's Largest Froitarian Stores, 231 & 234 Tottenham Crt Rd ,W.&Branches. 59 Eastcheap, London, E.C. Phone: Gerrard 4907 and 1)555. Padd. 4812. In answering advertisements ki ndly mention "Good Health.- 250 GOOD HEALTH. (c\f; Questions To Convince You that for and Answers Purity Nourishing Qualities Send communications with address and stamp to the Editor, Good Health, Caterham. Anony- mous communicatims are not considered. 4., i.) 6.. I.H.A. Foods 917. Protose—Granose Flakes—Bodice. —A.S.: " 1. How should I open a tin of Protose? 2. Is Protose free from adulteration ? 3. Should STAND UNRIVALLED Granose Biscuits and Flakes be toasted before eating them ? 4. Are there buttons on the Good We are offering to readers of "Good Health" Health Bodice for the support of the lower gar- ments ? " Ans.-1. You will find full directions on the A special Post paid label for opening the Protose tin with a key which Sample my anywhere accompanies it. 2. Yes, Protose, Nuttolene, Bromose, and all other specialities of the Inter- Parcel INF in the national Health Association are absolutely pure for Kingdom. and free from adulteration. 3. Yes. 4. Yes. 918. Lemon Water.—E.T. "Would a Write mentioning this Special Offer and glass of hot water and lemon juice, taken regularly, enclosing 1/- P.O. to the produce any harmful effects ? " International Health Ass'n, Ltd., Ans.—No. Indeed, lemon water prepared by taking one to three teaspoonfuls of lemon juice in Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts. a glass of hot or cold water makes a mild laxative and wholesome drink. 919. Nebulizer.—H.M. : " For the last nine into or ten years I have been troubled with catarrh of Look Your Kettle the nose, and have tried syringing with a solution of salt and boracic water, and have also tried to That limey lining, that muddy mass, insert cotton wool plugs, and other treatment, but represents SOME of the mineral impuri- all without any benefit. Do you think the Globe ties of your water supply. The others Hand Nebulizer would prove helpful ?" you have swallowed. According to time Ans.—Yes, provided you are prepared to use it and circumstance for ten minutes three times a day for a period they induce or aggra- covering a number of months, possibly five or six vate Rheumatism, or even seven months. A long time may prove Rheumatoid Arthri- necessary on account of the condition being tis, Gout, Stone and chronic, and therefore obstinate to deal with. Gravel, Dyspepsia and Constipation. They stiffen the joints 920. Offensive Sweat—Phlegm.—J.D.M. : a n d blood-vessels, " 1. What are the causes of offensive sweat, and impede the circula- what are the methods of cure? 2. What is the tion, ossify the body, cause of the continual presence of phlegm in the and so bring on pre- throat ?" mature old age. The Ans.-1. Either a lack of strict cleanliness or " Gem " Still (41/- impurities of the blood. Take a tepid or cold bath post free) is a handy apparatus that makes each morning on rising followed by vigorous water absolutely pure. It would be friction, and a warm bath for five or six minutes immensely valuable to you. STILL before retiring at night. 2. This is an indication booklet free on mentioning "Good of catarrh. Use the Globe Hand Nebulizer three Health." times a day for about ten minutes each treatment, and gargle the throat with the alkasaline solution RECOMMENDED BY YOUR EDITOR. made with the tablets supplied with the outfit, which can be secured from Good Health Supplies, Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts, for 7/6 post GEM SUPPLIES CO., LTD.,(tit free, including supply of medicine. 67 Southwark Street, London, S.E. (Continued on page 252.) In answering advertisements kin dly mention "Good Health." ADVERTISEMENTS. 251

