Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-27

SPARE Minutes much wo can
accomplish in them if we only try! If the
farmer, while he is waiting for his dinner
to be "dished up,'' would nail on that loose
paling to tho garden gate, or do five min
ntes' work on tho doorstep which needs
repairing, or tack up the vine which tho
storm hos beaten down, he will feel mono
the worse for it when he sits down to din
ncr, and yet the piece of work will give him
satisfaction every time he thinks Of it. More
than this, the mendcd gate will keep the
chickens from destroying tho garden, thus
saving him dollars of money and hours of
time. The mcndcd step may save some
member of the household q heavy fall and
perhaps broken bones. 1t certainly will
add much to tho stock Of happiness to feel
that it is all safe and sound. Tho vine
over tho window gives DIR of tastc and
refinement to the house, which is very diffe.
rent from the effect produced by ragged,
wind-beatcn vine trailing in the path. How
sadly these things arc neglected about too
many households!
For want of q nail the shoe was lost,
For want of shoe the horse was lost,
For want of horse the rider was lost,
And all for the want of horse stloo null.
There is not much poetry in tho old
ditty, but there is a good deal of truth in
the lesson it is intended to teach.
1t is quito as true indoors as out The
woman who is quick to observe little things
that need doing, who mends garments as
soon as possible after they arc torn who
docs not think it too much trouble 10 get
her needle and thread and sew rent up in
an odd fiue minutes--will never have her
mending basket piled up so high it half
distracts her to look at it, The forehanded
housewife cuts her carpet rags handful at
time, as she cuts out hor work, instead of
throwing all tho odds and ends in a barrel
together until tho week before she wishes
to send it off to the weaver. 1t seems to
take no timo when sho cuts them as she
makes them, and they can be carefully
slowed away in some safe place, and
smaller bag convenient into which the out
tings from day to day arc placed.
---o S----.--
IMPORTANCE OF CHEWING THE FooD
WELL.-Thc first operation in the progress
of digestion is to chew tho food thoroughly,
and it is for this purpose and no other that
We are provided with teeth. We must not
only chew the food to divide it, so it may
bo easily swallowed, but We must chow it
finely at the same time, mixing it thoroughly
with the saliva which flows into tho mouth
as possible. Now, there arc many pcrsons
who think that the only object of chewing
is that the food may bo moro readily swal--
lowod, and that if once the food gets into
the stomach--no matter as to the condition
this organ will take tho proper caro- of it.
1t is we'll known fact, that has been yer.-
fed by actual experiment, that tho food,
when thoroughly mixed with saliva, is moro
readily dgestcd than when little or no
saliva is mixed with it. The saliva effcots
change in tho food, even before it reaches
tho stomach, which renders tho work Of
this organ comparatively easy. This may
DO proved by thoroughly mixing some boil
ing starch with the saliya---the starch will
bo changed into sugar. The object of the
saliva is to favor the expression of tho
voice, to moderate thirst, to assist tho sense
of tasto, to stimulate tho stomach and ex.-
otto it to activity, to aid the digestion Of
food by specific action upon the food
itself, and to neutraize any aoidity Of the
stomach.
A sermon'a streno 9th 10 MT ;ts Ienoth