Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH. [ARTICLE]

THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH.

People often forget the manifold benefits to be derived from baths. Turkish baths are good for rheumatism, malaria, indigestion and a bad circulation. Cold water baths are good for nervous troubles and a torpid liver, and both baths are good for every pain and ache that flesh is heir to, from toothache to heartache, because they are sleep-producing. Boothing and grateful to tired bodies and nerve 9. Handy Household Remedy.—lt ft very vexing and annoying, indeed, to have one’s lip break out with cold sores, but like the measles it ft far better to strike out than to strike in. A drop of warm mutton suet applied to the sores at night just before retiring will soon cause them to disappear. This ft also an excellent remedy for parched lips and chapped hands. It should be applied at night in a liquid state and well rubbed in before a brisk fire, which often causes a smarting sensation, but the roughest of hands by this treatment will often be restored to their natural condition by one application. If every one could but know the healing properties of so simple a thing as a little mutton suet no housekeeper would ever be without it. Get a little from your butcher, fry it out yourself, run into small cakes and Eut it away ready for use. For cuts and ruises it ft almost indispensable, and where there arc children there are always plenty of cuts and bruises. Many a deep gash that would have frightened most women into sending for a physician at once I have healed with no other remedies Gian a little mutton suet and plenty of good castile soap. A wound should always be kept clean and the bandages changed every day or every other day. A drenching of warm soapsuds from the purest soap that can be obtained is not only cleansing but healing; then cover the surface of the wound with a bit of old white muslin dipped into mutton suet. Renew the drenching and the suet every time tho bandages are ohanged, and you will be astonished to see now rapidly the ugliest wound will heal. Tu* Age at wnicH to Marry.—The right ago at which men and women should marry is a question whioh has been agitating the Statistical Department at Buaa-Posth. Tho result of its investigations ft hore given. For the past ten years the head of the department has tnado it his business, whenever the death of a child was registered, to obtain, in addition to the usual particulars of age and cause of death, the ages of the parents. In this way he has noted 20,818 deaths. Those he divides into two groups, ono containing all deaths caused uy herldltary disease, of which the germ was contracted before birth; the other where death was due to some disease contracted after birth. He finds that tho ago of the mother is more determining in its results on tho infant than the father’s age, though the latter is by no means unimportant. Mothers under twenty must frequently give birth to weak children, who die soon after birth. Tho following table speaks for itself: Percentage of Ago of Mothers. Deaths. Under 20 years 22.81 2u to 80 years 14.81 80 to 35) oars 12.85 Over 86 years 18.45 For men tho minimum age for marriage is fixed a little higher, as they are slower in developing than women. Fathers under twenty-five stand at about tho same level in these tables as mothers under twenty, and the healthiest children are born to fathers whose ages range from thirty to forty. The following tables show tho result of the "age combination,” as the statisitcian expresses it: Percentage of Deaths Age ot Ago of Among Fathers. Mothers. Children. 8U to 40 80 to 83 12.02 20 to 80 80 to 85 12 80 Overs) ..over 85 12.68 39 tu 40 over 85 12.81 30 to 49 20 to 8) 18.24 40 to 60 over 35 18.89 .0 to 80 25 to 80 15.86 40 to 60 80 to 05 15.40 Over 50 30 to 85 17.54 40 to 50 20 to 80 18.51 iO to 81 over 85 18.89 OverSO 20 to 80 21.21 20tt80 under 20 21.71 30 to 40 under 20 27-88 This table brings before us three important points—first that man should not marry before the age of thirty-five if they wish to have strong and healthy children; second, women between the ages of thirty and thirty-five—end, this applies with still greater emphasis to the women under thirty years of age—should not contract marriages with men who have passed the age of fifty; third, that it is not wise for women over thirty-five years of age to marry men under thirty years of age.