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PERHAPS not all the world is seeking health, still a very goodly portion are doing so, or at THE CATERHAM SANITARIUM. least ought to be doing so. To all health- seekers the Caterham Sanitarium and Surrey Hills Hydropathic offers unique advantages. With a charming location among the far•famed beautiful hills of Surrey, with an elevation of nearly 500 feet, with an ample supply of pure, soft water, and bracing air, and with a death- rate last year of 6'06 per thousand, it makes AN IDEAL HEALTH RESORT. The institution has all the advantages of rest- ful country surroundings. It is lighted with electricity, heated with hot water radiators, OUR SURROUNDINGS. and furnished in a simple, comfortable style. The bath equipment is fully up-to-date. There are facilities for all kinds of baths, including the delightful electric light or radiant heat bath, sinusoidal, galvanic and faradic electric water baths, Nauheim, Droitwich, alkaline, acid, sulphur, etc. A Barker electric vibrator furnishes most delightful vibratory massaue. There are ample apparati provided for the local photophote, and there is also a solar lamp, which is particularly valuable on account of its actinic rays. The Kellogg douche and spray apparatus .affot ds facilities THE STAFF. for a large number of hydriatic procedures. By means of the Velotrab it is possible to have regulated cycling and horseback exercises. The Swedish room is fitted with various forms of apparatus for administering the efficient medical gymnastics given us by Ling, Hartelius and his associates. There is an efficient corps of well-trained nurses, who are skilful in giving not only the various hydriatic measures, but also massage, both special and general, and physical culture exercises. The diet, which is fruitarian, is a speciality, and all habit-forming drugs, includ- ing alcohol, tea, and coffee, are tabooed. But A CORNER OF THE GARDEN. fruit, which is Nature's medicine, is served freely. Boarders are welcomed at Caterham as well as guests who wish to take advantage of the baths and other treatment. Infectious dis- eases, including consumption, are not received. To any reader of Goon HEALTH who sends name and address, a booklet dealing w;th the " Nature and Cure of Disease," will be sent gratis, as well as a prospectus giving further information. Send your address to THE SANITARIUM, CATERHAM. Telephone 88; Telegraphic add.: "Hydro, Caterham." SANITARIUM FROM GARDEN. 252 GOOD HEALTH. 921. Sore Feet.-G.1Z . H. J.: " I have been troubled with sore feet recently. They When become overheated and irritable almost daily. 1 am also troubled with corns. What would you recommend ?" I.H. Ans.-Take an alternate hot and cold salt Away foot bath morning and evening. Add a large handful of salt to each pail or footbath. Soak the feet in the hot water at a temperature of from 112° to 115° Fahr. for three minutes, and then in the cold water as it comes from the tap for A. half a minute, and then back in the hot water, alternating five or six times, and finally drying Home them well from the cold water. Change your hose daily, and before putting them on dust the HEALTH feet and especially between the toes well with you will Mennen's Talcum Powder or some similar preparation. Have your corns attended to by BISCUITS be wise a competent chiropodist, or treat them yourself by touching each corn with strong nitric acid to get using the plain end of a match for that purpose. Nut Rolls. Made from wholemeal in you! Bear in mind that nitric acid is a deadly poison, the form of thin roll, 1 lb., and that the greatest care must be taken in its 6d.; 5 lb. tin, 2/6. food use not to injure the healthy skin. You may find it necessary to repeat the treatment once Wholemeal supplies or twice at intervals of two or three or four Biscuits. days. from the Finest wheat flour. Sweet- 922. Anaemia-Insomnia.-E.L.B.: ened or unsweetened. 1 lb., most "1. What treatment would you advise for 6d.; 6 lb. tin, 8/-. anmia,? 2. Can I overcome insomnia? 3. central and What would you recommend for sore throat ?" Oatmeal Biscuits. Best Scotch Oatmeal. 1 lb. complete Ans.-1. A generous fruitarian diet with 6d.; 6 lb. tin, 3/-. plenty of pure milk and fresh eggs, the outdoor health food life, moderate exercise and an abu ndance of fresh Rye Biscuits. air. You would be benefited by spending a store in Wholesome and nutritious. few weeks at the Sanitarium, Stanborough Park, 1 lb., 6d.; 6 lb. tin, 8/... Gt. Britain. Watford, or the Sanitarium, Caterham, for the purpose of a course of tonic treatment with Cocoanut Orders value 5/- and massage. 2. Avoid late supper, and have a upwards carriage paid warm or neutral bath immediately before Biscuits. in United Kingdom. Crisp and nutty. 1 lb., 6d.; retiring at night. See that the bowels are 6 lb. tin, 8/.. Our revised Booklet is packed emptied, usinv enemata if necessary. Don't with pr:celess information. in• fail to have the windows wide open. 3. The Barley Biscuits. Globe Hand Nebulizer, which should be used chiding special hints on fire- Very digestible and pleasant less summer cookery. This for ten minutes three or four times daily. Also flavour. 11b., 6d. ; 01b. Booklet is the cold compress to be worn during the night. 923. Hard Water-Boiling-Consti Fruit Wafers. FREE pation.-H.H. : "1. Is hard water such as An acknowledged delicacy. 1 lb., 8d. ; 6 lb.. tin, 4/, with two samp'es if you men. the ordinary drinking water supply of the tion "Good Health." south coast, for examp e, Bournemouth, injuri- Watford Wafers. ous ? 2. How could it be softened ? 3. Is it Made with wheat flour. Geo. Savage & Sons necessary to remove the sediment ? 4. Is the 1 lb., 8d. ; 6 lb. tin, 4/.. Nut Experts, phosphate of soda plan a good one ? 5. How 53 Aldersgate Street, much olive oil should one take forconstipation." Nut-Fruit Wafers. London, E.C. Ans -1. No. 2. By boiling. 3. Yes. By Children enjoy these bis- Proprietors of allowing it to stand until it cools, the sediment cuits. 1 lb., 8d. ; 6 lb. tin, 4/-. The Roseau Valley Fruit Co. will settle to the bottom and the boiled water and Sole Wholesale .4 gents for can be poured off without difficulty. 4. Not The Simple Lila Co., Ltd. acquainted with it. Quicklime is useful on a SPECIAL OFFER. large scale. 5. One to two ounces per day. Sample of 6D. 924. Eyebrows over the Nose.--J K. : each kind " My eyebrows have grown across the bridge post paid, of the nose, and look rather unsightly. Can you advise me how to get them removed ? " THE INTERNATIONAL Ans -The only satisfactory method is by HEALTH ASS'N, LTD., (Continn-d on ',age .54.) Stanborough Park, Watford. In qnswertrg gdvertisemenzs kindly inen.tion -Good Health." ADVERTISEMENTS. 253 COW & GATE

