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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1934-06-29, Page 3an+. Crekcionsect from °Diet and \Personated!; e ip leader% Digest. ,,indigestion! Wlh t torment's :the 'World nails u'p do' Meet of ussi Yep; 3,t is 'agollalbly safe to• say that over tri per eent. of so-called "atogmadli 'trouble" is due, not to the sto&. fts!elf, norto the food eaten,- but toome'conditioris in `the individual who the eating which caused the stom- ach to go on •e ilce. Asn efficient organ;# the stoirxi(.eh oxd 'i'inarily is able to :handle all kinds 'aid ,camibi'inations o f foods so well that ewe never realize ,than we have a stom- ach or intestines. But if we focus actiyity of 'the brain can cause tree - eerie attention upon the processes of di- hie for the digestive tract, and that gestion they will go poorly. This is by special thoughts. If one gets . owes about because. of . theh many alit 1c_1ea 'diet lie has a "weak" stem- -nervous connections to the alimentary, itch or that certain foods "act like 'itraet, which under the wirong,'kind of poison" 'bo 'him, .then there are sure £timulation may make trouble. • to 'be digestive disturbances, in the (Most people are familiar with the fleet case after eating almost any - drag into the room. Need!Iesel toi say,. excitement ensues for the eat, and °digestion; which has been progress ing efommally, ds practically stepped for about four hours' after the }Hai dent. 'Humans behave. just. like .rats in this respect,. as wittes's. myself' in eatchiug the train andh many oder instances which you. can dol ibtless call to •mind, *here' digestive distress has' followed eating under.' unfavor- 'aible !rental and- en otitmal eondvtitrn.'s'. There is another twat'' .in which ,the fact that, mental "states and strong emotions cause the. flow of saliva to •. 'be suppressed, The dryness' of the •mouth experienced in "stage fright" sand other types of fear is well known. Conversely, we speak of the.. -Mouth `'watering" at the sight, smell, or 'ev- .en at the thought of appetizing foods. thing,' and in the second instauee af- ter eating the particular fpods which are viewed with suspicion. Thee, dis- tress is .real, but it is brought about through psychic influences rather than by the food. Some victims of ,these ideas persist in having treat - Merits or operations, after which the "The stomach likewise "waters" under .old symptoms• still may show 'u'p. You :,similar c'onditio'ns—that is,,, appetite, cannot wash out a state of mind by achewing, the taste of well -liked foods irrigating the stomach nor cut out an -mud cheerful mental states alestimu- .idea with. the aurgeon'e knife. date. the flow of gastric juice. On • The way in which various' foods dlhe other hand, fear, anger, worry, become "suspect" is generally about - irritation, and fatigue all exert • a as follows. A certain food did cause -strong influence in suppressing the acute distress at some time and the .digestive juices. Thus good diges- person tries to explain his indigestion! -tion not only "waits on appetite" but by jumping to the' conclusion that -upon attractive food and surround- the food caused the'trouble. Ii re - ants, pleasant company and •a cheer- ality the 'upset was due either to -fol, or at least tranquil,frame of eating to much, or because the coon= di'tions for digestion were poor at the• tinile . ,(fatigue; mental or emo- tional upset, etc.) ; but ever after- ward, (when that special food is t.ak- rm�nu. A The influence of strong emotions 'upon the musdular functions of the ,digestir'e tract is even more striking., "The; purging effect of fear and ex -len, either the conviction that it caus- aitement had been recorded in uvany' es ,ind'iges'tion will -itself bring about digestive difficulties (the suggestion working subconsciously), or the con- scious fear of after-effects is enough -.glens.. The usual effect of, strong to slow down digestion so that any -motions, however, is to slow down food would disagree. I rementlber a -the muscular waves of contraction case where a healthy young student which move the food along the:, ali- was sure 'that he could not eat eggs -¢nentary tract. Thus we get delay- without nausea; his stomach just had ed. digestion, slow emptying' of the a special antipathy for eggs—or so stomach, and sometimies cenitipationhe thought. In a series of experi- as the result of :worry, apprehension, ! ments on digestion, unknown to him, fatigue, tenseness and excitement. ! he was given eggs and the results The heavy ,feeling which comes after showed he had , digested them just as meals often indicates delayed emlpty-' well as the other students. ing of the stomach and is frequently! IMillions••of Teeple Suffer