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FOOD FOR “NERVES.”
PARAGRAPHS FROM THE LETTER OF
A NOTED PHYSICIAN.
Victuals and Drink Which “Nervous” Peo
ple Would Do Well to Let Atone
Animal Pood Recommended »
—Fish, Flesh, Fowl.
[Pr. Wn A. Hammond in Youth’s Companion.]
First es all, the nervous person must have
his stomach put in order. He might just as
well try to run a steam engine without fuel
as to conduct his body through life with a
stomach incapable of digesting food. For
food stands in the same relation to the ,body
that fuel does to the steam engine. The next
question which naturally suggests itself is:
What proportion should exist between ani
mal and vegetable food in a dietary for the
nervous?
In every person, unless there is some
Very special reason due to idiosyncrasy or
disease, the existence of which, however,
must be extremely rare, animal food s .ould
be in excess of that derived directly from
the vegetable kingdom. In nervous
persons the proportion should be still
greater. Indeed, lam not quite sure that
it would hot be better to exclude, with the
exception of bread in some form or other
and perhaps certain kinds of fruits, all vege
tables from the dietary of nervous people.
The two principal reasons for this opinion
are: First, the comparatively easy digesti
bility Os animal food. Os course all the tis
sues of apfmnls are primarily derived from
the vegetable kingdom of nature. Carniv
orous animals eat the flesh and blood and
bones of the herbivora, which are formed
from grass, grain and other vegetable sub
stances; but the task put upon the digestive
organs of the former is much less severe
than that imposed upon those of the vege
ble feeders.
Second, animal food is more nutritious to
the nervous system and to the body gener
ally than that derived from the vegetable
kingdom. As we ordinarily meet with it, it
consists of nitrogenous matter, in union with
certain mineral substances and with fat. We
have therefore in it all the essential ele
ments for the formation of the tissues of the
body, as well as those for the maintenance
of the animal heat, and on it alone it is
perfectly possible for man in any climate to
exist, and to continue in a normal condition.
In cold climates the principal part of his
sustenance is derived from this source, and
indeed in polar regions vegetable food is
never ingested by the inhabitants.
The next point to be insisted upon in a
dietary for nervous persons, is that it should
contain a more than usually large porpor
tion of fat. The form in which this should
be employed may generally safely be left to
individual preference. Generally, perhaps,
it is best taken as cream or butter, but the
fat parts of beef or mutton are very well
with most persons. Many nervous people
appear to have an instinctive craving for
fat, and I have known many a one to eat as
much as half a pound of butter a day,
besides drinking a tumbler of rich cream at
breakfast. Tne nervous system consists
largely of fat, and this substance must be
supplied in soni6 form or other, in order
that the brain and other nerve structures
shall be properly nourished.
But it is possible to get all the fat require!
without taking a single atom of it into the
stomach. The digestive organs convert
sugar and starch into fat, but in nervous
persons in whom, as I have said, these or
gans are weak, it is generally preferable to
get the fat required, ready formed, from
the animal kingdom, than to compel the en
feebled stomach, intestines and pancreas to
make it out of starch and sugar.
Nervous persons require ordinarily a
larger quantity of water than those whose
brains and nerves are strong. Water not
only enters into the composition of every
tissue of the body, but it aids in the digestion
of the fool by helping to render it
soluble. Moreover, it seems often to have
a directly tonic effect A quart or two of
water, not too cold—and certainly not hot,
for nothing can bs more relaxing to the
stomach than hot water—may be drank in
twenty-four-hours, and in warm weather
doable this quantity will be borne.
Now as regards special articles of diet for
the nervous person. Milk comes first. It is
easily digested and is nutritious. It is some
times exped lent to confine nervous patients
to a diet consisting of nothing but milk, and
when I say “nothing,” I mean all that the
word implies.
Eggs come next in point of general avail
ability. They are nutritious and of easy
digestibility. They possess, moreover, the
great advantage of containing a maximum
of nutr.ment in a minimum of bulk, and
hence they are especially indicated for those
invalids in whom it is not advisable to load
the stomach with much food. Baw eggs,
contrary to the generally received opinion,
are not so digestible as those iu which the
albumen has been coagulated by heat.