GERM FREE. DIGESTIBLE. POWDF.R FORM.) Contains all the invaluable food elements found in the richest English milk in a sterile and perfectly digestible form. It can be used with safety and satisfaction where ordinary milk disagrees, hence its soecia suitability for 'invalids and the aged. For infants from birth if necessary there is no other food which more nearly approximates to mother's milk in the ease with which the most delicate infant can assimilate it. HIGHLY APPROVED BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. " BABIES LOVE IT." FREE SAMPLES, Booklet, and name of nearest agent, apply to sole makers:— THE WEST SURREY CENTRAL DAIRY CO., LTD., GUILDFORD. T IN SHOULD BUY FRESHFRESH FRUI " PITMAN " WHILE IT IS PRESERVING I CHEAP, AND PRESERVE IT NOW JARS. ICTOSTTLE FOR WINTER USE

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OtnlF CAP 1 lb. size, per dozen, 3/-; 6 dozen ease, 17/- 2 " " " " 3/6 ; 6 " " 20/- 3 tt f t " RY38ER RING 4/-; 6 " " 23/- Jars carefully packed and sent carriage paid on any quantity for 1,'- extra to c.ny station in the United Kingdom. Special Preserving Boilers supplied. Prices on application. Illus- trated Catalogue of Health Foods, with Diet Guide and copy of " Fruit Preserving," 32 pages, post free two stamps, together with particulars of spacial offer to preserve fruit free for you from `PITMAN' HEALTH FOOD CO., 147 Aston Brook Street, Birmingham.

