Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-01-16
USEFUL INFORMATION.

we would at once abolish the use of that
room as q sleeping apartment, because
We are satisfied that it is q wrong GUS
tom, it being much healthier to sleep
upstairs. Many family, of which the
members were suffering and weak in
general, has been restored to a vigorous
and healthy condition by following our
advice, which was to remove their bed
room upstairs; to have their beds, sum-
mer and winter, exposed the whole day
to the fresh air from the open windows
except, of course, when there is rain
or mist-and also have, during the
whole night, one window partially open,
even in winter, SO as always to inhale the
fresh cool air from the outside, butusing
at the same time precaution to have suf-
ficient bed.covering to secure warmth.
SCHOOLING That DOES Nor EDUCATE.
The whole tendency Of modern edu-
cation is to lift boys and girls to places
they are not fitted to fill, to disgust
them with work they are fitted to do,
which must be done, and which can be
easily obtained. Our theory Ct educa-
ton is continually losing sight Of a fact
which never presents itself to be ig.
nored, and teaching the young to lose
sight of it, that the mass of people in
every generation and under whatever
form of Government must be laborers.
The old heresy that every boy has a
chance to be President of the United
States has done more mischief in the
small brains of boys who, when they at
tain manhood's strength, are fitted to
it has even in larger brains of public
men who, once bitten with the per-
sonal application of the idea, are good
for nothing afterward. The boy should
have an education which, when COM
pleted, will make the subject better
fitted to pursue we'll work for
which he is adapted; which makes him
not ashamed to do it, and which thus
dignifes labor.
MUSCULAR DEyE1opMENr.-The road
is easy. He who wants but little
strength need do but little work, but he
who wants great strength must do great
work. If he has not perseverance he
will not get far. If he has, he can, es-
pecially with an eager companion, in an
hours work a day aimed especially at
his weak spots, render himself O thor
oughly well-built man in 1880. The
rules are as simple as those of any me-
chanical art. No expensive tools are
required. The methods are portable,
as man travelling, for instance, can
work as well in a hotel room as at home,
can find a floor and couple of chairs, and
indoors he scarcely needle more, while
out of doors there is always the road.
Many moderate efforts at plain and
simple work, instead of the often dan
gerous and generally useless pranks OF
fancy gymnastics, or the risk of over
doing in hard racing of any sort-these
are all that is required. But a few
minutes daily at any muscle is all one
will want Or at first should take. But
he must be frank with himself, and res
olutely attack the weaker muscles, let
ting the others rest till they catch up.
How TO DEAL WITH RATs.-A writer
in the Scientific american says: ave
clean our premises of these detestable
vermin by making whitewash yellow
with copperas and covering the stones
and rafters in the cellar with it. In
every crevice in which rat may tread
we put the crystals of the copperas, and
scatter the same in the corners of the
floor. The result was a perfect STAN
pede of rats and mice. Since that time
not a football of either rats or mice has
been heard about the house. Every
spring coat of the yellow wash is given
the cellar, as purifier, RS rat extermi-
nator, and no typhoid, dysentery or
fever attacks the family. Many persons
deliberately attract all the rats in the
neighborhood by leaving fruits and
vegetables uncovered in the cellar, and
sometimes even the soap is LETT open for
their regalement. Cover up everything
eatable in the cellar and pantry, and
you will soon starve them out. These
precautions, joined to the service Of a
good cat, will prove as good a rat ex-
Termination as the chemist can provide.
We never allow rats to be poisoned in
our dwelling, they are so liable to die
between the walls and produce much
annoyance.