from such associated with hurried eating. One inhibitions. The result of their per - 'of the worst attacksof indigestion sistent wrong ideas is that they elim- 1 ever had • followed eating a lunch , inate one' : food after 'another until ref unimpeachable food in a. station; their diet is so'lirrdted•-that they be - restaurant between trains; although' come rundown and undernourished. %unconscious of hurrying, the tense-i'This in turn makes their digestive Hess of catching the train was re- tract really weak and less able to s;ponsible for •subsequent distress. , 1 handle food than ever. And so the But the classic' example of excite- poor hypoohondriac who, through rent slowing down digestion is the fear of indigestion, limits his fare to experiment of Dir. Cannon of Har- crackers and milk, can hardly fail to ward: that of watching the digestive •have digestive difficulties. The way -processes of a cat by means of the out is to take oneself firmly in hand, X-ray before "and after 'bringing. - a, to change 'the mind rather !than the diet, to stop cherishing peduliarities and resolve to be like normal people' 1—in short, to eat anything and ev- erything. It •is, true that certain fonds are digested with greater difficulty' than others, and should be used with cau- tibn—that is, they should never be taken in large amounts, or several such foods in the same meal; or when one is ill, fatigued or under strain. Even a pretty husky Person would be courting difficulty if he ate roast pork, lobster, Welsh rabbit and ice cream at the same meal, although he could get away with any one of them nicely.. !Moreover, the idea of incompatible food combinations is all bosh; any self-respecting .stomach would rebel at the above mesh. but not because lobster and ice cream unite to form some deadly poison, as is commonly supposed. It is merely too great a load for the stomach to bear. • In general, we may say that foods which are hard for the . digestive fluids to penetrate, those in ' which there is much indigestible fiber not softened by proper cooking, and foods rich in fat tax the alimentary tract. Concentrated sweets and highly sea- !soited foods are n,bt so much harder to digest as they are irritating to the sto'msoh lining. This is rwhy it is un- wise to take candy on an empty stom ach and, if one does so, he should drink at least one glass of water af- terward, as the concentrated sugar irritates by drawing water out of the -stomach walls. Sugar in dilute form does not have this effect, though it may ferment and irritate the intes- tine later if too liiberally used. Harsh fibered foods, espee'ially when raw or insufficiently stiffened in cook- ing, are liable to irritate the intes- tine mechanically. Spoiled foods, by reason of their bacterial content, may set up excessive inflammation. The treatment for an irritated or infirm -N- ed alimentary tract consists' chiefly of rest. Refrain from all food for at least twelve hours, taking only miod•- erate" amowntx of boiled water; th begin cautiously with fluid foods, re- turning to a mixed• diet gradually. Of course, the only way to get permanent relief from indigestion is , through treatment of its underlying • instances, the emotion in this case ransing increased muscular contrac- tions, especially in the intestinal re;- TH'IEY SPEAK TCX THEMSELVES POUR on milk or cream. Then listen to Kellogg's Rice,Krispies. Their "Snap! Crackle! Pop!" tells a story .of delicious, crispness. . r You'll love their flavor. Great for breakfast or lunch. Ideal for the chil- (s3ren's supper. Light and .easy to digest. Ready -to -eat. 3VIade by Kellogg in London, a Ontario. Listen! s t the )fust prove„ utiolu or Iti •nre the �ratl aiboa to "relief. *Old r $iren. Dr., :Alvarez of the nae,: ani ,au!'thorityr on nervous+ 4 sti;o , prescribes pralctieai.%' . yhath. era/iv, rest, exercise, b'`'aths and Meer sage, treatment forconstipations, and. a diet of tiu'trit'lou's siert noin•-orritaing foods Sypractical peychothera.py be means finding out What wrong no. tions or emotions are at the ;roott:.of the digestive distress and ridding olreself of them by a good moral' shake. If You are clever and srtron++g*. willed, you can do this for yourself; but if :both your .backbone and your. head are inclined to be soft, you 'will need°'sonleone to do it for you --+pre- ferably 'so'nue'physician with syi pa- thetic und'erstandiog of nervous 'trou- bles, a good working knowledge of psychology, common sense, and a dominating • personality. . LEGS ('Condensed from The Elks Magazine in Reader's 'Digest.) A ratan is as old' as he feels. An athlete is as old as his legs. Once the underpinnings begin to get - eb- bl'y, the bestof 'em have to quit. This back May be. as strong as a wood- man's. His