The Placer herald., 1871-01-07
HOUSE AND FAR RIM.

fessor Wilder in the Cornell Era, offers the
following maxims and rules as a guide in
maintaining good health;
1. Prevention is better than cure.
2. Use good and palatable food, none high
" seasoned; vary in quantity and quality ac-
cording to age, climate, weather and occupa-
ton. Unbolted or partially bolted grains
are good and sufficient food for dogs, horses
or men; but nature demands a variety. As
rule, carnivora are not wholesome food,
Hot soft bread digests slowly.
8. Cooking may spoil good food Pork
should be thoroughly cooked. Avoid frying
meat boil, roast, or broil it, beginning with
a light heat; but for soups begin luke
warm.
4. Three full meals daily are customary
and NAV be natural; but their number, their
relative quantity and quality, and the inter-
walls between them, are largely matters OF
opinion, habit and convenience; regularity Is
very important.
5. Eat something within an hour after ris-
ing. especially if obliged to labor or study;
but avoid both of these before breakfast if
possible, and particularly exposure to malaria
or contagion.
6. Let the amount of a meal bear some
relation to future needs as well as present
appetite, but it is better to carry an extra
pound in your pocket than in your stomach.
7. Eat in pure air and pleasant company;
light conversation and gentle exercise pro-
mote digestion, but hard work of any kind
retards it. Avoid severe bodily or mental
labor just before and for two hours after a
meal.
8. Masticate we'll; eat slowly; five MN
utes more at dinner may give You better use
of an hour afterward.
8. Drink little at meals, and never full
glass Of very hot or very cold liquid. Never
wash down mouthful.
10. Avoid waste of saliva.
IL. Evacuate the bowels daily, and above
all regularly; the best time is after breakfast;
partly to be rid of physical burden during
the day, but chiefly to relieve the brain.
13. Constipation is safer than diarrho@.
For the former exercise, ride horseback,
knead the belly, take glass of cold water
before breakfast, eat fruit and laxative food;
for the latter, follow an opposite course
toasts, crusts, crackers and rice is the best
food. Pain and unea.ness of the digestive
organs are signs of disturbance; keep clear
conscience; rest, sleep; eat properly; avoid
strong medicines in ordinary cases. Pana-
ceas are prina facia humbugs; their makers
and takers, their vendor or recommenders
are knaves or fools or both
Nature cures most diseases if left alone,
or aided by diet or proper care. There are
no miracles in medicine: let US remember
that to keep and to get well generally require
only recognition of Natures powers, with
anatomy, physiology, experience and com
mon -sense-and we may hope that some day
every man may be bis own physician in all
ordinary cases.
TooTHACHF.-Fo the benefit Of those who
NAV need little consolation, we publish the
following from correspondent of an ex-
change:
- "If any of onr readers suffer from tooth
ache, or neuralgia affections, arising from
teeth in any state of decay, they may ex-
perience relief instantaneous and permanent,
by saturating a small bit of clean cotton or
wool with strong solution of ammonia and
applying it Immediately to the affected tooth.
The pleasing contrast instantaneousy " pro-
duced sometimes causes fit of laughter, al
though = moment before extreme suffering
and anguish prevailed | have used the
remedy over one year and have obtained
sufficient proof to warrant publication.
VINEGAR FOR INK STAINS. of the ed
itors Of this paper was last week so unlucky
as to spile quantity of ink over fine pair
of slate colored pantaloons. He supposed
the garment was hopelessly ruined, until one
Of the ladies of his family suggesting that
vinegar might remove the stains, a quantity
Of ordinary vinegar from the table cruet was
at once applied to the cloth, and vigorously
rubbed in with sponge. When the cloth
was dry most of the stains were entirely
gone especially where they had been thor
oughly rubbed.
TOMATOES cured nearly in the same man
ner as figs are said to make as good fruit,
and scarcely distnguishable from the regu-
lar Smyrna fig. The experiment does not cost
much, and is certainly worth trying. The
tomatoes are taken ripe, scalded, and the
skins taken off to ALLOW them to absorb the
saccharine principle, and then covered with
fine sugar and laid out to dry When near
ly dry they are taken and placed in alter
nate LAYERS with sugar, and when thus cured
are said to be as good as any fig.
To PREVENT BREAKING LAMP CHIMNEYs.
Every housewife, who uses kerosene oil
knows that it affords the best and cheapest
light of all Illuminating oils. But she also
knows that the constant expense and annoy
ance from the breaking of lamp chimneys,
almost, if not quite counterbalances the ad
vantages of its use. Put the glass chimney
in lukewarm water, heat it to a boiling point
and boil it one hour after which leave it in
the water till it cools. The chimney will be
less liable to crack by sudden change of tenn
perature.
CANDY.-As the candy pulling season is
~ hand tho followno receint NAV he useful