Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-04-29
The farm aud fireside.

more if they are aged and feeble. One way to
do this is to rest one set of muscles while 9TH
ers are in action. Begin early in the morning
by sitting down to your work before becoming
tired, and you will hold out better through the
day.
Place light box in a chair to make it high
enough to sit at the table to work. You can
iron, wash dishes, mix bread, roll out pie
crust, and many other things with far less ia
tigue, than if standing. Women cannot keep
on their feet very long at time without in
iurv to their health. All women who have
children, whether boys or girls, should teach
them early to aid in the kitchen.
Boys as we'll as girls may be taught to pound
out, or rub clothes, and even to wash, rinse,
and hang them. up neatly. They may be
taught to mop, scrub and clean ceilings, iron
their own clothes, and others if need be, clean
vegetables, and do many things about the
house, and it will make better men of them,
than if they were not taught to do these
things.
CUTTING Hot BREAD.-One day company
arrived unexpectedly. Supper was just over
and no bread had been left. had just taken
from the oven some misunderstanding light
bread. but it was too hot to cut. We live IN
country place where there is no baker. In
nv bewilderment, l happened to remember
that in Mrs. Whitney's Cook Book, Just
How" she suggests heating knife, in order
to split open hot short-cake. Why, Thought
/, may not smoking hot light bread be sliced
with hot knife 1t is the cold surface of the
steel applied to the warm dough that produces
disagreeable clamminess. heated my cary
ing knife and tried it, The bread sliced beau
tifully, and as 1 piled it up to bring to the
table, put it on plate upon which had laid
a fresh napkin, for the contact of the hot bread
with the cold plate would have produced the
same sodden clamminess on the surface OF the
lower slice. Of course, l would not recon-
mend the slicing of hot loaves, except upon
emergencies. AS frequent diet it might
prove injurious, but not more SO than other
warm breads.-American Agriculturist.
SLEEP AND WASTE OF LIFE.-Sleep will do
much to cure irritability of temper, peevlsh-
ness. and uneasiness. 1t will build up and
make strong weary body. 1t will do much
to cure dyspepsia, particularly that variety
known as nervous. dyspepsia. 1t will relieve
the languor and prostration felt by consump-
tives. 1t will cure hypochondria. 1t will cure
the headache 1t will cure neuralgia. 1t Will
cure broken spirit. 1t will cure sorrow.
Now no man should do more work OF muscle,
or of brain, in day, than he can perfectly re-
cover from the fatigue of in a good nights
rest. Up to that point, exercise is good; be-
yond, are waste of life, exhaustion and decay.
When hunger calls for food, and fatigue de-
mands rest, we are in the natural order anu
keep the balance of life. When we take slim
ulants to spur our jaded nerves, or excite an
appetite, we are wasting life. There is wrong
and mischief in all waste of life. A man
should live so as to keep himself at his best,
and with true economy. 10 eat more tood
than is needful, is worse policy than tossing
money into the sea. 1t is waste OF labor,
and waste of life.
TREATMENT OF ERYSIPELAs.-I have just
been reading an article on erysipelas, and 1t
induces me to give you a remedy. 1t is pow
dered charcoal mixed with thick sour milk,
outwardly applied with swab as often as the
itching occurs.
One of my children was attacked with cry
sipelas at noon In an hour his eyes were en-
tirely closed, and his face was frightful to be
seen. 1 made constant application of the
above, and at Sp. m. the swelling had subsidized,
leaving his face full of wrinkles. The disease
then passed to his neck and thence forward
till it traversed every inch of him, getting to
his feet at midnight-12 hours after it's first ap-
pearance. He then slept quietly till morning,
when he appeared languid; a dose of senna
was given, and the next day he appeared as
well as usual.
1 will add that erysipelas is hereditary in my
husband and in myself. haveused this treat
ment many times, and always with the best
success
BoRERs-The most effectual, if not the
only way to protect young apple trees from the
borer, is simply to bandage the lower part of
the tree with any kind of muslin or cloth
the bandage to extend from about six inches
above the ground to about two inches below
it. Apply the bandage as soon in the spring
as possible, allowing it to remain on until the
last of October. The beetle lays its eggs an
inch OF two above the ground, in early spring,
and the eggs, being laid on the sunny side OF
the tree. latch as soon asthe days become suf
ficiently warm, when the young grub, finding
it's way down to the soft bark, gradually works
it's way in. The bandage prevents both the
laying of the egg and the entrance of the grub.
The same will apply to peach trees.
D1s1NFECTANTs.- National Board of
Health recommend these disinfectants:
First, roll sulphur (brimstone) for fumiga-
tion; second, sulphate of iron (copperas) dis
solved in the proportion of one and half
pounds to the gallon, for soil, sewers, etc. !;
third, sulphate of zinc and common salt dis.
solved together in water, in the proportion OF
four ounces to the gallon, for clothing, linen,
etc. Carbolic acid, a most valuable agent III
the hands of scientific men, is excluded from
the list on account of the difficulty in procur-
ing it of fixed strength and proper quality.
Towels, clothing and bed linen should be
plunged at once into the zinc solution heated
to the boiling point. Pure air and cleanliness
are among the protective agents recommended,
and the most important of all.
OVER EDUCATING.-Thereis is such a thing
as educating too much; and some of our phi
lanthropists and the schools under their con-
troll err in that direction. Boys and girls who
are devoted to common occupations in life are
often untitled for them, simply by having
themselves stimulated by overmuch and false
instruction in school, to regard themselves as
destined to Somr thing other than Providence
has plainly marked out for them. This is
especially true of girls. They dabble in paint
ing, trihe with music, and spoil themselves
with these and other so-called accomplish
ments, till, disdaining to work at solid indus
tries, they betake themselves to the arts.
Many a life is made miserable because it is
seeking to subsist with a brush and easel when
it ought to be welding a broom and dust-pan.
ADVANTAGES OF WIND INSTRUMENTS FOR
LUNG DIsEAsEs.--Many philanthropists, Oh
seeing our young military musicians WELD
enormous wind Instruments, have sorrowed
over the few years the poor fellows would have
to live. Well, they are mistaken. All the
men whose business it is to try the wind i'll
struments made at the various factories before
sending them off for sale, are, without excep-
tion, free from pulmonary affections. have
known many, who, on entering upon this call
ing, were very delicate, and who, nevertheless,
though their duty obliged them to blow for
hours together enjoyed perfect health after All
instance of this. Ny mother died of consump-
ton eight children of hers fell victims to the