The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-03-31

space around the Wash-etand with a
light screen made like O clothes frame,
and covered with paper or chintz. 1t
can be set away when not In use.
A hard working people need water
especially. In one of the best farm
houses / ever saw, a small bathroom
opens close to the back door. Here
the hot and dusty laborers can enter
when they come in from the field, and
60 thence TO the dining room refreshed
and tidy. It IS abundantly supplied
with coarse towels, toilet and sand
soap, and a spotless, clean marble ba-
sin, with a drain in the bottom, like
those in the city bathing rooms, but
the water comes from q cistern pump
just on one side of it.
Farmers wives, ventilate your bed
rooms. Have your chamber windows
altered a little, so as to let down from
the top. Impure air from the lungs
is warmer than the rest, and will rise
to the ceiling, near which admitted
air ventilates far better, and does not
blow about the feet. Eschew the lit
tie bed recesses often built in sitting
rooms and kitchens. You might as
we'll sleep in a drum. Also, when you
build your new house" make all your
bedrooms larger. A room may be
large enough to dress in and lie down
in, which is too small to breathe in
the night long.
Never count the time gained which
is subtracted from sleep Ample and
| regular hours of rest are necessary
for hard working persons. and IAN
hour of sleep before midnight is worth
| two after it,"
Children need more food in proper
ton to their size than adults do, for
they have not only to supply the waste
of the system, but to furnish besides
material for growth. Plain, hearty
food, and all they want of ii, is right
for healthy children. Many mothers
of the present day implant disease and
a craving for stimulants in their chill
dren in weakening their constitutions
by insufficient or improper food.
There would not be SO many cross
babies if there were not so many half
starved and tightly dressed ones.
Unless you like the heart diseases
and consumption, wear no tight cloth
ing. The measures for your dresses
should be taken over fully inflated
lungs, and you should wear cor
sets which do not measure as many
inches around as you do.
The sick room should be quiet,
| clearly, and we'll aired. Label all
medicines. Poison should be placed
above the reach of children. A good
nurse has q steady hand, clear head
and kind heart; she is not laxative
or nervous. Avoid arguments with
the sick. Do not tease them with
business; do not sit or lean on the
bed. IF friends call on the patient,
their stay should be very short. The
practice of visiting the sick on the
Sabbath is a very poor one; that day
often thus becomes the most trying
and fatiguing of them all. As a gen.
eral rule do not go into the sick room
unless you 60 to help and not to talk.
Do not deceive the sick deceit breeds
suspicion; they will worry lest you
are keeping something from them"
To persuade the dying that they will
recover is treason against the inter
ests of the soul.
1t soothes and cools a feverish pa
tient to wash him with warm water in
which saleratus or soda has been dis
solved.
Composition" tea is good for a
sore throat; so is. also, a piece of salt
pork. %peppered, wet with linlment,
seWed on a strip of flannel and bound
on the neck; it should be laid aside
with caution, to prevent taking cold.
Dried %rennet, or powdered gizzard
skin is a great cure for children with
dysentery. Rennet can be eaten from
the hand like dried beef, and some
little ones like it as we'll.
A little cotton batting, wet with
sweet oil and laudanum, put IN the
ear, will cure earache in the begin
ming of it.
Spirits of ammonia, inhaled, is good
for headache. and to help the breath
ing in bad colds.
TO prevent chiIblains. keep the feet
of children always warm and dry.
They must wear rubbers out of doors,
and wooden hose, and thick, flannel
lined shoes from fall till spring.
For chapped lips and hands, use
"camphor ice" or pure mutton tallow
put on warm. Candles are unsafe for
this purpose, as they are sometimes
poisoned with arsenic.
Cream cures sunburn on some COM
plexlons, lemon-juice on others, and
cold water suits still others best.
To remove the black spots-erro-
neously known as "worms"-from the
face, wash with hot water and press
out the oil from every spot with the
finger nails. Then battle the face
with cold water, and apply a wash
made of twenty drops of tincture of
benzoin to one teacupfuI of water,
which IS very soothing to an inhamed
skin. Observe more cleanliness and
eat palmer food.
Bruises are relieved by applying
a water.
A persevering application of cold
water is the best remedy for common
burns.
Cuts are best cured by sewing up
with needle and thread few stitch.
es being taken through the upper
skin to keep the wound from gaping.
1t does not hurt much if the stitches
are not too deep.-I3lustrated Amer
acaR Register Of Rural Affairs.