I’ve been a tad bit sick this past week, so have done my share of lounging on the couch and bed with my sweet dog curled up next to me. Although I am back at work now, I’ve still got resting on my mind. Professor B. G. Jefferis seems quite the expert on this topic; […]
Tag: Health
She Smells Worse Than Wet Mulch!
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I have a co-worker who smells worse than wet mulch. It’s not that she looks dirty, or dresses in dirty clothing or even has a trace of filth on her person. No, it’s just that there seems to be an invisible cloud of BO floating where ever she roams. Before I […]
Home Nursing
I apologize for the slight delay this week ~ I was called upon to help my dear sister out this weekend after her appendix was yanked out. In light of my own recent situation, I provide for you some tips about taking care of a sick relative. I do wish I had found this advice […]
How Do I Banish Blushing?
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I blush easily and I hate it. In certain situations, I get so uncomfortable that my face really turns bright red. This usually happens when I get embarrassed or just when I’m with people or friends. When the teacher calls me, I blush. When someone comes up to me, I blush. […]
Keeping Well
This one goes out to my brother Chris, who’s been feeling a bit under the weather this week. It’s just a little reminder of how we all need to take care of ourselves, pulled from Here We Go, a book written for second graders in 1955 as a part of the “Health Action Series.” Feel better, […]
Some Thinking on Drinking
My friend and I were approached by our waitress the other night after we had finished eating dinner. “A gentlemen at the bar would like to buy you ladies a drink,” she claimed. We were a bit confused ~ let’s just say we were not dressed or acting in any manner to attract the opposite […]
Diet in Training
The following excerpt, from Gladys Cox’s book entitled Youth, Sex, and Life, does kinda sorta prove that mom wasn’t lying when she told you not to swim after eating lunch. So after you finish reading this, get off the computer, pick up the phone, and call your mom. It’s time to thank her for saving your life. […]
Stair Climbing
There’s nothing like spending a long weekend hunched over the computer, as I often do. So with posture on the mind, I bring you a selection from a 1919 book called The Posture of School Children. Once property of the State Normal School, in Buffalo, NY, this book was found while visiting Grandma Rose and Daddy […]
How Unnatural Cravings Are Caused
Here’s a little excerpt from a book written by Robert Armitage titled How to Stay Young. If this is true, I’m in big trouble, because my Girl Scout cookies ~ those delicious chocolate mints, of course ~ arrived this week. 1918: How Unnatural Cravings Are Caused An abnormal desire for something is due to a disordered condition […]
Care of the Ear
This week’s tip is from Professor T. W. Shannon’s Nature’s Secrets Revealed: Scientific Knowledge of The Laws of Sex Life and Heredity, or Eugenics. You might be interested in this heavy statement from the book’s introduction: “The truth and facts about sex laws and hygiene are the foundation upon which this nation must build for the […]