Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-04-13
HEALTH HINTS.
GET YOUR SLEEP.

GET YOUR SLEEP.
Nothing gives more mental and bodily
vigor than sound rest when properly APP
piled. Sleep is our great replenisher,
and if we neglect to take it naturally in
childhood, all the worse for us when we
grow up. If we go to bed early, we
sooner or later we contract a disease
called insomnia, allowing it to be
permanently fixed upon us, and then we
decay, even in youth. Late hours are
shadows from the grave.
ANOTHER SUBSTITUTE FOR CASTOR OIL.
A writer in the London Lancet men
tions black alder as substitute for cas-
tor oil. He recommends q fluid extracts
made from the bark, each fluid dram of
which contains an equivalent of one dram
of the bark. The extract is a dark
brown thick fluid, with a sweet and
agreeable taste, and the dose varies from
one to two drains for child AS an
aperient it has many advantages over
Rhamnus catharticus; it causes no
nausea, no eructations, and no gripping;
and also seems to have tonic and aromat-
ic qualities by which the muscular action
or the bowels is slightly stimulated.
BORACIC ACID FOR THE EYES.
The experiments made by DIR. Theo-
bald with boracic acid, in certain
ophthalmic diseases, having proved OF
very marked advantage in it's applica-
ton, he was led to try it in affections of
the eye attended with discharge, and has
found it most eficacious remedy.
From its possessing only slight astrin
gent power, he is disposed to attribute
much of its good effects to its antiseptic
properties, with which is combined GER
tain amount of sedative or anodyne
power, as shown in it's operation in cases
of scrofulous keratitis. He employs So
lutions of from two to four or more grains
to the ounce, which are dropped into the
eye three or four times day.
CHECKING PERsPIRATIoN.
A Boston merchant, in BLENDING a
hand " on board of one of his ships on a
windy day, found himself at the end of
an hour and a half pretty well exhaust
ed and perspiring freely. He sat down
to rest, and engaging in conversation,
time passed faster than he was aware of.
In attempting to rise, he found he was
unable to do so without assistance. He
was taken home and put to bed, where
he remained two years; and for long
time afterward could only hobble about
with the aid of a crltch. Less exposure
than this have in constitutions not so
vigorous resulted in inflammation of the
lungs" pneumonia" lending in death
in less than week, or causing tedious
rheumatism, to be a source of torture for
a time. Multitudes of lives would
be saved every year, and an incalculable
amount of human suffering would be
prevented, if parents would begin to ex-
plain to their. children, at the age of
three or four years, the danger which at
tends cooling off too quickly after exer-
else, and the Importance of not standing
still after exercise, or work, or play, or
OF remaining exposed to the wind, or of
sitting in an open window or door, or of
pulling off any garment, even the hat or
bonnet, while in heat.
PURE FOOD.
1t is no economy to use inferior food.
1t is a saving Of money and time and
health to give higher price for what we
eat, If it be fresh and perfect, than to
obtain it for less on account of it's being
wilted or old or partially decayed.
Some people prefer to make their meat
tender by keeping, which means that de-
composition is taking place; in palmer
phrase, it is rotting. Such meats require
less chewing, and may appear very ten
der, but it is a physiological fact that they
are not digested as easily Or as quickly
as solid fresh meat. When vegetable
begins to wilt it is no longer that vege-
table, because change of particles has
taken place, and in such proportion it is
unnatural-it is dead-and to eat it tends
to death. One of the most horrible forms
of disease is caused by eating sausages
which have been kept long time; more
common in Germany than elsewher
Scarcely anything saddens us SO much in
passing through some of the by-streets
and more eastern avenues as the sight of
the long-kept meats and shriveling vege-
tables which are sold to the unfortunate
poor at the corner Dutch groceries. But
the poverty stricken are not the only suf-
ferers; the richest men come in for their
share, for themselves and for their famil-
les, in proportion as the mistresses OF
their splendid mansions are incompetent
or inattentive to those household duties,
the proper performance or neglect Of
which makes all the difference between
true wife and a contemplate doll.
With all the high sounding advantages
of high sounding "Young Ladies'
Boarding Schools " and Institutes :"
and all that, with all the twaddle about
learning French and German, and music
and aesthetics, how many of these paint
like girls are any more fit to take charge
of mans household than to navigate a
ship or calculate a parallax ?-HaVs
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