LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

should have our constant care and our unremitting attention. What,
then, are the little things that make for bodily health?
1. A Healthy Diet.
This has to do, not only with the food we eat, the liquids we drink, but
also as to their quantity and quality, the time and the condition of eating
and drinking. The application of just ordinary common sense would
save many hours of pain, and prevent serious sickness, if not loss of
life.
From infancy we have been prone to put almost everything into the
mouth, whether it was digestible or not. In growing youth the "taste of
things" governed. We ate or rejected whatever the capricious palate said
was good or bad. In manhood and womanhood, with little knowledge
and no judgment as to food values, we came into possession of a
complete set of rebellious organs, and soon became the victims of
dyspepsia and a host of other disagreeable aches and pains--the
heritage of overeating, feasting on "good things" that were very bad for
us. The habits of overeating, and eating of rich foods, has done for the
man animal what is seldom known of among other animals--created
disturbances not easily allayed.
That we have been also the victims of much that is impure in the food
articles of commerce is very generally known. The canned goods, the
baking powders, the various condiments supplied us from the
mammoth establishments of our day, may have in them elements of
danger unknown, unthought of by our fathers and mothers of a
generation or two back.
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