As regards the various kinds of “flesh, fish
and fowl:”
So far as the nervous person is concerned,
there is very little difference in the adapta
bility of beef, mutton, venison, or of the
flesh of the several birds used as food. Beef
may, however, be taken as the standard.
When not cooked too much, and when suffi
ciently tender, it answers every purpose of
the system. Veal is not so easily digested,
and the same may be said of pork, except
the sucking pig, which is not'only pleasant
to the taste, but; which is also easily and
promptly acted upon by the digestive juices:
-Salt {peat is pot adopted to the require
ments of the nervous person. The nutritious
juices have to a great extent gone into the
brine in which it has been soaked. Never
theless, a piece of good ham has an indirect
value, in that it often serves as an appetizer,
and, hence, as an excitant of the desire of
other food.
Fish of all kinds used as food, oysters,
shrimps, crabs, lobsters, are good for ner
vous invalids. All sea animals as well as
eggs contain a large proportion of phos
phorus, a substance that the ner
vous system must have. Oysters are
more suitable when eaten raw than
when cooked, but when roasted or stewed
are almost equally beneficial, and to some
persons are more palatable.
As regards vegetables, I am disposed to
exclude them with the exception of
certain grains used for making bread, and
a few fruits in their season, from the diet
ary of the nerTous person. Os the cereals,
oats are far preferable to any other, and the
finer they are ground the better.
As to tea, coffee, chocolate and all spiritu
ous, vinous or fermented liquors, they form
a law unto themselves, it being impossible
to lay down any general rule on the subject.
It may, however, be said that spirituous
liquors, such as whisky, brandy, rum, gin,
are never proper for nervous people.
As advertisements are simply to fool people
around,' do not be deceived, but call at L.
Freid’s, where you will always find it dif
ferent, as he never advertises only what is
true. “Quick sales and small profits,” is his
aaoMo..^^;
THE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES: MONDAY, MAY 25, 1885.
AT THE WAIFS’ HOSPITAL.
Foundlings In the City of Paris—HoW
They Are Registered—The Mother.
[Paris Cor. Philadelphia Tresa.l
When the poor mother must face the ap
palling fact that it is utterly impossible for
her to keep body and soul together and
nurse her child, she takes it to the hospital,
after having suffered, in the generality of
cases, many a bitter pang like rapier
thrusts at that instinct of motherhood
which is fast developing itself in her nature.
She is ushered into a bureau, where she is
accosted by a clerk, who has a large registry
book open before him, and he questions her
on the date of the child’s birth and on her
inability to support the infant, carefully
writing down notes on all such particulars
furnished him. Once satisfied as to the
truth of the information supplied, he touches
the button of an electric bell; one of the
nurses makes her appearance, and ap
proaches the mother with the object of re
lieving her of her little burden.
Then knowing that the fatal moment of
separation has at last approached, the ma
ternal instinct finally breaks out once more;
tears rain down from her eyes on the face of
the child, whom she almost stifles with ca
resses; she sobs and weeps and sometimes
shrieks in her agony, as she disputes like a
tigress the possession of her infant, until the
clerk, hardened, of course, as such men are,
by constant contact with human suffering,
and well accustomed to such scenes, catches
hold of her by the arm and says: “What
brought you here, then, if you did not want
to part with your child?” Whereupon she
abandons the little one to the nurse’s arms,
flies out of the bureau precipitately and
staggers into the street, with the wild, hag
gard look of despair on her blanched fea
tures and in her glazed and vacant eyes.
Not rarely does she And her way to the
Seine, to end her wretched life in its
troubled waters; or, discovering every social
door barred to her, she sinks lower and
lower in the abyss of vice, and dies an early
death in one of the city hospitals.
When the nurse has at length undisputed
possession of the waif, a collar containing a
a locket in which is a record in indelible ink
of the name and date of birth, is put around
the little one’s neck, and the child is known
in the establishment by a certain number.
