Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-04-03
SUGGESTIONS ON A TIMELY TOPIC.

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Many people find the summer lost
time, in which they carry on o struggle
for mere existence with heat, lassitude
and incipient disease. Children are
fractions, though it would never do to
say that grown folks are too, when the
glass marks IS degrees in the shade.
What pen shall tell what they endure
through the time of tribulation between
July and September. The trials of
mothers are only exceeded by those OF
the babies. .. -oa.
Nobody can be cool with from four to
six or twenty ounces of morbid matter
in the veins, raging in heart-beats, irri-
tating the nerves and weakening the
frame. And nobody can call himself
in healthy state when the mouth is
not as taintless in the morning as when
he went to sleep, or when the breath is
not as sweet as q rose and the skin per-
fectly clear. One may be able to do a
DAYS work without positive discomfort,
walk two or three miles, and study to
suit himself. yet by these slight indica-
tions named the bodily economy is out
of order. Accompanying those are
other sights signs, more marked in their
annoyance, headache when one goes in
the sun, an irritable feeling OF the head
after exertion. I believe in the old
fashioned cure for purifying the blood
in spring as much as do spring house
cleaning. ....
It is worse than useless to dose one
self constantly. Nature will soon drive
all morbid matters out if none put pure
ones are putin. The best remedies for
headaches, stupid feelings, want of
sweetness in the mouth, weak eyes and
irritable skin is to eat fruit. They put
it on their tables like condiment, when
it should take as much place as bread
or meat, not to say more than either:
One does not want much hearty food
in hot weather; the store of flesh laid
up in cool weather is enough to supply
strength; but light meats, fish and
chicken, with unlimited salads and
fruits should furnish the fare. Pies?
No, thank you, nor cake, save of the
spongy order, and only the best OF
bread. But for breakfast only a pint
of berries after they are picked over,
for dinner plate heaped with cherries,
for tea double portion of berries again.
You will not want much besides, very
likely, but you will wonder why your
head feels so much brighter, and your
body so light, while the weather seems
to have changed, and breeze sprung
up from the northwest, of your own
fancy. Only one caution need be OBJ
served, not to eat two kinds OF fruit at
the same meal, or soon after each other.
There is an art in bathing, too. The
sponge bath of cold water, suffered to
partly dry before wiping, leaves the skin
cold, and if linen is worn as it should
be, next the body, by those who suffer
with heat, the delicious GOODNESS will last
FOR hours. When the blood is heated,
cold baths are dangerous, and sponge
bath hot as can be borne leaves one
cooler than if dipped in ice-water. Try
this when you step from railway Jour
ney, covered with dust, and feeling as
if the blood boiled in the top of your
head. The moment after plunge into
cold water one is warm with the reac-
ton. After hot bath gentle, restful
GOODNESS taken possession and does not
change for two or three hours. If you
want a cool temperature quickly, all
you have to do is to lay wet sponge
on the back of your neck. This is the
great nerve-center from which the sense
Of GOODNESS flies over the body, and in q
moment, no matter how gasping warm
one is, delightful shiver runs over one
like that felt at the first fall of rain.
People who work in hot rooms should
keep sponge and basin of water at
hand, applying it cold frequently to the
back of the neck. The sponge should
be laid on the wrists and behind the ear
to cool the blood which courses through
the arteries there, and spread the cool
ness over the body. hope everybody
knows enough by this time not to ven
ture into the hot sun without wet
sponge in their hats, ON the top OF their
heads. The sponge may be suspended
by cords run through it, and sewed to
the rim of the hat, SO that it will not fall
out anytime when the hat is carelessly
removed.
Simple prescriptions aid in cooling the
blood. Lemonade, ice-cold, made by
adding cup of lemon juice to twice as
much water, sweetened to taste, is
good corrective of the blood. A drink
made by pouring boiling water on cream
of tartar, allowing it to stand till cool,
is an excellent febrifuge. The sim
plest and most effective purifier of the
blood is charcoal in impalpable powder.
A teaspoonful, mixed either with water
or honey, should be taken on rising,
followed at night by any mild cathar-
tic. The charcoal absorbs morbid mat
ter from the stomach, just az it does
from water or air, but, if allowed to re-
main in the system, is no better than o
ball of poison. Charcoal is now fa-
vorite remedy with eminent physicians
on the Continent, and there is form
Oft in lozenges, mixed with sugar and
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