The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-10-13

How to Preserve and Restore
Health.

- piOh-hOaaaohC PopiohbS hhc tcCoh-
mened three glasses or lukewarm water,
to be swallowed in rapid succession,
and to be followed Immediately by a
glass of hot mustard water. The effect |
is at times very beneficial and quite as
tonishing to the uninitiated.
Thousands of persons starve them
selves into thinness, paleness and ner-
vousness by living on white bread and
sweet things and sleeping too little.
Dat meal, cracked wheat, graham bread
and beef, with plenty of sleep, would
make them plump and ruddy.
Beware of popcorn. A seven
year-old son of Mr.. Luntz, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, died, recently, of a paralysis
of the heart. He had been eating
great deal of popcorn within the past
three months, and physicians claim that
his disease was due to the coloring
matter contained therein.
Tea.
In the London Medical Times APP
pears the following ''Dr. Heath, of
New Castle, has been the last to raise
his voice against tea. But it has long
been fact familiar to us that tea is
most fruitful source of dyspepsia.
Among the vast numbers of poor wo.
men who frequent the patient rooms
of our London hospitals, we should not
be far wrong in saying that two-thirds
are suffering from dyspepsia. This
dyspepsia almost invariably arises from
two causes-the want of proper food
and the abuse of articles like tea, which
stay the craving for food, hut which
aggravate the consequent conditions of
the digestion. !"
Rum and Tobacco.
These terrible enemies often find us de-
fenseless. Our craving stomachs call for
stimulus. Bad food, badly cooked, is
the cause of much of this uneasiness
and longing of the stomach. A wife
who smells her husbands breath will
help him much more by good food than
| by bitter words. Pies, cakes, buildings,
fries, heavy bread, strong coffee and
tea play the mischief with the stomach
then it calls for some stimulus. Good
beef and mutton, light, sweet bread
end good vegetables, taken in moderate
| nuanfifiac with n disaraat ,,so ce Io.,.e,,
juice, will prevent much of the craving
for drink and tobacco.
Consumption.
Theodore Parker came of a sturdy
stock of Massachusetts farmers, intelli.
gent long-liyed and capable of contin
uOus toll. But of his nine brothers and
sisters all but one died of consumption
Theodore, himself died of the same d.
sease, at forty-nine, though his consti
tuition had seemed of iron. But hi
had crowded the work of a long life
time into less than fifty years, and thai
toll brought out the seed-implantet
disease. He gave a natural expla
nation as to how the fatal diseas,
entered into the life of family which
ought too have been long-lived.
His fathers farm house stood on {
hill side, which sloped into large
spongy meadow. The meadow wa
always wet. The mists were heavy
, nights and mornings, and thus tn
seeds of pulmonary disease were grad
ually sown. Under favoring circum
stances they invariably ripened int,
death. Mr.. Parker says:
"Three generations of stout an,
, long-lived men were born and grew III
there and if the fourth be now puny
q and sink quicker to the grave, it i
: from no fault of the old house, but iron
the consumption which such spong
, meadows in New England seldom
fail to produce in the course of time
Even children, who have removed +
healthier situations, carry with then
the fatal poison in their blood, an
transmit it to their sons and daugh
tiers.
: How to Take Milk.
Milk lisa food that should not be take
e in copious draughts like beer or othe
: fluids which differ from it chemically
if we consider the use of milk in infanc
p thephysiological ingestion, that is, of foo
d provided for it. Each small mouthfu
a is secured by effort and slowly presente,
to the gastric mucous surface for tn
g primal digestive stages. 1t is thus reg
h ularly and gradually reduced to curd
}. and the stomach is not oppressed wit
lump of half cOagulated milk. Tn
IS same principal should be regarded i
k case of the adult. Milk should be slow
e ly taken, in mouthfuls, at short intel
d walls, and thus it is rightly dealt with b
the gastric juice. If milk be take
o after other foOd.it is almost sure to bun
q den the stomach and TO cause discomfol
and prolonged indigestion, andthisfo til
obvious reason that there is insufficient
: digestive agency to dispose of it, an
2 the better the quality of the milk tn
more severe the discomfort will be unde
these conditions. Milk is insufficient
. used in making simple pudding of sue
farinaceous foods as rice, tapioca an
sage. Distaste for these is engendere
II very often, l believe, because the mil
D is stinted in making them, or poo
- skinned milk is used. Abundance {
10 new milk should be employed, and MOI
milk or cream should be added whe
they are taken. In Scottish household