Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-15
Hints to Nervous InvaIids.

DIR. HOlbroOk, in the Herald of
Health, gives the following advice:
Take plenty of sleep. Eight or nine
hours each day will be better than less.
But this is the chief difficulty; If you
are nervous you cannot sleep; and q
good nights sleep is both the canse and
effect OF coming recovery. When your
sleep departs you are sick; when it re-
turns you are well. So that hints to
nervous invalids simply resolve them
selves into rules for getting sleep. !
give your mine, which has been burnt
into me by long experience. ''ii4
l. Take not less than two hours of
physical exercise each day, and in the
open air If possible. Work of some kind
is better than gymnastics, but swing
ing DUN bells or Indian clubs is better
than nothing. Useful labor believe
to be far the best, since the mind as
well as the body has something to do
with sleep and health. 1t Is Isaid that
Lyman Beecher used to keep pile of
sand in his cellar and showed 1t for ex'
ercise- Doubtless Ii was better than
nothing; but for me let it be work, with
hoe or spade, or ak or savior broom or
fiatirOn, or washtub or kneading-
liz
body some good. If you are too rich
or too busy or your limeto precious
for you to do any of these things, or if
you are so elegant, refined and fashion
able that you are afraid OF l0Osing caste
and soiling your white hands, then
know that yOu.are probably too refined
and too lazy ever to have the best
sleep and health. Excursions and
travels may do you good, but never
what some manual labor would do.
God has made law about "the sweat
of the face" and :ao mortal can dodge
1t. The banker and the beggar, the
queen and the maid servant are alike
subject to It. -i1uua
2. Do not overwork the brain. Read.
ing, writing, the hard study OF books,
and continued thought without any
books, are all of them very healthful in
But little excess In any
Of these things will overtax your sleep.
Going to parties, making and receiving
calls are all subject to the same law. Ii
you see company and talk more than
you ought to, you will not sleep. ss.r
8. Avoid all mental labor at night.
n you are very feeble you may have
to stop reading and writing, and stop
seeing company and holding eonversa'
ion as soon as the sun goes down
possibly beforehand devote yourself to
he sole business OF keeping quiet. 1t
nay aid you TO record In your diary
he number of hours each day that you
1evote to manual and mental labor
and to company, and the result Of each
lays work upon your health, until
you have learned how much of each
you can do without driving away your
leep. - -
4. When preparing to retire, warm
your feet, with hot batn 1t may be,
md let your head cool. Warm your
Jack, the naked skin; heat il between
heshoulders-with a tirebrand or some
'ther way-as hot as you can endure
{, but be careful not to heat the back
Il your head. II necessary, ask your
,hysician for counter-irritant, OF
rotor oil or something, and rub it up
nd down the spine, especially between
be shoulders, until it brings out M
ruptiOn. 1t will draw the blood from
he head and greatly relieve you. A
'igorous rubbing of the back by an Rt-
endant talk too much. Even the
lare of the LAMP drives away sleep.
% put il out, and you will get drowsy
OOner. Tho light Of a great fire Will
g enough.
PICKLEs.-ro 100 eucumbers add 2
ups salt; put thick layer of horse
adish leaves over them; pour on boil
lg water enough to cover them; let
hem stand two days; drain them, and
ut them back into a jar, put In spices
{ all kinds, mustard and nastnEtion
caves, stems, and seed; anise and dill
sed are good; cover with cloth s0d
'eight, and pour boiling cider vinegar
q enough to cover; In two weeks pour
q the vinegar, amt boil and pour it
ack on them boiling hot the same as
efore; If you put up enough of them
ley will last until next summer with
ut change OF vinegar.
To REMOVE LEATHER STAINS FROM
the stockings in
'pid water, rubbing in soap; do this
yer might; then wash out and rinse
ell In clean warm water; lay the
oekings fiat on the wash-board, soap
le stained parts we'll, then rell into
ard rolls. commencing at the toe; boil
v six or eight hours, frequently chang
ig the water, and always adding cold
ater; when thoroughly boiled, wash
1t IN cold water and hang to dry, IL
Balbriggen manufacture, In dark
'om, II ordinary British hose,
len In the open air. This re-
lipt viii not do for Isle thread or for
'lored American or French hosiery.