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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Health Hints.

Health Hints.
A MATTER OF HEALTH. stanc
when you can do your work as well
while sitting. Every housekeeper, and
especially every mother, should heeo
this. Have o variety OF seats Of differ
ent heights, from the low cricket to tht
Office stool of moderate height. It is {
matter not only of comfort but health
D1Er.-There are very few attacks o
illness which abstemiousness and die
will not relieve. Medicine kills far more
than it cures. Beyond gentle aperi
ent, nature requires but little artificia
aid from tho apothecary.
FoR CANKER SORE MouTH.-Hannal
s. writes to the Household that she has
known this to cure when the gumswere
badly eaten away: One tablespoonful,
of salt, one tablespoonful of alum, hall
spoonful of boray, half a spoonful o1
blue vitriol, two tablespoonfuls o1
honey and pint of strong vinegar sim
mer it over a slow fire in an earthen yes.
sci till the scum has oil risen, and when
cold bottle it. Apply it often with a
soft swab. Do not put it in metallic
vessels, and be sure you have pure eide,
vinegar not made from acids. >.
NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM. u A
very simple relief for neuralgia is to
boil small handful of lobelia in half 8
pint of water till the strength is out OF
the herb, then strain it off and add q
teaspoonful of fine salt. Wiring cloths
out of the liquid as hot as possible and
spread over the part affected. 1t acts
like charm. Change the cloths as soon
as cold till the pain is all gone ; then
cover the place with a soft dry covering
till perspiration is over, so as to prevent
taking cold. Rheumatism can often be
relieved by application to the painful
parts of cloths wet in weak solution of
sal soda in water. If there is inhamma-
tion in the joints the cure is very quick ;
the wash needs to be lukewarm.
Country Gentleman. ....
REMEDY FOB BRONCHITIS. Take dried
leaves of common MULLEN plant, powder
and smoke them in new clay pipe be
careful that no tobacco has been in the
pipe. Draw the smoke we'll into the
throat, occasionally swallowing some.
Use it three or four times daily.
TEA AND CoFFEE.-Tea and coffee di-
etary for children is as bad in its effects
as its use is universal. DR.. Ferguson
found that children so fed only grew
four pounds per annum between the
ages Of thirteen and sixteen, while those
who get milk night and morning grew
fifteen pounds each year. This needs
no commentary. The deteriorated
physique of tea and Collected children,
as seen in their lessened power to resist
disease, is notorious amidst the medical
men of factory districts.
TROUBLESOME FEET.-Persons trou-
bled with feet that perspire or smell Of
fensively, can effect permanent cure
by bathing them every night, or oftener,
in o strong solution Of borax, using q
heaping tablespoonful of pulverized
borax to basin of water two or three
weeks of such treatment will probably
be sufficient to effect cure.-PhiladeI.
phia Times
Fresh Grapes nII Winter.
My father, who was an ardent lover Of
the "fruit of the vine" always reserved
so goodly a supply of grapes for winter
that "we children" scarcely regarded
them as more of a luxury than we did
apples, as we had them for almost daily
eating. His method for keeping them
fresh and wholesome, was 30 simple
that I wonder it has not been generally
adopted, especially when I read recipes
for packing grapes in bran, oats, cotton,
etc., etc. This was his method: The
grapes after being picked, we're careful
" assorted, only unbroken clusters
being selected for winter. In large
iron spoon beeswax was melted, and the
end of the stem of the cluster which
was broken from the vine dipped in the
melted beeswax, forming seal over the
end, 80 helping to prevent the escape OF
freshness in it. As fast as the clusters
were 80 sealed they were carefully laid
in q basket, the inside of which had
been lined with paper newspapers we're
frequently used). The punches were
laid side by side in the bottom of the
basket, and when the layer was COM
pleted paper was laid over the top,
and 80 on, layer of grapes and a layer
of paper, until the top of the basketwas
reached, when paper was laid on the
top. So with all the baskets, when they
were stored in O cool, well-ventilated
room until freezing weather came, when
they were removed to the cellar, which
was dry one. In this way the grapes
kept nicely until spring. The chief
thing to be observed was to handle the
punches carefully, 30 that none OF the
grapes were broken or loosed fromskhe
stem the next to keep them dry and
cool, but entirely free from frost. lea
bella, Diana, Catawba and Delaware
grapes were kept in this way.-Mary
Wager Fisher, Bryn Manor, near
Philadelphia.
Keeping Winter Vegetables.
After the farmer has raised good
supply of vegetables he often fails to
realize the full benefit Of his labor from
a lack of knowledge how to keep them.
This especially is the case with squashes
and that class of vegetables which re-
uuire to be kept comparatively warm
and dry. 1t is quite usual for him to
put them in pile in the cellar, and then
wonder that they rot. Squashes, pump
kins, and all that class of vegetables re-
quire, first, an absence of light; second,
q dry temperature, not exceeding fifty.
five to sixty degrees; and third, to be
80 placed that one does not come in con-
tact with another. We have always had
success in keeping them we'll into spring,
by placing them in cool, dry chamber
until freezing occurs, and then removing
them to O closet for safe-keeping over
winter. Thus the Hubbard and other
hard.shell varieties may be kept until
May and even June. For use until
February they will keep tolerably we'll
in dry cellar, placed on shelves. Bos-
ton marrow is the first to decay. The
turban-to our mind one of the best
of the winter varieties, especially tor
baking-will often keep in the cellar
until March. Those only intended for
use later need to be treated to the dry,
cool closet. It will pay, for at the later
part of winter and early spring there is a
dearth of vegetable food on the farm
that makes such articles especially valu-
able.-Prairie Farmer.
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