The Osceola times., 1882-04-15
THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Bsss ntials to Health-Salt for the
Throat-Cleanliness and Order-Various
Valuable Hints.

NaiukDle Hinis.
THE ESSENTIALS TO HEALTH.
When there is a lack Of warm clothing
there is always drain upon the vital
energies which tends to break down the
health, and this sometimes takes place
when the victim has such a good consti-
tuition and such excellent health, as 10
be able to bear with impunity almost
any neglect and exposure. | know OF
women who wear thin cotton stockings
all winter, and who say that they do not
need anything warmer in doors, but
these are not healthy women and l
doubt if their supposed feelings" cor
rectly indicate the body's needs. Those
who dislike the feeling of wool in con-
tact with the skin land | think this is
much according to habit or use) can
wear thin pair of cotton stockings
under woolen ones, which is better for
warmth than two pairs of cotton stock
ings. Nourishing food, pure air, plenti-
ful sleep, and happy exercise, are all
essential to perfect health. Nutritious
food, is necessary for good blood and
this can not be pure unless clean, fresh
air be bountifully supplied, Growth
and repair can not 20 on properly with
Out the entire rest of healthy, unforced
sleep. and exercise Of both body and
brain is necessary to the health and
strength Of each.-t American Agricul-
turist.
SALT FOR THE THROAT.
In these days, writes a correspondent,
when diseases of the throat are so uni
versally prevalent and in 80 many
cases fatal, we feel it our duty to say a
word in behalf of most efiectual, if not
. .s,.. &. . L. ~
years past, indeed, We may say during
the whole of life OF more than forty
years, we have been subject to sore
throat, and more particularly to a dry,
hacking cough, which is not only dis
tressing to ourselves, but TO our friends
and those with whom we are brought
into business contact. Last fall we were
induced to try what virtue there was in
common salt. We commenced by using
it three times day-morning, noon
and night. We diaso we'd large table
spoonful of pure table salt in about half
a small tumblerful of water. With this
we gargled the throat most thoroughly
Just before each meal time. The result
has been that during the entire winter
We were not ofi1v free rom coughs and
s colds. but the dry, hacking cough has
tlkAiNlN ulNalltaItA- W Y IitiibtNS e.atp'
satisfactory results solely to the use of
salt gaegle, and most cordially recon-
mend a trial of it to those who are sub
ject to diseases of the throat
CLEANLINESS AND ORDER.
4 look into the chamber of boy or
girl will give one an idea what kind OF
man or woman he or she will probably
become. A boy who keeps his clothes
hung up neatly, or girl whose room is
clean always, will be very apt to make a
successful man or woman. Order and
neatness are essential TO our comfort as
well as 10 that OF others about us. A boy
who throws down his cap or boots any
where will never keep his accounts in
shape will do things in slovenly, care
less way, and not be long wanted in any
position. A girl who does not make her
bed till after dinner, and she should al
ways make it herself rather than have a
sarvant do it, and throws her dress or
bonnet down in a chair, will make a
poor wife in nine cases out OF ten. II
the world could see how girl keeps her
dressing room, some unhappy marriages
would be neutrality-suspicious..
VALUABLE HINTS.
Tobacco as a window plant is recon-
mended by correspondent of an Eng
lish journal. 1t certainly has much To
,mmend it; its broad, green leaves and
Stately habit, while, should il flower, its
abundance of bloom would be snowy,
and continue long. The tobacco stores
oiten have il as a sign, which shows that
II will endure neglect.
have found that brooms wet with
boiling soap suds once or twice week
will become very pliable and tough and
will not cut the cai pet in sweeping, and
will last much l)nger; also, that hand
fu of salt sprinkled over the carpet be-
fore sweeping will carry the dust along
with it and cause the carpet to look
bright and clean. A very dusty carpet
NAV also be cleaned by dipping the
broom in cold water, shaking off all the
drops, and sweeping a yard or so at a
time, then wash the broom and repeat
until the room is swept.
A CORRESPONDENT writes: 81 saw last
summer large cellar under an old build
ing, whose owner informed me that the
walls were honey -combed with the run
WAYS of rats At that time the lady of
the house told me that not rat was
either visiting or domiciliating in that
cellar. or its numerous burrows. Her
I0lutuy WIS w lildht SNiohS ooiuhhoh VI
Copperss water, and paint the walls of
the whole cellar; then to pound up cop
peras and scatter it along the sides of
The walls and into every hole where it
could be thrown, or profusely thrust
therein. In two weeks every rat had
disappeared.
THE Gardeners Monthly states that il
has been found that water heated to
$50 deg. is fatal to all insects that infest
plants, even though exposed to IT but for
D instant, while the immersion OF a
liant for an instant in water of that tenn
rerature does not injure the plant in the
east, unless the leaves are very tender
om having been grown in the shade
but even then they do not suffer at l2C
eg., while the insects seem to be de
ehoyed at about 100 to 40 deg; SO in
0rdening practice the rule is 10 recon-
Aend the water to heated 10 120 deg
nc practice generally is to turn the
r|ant upside down and dip the plant, but
not the pot, for an instant only, in hot
water. In use the water has TO be care
Mil, tested by s Thermometer"
Hoos1 growing is among the new in
4stries introduced into Texas. Recent
flock of geese numbering l,600
se4ipped from Boone county, Mo-, arrived