The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-08-09
AUGUST.

1 Our Anglo-Sa2on grand fathsts called Att
GUST the Arn-Monat, because il was the
month for filling the barns with the products
of the land. IA
The weather is still sultry and hot, nor
need we anticipate very marked change
in the thermometer, from the fact that the
same sun that ruled during the months Of
June and July, continues to pour down his
scorching rays, sometimes SO powerful and
persistent as not to effect vegetation alone,
by parching it.hp, but making such impres.
sion upon spring and rivulet as to cause in
tense suffering TO beasts, and make man at
last to pray with the Poet,
"Rend oh ye lightniugs! the sealed firma-:
nent
And flood parching world. Rain! rain!
pour pourl
Open--ye windows of high heaven and lot
The mighty rain drops comew
The season is approaching when there Is
a stronger predispositon to bilious colo,
bilious remittsnt fevers, and intestinal dis
eases than attend the months Of winter and
spring. These diseases are NIT unfrequenti
ly of very grave character, and they occur
much oftener than they would were there
more strict regard paid to the usual precau:
tons of health. Becausscf the too general
neglect of common prudential hnaxims AL
gust has received the appellation ofthe sick
hest month of the year. In this latitude il
is the month of eueambsrs and green fruit
And he that indulges to any extent In either
will make himself liable 10 be awake in the
night with all the paiiis and horror Of bill
GUS collie, or the cramps and vomitings and
purgings of cholera morbus. Beware be-
ware and while you are ON your guard in
reference TO yourselves, see to it that you
caution your children against making free
ports of their stomachs to all the trashy fruit,
lilly cooked vegetables, and cucuiibefs they
can possibly devour, for depend upon it,
much, very much of The trouble from worms
and the concomitant disorders of digestion
with which they are SO generally afflicted
during this season Of the year originates
from this dangerous habit
TO the use of good, ripe frtiit--the ma.
tured production of tree or shrub, In
"'fSh tho SHSShuiiiO 10 pTOpGIiY
evolved and distributed through the pulpy
part--we have no objection. These are the
gifts of Nature intended for mans refresh
mont But to Gull early, green apples and
pears-little shrveled peaches--plums as
hard as bullets, ETC., fit articles to eat, is to
be guilty of uttering libel against PoMoNA,
and so the goddess teaches very many of
those daring TO indulge in Them.
No, we affirm that, no matter how power.
full your constitutions, Or how strong your
powers of digestion; belong you to town or
country; be you man, woman or child, yon
cannot eat with impunity, much less with
advantage, vegetable matters which have
not been soflened and changed by culinary
processes; nor fruit which has not acquired
its ultimate degree of maturity in favor and
softness, or which has not undergone some
what analogous change by the action of fire,
as in boiling, slewing, roasting, etc.
II, then dear readet, you would escape
many fthe ills so commonly incident to this
month, attend to these friendly cautions and
uggesiions'-Medicai Ref6rmsr.