That "Tired Fecling™
"in the Spring The effect of spring sunshine on the human body is very often exactly the reverse from that reproduced year after year in other living things. Instead of responding to the influence that causes trees and plants to burst forth into leaf and flower with an energy positively astounding, we humans invariably feel slack and enervated.
Most noticeable is the effect of spring on young children, the very wombers of the community one expects to escape from the disorder. Young people in their teens do not, as a rule, suffer so much, nor do the aged. Besides the children it is the bread-winners, the mothers of growing families. and the eve: creasing army of self-supporters, who from experience have learned to dread what was surely intended to be the most invigorating and inspiring season of the whole year.
The amazing part of it is that comparatively few persons realize how very easily this spell of lassitude and inertia can be avoided.
Foop anp CLoTHina.
There are two perfectly simple and common-sense ways of keeping fit during the initial spells of spring weather. The first concerns diet, the second clothing.
Most people make a marked difference between the foods they eat in the winter and the summer, but asa rule this is chiefly because they buy' whatever happens to be—in season, without reasoning or paying any special attention to the matter It seldom occurs to them that by so doing they are fulfilling the laws of nature, and eating what she has provided with a view to their good health and welfare. Unfortunately, in this variable climate the foods that should be ready in spring are not often in suggestive evidence at the time when they would be most beneficial, so the family continues to be fed on the sare heavy, heat-forming diet as kept it well nourished and weather-proof during the cold winter months, What the body calls for is a new and lighter form of meal, a gradual breaking away from porridge to} other not so heating kinds of cereals—the replacing of such breakfast dishes as sausages, bacon, and potatoes, by eggs, and fish; and fruits instead of jams and marmalade. The homely water-cress, at its best in the early spring, is one of the most valuable of spring medicines, and a far more m: wonderful skin food than any "cream" yet invented.
Spinach anp Ruvpare.
There is an old adage which runs, "Spinach and leek, lily-fair in a eggs may have been a brain-wave en the part of some celebrated chef in the first instance, it has long since been proved that these foods together form as perfect a spring dish, from a health point of view, as can possibly. be devised. Rhubarb, too, is a valuable blood-purifier, and it is a matter of-regret that it is served in such unappetizing and uninteresting ways jin the majority of households, All rich thick-gravied dishes should be out out of the menu, together with puddings of a suety nature. Succulent toasts should give place to salad sandwiches on the tea-table, and cooked cheese and other savouries of a like heavy description replaced by those com posed of such ingredients as to-matees, mushrooms, ete.
As regards clothing and when to make the changes, there are many different opinions, but it is safe to assert that quite as many persons suffer from wearing thick garments too long as from "'casting the clout" too soon. Children specially fall victims to custom in being obliged to wear their winter under garments and topcoats when the thermometer registers summer heat the middle of the day, which is adding insult to injury when, one takes into consideration the fact that they are abed and asleep be fore the chill evening air compels one to admit that it is only spring, after all.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.