HEALTH HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 36, 11 February 1905, Page 10

HEALTH HINTS.

IX)X'T GET SERVES., Too little oxygen is one reason of nerve trouble. You cannot handicap yourself more seriously than to work and sleep in stale air. Ail precautions lor plenty of fresh air, without direct draughts over the bed, are essential to health. Deep breathing from ■Che diaphragm should be a daily practice. It will assist in tilling out the chest, preI venting colds, and" deepen and enrich the quality of the voice. If you lind yourself growing nervous with overwork, or too deep application, lay every--thing a-side for a iew minutes, go to thi window and throw it open, and with hands lightly on the hips take a dozen deep full breaths, at the same time laying aside all tiresome thoughts, and you. will find yourself wonderfully tranquilised. "When it is possible, and you. find yourself becoming , irritated and nervous, make a complete change of occupation for a few niiutes. Never refuse a chance to laugh, and do not .magnify trifles into great things. A happy smile and a pleasant word, although they may be an effort for you to give, will, nevertheless, be reflected back on your owu mood and serve to lighten it. Above all things, do-not get the idea that you are ill and are liable to get worse? The influence of the mind over the physical condition of the body is very great. If you are so unfortunate as to have, your nerves get into bad j condition by all means make the greatles!; baste to get well, and believe rirmJy that yoji are going to get well, otherwise the melancholy tendency of the mind will certainly militate against recovery. DELICATE EARS. Let the mother Temeniber that so many cases of deafness in after life result from neglect in youth. Children's ears cannot be kept too clean, but tbey should not get rough usage. Tired mothers often lose their tempers over a child's restlessness, and strike it on those most delicate organs. When people have a .sndencr to deafness they should as much as "possible avoid welting the head when feathing, etc. : Never clean the ears -w-itii any sharp or ■ pointed instrument, such as pins, hairpins, etc. A eoft piece of towel rolled up is far -the safest tiling to introduce into the ear. If a child complains of pains in the car. the matter ahould ba looked into at once, as possibly a foreign substance may have got lodged inside, and this is often a danger in itself. TOO Jtll-tH FOOD DANGEROUS. Of late years a considerable amount of attention has been paid to the food < of the people, and mudi degeneracy and ill-health have been ascribed to malnutrition, due to insufficient or unsuitable nourishment. It is remarkable on the other hand that all the most recent and most accurate scientific investigation eof this saijject tends to show thnt a large proportion of those classes of society who can afford to do so eat too much, and that the excess of food leads to a direct loss of energy. Dr. At/water, of Middletown, Connecticut, and Profe.ssor Clyttenden, of Yale University, pursuing independent and exact methods, have arrived at practically the same result: that a portion of the energy of the system is frequently, and in many persons habitually, .absorbed and w.tsted in the task df dealing with excess of food. When kinds., and quantities of nutriment are properly i adjusted to natural requirements the amount of work put out, Professor Chittenden finds, "is prodigiously increased, in some cases by as much as 60 to 70 per cent/ It will hardly be a surprise to those who have seriously thought out the matter that too much food means loss, not ;rain, of e.nerjzy. or "that it often means not health, but disease.