Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-13

To PURIFY THE BLooD.-Strictly diet
on oat meal porrdge. lean beef, plain
vegetables, fruit and Graham bread. Eat
no wheat bread or pastry or puddings; no
butter or grease whatever. Butter and
cheese secretly poison many systems.
Drink weak lemonade. Ett regularly,
and the dryer the food the better. Food
floating in grease refuses to digest. Sub
stltnte clear water, not ice water, for tea
or coffee. On retiring apply cold cream
or beef fat to the complexion-take the oils
externally instead of internally.
BAD HABITs.-Understand clearly the
reasons why the habit is injurious; study
the subject. Avoid the places, the persons
and the thoughts that lead to the tempta
ton. Frequent the places, associate with
persons. indulge the thoughts leading
away from temptation Keep busy; idle
ness is the strength Of bad habits. Do not
give up the struggle when you have
broken your resolution once, twice, ten
times. That only shows how much need
there is for you to strive. Do not suppose
it is little or easy thing you have under
taken. But pcrsevere until you have
overcome them all. This is the only sure
way.
Physicians and dentists who use small
mirrors to explore the throat and teeth,
astronomers employing large mirrors out
of doors, all who have occasion to use
spyglasses in foggy weather, and espe-
c,ally those near sighted persons who can
not shave themselves without bringing
heir noses almost in contact with the
looking glass, are doubtless aware that
the ustre OF mirrors becomes soon dim
med by the breath, by dew. and generally
by water in vaporous state. The way
to prevent this troublesome fog is simply
to wipe the surface of the mirror before
using with rag mois!ened with glycerine.
By this substance watery vapor is COM
pletely taken up.
A man cannot afford to be unfaithful
under any circumstances, cannot afford 10
he mean ut any time; cannot afford to do
less han his best ut all times and under
all circumstances. No matter how wrong
fully you are placed, and no matter how
uniustly you are treated, you cannot, for
your own sake, afford to use anything but
your better self, nor to render anything
but your better service; you cannot afford
20 lie to ii Liar; you cannot afford to do
@. her than deal uprightly with any man,
no matter what eXigencies may exist be-
tween him and you. No man can afford
to be anything but q true man, living in
his higher nature, and acting from the
highest consideration.
A singular remedy for indigestion
recommended by an English magazine, i:
chewing different kinds of green leaves
when out of doors, and swallowing the
Juice. Any leaves, not nauseous or pois.
! onous, are recommended. The benefit is
derived partly from the increased flow OF
salivary fluid, and partly from the tonic
| and stimulating action of the leaf chewed
Before meals is u better time to try the
remedy than after. The writer gave list
Of the leaves most likely to be beneficial
lmong them being those of pine, spruce
or blackthOrn trees, currant and rose
bushes, mint, the petals of flowers, the
stalks of mountain daisies and the tender
portions of the stalks of grain or grasses
If this remedy isn't very powerful it is
certainly cheap.
More than eight years ago the city au.
thortlcs of London offered II prize for any
invention which would enable them to oct
rid of snow in the streets. Seventeen
schemes were submitted. The successful
apparatus was at once erected and has
been in operation every year since. II
consists simply of an inclined plate OF
iron, fixed below main hole leading tc
the main sewer. Under this plate are
ranged gas burners. The snow carted
| from the adjoining thoroughfares is shov
| eled down the manhole grating. falls on
the heated plate, is reduced to water and
passes away down the sewer. The con.
sumption of Gas is very moderate, and the
cost is said to be much less than that in
cured by carting away the snow on the
old system. The apparatus, says the
Engineer, has proved extremely successful
and the invention deserves to be widely
adopted.
FRUIT SAVES DoCToRs' BILLs.-An
Experienced doctor in the west says his
bills are cut down in families in proper
ton as they eat fresh fruit. Strawberries
currants and tomatoes are better mcdi
cine than calomel or jalap, and rather
better to take. Apples freely eaten do the
work OF vermifuge Or lozengcs. Every
fruit or berry has its mission to mar
hidden away within it. Therefore, Sc
ont strawberry bed, if you haven't one
If there is no other place, border you
garden walks, and with sharp hoe an,
straight line keep the edges cut clearly
leaving II rich mat of vines two feet wide
Plant currants A fresh cutting will grow
if you but stick it in the ground. b, rdel
the fence with raspberries Walk aroun,
your place during the early spring day
and make mental inventory of ever,
spot where you can stick in fruit tree o
n berry bush. Plant something.
EAT ONIoNs.-Few people dream of tn
many virtues of onions, and those few ar
enthusiastic for the benefcent bulb. ant
believe it II panacea for every i'll. Lun!
and liver complaints are certainly benefit
ed, often cured, by n free consumption o
onions either cooked or raw. Colds yiel'
to them like magic. Don't be afraid O
them--especially if you are married
Taken at night all offence will be wantin!
by morning. and the good effects will
amply compensate for the trihing annoy
ance. Taken regularly they greatly pro
mote the health of the lungs and tn
digestive organs. An extract made b
boiling down the juice of onions to
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