When it is not the mother who brings her
offspring to the hospital, it is a female friend
or the midwife who usually performs that
painful duty. Sometimes when children
are found by policemen or civilians under
church porticos, in confessionals and cabs,
narrow lanes and passages, in fauborgs and
gardens, they are left at the hospital bureau,
either by the office boys of the police com
missiaries or by the agent of the prefecture.
The vast majority of the children sent to
the hospitals are but a few days or months
old.
The Colonization of Liberia.
[New York Journal.]
The redemption of Africa and the coloniza
tion of Liberia by American negroes is a
prominent scheme at present among the col
ored population.
Bishop R. H. Cain, president of the Amer
ican and African Commercial company, was
in this city recently in the interest of the
society. He is an elderly colored man of
medium stature and a fluent talker. He is
an ex-congressman and resides at Washing
ton. To a reporter last night he said:
“The object of our society is to civilize
Liberia by means of sending mechanics and
laborers there well equipped with imple
ments to cultivate the soil and estab
lish business relations. Liberia is the richest
country in the world. There is no finer soil
and the iron and gold mines are the
richest in the world. African iron was
awarded the first prize at Vienna. The oro
contains t>2 por cent, of iron. Then the col
ony abounds with copper, dyestuffs, mahog
any, palm-oil, camphor-wood, rubber and
ivory. The commercial relations of the
country with European nations amounts to
$300,000,000 millions annually.
“Now, our idea is this. In Liberia there
are 200,000 of a native population and the
first object is to provide this multitude with
the benefits of civilized intercourse. There
are hundreds of thousands of negroes in the
southern states almost destitute and bereft
of all hope of advancement. In the rich
lands and salubrious climate of Africa these
people would have a clear road to wealth
and independence.
Grape Juice for Communion.
The grape crop of A. Speer’s vineyard
last year was double that of any previous
year. His vineyards near Passaic have so
increased that he is able to keep a stock five
to six years ahead. They have become pop
ular wines among the best physicians in
New York, and largely used for Communion
purposes and for weak and aged persons.
For sale by Osceola Butler, Druggist,
corner Bull and Congress streets.
Mr. E. D. Parsons, of Rochester, N. Y., is
a well knit, fine looking, hearty appearing
gentleman. One day he was prostrated with
pain from the small of his back to the abdo
men. He says: “I wrote the person whose
name appeared in Dr. Kennedy’s ‘Favorite
Remedy’ advertisements, and he confirmed
it. From that little incident I discovered I
had stone in the bladder and gravel in the
kidneys. I used the medicine and am happy
to say I am now a well man.”
Physician’s Wine of the Oporto Grape.
Physicians say they have been using
Speer’s Port Grape Wine for years to the
entire satisfaction of their patients and
ihemselves, and take great pleasure in rec
ommending the Port, Burgundy and Claret
to the public as the most reliable they can
find. The Post is especially recommended
for consumption, the aged and for females
generally.
For sale by Osceola Butler, Druggist,
comer Bull and Congress streets.
PILES t PILES PILES !! I
Bure cure for blind, bleeding and itching
piles. One box has cured the worst cases of
.wenty years’ standing. No need to suffer
lve minutes after using Williams’ Indian
Pile Ointment. It absorbs tumors, allays
tehings, acts as poultice, gives Instant relief,
‘repared only lor piles, itching of the pri
vate parts, nothing else. Hon. J. M. Coffen
,ury, of Cleveland, says: “I have used scores
if pile cures, and ft affords me pleasure to
ay that 1 have never found anything which
fives such immediate and permanent reliel
is Dr. Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment.” Sold
>y druggists and mailed on receipt of price,
il. Sold wholesale and retail by O. Butler,
'avannah, Lippman Bros., wholesale and re
tail druggists.
THE HOPE OF THE NATION.
Children slow in development, unyp
scrawny and delicate use “Wells’ Health
Renewer.”
Goods always exchanged at L. Freid’s if
not just as represented. •
Lisle thread shirts for sale cheap at L
Freid’s.