mond as ,shaep as a sword. It doesn't Matter. Unless he has legs, his playing days are over. ••Only a short time ago, •Balbe Ruth, basebail'i greatest figure, signed'$is 1954. co'nl,aot with the Yankees for approximately one-third less than he was paid the previous year. , Ruth is still ~'hale and hearty. His 'batting eye is still keen. His "whip" from the outfield to home plate still 're- minds you of a rifle shot. What then has .rdbbed-shim' so heavily of his itl- trimsic worth? The answer is 'legs.' A couple of years ago, in fielding, the Bambino came in fast for a line drive just over' the., infield and was under the ball with time to spare. Running bases sometimes herd stretch a 'clean double into a triple, or race home from second on a long single. Suddenly the legs 'began, to show signs of the wear acid tear of years on the diamond. The resiliency of his -youth was gone. Inthe outrfield, his getaway was labored. At bat, while he still took that vicious cut at the ball which always character- ized his form, something was miss- ing, The vital power which the spring in the legs supplies was not there. Ruth is hut one outstanding ex- ample of. "legitis" in the realm of sport. In every athletic enterprise where a burden is placed on the legs, the. contestants inevitably pay 'the price. Bill Tilden today, at 41, is perhaps the greatest stroke master in tennis,. He knows more about the game than anyone else in the world. Tilden can make a tennis ball do things no 'man has ever made It do before. His game is flawless. His -form is perfect. On the • court he is an aggressive giant who outwits or out -smashes his . strongest 'rivals. Yet Tilden, with all his experience, skill and power, finds it difficult to keep up with the ypungsters of the modern regime. Only recently, in Madison Square Garden, Tilden and Vines clashed, before 16,000 ardent tennis enthusiasts. Tilden obviously was the mire finished player. But when Vines sent a- shot whizzing to the farcorner, Big Bill had to let it pass. He knew only too well that to go after it would be ludicrous. Five years -ago Tilden would go af- ter every shot and any shot. • But not to -.day. His legs no longer have the snap they had then. ;As a general rule it can be said that the age at which "1'egitis" af- fects athletes' is inversely proportion- ate to the burden which the particu- lar sport imposes on them. In track, where , everything is ultimately • de- pendent on a man's legs, "legitis" comes early. On the other 'hand, in certain of the field events, where the burden is distributed over the entire system, co'm`petitors well past the half century mark still take the laur- els. Silver -haired Pat McDonald and Matt IfclGrath still outclass bhe ma- jority of their younger rivals in the weight events. :Legs terminate the careers of sprinters almost before they begin. Glance down the roster of chamlpions of the last 20 years, and you'll find almost as many'nemes as there were seasons. The 'Wil.liamses, the Pad- docks, the Soholzes and the Tokens passed from the scene of their tri- umphs swiftly. (Parvo Nurmd was the greatest run- ner footracing ever knew. In his prime it could justly be said that he could beat any runner in the world from the half mile up to the mara- thon. His stride was long, easy -flow- ing, and effortless. .Hlis lungs were bellows. His knowledge of the subt- leties of the sport was unsurpassed. And his desire to conquer all opposi- tion was consuming. But in due time he found that while he could run all day if .need be without tiring, he no longer -could-finish a mile or i609 - meter race with a Sprint. All his years of training, all his careful diet- ing, all his Spartan living did not help to stall off "legitis.." ILa:st fall I sat beside an old Yale football ace and watched the Army - Notre 'Dame game. Armly, leading by a touchdown, and having played a brilliant, bang-up., heady game all 'afternoon,, suddenly seemed to tire and dfold up." The former Yale lrlayet turned to me and said: "The jig is up. Army's going to take it on the chin. Those West .Pointers have loaf the old legs.. The. Army backs are fairly staggering 'around, and the 'linemen have no punch do their charge. In a couple of minutes Notre •.Darcne will s'tatt riding through that Cadet forward wall as though there was northing urn front of therm." And he was .right. Notre Dante rode over the Cadens to win the game. iSentewh'at elated at hist predation, My., Yale friend continued: "''Football players to -day don't have the lege we used to .have. That's why you have so many subsrtituthiens. So mane* ins• jurieta; So mains sprained ankles and bad iknees. Trouble is,,, you ride too niueh 'to -day, ifistead of walking,. Andi DON1PUQN DAY FARE AND'ONE-QUARTER