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PRACTICAL HYGIENE The Proper Care of the Body Healthiest Region in the United t States. In looking about for a slto for the projected Michigan state sanitarium for consumptives, the discovery has been made that the northern part, of the lower peninsula of Michigan is the healthiest part of the United States. This is not guess work by interested parties, but the verdict of the United States census. It will astonish many who have heard the claims mnde for the Maine woods, the Adirondack's, the mountain regions of North Caro lina and Georgia, for Colorado, Cali fornia, Arizona. New Mexico, to hear that the tables of the census bureau demonstrate that the palm belongs to Michigan. Freedom from consumption being the first consideration, the board having the inquiry in charge found that of the nine registration states (where registration of deaths with the cause is obligatory), Michi gan stands lowest on the list, with a death rate for consumption of 11)7.: New Hampshire, the next lowest on the list, stands i:,2.; Massachusetts. 1SG.2. and New York, 104.1. Rural Michigan stands 0-1.1. An examina tion of the chart for Michigan shows no less than thirty-nine counties with n lower rate than 95 (which are shown In white). There are only live such counties in New York state. Com pared with other parts of the country the low rate for northern Michigan is most remarkable. The consumption death rate for cities in the New Eng land states is 244: for cities in the middle states 2r.!. lake states l.td. southern states 277, San Francisco 1104. Thus it is seen that even the cities of the lake region compare most favorably with cities of the rest of the country In the matter or exemption from pulmonary tuberculosis. Having found that the lake region appears to bo most favorable, the board stuck a pin in the center of this region on tho map, in the upper part of the lower peninsula of Michigan. Here arc the great lakes to the north, the onst. and the west. Here are plno and hemlock forests, filling the air with balsam. Here is a porous soil of gravel and glacial drift, with good water uncontamlnated by cities. And here Is abundance of sunshine, with absence of fog. So the board reasoned. Examining the vital statistics of tho state, it. was found that the four coun ties of Otsego, Crawford, Roscommon and Gladwin show an average death rate for all forms of tuberculosis for the past live years of only r8.(i. Ham ilton county, New York', the Adiron dack county making tho best showing, has a consumption death rate, accord ing to tho census, twice as large as tho first three Michigan counties named above, while the cancer, pneu monia and diphtheria charts left com parison entirely out of the question and show a clear white record for northern Michigan. It will be little wonder, therefore, if the state sani tarium is located in one of tho coun ties above named, distant from any largo city, and where the pine scented air will continually blow through the open cottages of the consumptives' camp, for tho sanitarium will be of tho camp charartor, rather than a large building, and will bo a open to tho sun and air as possible, Here tho campers will be encouraged to tako moderate exercise, to eat nour ishing food, rich in vegetable fats, and to get tunned and toughened in the open nfv. 13y this means It is hoped that the consumption death list of Michigan, 2,noo per year, will be ma terially reduced, and that a large pro portion of the cabpers will be return ed to tfjeir homos strengthened and cured. A "quick lunch" usually moans ft very slow digostlQit. The Outdoor Gymnasium. The nucleus of the out door gym nasium is the swimming pool. Swim ming was meant to be not merely an occasional and precarious pleasure, but an inseparable1 accompaniment of bathing, cleanliness iK-ing achieved incidentally. A swimming pool, there fore, Is a fundamental need for those who have not access to a convenient stream or body of water suitable for this purpose. Those accustomed to the delightfully Invigorating effects of the morning swim consider it as much of a necessity as their breakfast, or even more. Most artificial swimming pool3 nre unfortunately built Indoors. An In door pool not only lacks the fascinat ion of the outdoor adaptation of "the old swimln' hole," but It also robs one of ihe natural accompaniments of out door bathing fresh air and sunshine. Uathers often spend considerable tink lying about on the banks of the stream or on tho sandy beach, alter nately basking in