Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-04-15
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
IMPROVING THE FIGURE.-The proper
ton of my sex with a slight curvature of
the spine, one shoulder or one hip higher
than the other, or some other irregularity,
is SO great that any dressmaker will tell
you, says a New York letter, that few
dresses have two sides exactly alike in
shape. On this basis of fact an enterpris-
ing woman has undertaken to build up
business-not by padding and pressing to
force symmetry, but on the theory that
gymnastics will remedy the fault if prop
erly employed. She has opened a small
private gymnasium in which light Indian
clubs, dumb bells, trapezes, ladders, and
other appliances for exercise are provided.
The candidate for shaping is first carefully
examined, in order to determine exactly
her departures from true grace and &C.
curacy. Then the kind of exercise
to develop the lacking spot is prescribed.
If one hip is out of plumb, swinging
from the trapeze by the legs, accompanied
by swinging from side to side, is recon-
mended. If round shoulders are the
blemish, club.swinging and hanging by the
hands from rings are the proper exercises.
How much real improvement can thus be
accomplished l do not know, but | have no
doubt it is considerable. The exercise is
good, at least; and it would be wise for
every girl or woman to sling light pair of
Indian clubs in getting out of bed in the
morning, before putting on any clothes to
interfere with the free movements OF the
arms and shoulders. This practice is COM
ing into vogue little, but nowhere near
as fast as it ought to. Let any vigorous
young woman try it, and find out how good
it feels to get herself into a state of
glow and expansion, and she will con-
tinue it if she has half an ounce of vim.
After getting into a PRECIPITATION, flop into
bath-tub full of warm water, rub your
self dry with coarse towel, and there
you are for day free from headache and
lassitude.
SCREENS. unusually handsome
screens have been seen recently. Two of
these are handsomely mounted in carved
wood frames. In one of these the upper
panels are filed with gilded leather. On
one the decoration consists of long droop.
ing hly-shaped flowers with rank leaves IN
the corresponding panel white flags are the
flowers chosen, while in the center panel,
which is much larger than the other two,
the purple blossoms and foliage of the
Southern tulip tree is used to much advan.
tage. The frame is of cherry, and the
lower panels, which are of wood, were
deliberately treated with open wood
carving. A second screen was also
three-leaved. The frame was of old
oak or darkened oak, and carved
in low relief with oak leaves and
acorns. The low panels were solid, and
boldly carved with a design of large
branches with leaves on fretted ground.
The upper panels were done in oils, and
the designs executed with great breadth
There were on the two outer panels orange
branches laden with fruit, heavy boughs
with apples, and in the center large clus-
tiers of grapes with leaves, against
notified background in which large whitish
patches were used with good effect. A
third screen, which ia low and better
adapted for fire screen, has the panels
made of slender strips of white wood about
an inch wide, combined in an intricate
star pattern, which presents its narrow
lines to the surface.
WHAT COFFEE WILL Do.-According to
Dr. Book, of Leipsic, coffee and tea are
the chief causes of the nervousness and
peevishness of our time. DIR. Segur takes
the opposite ground and enumerates the
blessings which they can produce. 1t is a
mental and bodily stimulant, assisting to
convert the blood into nervous tissue, and
thus recruit the nervous and thinking fac.
ulties. 1t lessons the waste of tissue, and
thus lessons the amount of food necessary
to support the system. 1t will often cut
short nd nr aott ayo of inf fo,r
In typhus fever it increases the excretion
of urea, and SO far purifes the blood with
out increasing metamorphosis of the tissues
1t tends to lessen coma and low delirium.
1t is DR.. Segur's chief reliance in yellow
fever. 1t is useful in spasmodic asthma,
whooping cough and Mysteries 1t is diu-
retic in cardiac dropsy. In opium poison.
ing its efficacy is generally acknowledged
After heavy meal it relieves the sense of
oppression. 1t is a disinfectant and de-
odorizer. Habitual coffee drinkers gener.
ally enjoy good health, and usually live to
a good old age.
WORTH AND Noses. ladies who are
blessed with red noses can take comfort in
the fact that Worth, the great dressmaker,
has at last solved the problem. A wealthy
lady in Paris, so says truthful correspond.
ent, who enjoyed the possession of a nose
that shOne like drug store window, re.
Gently went to him for relief. After
studying her peculiarities, that celebrated
man arrayed her in black and white
striped silk dress made with great sim.
plicity, and under her chin he placed a
great garnet bow and another in her hair
Her friends were gratifed at her distin.
guished appearance and observed with
pleasure the purity of her complexion. On
meeting her afterward in the street with
her accustomed beacon light, it was dis
covered that it had paled only in the
deeper glow of the garnet bows The
genius of Worth had succeeded in doing
what doctors and hygiene had vainly es.
sayed, and for the time had once more put
her nose into proper relation with the rest
of her face.
COLD IN THE HEAD.-This can be cured
at once, If taken care of at the beginning
Dissolve teaspoonful of borax in pint of
water let 1t stand until it becomes tepid
snuff some up the rostrils two or three
times during the day, or use the dry pow.
dered borax like snuff, taking pinch as
often as required. At night have hand
kerchief saturated with spirits of camphor;
place it near the nostrils, so as to inhale
the fumes while sleeping.
To CURE CoLIC.-For the violent inter
nal agony termed collie, take teaspoonful
of salt in pint of water drink it and 90
to bed 1t is one of the speediest remedies
known. The same will revive a person
who seems almost dead from heavy fail.
A gentleman thoroughly posted in the
grain. growing sections of San Diego county