In answering advertisements kindly mention "Good Health." 254 , GOOD HEALTH. electrolysis. It would be wise for you to consult All excellent Food, admirably adapted to the wants of a competent physician, and if possible get a doctor infant,- :— to do the operation, which is rather a delicate one, Sir Chas. A. Cameron. C.B., M.D. as there is always some danger of being burned or damaged by the electricity unless the needle is in the hands of a skilled operator. If the nose is not very unsightly we think it would be wisest of you not to interfere. 925. Medical Hypnotism.—G.H.L.: "For three or foui years I have suffered from neuras- thenia, and have been troubled with many fears, contains ail the essentials for boneFood and flesh-forming in an worries, and anxieties. I am very fearful, unable exceptional deer .r. assists teething, relieves constipation, stay in a strange atad ensures restful nights. to travel any distance by train, or Nearly 90 Years' established Reputation. place. Would you suggest medical hypnotism ?" Gold Medals, London, 1900 and 1906, also Paris Ans.—No. Your best course would be to go to USED IN THE RUSSIAN IMTERIAr, NURSERIES. l'aieful Booklet. "Hints about Baby," by a Trained Nurse, some cheery, health home such as the Stan- sent free. S ample for 9d. postage. Mention this paper. borough Park Sanitarium at Watford, where you lostan it. NEAVE dr Co. FordingbrIclge, can get out in the country, have plenty of fresh air, exercise, a wholesome, nourishing diet, and tonic treatment including massage. All drug-drinks, When in the City Visit such as alcohol in any form, tea, coffee, and cocoa, as well as flesh meats, should be strictly avoided. The NEW RESTAURANT Take fruit freely both fresh and stewed, also nuts, which has been built by the nut foods, cereals, breads, vegetables, including greens and salads, and dairy products. Adopt a rather light diet, take plenty of time to chew your FOOD REFORM CO., food well ; and above all things endeavour to 2 & 3 Furnival St., Holborn, E.C. divert your mind from yourself. Get out-of-doors in the fresh air and do walking, cycling, riding, Kitchen on the Charming room g top. Light and reserved for ladies. * golf, cricket, tennis, gardening, or some other sanitat y. $ 4 large general rooms. form of outdoor exercise. All materials used are of best quality. Glasgow Health Culture Society. - Prices Remarkably Moderate. . Cycle run. Campsie. Meet at Botanic Gar- Ave. 2nd: Rooms to Let for Afternoon or Evening Meetings. dens, 7.30 p.m. Aug. 9th: .Ilycle run. Molinburn. Meet at Alexandra Park Gate, 7.80 p.m. Aug 10th : Ramble. White Loch. Meet at Spiers Bridge, 3.80 p.m. Aug. 16th : Cycle run. Red Smiddy. Meet at Botanic Gardens, 7.30 p.m. Aug. 28rd: Cycle run. Carmunnook. Meet at Iiiglington Toll, 7.80 p.m. Is Health Aug. 24th : Ramble. Johnston Loch. Meet at Riddrie, 8.80 p.m. Aug. 30th : Cycle run. Garscadden. Meet at Botanic Gardens, 7.80 p.m. For further particulars of the above Society, apply to Mr. a Fad James Gebbie, 21 Scotia Street, Glasgow. Health Culture Rambling Club. Is it a fad to eat bread which is all Goon HEALTH readers in the vicinity of Liverpool may be nutritious and which promotes the health interested to know that the above club is making a special of every part of the human system ? Study feature of Saturday rambles and Wednesday evening cycle your health and eat bread made of the runs. Intending members should communicate wiih Mr. H. T. Lunt, Nook Rise, Wavertree, who will be glad to wholemeal of the entire wheat. Health supply any information. Svllabus can also be had at the unfailingly follows the regular use of Eberle Street Vegetarian Restaurant, or any local health food store. There's little or no sickness in homes where

