The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-02-23
UsEPuL And suGGEsTIYE.

Butter Scotch Candy: One pound
IF crushed sugar, three ounces of but
ter, put in a stew-pan or kettle, and stir
often to prevent burning. Try a little
IN water; if brittle it is done. Pour out
On the top of battered pan, and mark
it in squares. They are as good as those
you buy. A little grated lemon rind
improves the flavor.
| To remove grease spots, take dry
potters' clay, finely powdered, scatter
it lightly over the spot, taking care to
cover the spot thoroughly with the pow
der. Hang the garment near the fire
or expose to the suns rays for an hour
or more. Brush off the clay and all
traces of the grease will have disap-
peared.
Any one who is piecing silk
quilt, or expecting to piece one, viii be
glad to know how to dye silk or satin
beautiful old-gold color. Take green
water, make a strong dye; after
the dye thoroughly, wash in soft
soapsuds; iron while damp. laying n
cloth over the silk. This should al
ways be done when ironing silk or rib
bon, even if it has not been washed, but
simply sponged.
An eminent physician says he cures
ninety-nine out of every one hundred
cases of scarlet fever by giving the pa
tient warm lemonade with gum arabic
dissolved in it. A cloth wrung out in
hot water and laid upon the stomach
should be removed as soon as it be-
comes cool. DIR. Revillout states that
lemon juice, used as a gargle, is an
efficacious specific against diphtheria
and simple throat troubles. He has sue
cessfully thus employed it for eighteen
years.
To purify room, set pitcher OF
water in the apartment, aud in few
hours it will have absorbed all the re-
spired gases in the room, the air of
which will have become purer, but the
water utterly filthy. The colder the
water is, the greater the capacity to
contain these gases. At ordinary tenn
perature a pail of water will absorb a
pint or carbonic acid gas and several
pints of ammonia. The capacity is
nearly doubled by reducing the water
to the temperature of ice. Hence, wa
ter Kept in a room awhile is unfit for
use. For the same reason water from
a pump should always be pumped out
in the morning before any of it is used.
Impure water is more injurious than i'm
pure air,
Fresh, ripe, perfect raw fruit is safe
and healthful at all seasons of the year,
and amid the ravages of disease, wheth-
er epidemic, endemic or sporadic, gen
eral, special or local. Under proper re-
strictiOns as to quantity, such fruit as
named will cure diarrhpa, aid in re-
moving a cold, collie, fever, or any other
disease whose treatment requires the
bowels to be kept freely open; for this
effect, fresh, ripe fruit is acknowledged
to have; but to be used advantageously
in health and disease, the following
rules are Imperative: Fruit should be
eaten ripe, raw, fresh and perfect; it
should be eaten in mOderationf it should
be eaten not later than four o. clock in
the afternoon; no water or fluid of any
description should be swallowed within
an hour after eating fruit to have its
full beneficial effect, nothing else should
be eaten at the time the fruit is taken.
1t is to the neglect of these Observances
that erroneous impressions prevail in
many families, and to an extent, too, in
some instances, that the most luscious
peach, or apple, or bunch of grapes, is
regarded as that much embodied chol-
era and death. When will men learn to
be observant and reflective? -HUIpS
Journal of Health.