The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10

ing for the day. Cold boiled meats,
cold vegetables, cold desserts for dinner,
when that meal comes in the middle of
the day, are in order. Potatoes made
INTO salad are not to be scorned by any
lover OF that vegetable. If cup of hot
tea or coffee is desired, it can be made
on an oil stove, and such food as is pre-
pared warm can be warmed over. But
custom renders cold food as palatable
as, and during hot weather even more
palatable than, hot food is in cold
weather. A little persistence on the
part of the house mother will prove this
the case, and the experiment is certainly
worth trying. Farmers wives who
stew over the stove in midsummer Moons
have harder time of it than farmers do
in the fields, and there is no necessity
for this. Iced tea and coffee and milk
are as delicious as hot tea and coffee
when ones palate is accustomed to
them.
AS to keeping ourselves cool, the ex-
ample of the inhabitants of tropical re-
gions is full of instruction. They work
in the early morning or late in the even
ing, and "lie by" during the noon
tides. 1t is not uncommon for every
member of Southern household to be
sound asleep at three O'Clock in the af-
ternoon. This matter of sleeping in the
day time and at any time is one of habit
largely, and he or she who can knit up
leisure minutes in this most profitable
manner is fortunate indeed.
| Great workers are invariably good
sleepers. A free use of the bath is as
essential to health as it is to cleanliness
and comfort. A bathing house may be
improvised of curtains put up in some
convenient place, and furnished with a
big wash-tub, if a bath-tub can not be
procured, and with abundance of tow
els. A full bath before retiring will in
sure sound and refreshing sleep. The
chill, if there is any, can be taken from
the water by letting it stand in the sun.
Every farm house should have its bath
ing house where laborers can find facili-
ties for keeping themselves clean, or at
least becoming so before retiring. The
bath is a great civilizer and Christian
izer. "Cleanliness is next to godli-
ness" The washing of regenera-
ton y rarely comes to those who are
Ignorant and neglectful of the use of
soap and water.
The constant recurrence of summer
annoyances in the shape of flies and
mosquitoes and insects can be largely
prevented by the use of netted windows,
and of Melted doors with springs at
tached to them. Wire netting is more
expensive than cotton, but once pur-
chased, lasts, if used with care, many
years and insures immunity from that
pest the house-ty, and that worst pest
the mosquito. Long rods with strips of
paper tied to one end are very effective
in driving out flies, and a newspaper
folded and applied to each remaining
fly individually effectually disposes of
them.
Every thing that can attract flies to
or around the house should be carefully
removed, and no breeding place for
them be tolerated on the premises. Dry
earth is deodorizer as well as a disin-
fectanp and this plentifully used will
absorb all odors of decay. Copperas
water, lime water, chloride of lime, car
bolic acid, borax, are necessities of
summer household use, and wisely en-
ployed will keep drains and sinks and
cellars perfectly sweet and wholesome
and free from insects.-N. Y. Tribune.