The Osceola times., 1881-04-23
HOVE TOPICS.
Keep Ahead Various Cures aud Rene
diss-Hous, hold Recipes.
KEEP AITEAD,

small, and keeps il up for number o.
years, will become rich before he dies
One who inherits property, and goes on
year by year spending a little more than
his income, will become poor if he lives
long enough Living beyond their mean:
has brought multitudes of persons to ruin
in our generation. IL is the cause OF
nine-tenths of all the delalcations that
have disgraced the age. Bankers and
business men in general do not helI
themselves to other peoples money until
their own funds begin to fall off, and
their expenditures exceed their receipts
A man who is in debt walks in the mids,
of perils. 1t cannot but impair mans
seli-respect to know that he is living al
the expense of othors.
Ii is also very desirable that We should
keep somewhat ahead in our work. This
NAV not be possible in all cases. as, fol
instance, when a mans work is assigned
to certain fixed hours, like that of the
operatives in mill. But there are Ger.
tain classes of people who choose theii
time for the work they are called to do
and amongst them are some who invari-
ably put off the task assigned them a
long as possible, and then come to its
performance, hurried, perplexed, anxious
confused-in such a state of mind as GER
tainly units them for doing their best
work. Get ahead, and keep ahead, and
your success is tolerably certain.
VARIOUS CURES AND REMEDIES.
To CURE A HEAD CoLD.-When getting
into bed, take "a pinch of fine salt and
snuff il well up in both nostrils lit will
sting for the moment), and as the water
starts, keep snufiing till it goes down the
back passage 10 the throat If taken
when the cold is first coming on, it will
be surely broken up before morning.
For RHEUMATIsM OR NEURALGIA-Put
an ounce of saltpetre into bottle, and
put in more or less alcohol, as you have
it. Shake well, till all the saltpetre that
will, has been Dissolved in that. Then
bathe freely with it. If the patient is
very feeble, it is well TO take something
warm, before bathing in anything. Fill
up your bottle again, when you have
used the spirit, and keep it as you do
your camphor bottle. have never
known this remedy to fail.
TIE idea has recently been advanced
that Bright's disease is attributable TO
immoderatc use OF ice water and cold
drinks, the fact being cited that the peo-
pie of this country use 80 per cent. more
ice in their drinks than the people of any
other country-the inhabitants of Green
land not excepted-and that we have
% per cent more of Bright's disease.
The wine-drinking countries of Europe
are said to be comparatively free from
the malady, while in America the pro-
gress of the disease, ii is asserted, has
kept pace with the increased consump-
ton of ice.
IL the Parkes Museum of Hygiene, in
London, there are two appliances fol
charging the air of room with anti
| septic vapor, which are worthy of note
One of these, as described, consists of {
miniature "round towel " circulating OF
two rollers, the lower of which rests il
a trough filed with a solution of carboli,
acid, or any other soluable dis-infectant
The other apparatus consists Of meta
| box filed with Norwegian tar, the lid o
the box being provided with meta
| laminR which are immersed in the tar
| when the apparatus is TO be used, the
cover is raised and the tar-covered
| laminH are exposed TO the air-the odol
being at once perceptible throughout the
apartment and highly beneficial as O
disinfectant, or inhaled by tube con
| nected with the apparatus.
THE almost proverbial healthfulness
and freshness of butchers is attributed
in an article in Les Mondes, to the fact
that they absorb, by assimilation through
the respiratory passage, the nutrative
and vitalizing principles of the meat vol.
! atilized in the air, for il is a generally
observed fact that butchers have small
appetites and do not eat much meat
Assuming this to be the true explana-
tion, it is argued that young people suf
fering from deficient or impure blood
or especially children of Il weak or lynn
phatic constitution, might be subjected
with advantage to hygientic treatment
based upon it. \ French physician OF
eminence commends the idea, and offers
a plan for kind of gaseous baths fol
patients, the air to be charged with vap.
ors of the appropriate vitalizing primer
Piles, and thus, he thinks, arrest the pro-
gress of differentiation.
\ DISTINGUISHED London physician
writing to The London Times about
oiling patients during the period of des
quamation after scarlet fever, has beer
largely used for many years; it is far more
constantly employed on the continent
than in England. 1t possesses certain
definite advantages, and whenever scar
latina patients are of necessity treated il
private houses, il should be adopted, ex
cept where contra-indicatcd by the con
dition of the patient, because il dimin
ishes the risk of infection to others. II
does so, however, by preventing tn,
ready distribution of the particles o
skin through the atmosphere but neither
oil nor glycerine is germicide or dsin
fectant, and the scales of epidermis are
just as infectious after as before their ap
plication."
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.
SWEET BIscUus.-Rub four ounces o
butter into eight ounces of flour, add six
ounces of ground loaf sugar, the yolk.
of two eggs, the white of one, and 6
tablespoonful of brandy; roll the paste
thin, and cut it with wineglass oil
cutter; egg over the top of each with the
remaining white, and sft on sugar; bake
in a moderate oven.
RICE PUDDING WITHOUT EGGs.--Put
into well buttered dish quarter-pound
best Carolina rice simply washed. pour
on it three pints of cold milk, sweeten
and flavor to taste; put little butter
and nutmeg on the top to brown; bake
two hours and a-half in a slow oven. on
which much of the success ofthe pudding
depends.
AMBER PUDDING. - Four eggs, their
weight in sugar, butter and flour, peal OF
one lemon, and grated rinds of two
Beat the butter with your hand TO a