for old and young. Deliciously sweet, Hyg-iama nourishing, and health-sustaining. Write for illustrated booklet, " A Chat with Dr. is in daily use, not only as a substitute for Allinson," and we will send it, together harmful stimulants such as tea and coffee, with particulars of an interesting Cash but as a complete body-building food. Prize Competition for housewives, and name It is quickly prepared, and may be used in many of nearest agent. ways, particulars of which will be found in every tin. NATURAL FOOD CO. LTD. Of all Health Food Store, and Chemists. 1/- and IV-. egas (Room 26). 305 CAMBRIDGE ROAD, Liberal sample and 64-page Guide Book on Rational Diet, Bethnal Green, London, E. 8d. stamps. HYGIAMA FOODS CO. (Dept. 7), Catherine Court, Trinity Sonare, E.C. In answering advertisements kindly mention " Good Health."

ADVERTISEMENTS. 255 The STANBOROUGH PARK SANITARIUM.

THE Sanitarium stands in fifty acres of beautiful park grounds, adorned with magnificent trees, and commanding ex- tensive views of the choicest parts of Hertfordshire. The institution has been modelled throughout on the latest ideas of sanitation and hygiene, tastefully furnished, well lighted, heated, and ventilated, and possesses as complete and spacious a set of bath- and treat- ment-rooms as is to be found in any institution of its kind in this country.

The Sanitarium is open to all guests as well as invalids. Every class of physical disorder is treated, excepting CHRONIC tuberculous and in- fectious cases. Rheumatism, arth- CASES ritis, digestive dis- orders, ner vo us Are Spzcially prostration, all are Benefited by most effectively treated by the coin Sanitarium bined use of electri- Methods. city and hydropathy. The Sanitarium; is thoroughly equipped for administering these powerful remedies. Not the least factor in Sanitarium methods is a carefully regulated vegetarian dietary. This is based upon sound, scientific principles which have been thoroughly demonstrated, and have proved of sterling value in the judgment of the most eminent authori- ties.

Address all communications to the Manager : Stanborough Park Sanitarium, Watford, Herts.