ROUND TRIP Between Ali Points in. Canada and to Certain Destinations in the United States Good ging from 12.00 o'clock noon Fr ditymcitle 2 reot tares_ Ana until 12.00 o'clock noon Monday, July lacier tirjernrs- Return limit leaving destination not later than mid - rips splay to Ticket JldedYt., mght Tuesday, July 3. Times shown are "Standard." ArNADlAN NATIONAL • • Few Subscription to 00 For 1 A Year • This is an opportunity for f amlies not now reading The Huron Expositor to secure, it .for the coming year' at a saving of 33 1-3%, which you cannot „afford to Miss. "" J.', enewal Subscriptions, Sale Days Only, 1.25 THE HURON EXPOSITOR Established 1860. McLean Bros., Publishers LIMMIIMo boy, it's just too bad." ,On the other hand, some sports such as golf put a much less severe and sudden strain on the legs. So long 'as a nnan keeps himself in good shape he can play a good game of golf for 'many long years -as witness the many famous "oldsters" who are well in the ,top flight every year. But even in golf when the legs be- gin to weary ,in the long drawn' out tournaments, perfect physical and• mental co-ordination is impossible. As Gene Sarazen said to me recent- ly: "Many a slice and many a hook can he traced to creaky knees or weary parches." Perhaps the 'best way `to compre- hend the important part legs ,play in certain sports is to look over the rosters of those pastimes in which the burden on the underpinnings is light or neglible. 'Talking to .Dev- ereaux, Milburn, the farmer inter- national polo player, I mentioned the fact that it was surprising to find so Many men past 40 still playing a grand game of polo. "Ah." he said, smiling, "but you mustn't forget, in polo, the ponies do Most of the work. If a man had to use/ his legs as he has to in boxing, football or baseball, polo would be a'young man's game." •• And so it is -with wrestling, swim- ming and hockey. Hockey for all its thrilling and bruising play, does not tax the legs very much. The ice pro- vides an alniost frictionless surface, and the players glide about at break- neck speed with a minimum expendi- rf-ure of energy. Fancy a :boxer, a miler or a football player engaging in 420 consecutive games. And yet that is 'the record compiled by 'Mur- ray 'Murdoch of the New York Rang- ers. rWhat a contrast with boxing, for instance, where the heavy strain, on the legs forced Dempsey, Tunney, Fir•po and other famous pugilists in- to retirement. Dempsey could train himself back into condition. He could roll punches off his shoulders and hit with the "wallop" of a mule. But his legs wouldn't carry for more than two or three rounds at most. After that he'd be in his own way, and very likely would swear that ev- erybody in the place was hitting him with a pair of 'boxing gloves. FMedieal seienee, has not as yet della verydeeply into the various ailments that beret athletes, raise havoc with their 'hopes and shatter their careers. But the fact is plain that it's the sdd underpinnings that give way first in ;alinost every'strenuau's sport and make this year's champ next season's "halebeen." COLIC PAINS edi "It ro.tboyawrere,•restless-with-colic,'wries a Toronto oer• • IC tbel.ro ie ts ideaaeonxrtuesults.vr often the cause. ° colic is some troubleor constipation • 'Baby's Tablets yrid the system the dt gently cne 81IIetosat °te cot e hese sweet little tabletshieg for keeping, ts and okina°nFnwell and g theta ,enteething O overtired. • byolvt0W safe.grlcOf etyma et'8.• 10 • Or.Wilt Mt' ,4,111:IS The Cosmetic Urge 1n Russia (Condensed from Vogue in Reader's Digest.) - Al few weeks' ago, the Soviet Gov- ernment awarded to the woman head of the state cosmetic trust that most collectives. This arrived at the same time as a number of tractors, and the girls, assuming that there moat be some relationship, adopted a blouse, pink silk panties, and a brilliant Cup- id's bpw as the stylish costume to wear driving a tractor. Women in Moscow now stand in long queues before the numerous beauty shops waiting their turn to have, their hair washed and done in prized decoration, The Order of Len- -Marcel waves frizzy enough to pass in. Behind that smell fact loomed muster in a Congo kraal. Beauty ex - the great truth that. a woman's de- perts are also kept busy applying sire to deess up is stronger, even, peroxide to the hair of women who than Soviet propaganda. desire to be preferred. There are In the first flush of its triumph more bright red fingernails in Mos - some years ago the Communist state cow than in New York. had declared that it was going to 'Feminine Russia wore knee length Make over human nature. Among dresses for years, on account of the its special plans was the recreation textile shortage. Last summer when of woman.' There