Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-17
Practical IeaIIh---HInts for Sum-
mer.

mer.
Mild and reasonable diet is verv re-
quisite to the maintenance of the oyster
i'm a first-class condition during the ex-
tremely warm weather. Those who re-
side in the country will be apt to have
good appetite, and to eat often between
meals. If we were called upon to sug-
gest a good lunch for midday during
the summer, we should say: Drink,
first of all, a pint or so of good lager
beer; then eat dish of nice cucumbers;
next try three or four glasses of butter
milk, and follow that with four green
apples. A few saucers of unripe rasp-
berries or young peaches may be added
if you wish; but they are not strictly
| necessary.
1t is the custom with many to take
something before going to bed-usually
! fruit. We think this course unwise.
| Our custom is, Immediately before retir-
| ing, to eat half pound Of new cheese,
two peach pies, a hunk Of fruit-cake,
and a few slapiacks. We have always
found benefit from this course, waking
on the following morning well and
bright as the lark that sings at heavens
gate.
Bathing in summer is absolutely re-
quired. Battle early and often. The
very best species of bath is the imitation
Turkish. This viii cost you nothing,
and YOU will find it of incalculable ten
/ eft. About four o'clock in the after
noon when the thermometer is at ninety
/ three degrees. put on two Overshirts,
four pairs of wooden drawers, three
pairs of stockings, your winter boots
! and India-rubber Overshoes, three vests,
/ two coats, your heaviest overcoat,
! thick shawl, a comforter for the neck,
/ and heavy black SLOUGH hat.
Go forth into the hottest part OF the
! garden. where there Is no shade, and run
up and down for an hour at full speed.
/ You can hardly imagine; without having
/ experienced it. the delightful sensation
/ that will follow A subdued glow will
pervade your entire form. A delicious
! perspiration viii ooZe from the pores of
/ the skin. The brain viii seem in de-
! licious ecstacy. In short, you viii be
I rejuvenated.
How shall we deal with sunstrole F.? is
pertinent query, and the writer is sat
! isfied that he can answer il. When you
see a man fall i'm the street stricken by
the sun. your first duty is TO call every
/ body around him that you can, and so
! deprive him entirely of air. After the
lapse of a few minutes, raise him up and
hold him by the legs so that he will be
upside down. This is necessary for the
reason that the sun has previously driven
his senses into his feet and they must be
/ allowed 10 flow back to the brains again.
Get some clubs and distribute them
| among the by-standers, and direct them
to welt the patient as hard as they can.
After that. tie him to hogshead and
roll il over for quarter OF an hour. IL
this has no effect, you may give up the
case as hopeless.
The temperature of your sleeping
room during the heated term should al
WAYS be maintained as high as possible.
Make it a rule to keep the doors and
windows Theoretically closed, so that no
air can possibly enter; and in this way
you will probably avoid ague. A few
odors may be allowed to eXist-indeed,
might be regularly cherished there-so
as to counterfeit the possible miasma. A
cage of white mice will produce fra
grant smell in a sleeping-room and serve
as an ornament at the same time; or,
cat and her family of kittens.
Everybody is asking the question
GLOW shall keep cool?" Nothing is
more easy. Simply live in the ice-house
attached to your farm or hotel. When
You wish to take midday nap undress
and stretch yourself out on a cake OF ice,
and place another slab over you, and you
viii sleep in peace.
Summer drinks are of various kinds.
! On an exceedingly warm day nothing IS
more agreeable than a hot whisky-punch.
Have the water at boiling point and
use plenty of whiskey. Or mulled beer
, is good. Let the beer stand for half an
hour until the foam has eYaporated, and
then pour ii into saucepan and put II
over the fire. Skim it and drink heart
ily. Lemonade and sour milk mixed to-
gether. and half pint of vinegar added
is an exceedingly refreshing and whole
some beverage.
Take plenty of exercise during the
summer if YOU wish to get fat and al
, WAYS choose a warm day, between the
hours OF noon and SHUTDOWN for the pur-
nose. An agreeable recreation about
3 one is to take your axe and split up a
: quarter of a cord of oak wood ; then, by
way of variety, go out into the fields and
a NOW little; next, dig up potato
match or nick a few bushel of tomatoes.
Re sure never to wear hat if the sun is
beating down very fiercely. A hat con-
: fines too much heat to the top OF the
: head.
4 Take good advice and don't NEEDLE
with what the children eat. Let them
f have their way. and rest assured nature
) will dictate to them what is proper and
what Is improper for their diet much
i better than you could do Green pears
arc nv far the best for them-and in
! deed green fruit of all kinds. Very
. small children viii usually seek their
+ own food as they toddle about the gar
4 den. Snails are a favorite delicacy with
Youngsters of from two to four years OF
. age. and ground worms and sometimes
- o1te In point of fact, the little folks
. much prefer bugs to anything else. The
writer has more than once viewed with
% Measure the relish with which children
= running about the garden have eaten
g spiders. ticks, gnats, flies, and insects IN
Il general. Let them likewise select TOT
themselves their playthipgs ana anus
,r ments. Their fayorite fun Is, frequent
. ly. throwing chickens heads ana qe-
y funct rats at each other, ana chevlbe
cigar-stumps. Ihey aiso nat 70 Ia Ia,
a bees and root out hornets. nests, al leas'
! ~ first. They commonly never care foi
= This latter amusement q second TIME.
we reneat. don't restrain your cnlldreIl,
y. or their whole summers enjoyment Wal
~ no snoiled. Let them climb trees, go u
. I,otbing handle your loaded gun freely
obaee The chickens, and pigs, and tur
! n Ieys. and try to climb the bulls back
= Giye them the run of the stables, os
n pecialiy that where the mules are KEPT
!, and impress upon their mind the necessl
ss ty of attacking all dangerous snakes
The proper way TO Kill ei,D 'iiI'oD,
We snake is to seize il by the tan ar ~ 4,
q II as Won would whip, so thai the ilea'
~ will snap off. Let your young ehAdTe
II always ADOPT this method as the safes
and hest Follow these few directions
:, and asunmer Of unalloyedenjoyment Is
an we may say, inevitable. '