American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-23
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.

A PHYSICIAN once said that children OF
scrofulous and Il weak habit should be al
lowed all the white sugar they desire,
since it improves digestion and strength
ems the blood.
BUTTERMIK.-Persons who have not
been in the habit of drinking buttermilk
consider it disagreeable, because 1t Is
slightly acid in consequence of the pres
ence flactic acid. There is not much nour-
ishment in buttermilk. but the presence of
the Tactic acid assists the digestion of any
food taken with it. The Welsh peasants al
most live upon Oat-cake and buttermilk.
Invalids suffering indigestion will do well
to drink buttermilk at meal times. SO
says one who ought to know.
To PROTECT delicate drawings in PEN
Gil or chalk. such "a are easily smudged
if roughly handled, and to give them more
permanence and solidity it is well to coat
them with ordinary collodion, sold by all
dealers in Photographic materials. The
same may, il desired, be used with an adj
mixture of par;tfin, stearine, or castor Oil :.
and affords an excellent coating. Pencil
sketches are in this way rendered clearer,
and may therefore. be copied the more
easily when so treated.
NEVER think it too much trouble to
build a fire when one is needed. but if you
comfortably can, accustOm yourself to a
moderately warm atmosphere. Tight.
well-built houses are a great saving of
fuel, but much attention should be paid to
their proper ventilation. If no other
means have been provided, lower one of
the windows from the top nearly an inch,
and tack piece of paste-board on to the
upper edge of the sash, in such Il manner
that it will direct the air toward the cell
ing; in this way draught may be pre-
vented and the atmosphere still kept per-
fectly pure.
RHEUMATIsM.-Those who are suffering
from this distressing complaint should
give the following remedy fair trial. 1t
is one used ly an eminent physician for
many years with marked success, and is
now given to the public with the assur-
ance of its effectiveness. We belive that
pOkeberries are now kept at the drug
stores-if so, they can be had at any time.
Take pOkeberries, two ounces; best gin,
one pint. Let stand long enough for the
spirits to extract the virtues of the berry,
then for an adult the dose is a tablespoon
full, three times day. This simple remedy,
generally, effects complete cure in about
a week.
DR.. Hall says the best medicines in the
world. more efficient in the cure of dis
eases than all the potencies of the ,nateria
naedica, are warmth, rest, cleanliness and
pure air. Some persons make il n virtue
to brave disease, to ''keep up" as lcng as
and it sometimes succeeds; but in others
the powers of life in the system have lost
ability to recuperate, and slow and typhoid
fever sets in and carries the patient to a
premature grave. Whenever walking or
working is an effort, a warm bed and a
cool room are the first indispensable steps
to sure and speedy recovery. Instinct
leads all beasts and birds to quietude and
rest the very moment disease or wounds
assail the system.
WOOD is the healthiest fuel, because it
contains the most oxygen coal has none,
and consequently the oxygen necessary
for its combustion, must be supplied from
the air of the room, and this, and not the
escape of gas, is what usually renders the
air where coal is burned SO close and OPP
pressive. Close-grained wood, like hick-
DRY and hard maple. give out the greatest
amount of heat; while the open-grained.
like pine and Eastwood, heat up the quick
est. The value of fuel as a heating mate
rial. is determined by the amount OF water
which pound will heat to a given tenn
perature one pound of wood will con-
vert forty pounds of ice into boiling wa
ter, while pound of coal will heat near
ly eighty pounds. From this we find
that coal is nearly as good again for heat
ing as wood. 1t has been carefully esti-
mated and decided that coal at tw, I've dol
lars ton, is as cheap as wood at five dol
lars cord.