Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1895 — Health-Hints for Boys. [ARTICLE]

Health-Hints for Boys.

Tapper's Young People. In the first place always rise at the same time in the morning. ~ Lying abed Sunday morning three Hours later than any other day in the week is not really any pleasanter and besides, —it throws the whole scheme of your meals out for that day. I know a family—and they ought to know better—who have breakfast at eight on all weekdays, lunch at one, and dinner at six. On Sundays, that is once in seven days, they have breakfast at ten, dinner at one, and a hearty supper at five. The result is that by seven o’clockSunday night every one in the family feels stuffed, unnatural, tired, cross, and everything else that is disagreeable. Don’t do this. Eat breakfast at the same time every morning in the week. If at eight on .Tuesday, then at eight on Sunday* And'the same, with lunch and dinner, or dinner and supper. When you get out of bed in the morning, strip and go through a five-minute exercise, after studying particular partsof your body and what muscles arc weak. By going through these exercise, whatever they are, for five minutes, you will end by being in a glow, perhaps in a perspiration. Then take a bath. Don’t make the mistake some people make of thinking that the water must always be cold as it runs out of a cold faucet on as it comes of the pump. That is wrong. Englishmen very often do this; but the ture in England is much eve»er than in the middle latitudes of the United States, and consequently “water the temperature of the air" does not mean water that is nearly ice one morning and comparatively warm the next. A good plan is to let cold water run until the bath is perhaps three inches deep. Then put in a little warm water. That takes the chill off the water, and then it will not give any one a shock. A bath can be had in any house on the earth.and no one can say that he ?a 11 not ba the eve ry mor ni n g beca us e there is no bath-tub in his house. There is always water near a civilized" bouse, or any house, for that matter ind you can pump it or carry it to you room the night before if there is oo running water in the house. If there is no bath-tub, get a hat-bath >r, if you cannot well do that, take a big tub, but on no account give up the bath. Afterwards give yourself a long ind hard rub until your skin is red—ind then the day is well begun.