For fancy white and colored shirts, open
front, L. Freid’s is the place.
iiff UKRSQxNAE
nuN-r.O “Deeds are better than
KIDNEY. W< '. r -ll
•jy 'LIVER ' HINTS (Kidney and
REMEDY Uivcr)RK4l KDY lias saved
i iYI from lingering disease and
MrVER Known death, hundreds who have
”SW. V-'n been given up by physl-
TO rA | L‘er clans to die.
rmfftai - .. - ,
■ Bit HUNT’S (Kidney and
" fJM Liver REMEDY) cures all
Diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder, Urinary
Organs, Dropsy, Gravel, Diabetes, and In
continence and Retention of Urine.
“Strike the Iron while it is hot.”
HUNTS (Kidney anci Liver) REMEDY
quickly induces the Liver to healthy action,
removing the causes that produce Bilious
Headache, Dyspepsia, Sour Stomach, Cos
tiveness, Tiles, &c.
“Honesty is a strong staff to lean upon,”
HONEST TESTIMONY.
Ov*r 70 Years Old.
Col. Benjamin S. Hazard, of Warwick, R.
1., over 70 years old, suffered for 15 years with
a terrible kidney and bladder diffl -ulty. He
was persuaded to try Hunt's [Kiduey and
Liver] Remedy. In 103 s than a week the ex
cruciaiing pains left him and have never since
returned. Mr. Hazard recommends Hunt's
[Kidney and Liver] Rkmkdy to every one
similarly afflicted, with the greatest confi
dence in its power to cure.
“Use wealth generously.”
School Teacher.
Mr. H. L. Soper, princial of the High School
at Kopuonook, Ct., says:—“My kidneys be
came weak and sluggish. Finding relief in
Hunt's [Kidney and Liver] Remedy, I con
tinued its until I had used four bottles,
when I became well.”
“Economy is the household mine,”
Decided Benefit.
Mr. Hiram Franklin, of Naugatuck, Conn.,
contracted a disease of the kidneys. Not find
ing any help, as a last resort he began taking
Hunt’s [Kidney and Liver] Remedy. The
first bottle giving decided benefit. He
continued its use until he had used three bot
tles, when all trouble disappeared.
$1.35 AT DRUGGISTS.
j@”Tako No Other.“©ft
Bond for Illustrated Pamphlets of Solid Tes
timonials of Absolute Cures.
HUNT’S REMEDY CO„ Providence, K. I.
C. N. CRITTENTON, Gen. Agt., New York.
devF AVDJLWD.
How an Atlanta Woman was
Made to See and Hear.
ANT INTERESTING J STORY.
Miss Minnie Wallace resides with Mrs.
George Fickland, 41 McAfee street, Atlanta,
Ga., and from her own lips a Constitution re
porter learned the following story:
Several months ago she became almost to
tally blindVind deaf, and could not tasle any
thing except Her bones became the seat
of intense pain, her joints were swollen and
painful, and eventually her whole body and
limbs became covered with splotches and
small sores. Her appetite failed, and she
gradually lost flesh and strength, and had but
little use of herself, as her limbs and muscles
were paralyzed She, as well as her friends
and those with whom she lived, despaired of
her recovey. Her sufferings, combined with
loss of hearing and taste, and blindness, were
truly heartrending.
All treatment from physicians and the use
of medicines seemed powerless. Her dis
ease was blood poison and rheumatism.
As she now seemed well and hearty the re
porter asked wliat wrought such a wonderful
change. _ _ .
“I used a medicine recommended by a
friend,” she replied, “and before one bottle
had been taken I began to see and hear. The
second bottle relieved all rheumatic pains
and improved my appetite. When I had com
pleted the use oi six bottles my eyesight and
hearing were fully restored, sense of taste re
turned, and splotches disappeared, sores all
healed, and my strength and flesh restored.
I now feel as well as I ever did, and my
friends, as well as myself, are astonished.”
“Wliat was the Medicine?” asked the re
porter.
“Botanic Blood Balm—B. B. B. was the
great remedy that, acted so powerfully on my
disease and cured me. I never experienced
any unpleasant symptoms from its use, and
iis action is so quick that it surprises all.”
