TONICS NO USE.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4310, 13 November 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

TONICS NO USE.

ENERGY THAT HAS TO BE PAID BACK. There N no such thin:? as a tonic, says Dr. W. C. li. .ats- ii, a prominent medical man in the I nitcd States. There are mods, and there nre stimulants. The fanner make energythe I latt-er occasion a manifestation of 011I oi2V. For this purpose the stimulant | boi rows enemy from to-morrows store. 1 Ana w'lKii to-morrow come-? Then you borrow again. And again, until the reserve ot~ vitality is exhausted. -And that means collapse. Dr. Latson holds that of the many faults in diet excess in quantity is the rocj-t common. Indeed, overfeeding i-> tin.' prevalent and perhaps the most rerni'.'ious evil oi the day. Variety <;i feed is undesirable for sev- ! oral reason-, the first ot winch is the temptation it p-ovides to over-eating through an appeal t"> the gonse ()i taste rather than to honest nppetit" ; second, because a mixed mass ol food is more difficult of d g -lion. The general results of excess in variety" in food are similar to following exoe r sivo quantity. So-called "lich" foo:'.-, sweetmeats pnstrv. "made dishes.' condiments, and manv other articles commonly nsed as food possess little or no alimentary I value Such articles cninot usually bo digested. They, therefore. fonwnt, If< rmiii" animal alkaloids, the ahsorpI tion oi which results in auto-mtoxica-

tion. When it is considered that tie nverrr.~. per-en is g lilty of all three errors enumerated —that ho eats too tnuc.i 4-r-o great a variety of food, and rood m"K-h ol which is innutritions considering this, many will bo prepared to accept the writer's statement that lew people are exempt from, some degree ot ai'to-intoxicatinn ; and, further, tnat main people are never free from it. as evidenced by chronic headaches, disoi df rs of vision, liability to "car sickness,*' heart palpitation, nervousness, irritability, arid so on. And the-e will be prepared to Hnder.-.tand that errors of diet are among the most important causes of modern weakness.

The per-on who is weak usually (though not i;e:e sarily) feels _ weak. When hi 1 ieelo weak tae iu>i. idea of the nnthought: ul man is to "take something." Vnfortimately for him, there are many wh r > make it a business to provide him with "something to take." He may get it at the publicbouse. which is bad. Or he may get itat the drug shop - which is quite as bad. He may call it "a t ne " or "a bracer." The difference is mainly in the name.

M reliant (to new office Ikiv") : " Has the book-keeper told you what you are t'< do in the afternoon?" New Office Boy: " Yes, sir ; I am to v ako him as soon as I see you coming."