The Placer herald., 1872-12-28
HOUSE AND FARM.

and rOmp with a will. But childhood SEEM
ed to have been eliminated from these little
folks. They were sallow and anxious and
worn. And how stupid and sleepy they
must have been next morning ! And how
unwillingly, with no shining morning face,
they must have cr'pt to school And what
poor little abused bodies they are, and how
surely the freshness and ch rm Of life are
being DESTROYED for them Yet, Mrs. Ad
sends her children, and what can Mrs. Bad,
Cad and Dad do but send theirs ? And if
Mrs. Thompson daughter has sill! dress
caught up aud Aounced with lace and flow
ers, know, my dear, that You do not wish
to have your daughter disgraced and | take
care that our dear girl shall be as splendid
as any of them
These are the lessons that the children
learn, and in turn, as parents, teach. And
it is curious that the American theory OF
everybody's being as good as anybody has
this perversion, that everybody must dress
and do as anybody does. Everybody who
yields to the mania Of extravaganza for chill
dren makes it harder for everybody else
not to yield. But there is no use in preach
ing about it, if only the pleasure of your
company is requested at a Guilds hop. Then
you see yourself. There is nothing more
melancholy than such a spectacle at water
ing place hotel. Tie forward rudeness Of
the poor little overdressed figures is pitiful.
The sweet modesty of chilhood, the breezy
bloom of health upon the cheek, the plain,
simple dress, he artess ardor Of joy--all
that is loveliest in the lovely age is wanting
at the child's op.-Ha'per's llagast'e.
BEE SrING-How TO TREAT IT.-The
sting of bee is naturally more vi lent than
that of wasp, and with some persons is at
tended with fatal effects. Two deaths from
such a cause have recently occurred The
sting of a bee is barbed at the end like fish
hook, and consequently is always left in the
wound that of wasp is pointed, so that 1t
can sting more than once, but the bee cannot.
When person is stung by bee let the
sting be instantly pulled out, for the longer it
remains in the flesh, the deeper it will pierce
and the more poisonous it will become.
The sting is hollow, and the poison flows
through it, which is the cause of the pain
and inflammation. The extracting of the
sting requires steady hand, for if it break
time. When the sting is extracted suck
the puncture, and thus prevent inflammation.
Spirits of hartshorn, if applied to the af
fected parts, will more fully complete the
cure. The poison acid, and the alkali will
neutralze it. Ifthe harlshorn is not at hand
salwratus can be wet and laid upon the place
and soft soap will often ease the acute pain.
On some people the sring of bees and wasps
have little effect, but it greatly depends up
on the state of the blood whether it will prove
injurious, and these simple remedies ifappl;ed
at once, will soon ,ff ct cure.-Er.
AxLEs OF ONE " WIDTH.-A o ular error
which bears hard on the horses, is the custom
of making the aXles Of conveyanccs Of all
sorts, of one un form width. This Gus ON
is of anci,n date, and it has caused great
detriment to our public highways, both i'll
town and country. 1t is not perhaps, say
ing too much to assert that the uniform
adherence to it has cost our Highway Depart
ment for the last fifty years, hundreds Of
thousands of dollars. Had there been a
latitude or play of from ten to twelve or
fourteen inches in the tread of the wheels
especially in carts and wagons, it I'D have
b zen impossible to have cut our pavemei t
into the ruts we now see, and which renders
hauling so ti licult along our streets and
roads. Like the Conestoga wagons of the
last generation, with their broad tires, a diff
ference in the width of our aXles would have
improved rather than damaged our highway,
and we should 10: see them cut into "a
ternating ridges and ruts as so many of them
are now.-Philadelphia Ledger.
To GET RID OF FLEAs.-Mr, Ely slys, at
late meeting of the New York Farmers
Club that there are two or three substance S
that are obnoxious to the flea-he does not
like the smell of them or they remind him of
something he does not like to think about
these are carbolic acid and sulphur. If you
want a barn thoroughly purged of weav, or
lice, or teas, the best way is to fumigate it
with sulphur. But if you whitewash all
around the stables and posts of the yard with
viii ewash made by adding carbolic acid to
the lime, it will drive most of these pests
away. Washing an animal thus infested with
carbolic soap-suds will give relief
BATHING Many persons have lost their
lives by getting chilled in the process of bath
ing sometimes by being into the bath toe
soon after eating. No person should take
any kind of bath sooner than three hours af.
ter a regular meal, and the room should show
heat of seventy-fve degrees of Fahrenheit s
thermometer, at about five feet above the
floor in the middle of the room, in order to
avoid dangerous chills persons of a feeble
circulation should have the room still warmer;
&c thar. - c. r IL
ness to the body when it comes out of the
water, the room is too cold.
CHARCOAL ASA PuRIrIER.-The Couatl7
Gentleman says: All kinds of utensils can
be purified from disagreeable odors by rnsine
them out with charcoal dust wet into soft
past. Putrid water is Immediately deprived
of its bad smell by its use. When meat
flesh, etc., are liable to become spoiled from
long keeping, charcoal dust will keep them