The reporter then sought a physician who
knew the case, whereupon he handed us the
following lines:
“1 examined the above case of blood poison
and rheumatism, before and after being•
cured, and certify to the main facts above
stated, and must acknowledge that the B. B.
B. ettecied a most wonderful cure iu this
well-known case.
[Signed] “J P. DROMGOOLE. M. D.”
Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga., will mail a
32-page book free, filled with magical effects.
For sale by _
OSCEOLA BUTLER,
Savannah, Ga.
Without Money
AND
Without Price!
We have just issued a most wonderful and valuable
new book, which treats of diseases “peculiar to the
female sex,” and have spared neither pains nor money
to make it worthy the perusal and confidence of the
women all o\er the land.
Eveiy Wither, wife, sister and daughter in this
e untry i.- d epiy, aye, vitally interested in this grea
work, and should send for it without delay.
It will be sent to any address in the United States
Free of Cost!
Head it carefully, study it well and you will glean
from its pages Information that may prove more valu
able than all the wealth of all the Rothschilds, more
precious than-all the gems of Europe’s royalty!
1! m m IE LITE!
Give Post Office and write name plainly, and ad
dress
The Bradfield Regulator Co.,
F. O. Box *B, ATLANTA GA.
Bradfleld’s Regulator and Mother’s
Friend
For Sale by OSCEOLA
and CongreWjrtroeU.
Jftcrtfli.
COLOIBIA> HOTEL,
Saratoga Springs, - - New York.
MR. J AMES M. CASE,
Os the Pula.ki House, will open this superior Family Hotel about June 15th. Elaborate Im
p ovaments have 6oen made. Cuisiue under PROF. FELIX LOUMENA, late of Windsor
Hotel New York. Rooms beautifully furnished, facing Congress Spring Park. Attendance
and appointments unexceptionable.
Terms: S 3 per Day; S 12.50 to S2O per Week
Bellme Hatsi and Siunmer Garden
JACOB LUTZ, - - PROPRIETOR.
Special arrangements made with Committees for Picnics and Parties. A fine Brass and
String Band always on hand.
Bathing Suits for Hire. Board by the
Montli or Hay.
GOOD COOKS AND THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.
Music l>y Jung’s Brass Band Daily.
Our Wide-Awake Buyer
IIV NEW YORK
Keeps us c nstantly supplied with NEW and INTERESTING BARGAINS,«as well as with
the latest Novelties in our 25 Departments.
On Monday, May 11th,
We will put on our counters 100 pieces of Summer Si ks at the uniform price of 33c and 49c.
These represent goods which were never purchased for less than 75c to $125.
Our Black Silks sell more rapidly than ever, because they cannot be surpassed in quality
nor in price.
We are making immense sales in Summer Cashmeres Albatross and Fancy Dress Goods
for our assortment and prices are just wliat the people desire.
In Housekeeping Goods,
Such as Table Damasks, Napkins, Doylies, Towels, Sheetings and Pillow-fusings, we are
always shea t We olf-r tiiis week for instance 9-4 Sheet inns at 1 i cents, and the best quality
of Pillo w case Cotton at iu fact, extraordinary bargains all round.
We Have Never Sold More Hosiery
For Gents’, Ladies and Children, in fine grades, than we do now. The reason is, we have
just what the people want at half value. Ii surely will pay you well to examine this de
partment.
And as to Cur Parasols,
We can sa r ely say it will be worth your while to look at ours, for we can give you anything
you want at such prices that will please you. _
Do not forget that we are Headquarters on Gloves, Notions, Fancy Goods, Ladies’ Under- j
wear, Children’s White Dresses, Infants* Robes, Lace Caps, .Handkerchiefs and White Goods.
REMEMBER ALWAYS
We know the wants ofthe people and we try our very best to please them in every way—in
thejcholce ofthe selection and in prices,and no matter how great bargains other houses offer,
we never allow them to undersell us.
DAVID WEISBEIN.
