Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-02
TIE FAMILY DOCTOR.
To relieve a severe headache, bind
the temples tightly with handkerchief

the temples tightly with handkerchief
or cloth.
HEMoRRHAeE of the lungs or stom-
ach may be quickly stopped by small
doses of salt.
BUnNs and scalds are Immediately re-
ieyed by the application Of dry soda
covered with q wet cloth, moist enough
to dissolyeit Use the bi-carbonate or
common cooking soda.
THE MISCHIEF OF EVEN 4 LOOSE
CORSET may not a corset be worn
so loose as TO do harm? II by a corset,
a machine with steel, whalebones, or
other sti1Tenings be meant, the answer
is "Now The corset is hard and stiff,
while that portion Of the body which it
surrounds is particularly soft and feyi-
bic. If the wearer could always stand
erect, with the corset SO loose as not
to touch her, no.harm would be done
But she must sometimes sit, when the
parts under the corset are greatly en-
larged. Bending forward, as in sewing
OF reading, she leans against the upper
ends of the whalebones, and the pres
sure against the upper ends is returned
against the abdomen at the lower end.
If the wearer will put her hand under
the lower end of her corset while she
leans forward against the upper end
she viii be surprised at the pressure.
This pressure upon the abdomen during
all the long hours Of sitting, does Sc
rious mischief In one word, it may
be added, with every bending Of the
body, even the very loose corset is
brought into contact with Welding
parts. The floating ribs, that master
piece of the human mechanism, and
those soft parts Of the person covered
by the corset, cannot perform the undu-
lating and vital movements incident to
respiration and digestion, even under
loose corset. Then what must we say
Of d corset which is not loose? -Dio
LeaCis. Ia n Il. ReUielU.
DIVISION OF TIME, SLEEP. Ere
Probably no better division Of time has
ever been made than that into three
equal periods of eight hours each;
eight hours being given to business,
eight to eating and Improvement, and
the remaining eight to sleep. The cele-
brated Alfred divided his time in this
way.
[ have long thought that the native
American required more sleep than the
average European. For myself, find
that nine or ten hours sleep in single
night will cure me of all the trifing
maladies with which, from time to time,
I may be afflicted Some extraordinary
advice has been given by certain distin-
guished persons with reference to the
time devoted to sleep; but each writer
falls into the common blunder of apply
ing a rule to all, which he finds good in
his own case. Bishop Taylor advises
three hours. Wesley suggests six as the
least time that will answer. He de-
clares that during his life he never knew
any one to retain vigorous health, even
for a year, with less quantity of sleep
than six hours, and he thought that
women required more than men.
Which advises students to go to bed
at eight o'clock, and rise at three or
four o'clock in the morning. Not bad
on some accounts, but liable to injure
the eyes.
Excess Of sleep is very bad in its in
fuence, produces dullness of mind and
body, corpulency, disposition to apo
plexy; hence Galen calls sleep the
brother of death, and says nothing is
more pernicious when carried to excess.
Thin Yankees should go to bed at
nine o'clock, and rise between five and
six. do not mean to say that circum-
stances may never justify their sitting
up till midnight, or later, but I am
simply Interpreting the voice of physi-
ology. If the average American, with
his narrow chest and small vitality,
would retire at nine o'clock, he would
live some years longer, and each year
would afford him more happiness and
ability to work.
Bu5 Yankee women most need a
chan to early hours. Their crazy
nerves, neuralgia and other evidences
q premature decay, would be at once
checked, and they would become
younger and fairer.
What with tight corsets, pastry, can
dies, furnace-hcat and midnight, Yankee
girls begin to fail at twenty, and women
are old at fOrty.-DiO LelUiS