The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-06-13

,oYerbearing, impetuous, warm hearted a
o fast friend. In many respects he re.s|
sembled Decatur. In battla. especial.
" where daring courage was required.
ne mad no superior. His soldiers still
tell, with enthusiasm, that at Monterey
ne dismounted from his horse, placed
his piumed hat on the point of his sword,
and waving it high overhead, led them
to storm the Bishops Castle. Such
tales recall the Paladins of old romance.
SUGGESTIONS ON HEALTH.
Children should be taught to use the
lett hand as well and as much as the
right.
Infants should be sponged with cold
water every day. Infants should be car.
red into tie air every day of the season.
Infants shoul be nursed ,nt regular inter.
walls, once in about ilreo hours. From
the time they nre weaned until they have
passed the first den,ition, children should
be fed on bread and milk.
Coarse bread is better for children than
fine. 5!fa 81 y -,
Children should sleep in separate beds,
and, where it is practicable, in separate
rooms; and should not wear night.caps.
Children under seven years OF age
should not be confined over six or seven
hours in The house, and that time should
be broken by frequent rccesses.
From the time Of the first to that of the
second dcnti'ion, children should be deni.
ed animal food.
Children aud young people must be
made 10 hold their heads up and shoulders
bnck, while Standing, sitting. and walk.
ing. The best beds for children arc of
hair, or in winter, Of hair and cotton.
At proper times, and in proper places,
children should be indulged in the free
use of their limbs and lungs. A play.
room is useful appendage 10 house.
Alter the second dcntition is passed,
young. people may cat oil kinds of whole.
some food. Young people should drink
only water. One pint Of liquid to per-
son day, is sufficient for health; and
that should neither be hot nor very cold,
and should be taken ut some interval after
ealing.
From one to one pound and half Of
solid food, is sufficient for person in the
ordinary vocations of business. Persons
in the sedentary employnlents should drop
one-third ofiheir food, and they will es
cape dyspepsia.
Young persons should walk at least
two hours day, in the open air. 81
| Young ladies' should be prevented from
bandaging tho chest. The author has
known three cases of insanity, Terminating
in death, which began in this practice.
Every person, great and small, should
wash all over in cold water every morn.
ing.
Reading aloud is conducive 10 health.
The more clothing we wear, other
things being equal, the less food we need.
Sleeping rooms should be furnished
with fireplace, or some other mode of
ventilaling besides the windows.
The proper temperature of sleeping
rooms is from 55 to 60 degrees Farenhcit.
The temperature of room warmed by
an open fire place is sufficiently high for
health and comfort at 10 degrees Fab;
but in room warmed by an alright
stove it needs to be at rs degrees. Air.
tight stoves ore not good for health unless
the room is plentifully supplied by cracks
and crevices.
Young people and others cannot rend
and study much by lamp.ligh, with impu-
nifty.
The best remedy for eyes weakened
by night use, is q fine stream Of cold wa.
ter frequently applied 10 them.
When eyes fail by age, the aid ofspec.
tao!es should be called in, instead of being
deferred as long as possible. War.
ren's Irac! on HeolM.
10 REMOVE STUMps.-Procure q
dry red elm lever, about twenty feet
long and about six to eight inches in
diameter; also, q good stout log chain,
with two yokes of oxen; this is all the
machinery necessary, except good OK
driver. The mode Of operation is thus:
wrap the chain around the stump a lit
tie above the ground, and make o loe-
hlch; lay the lever horizontally on the
ground, the large end next to the chain
and against the stump, make the loose
end OF the chain fast to this end of the
lever, drawing it tight against the stump
the cattle are hitched to the small end
OF the lever and driven around the
stump in circle, of which the lever is
the radius. One revolution of tho oxen