Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1881 — Keep the Blood Pure. [ARTICLE]

Keep the Blood Pure.

I will now tell, writes a physician in Harper’s Weekly, of a few things which tend to render the blood pure and healthy. Rising in the morning at an early hour, and going out for a short walk before breakfast, does, pre-. viously having bathed and dressed without undue haste. The walk need not be along one,and a glass of pure cold water can always be taken, just before starting, with advantage, or a cup of milk by thope who are weakly. Seven o’clock, or earlier in summer, is a good Time to get up. It is just possible, however, that when called you may be enjoying a sound sleep,not having rested well in the first part of the night. If such be the case are you to get up? Yes, get up all the you will sleep better the next ‘night. Secure yourself being aroused at a certain hour every morning by an alarm or otherwise. Early rising is a habit that is not by any means difficult to acquire, but it really is a blessed one. The walk too, before breakfast may not be relished Tor a time, but it will soon be found to have improved the appetite. The breakfast on the live-by-rule principle sbould be a fairly substantial one both in quality and quantity.- As to the latter, be guided by your own* judgment: there ought to be a sense of satiety after eating, but no feeling of fulness and no depression of spirits or sleepiness. The morning meal, and indeed all meals, ought to be taken at the same, hour every day. By getting up soon you gain many advantages, two of which are these: yoH have not to hurry through with breakfast—due mastication is tbe very first act in the manufacture of healthy food—aud you can spare half an hour alter the meal qefore gpiug to work or business; this gives the stomach a fair start, aud enables it to do its work properly. If you have more than a half an hour to spare and letters to write, by all means write them, for the evening before retiring to rest should be a time of perfect peace of mind and repose of body.