the rays of the sun and dipping beneath tho cooling waves. Powerful Impressions are made upon the body by the contact of the skin with the cool outdoor air and sunshine. The outdoor gymnasium provides a combination of the healing agencies of nature, abundance of pure air for breathing, facilities for exercise, sun baths, air bath, earth baths, and water baths. Here one can enjoy all tho pleasure and obtain all the benefits, and at the same time escape the pub licity of sea or river bathing. Public outdoor gymnasiums are pro vided In some of tho large cities, and are built by sanitariums, hotels, fac tories, etc. They should be Intro duced into all hospitals and children's homes, and no public institution should be considered complete with out one. In the heart, of our large cities, conducted In connection with the parks, they would be a powerful means of antagonising tho deteriorat ing influences of city life. Out of Door Nurseries. One of New York's most lnmou specialists for children has lately made a plea for roof playgrounds. On one of the roof playgrounds estab lished for tho use of the children of the poor, the averago attendance Is 2.00(1 per night. Three or four teach ers maintain order, and there are bands for music and dancing. In the city tho roof can be utilized for an outdoor nursery, which will greatly promote the health and hap piness of the children. Tho roof should be floored over for a certain space, and partitions built to protect the children from tho wind, and rail ings or fences put up to keep them from falling off. Awnings are neces sary to protect them from too much sun and from rain. Here tho children can piny nearly every day. winter or summer. In these private outdoor nurseries the mother can keep an eye on the child ren who are removed from tho unde sirable conditions and contacts of the city streets and parks. A Suggestion for the Corpulent. A writer In McCalls tells of the fol lowing experience, which those who ro anxious to get rid of superfluous He.su wi'l find suggestive: "A stou vomnn, -lost forty pounds without ruining a wrinkle, simply by a thor rugh Lsiastication of her food, in other words, she ntado it a rule to (hew deliberately and carofully every mouthful until It disappeared of itself. Her t.oory was that in this way sho pot. ottt of a little all thero was to ho had, and thoroforo ato loss to supply her nood?. All that wo know Is tlmt forty pounds woro lost." Tized, Nezvous Mothers MaKe Unhappy Homes Their Condition Irritates Both Husband and Children How Thousands of Mothers Have Been Saved Frcm Nervous Prostration and Made Strong and Well. Mrs. Chester tfurry A nervous, irritable mother, often on the verge of hysterics, is unlit to care for children ; it ruins a child's disposi tion and reacts upon herself. The trouble between children and their mothers too often is due to tho fact that the mother has some female weak ness, and she is entirely unfit to bear tho strain upon her nerves that govern ing children involves; it is impossible for her to do anything' calmly. The ills of women act like a firebrand upon the nerves, consequently nine tenths of the nervous prostration, ner vous elespondency. " the blues." sleep lessness, anel nervous irritability of women arise from some derangement of the female organism. Do you experience fits of depression with " l-estlessness, alternating with extreme irritability'.' Are your spirits easily affected, so that one minute you laugh, and the next minute you feel like crying ? Do you feel something like a ball ris ing iu your throat and threatening to choice you ; all the senses perverted, morbidly sensitive to light and sound : pain in the ovaries, and especially between the shoulders; bearing down pains; nervous dyspepsia, and almost continually cross and snappy V If so, your nerves are in a shattered condition, and you are threatened with nervous prostration. Proof is monumental that nothing in the worlel is better for nervous prostra tion than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound ; thousands and thou sands of women testify to this fact. Ask Mrs. Pinkham's Advice A Woman Best Understands a Woman's Ills. The of the Wave Circle Iff! Jounces Jgj 25c. If ww. ;m JAQUES MFG. CO. Chicago. Mrs. Cjas. frSrown Mrs. Chester Curry, Leader of the Ladies' Symphouy Orchestra, 42 Sara toga Street, East Boston, Mass., writes : Dear Mrs. Piukham: "For eight years 1 was troubled with ex treme nervousness nud hysteria, brougliton by irregularities. 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