In answering advertisements kindly mention "Good Health." 256 GOOD HEALTH. GOOD HEALTH. The An illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to Hygiene and the Principles of Healthful Living. 3 GOOD B. Editor: ALFRED OLSEN, M.D., D.P.H. Address editorial matter to the Editor,Sunnyview.Caterham V alley. Address business communications to Savoy GOOD HEALTH, Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts. Telegraphic address " Hygiene, Garston. Herts." THINGS GOOD HEALTH may be ordered through any newsdealer. Yearly subscription, post free, 1/6. S. African Edition: Yearly subscription. post free, 56. °Mee : Health 56 Roeland Street, Cape Town, S. Africa. Natal Transvaal Office: Highly Stranark Street, Marltsburg. Recommended. A GARDEN City Summer School, for the purpose Food .of discussing the deeper aspects of citizenship, will .0 .0 be held at Letchworth from Friday July 26th to Aug. 6th inclusive. The school will be conducted under MassageCream the presidency of Ebenezer Howard, Esq. Among Stores the subjects to be discussed will be : "The Child," The finest preparation of a mild ointment that "The Citizen Idea for Boys and Girls," "Eugen- is at it is possible to get. ics," "The Housing of the People," "The Peace Soothing, healing, in- Movement, and the Uplifting of the Undermost " ; your service. valuable for chapped bands, cracks, and and the speakers will number among others, The scratches of the skin, Rt. Hon Sir Horace Plunkett, Lord Robert Cecil, and for those forms of skin disease accompan- Mrs. Annie Besarit, Mrs. Despard, Dr. Saleeby, We Sell ied with dry scaling. and Dr. Stancombe. . The price of tickets for the Ideal for massage pur- full course is only 5/-, and accommodation for the poses and oil rubs. Can whole course of twelve days can be obtained from Everything be applied to the most tender skin without fear 30/- to 50/-. Inquiries should be sent to the Hon. of irritation. Sec., Mr. F. Merry, c/o Miss Bush, 42 Leys PrioeficZ tilt post Avenue, Letchworth. For the THERE is no time in the year when one must Hair Tonic. be more careful and particular with regard to the milk supply than in summer. Few people realize Health We do not claim for the wide prevalence of tubercular disease amongst this tonic that it will cause hair to qrew where cattle, and therefore the almost constant danger Seeker no roots exist, but it of the milk supply. There is only one safe rule, will strengthen, and that is to sterilize all milk without exception stimulate, and pro. mote the g•owth of before using it. This can be done by Pasteuriz- That's worth the hair; also remove ing, which is oftentimes a little difficult in the dandruff. I t is absolu e- average home. We don't think it is safe to rely having. ly safe when used for the purpose for which it it upon the so-called Pasteurized milk furnished by intended, but, of course, the dairy. The simplest way to make sure that Our fruits and must not be taken in- your milk is free from contamination is by boiling nuts are particularly wardly. it. From some investigations recently made with good, and being Three oz. bottle, post free, VI regard to boiled milk, we seem justified in con- large consumers as cluding that it suffers very little if any deteriora- well as dealers we Tooth Paste. tion on this account. At all events the germs are can guarantee a destroyed, and that is the essential thing. But freshness not usually This ktaste has mild obtainable at ordin- antiseptic properties, there are doubtless many pePple who do not contains no injurious in- relish the thought of consuming millions of dead ary stores. gredients whatever, end germs, and to such we would recommend dried The carriage of may be used freely each goods need not day without doing the milk. The West Surrey Central Dairy Co., Ltd., slightest damage to the of Guildford, prepare a very fine and mire milk trouble you. Send teeth. Its use leaves a powder, which is always safe to use,.. nd which for our latest Price pleasant taste in the List and particulars mouth. It may truth- for cooking purposes makes a perfect substitute fully be described Ps one for milk. This preparation, which is known as of special carriage of t h e most perfect the "Cow and Gate" dried milk powder, can be paid terms. cleansers of the mouth. had in the form of the whole milk or full cream, Price per tube, post free, 1f1.1• hallcream, and separated or skimmed m lk, and the prices. which are extremely reasonable, vary SAVOY accordingly. The milk powder dissolves perfectly Order direct from the in water, and it can be served as a drink, cold or HEALTH hot, or served in any way in which ordinary milk GOOD HEALTH is used. Those who use the "Cow and Gate" FOOD SUPPLY DEPT., dried milk run nu risk of bringing infection into STORES, their homes, and that is a great advantage. The Stanborough Park, 7 Exchange Walk, Watford, Herts. milk may be ordered direct from the manufac- turers, or any health food stores. Chemists, too, NOTTINGHAM. often supply it. In answering advertisements kindly mention " Good.Health."

SMALL ADVERTISEMENTS. . Its Cause NURSING HOME for Invalids and Paying Guests. Indigestion . and Cure. Beautiful country; gravel soil; level walks. Good nursing and table from 21/, Highly recommended. Chatwell, By Dr. H. Valentine Knaggs, L.R.C.P. The author writes from an entirely original standpoint, and Ashford, Middlesex. the curative methods indicated, while startlingly new, are soundly based on first-hand scientific research. New Edi- WANTED.—Siugle-handed vegetarian housemaid for tion now ready. 1/. net. or 1/2 post free from C. W. country; two ladies; two other servants; state wages re- Daniel. 3 Amen Corner, E.C. quired. Miss T. Powell, Munstead Rough ,C1 odalming,Surrey

11113111i1 THE BEST SALADS. il CURE FOR ,. „ BEST OLIVE OIL IN THE WORLD CATARRH is the The MEDE-LOIS brand stands ALONE. GLOBE HAND NEBULIZER. Very nutritious FOOD, and nature's valuable and Kills Disease Germs ;7::. safe remedy for disorders of stomach, liver, and intestines. Never repeats, and can be taken by the most delicate invalids and infants. Gives Instant Relief Recommended and used by Eminent West End An opportunity to apply scien- Physicians. Bottles, 2/- & 3/4, post free Mash with tific methods in the home treat- ment of a very common malady. -TRY FIRST A SAMPLE BOTTLE. Bd. post free. Further particulars and prices NOTE.—This shipment is finer in flavour than any previously sold, owing to fine weather and good olive crop. sent oil application to GOOD HEALTH SUPPLY DEPARTMENT, G. Clayton, 41 St. Andrew's Rd., Enfleld, London, N. Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts.

