Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — If You Would Be Healthy. [ARTICLE]

If You Would Be Healthy.

Don't contradict your wife. Don’t tell a man he is a stranger to the truth because he happens to 1; smaller than yourself. Errors of this kind have been known to be disastrous. Never go to bed with cold or damp feet. Leave them beside the kitchen lire where they will be handy to put on in the morning. ... —— It is bad to lean your back against anything cold, particularly when it is an icy pavement upon which your vertebral arrangement has carromed with a jolt that shakes the buttons off your coat. Always eat your breakfast before beginning a journey. If you haven’t any breakfast don’t journey. After violent exercise —like putting up the stove or ndtling down carpets—never ride around town in an open carriage. It is better to walk. It is also cheaper. When hoarse, speak as little as possible. If you are not hoarse it won’t do you any harm to keep you mouth shut, too. Don’t light the fire with kerosene. Let the hired* girl do it. She hasn’t any wife and children. You have. Don’t roam around the house in your bar? feet at the dead of night trying to pick up stray tacks. Men have been known to dislocate their jaw through this bad practice. When you see a man put the lighted end of a cigar in his month, don’t ask him if it is hot enough. Serious injury has often resulted from this habit.— PAiladeZpbia Inquirer.

It’s sometimes said patent nedicines are for the ignorant. 1 . The doctors foster this <dea. “The people,” we’re told, ‘-are mostly ignorant when it comes to medical science.” . Suppose they are I What *a sick man needs is not knowl*edgfo but a cure, and the medicine that cures is the medicine for the sick. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures the “do believes ” and the “ don’t believes.” There’s no hesitance about it, no “if” nor “possibly.” It says—“l can cure you, only do as I direct.” Perhaps it fails occasionally. The makers hear of it when it does, because they never keep the money when the medicine fails to do good. Suppose the doctors went on that principle. (We beg the doctors’ pardon. It wouldn’t do!) Choking, sneezing and every other form of catarrh in the head, is radically cured by Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Fifty cents. By druggists.