The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-08-26
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The Need or AeIds-1R Ideal living
RO0m-Babies and Dirt.


! When much fat pork IL eaten ther
: will always be demand for pickles O
vinegar, says the report of the Massa
chusetts Board of Health. The de
mand for acid Is q genuine call of tn
system, bat there is no especial cal
for the strong acids, such as raw
, lemons and pickles, II Une has from
day to day the proper supply o
moderately sour fruit. Half of tn
doctors would find their occupation
gone IL apples We're freely used AS Al
article Of food. Fruit has never don
: us the good it might have done, be
: cause it has been eaten at imprope
hours, between meals, or in the even
: ling. Il has actually been turned int
J a foe to good digestion by the process
of picking and preserving. The old
: fashioned 'pOund for pound" pre-
serves are too sweet to serve the pur
pose OF acid fruit, and too rich to hav,
the nOurishing effect Of juicy, swee
fruit. They are simply sweetmeats
} to be eaten with csutiOn. Canned
fruit Is excellent, but fresh fruit /:
best whenever il can he obtained
The good effect of fresh fruit Is often
spoiled by the excess OF sugar useC
with it.
When there is craving for sour
food, for pickles or for lemons, 1t il
generally n strong indication that tbs
system has q real need OF acids, aud
lemons or vinegar ere sometimes the
best medicine TO cure biiousness and
restore falling appetite. A year age
] saw child pass through one of
these poor spells. He lost his ap-
petite, and could not bear the sight o.
smell OF food, until he caught sight OF
q dish of dried apple sauce, and then
he was possessed with desire foI
some of the Juice. This seemed 10
relresh him, and ne ate. for his next
meal, bread soaked in the Juice oil
stewed dried apples. After that can
ned tomato, cooked with bread, help
ed forward the cure. Before this in
turn, he had, for few weeks, lived
almost entirely without fruit, con-
trary to his usual habit.
It is common mistake to use fruit
at the table only in the form of sance
at the evening meal, or incased in
rich crusts rs pie for dinner. In the
latter case the ill effect of the pie crust
is often greater than the good effect
Of the fruit inside the pie. As for the
fruit sauce on the tea-table, 1t il bet
ter than heavy supper OF meat, but
there is some sense in the old ssying
that HFruit is golden in the morning,
silver st noon, and lead at night"
Perhaps any kind of fruit or vege.
tables may be used to excess, or in too
large a proportion as compared with
the rest Of the diet. Certainly acids
should be used in moderation, es-
pecially the strong kinds. Because
the juice of lemon may he an ex-
ctllent cure for biliOusness or fiatulence
or other disease, it by no means fol-
lows that school girls can thrive upon
their daily use. In former days,
when pale and slender maidens were
in fashion, it was not very uncommon
for silly girls to try to reduce their
weight and ruddy hue by frequent
sips OF vinegar, and many feeble
woman and many an early death has
been the result Of such tampering, A
variety OF vegetables and fruit, WE'LL
cooked and eaten as appetite calls for
them, will satisfy the natural demand
for both sweet and sour food.
1t is by no means my notion. says
Mr.. Clarence Cook, that the living
room should be homely, matter-Of-
fact apartment, coDsecrated to the
utilities, while the MUSES. and Graces
are left to kick their heels in the hall.
On the contrary, we want In the
living-rOom, for q foCR1ation, that the
furniture shall be the best designed
and best made that we can afford,
and all OF it intended to be used and
necessary to our comfort not an ar
ticle to be allowed that doesn't earn Its
living and cannot prove its right to
be there. These wants being provid-
ed for first, then we admit the orna-
ments Of life-casts, pictures, en-
cravings. bronZes, books, chief nour-
ishers in life's feast but in the be-
ginning these are to be few, and of
the choicest, and the greatest care II
TO be taken in admitting anew-comer.
The room, from the very first, ought
to represent the culture OF the family
what is their taste, what feeling
they have for art? it should represent
themselves and no other people; and
the troublesome fact is, that it will
and must represent these, whether its
owners would let IL or no. II young
people, after they have secured the
few pieces Of furniture that must be
had, and made sure that they are
what they ought to be, have some
money left to get picture, an en-
craving, or cast, they ought to go to
work to supply this want as seriously
as they would the other, which seems
the more necessary, but in reality is
not a whit more necessary. look
upon this ideal living-room of mine
as an important agent in the eduea-
ton OF life I; it will make great
difference to the children who grow
up in it. and to all whose experience
is associated with it, whether it be q
beautiful and cheerful room or only q
homely and bare one, or merely
formal and conventional one. The
relation of these things to education
is all that gives any dignity or poetry
to the subject, or makes il allowable
for a reasonable man to give much
thought to it. But it has q real vital
relation to life, and plays an impor-
tAnt part in educatiOn, and deserves
to be thought about a good deal more
than 1t is. 1t is, therefore, no trifilng
matter whether we hang poor pictures
On our walls or good ones, whether
We select fine cast or a second-ratei
one We might almost as we'll say 1t
makes no difference whether the peo-
ple we live with are first-rate or
second-rste.
"A writer ir tie Metropolitan says:
We once asked an old Winnebago
sqnsW how it was that she cured her
sick family by simply covering them
axrarxy doxy xuifh fraoh aorfh loo auinO
only breathing spot for their noses,
and she said Earth our mother.
Earth make she, and earth take good
eare to make she papoOses strong;
sqnaw-mother make she papoOses
sick; earth make she papOOses well
again. She can't tell white squaw
any more" Now this poor Indian
woman was wise according to her
fights" Without knowing why, she
saw that the earth was friend to her
children, and therefore gave them to
It's heaiing embrace. II the mother
be fortunate enough to live In the
country, she has the cure for many of
her ehildren's ills quite at hand. En-
courage baby to play IN the fresh
earth, preparing it properly for its
eDj0Ym anu cure, with as careful
an eye to the comfort OF the little
thing as you wound ifit were to take
any other sort of q bath. If it has no
old dresses, make it suit of cheap
print, tie upon its head light hat,
thSt will protect its eyes from dis
comfort and give it freedom TO delve
in the warm, soft earth, where the
sunshine can comfort and invigorate
it. II it is city child, and circum-
stances forbid u trip to the country
for the sake of the weak convalescent,
have q sand-heap made on the warm
side Of your yard. Instinct will teach
it to dig, and digging hardens the
muscles and gives strength to the
bones, while from the heart Of the
earth rises q subtle and strong power
of healing that we can neither ex-
plain nor understand for ourselves,
though We have both seen aud felt its
potency.
A few nights since prominent real
estate dealer who dwells in q psIatial
hotel in 3 business part of the city,
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