eat ,at cat cat cat cat TO THE HEALTH-SEEKER THE 41* TIRED AND THE OVERWORKED An 4848 THE LEICESTER SANITARIUM Ideal Offers the following unique advantages: 1. A Scientific Dietary, Carefully Prepared and Prescribed for Each Individual Case by a Competent Food Specialist. Holiday 2. Instruction in Cooking and "Good Health " Methods of Living in General. 3. All the Most Modern Hydropathic and Electrical Treatments, Combined with Swedish Massage and Physical Culture. (Special System of Exercises for the Acquirement of Health and Beauty of Form.) Home. 4. The Uplifting Influence of a Happy Home Under the Care of Kind-Hearted Trained Nurses and Attendants. If you suffer in any way or are in need of personal help in acquiring Healthy Telegrams: "Sani- Life methods, write for illustrated booklet, " The Sanitarium System," to the tarium, Leicester." 4148 4848 Proprietor: Telephone: No. 4542. WM. M. SCOTT, 82 Regent Road, LEICESTER. .4 . .4 J4 .4 .4

ADMIRAL. LORD CHARLES BERESFORD says: EN " McClinton's Soap is the best I have ever used. I shall always use it." LORD MAYO writes, ordering a supply of Hibernia Shaving Soap: FMUST " I find it an excellent soap ; it does not irritate the skin. You can make use of this letter if you like, as few people are aware that so good a soap is made in CAVE Ireland." McCLINTON'S MILLED TOILET AND SHAVING SOAPS ARE MADE FROM PLANT ASH AND VEGETABLE OILS.

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COOLING NATURES OWN RESTORATIVE! SUMMER DISHES I CREAM OF MALT ' We oan help you to make your summer diet all that WITH ' SICILIAN OLIVE OIL. it should be—cooling and delicious yet sustaining. We have compiled a good list of delightful recipes, and are Consists of the valuable nutritive constituents of prepared to give away at least the finest Scotch winter malted barley with a speci- ally imported Sicilian olive oil, obtained from fresh, ripe olives, having a sweet nutty taste, and of a ler 10,000 Copies '4111 quality rarely obtainable in this country. post free. Here is a sample recipe and there are many Pleasant to take. others equally delicious. Easily digested and promotes digestion of other food. Stewed Plums and Artox Fingers. Increases weight in a marked lb. "Artox" Wholemeal, 7 oz. of butter or 6 oz. of degree. nutter, 1 egg, a little water. Well rub the butter into the meal and moisten with the egg (well-beaten) and Produces firm flesh, bone, and water to a firm dough. Roll out and cut into sections healthy blood. about the size of an egg. Mould into finger shapes, place on greased paper and bake in hot oven for about Gives new life to ill-nourished fifteen minutes. Serve with stewed plums or any fruit and weakly. in season. WRITE NOW A Perfect .Tonic Food. for a free copy to Price 1/10 and 3/6 per Bottle. Obtainable from all chemists. APPLEYARDS, Manufactured by Ltd. (Dept. C), OPPENHEIMER, Son & Co., Ltd., ROTHERHAM. 179 QUEEN VICTORIA ST., LONDON. Don't Be Deceived with the claims of so-called brain foods. Nothing can possibly affect the brain that does not build up the body. GRANOSE makes rich red blood, strengthens the muscles, and in- vigorates the system ; it can therefore justly claim to be A Genuine Brain Food. Thorouflay Cooked, Sterilized, •Preditested. A Food For every Taste. '

Unique in this Respect : It is an all-round family food, excellent for infants, invalids, and growing chil- dren, yet unsurpassed for adults in health, and most useful in the prepara- tion of many tempting, healthful dishes. FREE SAMPLE ON APPLICATION. THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ASS'N, LTD. Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts.

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