Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1872 — High Heels and Curved Spines. [ARTICLE]

High Heels and Curved Spines.

Nd one who laces habitually can have a straight or strong back. The muscles, being unbalanced, become flabby or contracted, unable to support the body erect, and a curvature—usually a double curvature —of the spine is the consequence. And if any thing were needed to aggravate the spinal curvature, intensify the compression of the internal viscera, and add to the general deformity, it is found in the modern contrivance of stilted gaiters. These are iriade with heels so high and narrow that locomotion ,is awkward and painful, the centre of gravity is shifted “to parts unknown,” and the head is thrown forward and the hips projected backivard to maintain perpendicularity, rendering walking and all Other voluntary exercises not only distressing to the person, but disagreeable to the spectator.

To sit or stand in a crooked position, inclining the head and knees forward, .-Overstretches the middle spinal muscles, reverses the normal curvature oFTlic' spinal column, compresses the liver, stomach and lungs, and is in effect equivalent to lacing the waist. Sleeping on two or three pillows, or on a bolster and pillow, is a prevalent yet pernicious custom, If long continued the effect is surely a distortion of the spine to some extent. If the head is raised high while sleeping, the stomach and lungs are injuriously compressed, and the upper intestines pressed downward on the pelvic organs. If children are allowed-to sleep hakitually on high pillows, spinal curvature.and general debility will be the inevitable consequences. One pillow -4senougli for any person and that should be . only of moderate size— Science of Health. The Fruit Recorder and Cottage Gcrrdener is exclusively devoted to fruit growing and home’s adornments. Edited by a lifelong fruit-grower. ; Specimens free, or from Sept, to Dec., four months, 25 cents. A. M. Purdy, Palmyra, N. Y. Now we know all about it. A learned Scotchman dwelling in Los Angele o , Cal., informs us that there is -a chimney running through the earth from the North to the South Pole. Into this water pours at the open polar sea, and is conveyed through the central fire, and out at the South P.ole, where it divides into two streams, one rushing up the Atlantic and the other up the Pacific Ocean. By this arrangement the central fires are kept within limits by the cooling waters. — Chicago Inter-Ocean. ' Fever and Ague prevails to a painful extent in most sections of the West. A good, safe and sure remedy is looked for hy the people; one-they can take to their homes to use in time of need. We would, therefore, recommend to all, Perry Davis’ Pain Killer, as being a safe and sure remedy; by using it internally and externally freely, it will soon drive all. appearances of the disease from tlie system. For sale by all medicine dealers.

A Death’s Head and Crossbones. ought to be the trade mark of every dealer in Rum Bitters. But no; to proclaim their real mission would ruin them, so they feail under false colors, and do their deadly work surreptitiously. Fortunately their triumphs over credulity are nearly at an end. Ever since the introduction ;of Dr. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters the sale of all the burning fluids advertised “as “ tonics ” has been rapidly declining. They are gtili the unwholesome solace of individuals who wish to satisfy a morbid appetite for strong drink without compromising their respectability ; but the sick are everywhere discarding them, and adopting the Vinegar Bitters. The success of this wonderful vegetable remedy astonishes Dr. Walker himself. He believed, when he gave it to the world, that it was an unequaled tonic, free from the objections urged, against the medicated fire-waters and dilutions of strychnine, quinine and other powerful alkaloids employed in modern practice ; but he scarcely expected that it would prove a specific for chronic dyspepsia, liver-complaint, incipient consumption, confirmed rheumatism, gout, . scrofula, nervous affections, general debility, and al! diseases that disorder, without destroying, the vital machinery?’ Yet this, unless thousands of witnesses have conspired to deceive the public, is actually the case. Many valuable horses die from the effects of cdPic.' The best thing to do in a case of this kind is to pour a bottle., of Johri'SOn's A.iMyne Liniment into a long-necked junk bottle, add half pint of molasses and water, then pour the whole down the horse’s throat. In ten minutcs’the horse will begin* toxat. Parsons’ Pills Will greatly relieve, if not .entirely Cure, dyspepsia when eyerything.else fails. They have been tried in some desperate cases,“ and have ,given i more relief than anyWher medicine. Bboncpitis and Kindred Diseases by Editor JlalTe Jonr es Y Dr. J: H. Hall’s cure 'of Catarrh in 3i) days ■is eminently scientific, > * Vegetable Pt LMpNART Balsam,■ “jJottifc. less the best Cough-Medicine in" the world.”