The Osceola times., 1882-04-08
THE HOUSEHOLD.
A Clean Kitchen-Health In Middle Age
Caring for Baby-Recipes.


A CLEAN KITCHEN.
As all the food of the family has TO be
prepared in the kitchen, and as most
working people have TO take their meals
and sit in the kitchen-indeed, as the
one-day room has to be parlor, kitchen
and all to many honest families-it
ought to be clean and neat, or it will not
be comfortable and healthy. Every
morning the room must be carefully
swept, and any hearth rug, mat or piece
of carpet must be taken out of doors and
beaten daily. Cupboards want great care
to keep them free from dust, cool and
neat. Everything should be clean that
is put in the cupboards, and there should
be a place for every different thing, so
that il you wanted anything you could
lay your hand upon it. Be sure whether
you keep the lids bright or not to keep
the inside of every pan or pot used in
cooking 30 clean that it is perfectly dry
and sweet. 1fyou neglect this you may
be the cause of poisoning yourself and
your household. Many families have
been poisoned by food being cooked in
dirty pans Besides, even il food is not
made poisonous, it is spoiled by not be-
ing cleanly cooked. Be very particular
about this. All tins should be polished
once a week. Kitchen towels require
good management. 1t is q very nasty
habit to be careless about towels. Tea
things and glass should be wiped with a
thin, coarse towel kept for that purpose.
If you have plate rack over the sink,
plates should be washed in hot water,
rinsed in cold, ond put to drain in the
rack; but If you have no rack you must
wipe your plates; keep a good dish. cloth
to wash them with, and use your dish
cloth and dish towel for nothing else.
HEALTH IN MIDDLE AGE.
At the age Of 35, says a writer in the
Family Doctor, mankind, according to
some eminent authorities, is said to have
reach ed the meridian of life, while 9TH
ers mention 40 as the middle years Of
our earthly existence. But be the case
az it may, no one who has taken the or
dinary means to preserve bis health in
youth and early manhood should feel 9TH
er than young at the age OF As, from which
period until that of 60, if life be spared
to us, we shall do well to consider our
selves middle aged, and to adopt greater
precautions for the preservation of
health and consequent happiness, than
might have been deemed necessary when
youth was on our side. And if this is
done, the period Of middle age should
be one of the greatest activity of both
body and mind. What though the hairs
are turning gray? That but shows one
has suffered sorrow and survived it, or
that, sorrow apart, he is the man who
thinks And what though the limbs be
not quite so nimble? Calm enjoyment
fosters thought and general habits of
that true temperance which conduces to
long life and contentment more than any
thing else in this world; and whatever
some may say to the contrary, | main
tain that the desire to live long is inhe-
rent in every healthy sane man or woman
To die ofold age is the only natural death,
and if death may ever be said to be
pleasant, the only pleasant one. Though
younger than some of my professional
brethren still in harness, have never
theless seen death in many shapes and
forms, and in almost every case | hav,
found the aged more resigned to the in
evitable than those less advanced in
years. For well spent life is like a
well spent day-at its close there is a
wish for rest.