was to' be no such! textiles became more plentiful, frocks nonsense as beauty aids, coquetry, 1 fell suddenly to the ankles. A girl or romantic love. Women were to who could secure a long dress of be equal comrades of Men, stripped; sleazy 'black satin topped with a lit - of all mystery and allurement, and • tle neck -piece of cat fur was as ,hap - the measure of a girl's charm was to ! py as if she had just 'Seen awarded depend on some such factor as the ; the Order of Lenin. A few years ago numlber of railroad ties she could; Communists were proud of the fact help lay in a day. It set out to de- 'that the opera was crowded with men stroy what it called "the wretched irk- sheepskin coats and women in psychosis of fashion." Its dress shawls and aprons. Now they realize bureau offered frocks that were sup- 1 that such costumes are poor window posed to meet every punpose for all dressing for a country that is suppos- tpnre. Every chess was 'tested to see how efficiently it would serve its wearer in reaching for gadgets on a factory belt or thing switches at a railway crossroads. The women agreed at e first. Theya began with a great national gesture of smashing their mirrors A nose pia which didn't shine was ctitally counter-revolutionary. Many foreign th women who appeared ori e, streets 0 in fashionable attire reported that their dresses had been surreptitiously slashed or spattered with nk. • . i Yet not, all the engines of prop- aganda controlled by the largest na- tion in the world could permanently crush the feminine love of finery or prevent Russian women from looking with di'stas'te at their dishcloth blouses. Possibly, they began to no- tice that the men didn't after all, pay their most ardent addressees to the girl who could lay the most railroad ties. When the first women from the great cruise ships arrived in Lenin- grad, wearing snakeskin shoes they were followed by eo many apellSbound factory workers that it almost re- quired the Red Army to escort the reptiles down the street. The gen- eral feminine unrest was contr'i'buted td. also 'by the wives of Arnverdcan en- gineers. One woman who appeared in a tr•anspapent 'blue raincoat was se pawed by eager, calloused hands that she didn't *ear it again.. That was four or .five years ago. Now -a Soviet fashion magazine is about to burst upon a startled- public. The govern- ment has become pretty wreIl convinc- ed not only that control is futile but also, probably, that pictures of girls in frowsy clothes wheeling loads of. cement is a form of prop'agan'da not not likely to snake working women in other countries long for Conuminnuem. •When the girls on the collective farms demanded some more desirable rewardthan the joys of socialist OM - petition., the govs'nnwent took its first step in retreat by sending them cargoes of bright orange lipsticks. They spread over the' steppes like a prairie fire so that noir even the an.• oient :babas , hate their toothless •stmtilles • ou dined h color. Alnothi r Move Was the sending pf...a sbiptnient of site bloomers to one of the large' ed to raise the standard of living of its workers. Hats were once taboo as a so-mibol of the hated upper class- es. But last summer hats were in style—with crowns eight inches high and the feather and flower decorations popular here in 1910. The department stores show how great the change has been. A few years ago they were dirty, confused caverns. Now they have taken the boards from their display windows, and set up modernistic durminies dres- sed in the latest models. The at- tempt to "recreate" the women of Russia has, it seems, been given up as a bad jobb. Charles Lamlb was giving a talk at a mixed gathering and someone hissed. A stunned silence ofollowed. Then Lanvh calmly said: "There are 'rinly !three fillings that hiss 1— a goose, a snake and a'tool. Come forth and be identified? LESS THAN WORT, IN The late Senators Spooner, of Win- consin, and Allison, of Iowa, wee' leaving the Capitol one' evening when ii ,commenced to rain. heavily. "Doe you think it will stop?" asked Spoor er. "It always has," answered A11� son. * * * .._. A notorious pest, meeting James McNeill Whistler one afternoon, ex- claimed familiarly, "Hello, Whistler, I passed your house to -dray." • "Thank you," retorted the artist, fervently, Saturday Evening Post. * * * The late Uncle Joe Cannon wake telling Chauncey M. Depew about a fish he had almost caught. .rAfbou't the'size of a whale, wasn't it?" asked Mr. Depew, softly. "I was balite with whales," answered TJncle Joe. --- Collier's. • * * * • (When the naturalist Thorean was near to death, a very pious aunt ask- ed him in deep concern: "Henry,• have you made your peace walk God?" 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