The Placer herald., 1871-01-14
HOUSE AND FAR N.


copy for their benefit the following from the
Herald Of Health. As part of the remedy
suggested is to use the brain less, it car Of
course be of no value to us, who are con-
stantly employing all our thoughts to make
Hearth and Home even more attractive
and valuable than it now is to our ever-n-
creasing company of friends and subscribers
The Herald says:
"Dandruff may be caused by wearing
close or heavy hats and caps, by the appli-
cation Of oils or dyes to the hair; by confin-
ing the hair too closely to the head, by ex
cessive brain labor, by uncleanliness, or by
all these causes combined. To effect cure,
wear the hair short, let the head-covering be
As light and we'll ventilated as possible, avoid
all application of grease or dyes, exercise the
brain less and the body more, and wash the
head thoroughly two or three times day in
cold water and follow each washing by a
vigorous rubbing with the balls of the fing-
ers. The better the general health is and
the stronger the digestion, the less tendency
there will be to this disease, as well as to oil
others"
MuFFLING THE THROAT. What is the best
method Of protecting the throat from colds,
where person is very susceptible to them
The common way Of protecting the throat is
TO bundle and wrap it up closely, thus over
heating and rendering it tender and sensitive,
than before. This practice is all wrong, and
results in much evil. Especially is this the
case with children, and when, in addition to
the muf1ng of the throat, the extremities are
insufficiently clad, as is often the case, the
best possible conditions are presented for the
production of sore throats, coughs, Group
and all sorts of throat and lung affections.
1t 10 wrong to exclude cold air from the
neck, and if it is overheated portion of the
time, when it is exposed some form of dsa-
greenent of the throat will be apt to occur.
The rule in regard to clothing the neck
should be to keep it as cool as comfort will
allow In doing so you will suffer much
less from throat ailments than if You are al
ways fearful of having little cold air come
in contact with the neck. Any one who has
been accustomed to have his throat muffled
should be careful to leave off gradually, and
not all at once.-Herald Of Health.
BENEFIT OF LAUGHTER Probably there
is not the remotest corner or little inlet of the
most minute blood vessels of the
body that does not feel some wavelet from
the great convulsion produced by hearty
laughter shaking the central man. The
blood moves more lively-probably its chem
ical, electric, or vital condition is distinctly
modifed--it conveys a different impression
to all the organs of the body, as it visits
them on that particular mystic journey, when
the man is laughing. from what it does at
other times. And thus it is that a good
laugh lengthens a mans life by conveying a
distinct and additional stimulous to the vital
forces. The time may come when physi-
clans, attending more closely than they do
now, to the innumerabc subtle influences
which the soul exerts upon its tenement of
clay, shall prescribe to a torpid patient go
many peals of laughter, to be undergone At
such and such a time, just as they now do
that far more Objectionable Prescriptions
pill, or an electric or galvanic shock; and
shall study the best and most effective meth
cd of producing the required effect in each
patient.
How WE EAT AND DRINK. .-Do Lewis,
in his Talks About Peoples Stomachs, "
gives the following picture Of the American
style of eating and drinking:
"Well, then, let me tell you, that during
my six years residence in America l saw
nothing which surprised me SO much as the
way in which tho Yankees eat and drink.
Why, really think it is worth an admission
fee to stand at the end of dining room and
sec hundred Yankees at the dinner table
Each one has something to eat in one hand
and something to drink in the other. When
the food hand goes up the drink hand is
down, and when the food hand goes down
the drink hand goes up. 1t always remind
ed me Of one of those walking beams on a
Standardization one end is up the other
end is down. Now, sir, think that is the
reason that the American people are such
dyspeptics. Why, sir, believe in world 8
exhibition of dyspeptics your country could
show more in number, and stronger in quail
ty, than all the rest Of the world"
CHAppED HANDs.-This is the season for
the somewhat painful and decidedly annoy
ing experience of chapped hands-especially
for those who have recently began to attend
to their furnaces and handle ashes. A friend
who tried it fully, and saw it tried on others,
says the following will quickly restore the
natural and comfortable condition Of the skin
affected:
A quarter of pound of fresh lard the
yolk of one egg; large tablespoonful Of
clear honey; mix with the finest part of cat
meal -four. Another remedy: A glycerine
ointment of much repute for chapped hands
and exoriations is made as follows: Half o.
spermaceti is melted together with drachm
Of white wax and two fluid ounces of oil of
almonds, by moderate heat; the fluid is
poured into a wedgwood mortar, when
fluid ounce of glycerine is added to it and
rubbed till the ingredients are thoroughly
mixed and cold.
REMEDY FOR RED ANTS. Many house
keepers are greatly annoyed by hordes of
these tiny mites. They fill the sugar buck
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