BEGINKIHG MONDAY, MAY U,
—at—
JACOB COHEN'S
152 Broughton st.. Great Sale of Domestic and
Imported
TOWELS. TOWELS. TOWELS.
Having a larger stock tbau Deeded, we propose to sell at a sweeping reduction Towels
that cannot be duplicated iu this city at double the prices. We quote:
100 doz. Figured Towels at 50c doz.; cost 84c.
100 d- z. White. Colored Border, at $1 doz ; cost ml 43.
80 •* “ “ “ at #1 20 doz.-; cost Ssl GB.
52 “ “ “ “ at #1 50 doz.; cost $2 08.
50 “ “ Fancy “ at 25c apiece, $3 50 doz
18 “ “ Imported, worked border, 5Cc apiece, $0 doz
12 “ “ Hand Embroidered “ SOc “ $8 SO doz
No charge for showing good
MOTHS MOTHS ! MOTHS !
We have now on hand a full supply of the well known MANAHAN TARINE MOTH
PAHS, for preserving woolen goods and carpets. It is also an exterminator of Bugs,
Roaches and Mosquitos. One Pad in a box or trunk will keep it free from moths, Bugs,
Roaches, etc, during the summer season. For sale by
Jacob Cohen, 152 Broughton Street
Remember our SOc. White Damask, worth sl,
DRUGS AND MEDICINES
PORTER’S
WH CATHARTIC ELIXIR,
For Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Malaria and all
troubles ofthe liver; acts as wellas pills with
out depressing the system; clears the liver
Without requiring a cessation from work; not
unpleasant to take; not excessive in action;
just the thing for the ailing. Recommended
by physicians.
Bottles 25 and 50 cents.
DAVID PORTER,
BROUGHTON & HABERSHAM STREETS
PAINTS, OlliS, ETC.
JUST RECEIVED.
Cargo of
BEST LION BRAND
Portland Cement
FOR SALE LOW AT
HANLEY’S
Paint, Oil, Sash, Door & Blind Store,
Corner President, York and Whitaker streets,
Savannah, Ga.
OLIYBRS
Paint and Oil Honse,
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS
M o uldings, Etc*
Ming Very Pk
ISAAC EOOS & CO,,
Stalls Nos. 9 and 10 Savannah
Market.
Receive by every steamer BEST and
CHOICEST MEATS from NEW YORK and
BALTIMORE.
CHOICE SPRING LAMB.
Everything of the best. Orders promptly
i attended to. Branch Store, corner Macon and
Drayton streets.
Sarieii Borders,
10,000
Hi m TILES.
—FOR SALE BY
PALMER BROS.
148 Congress and 151 St. Julian street..
PERCY OLMSTEIdT
Tllfc ONLY
LIVE STOCK DEALER
AND
Commission Broker
IN
SAVANNAH, - GEORGIA.
CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED FOR
CATTLE, SHEEP, BOGS, Etc.
SAVANNAH MARKET.
WE read occasionally of Invitations to buy
Meats and Vegetables at other places
but the market. Now, is not the market
the place to buy your Meats and Vegetables ?
Isn’t it run for that purpose ? If you cannot
find what you want at one stall, you can get
it at another. We guarantee to keep the best
and freshest the market affords in Choice
Northern Beef, Boneless Corned Beef and
Pickled Tripe, Fish, Game, etc. Every
steamer from the Northern Markets brings
fresh supplies for us. You will serve your
own interest by examining our stock. You
can leave your ori’.er for the whole week at
first call. Orders will receive best attention
and prompt delivery.
Logan & Calder,
67 & 68 MARKET.
Tools! fools!
Morse’s Twist Drills, Bailey’s Patent
Planes, Disston’s Hand Saws.
A FULL LINE OF
Carpenter’s Tools.
For sale by
PALMER BRO’SA
MILLIIN KRY
MY STOCK IS NOW
Open ad Real; lor laspstlb,
Comprising a very handsome and
COMPLETE LINE
Os the latest and most
Fashionable Styles.
P. J. GOLDEN,
34 Broughton .Street.