The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-11
Health Hints.
How to Preserve and Restore
Health.


Reading aloud is conducive to
health.
Children should sleep in separate
beds, and should not wear night caps.
Sleeping rooms shorld have a fire.
place or some mode of ventilation be-
side the windows.
The best remedy for eyes, weakened
by night use, is fine stream of cold
water frequently applied to them.
Children and young people should be
made to hold their heads up and
shoulder back while standing, sitting OF
working.
From one TO one pound and half
of solid food is sufficient for u person in
tie ordinary vOcations of business.
Persons in sedentary employments
should drop one-third of their food, and
they escape dyspepsia.
The king of Prussia once sent to a
tribe of Bedouins very celebrated
physician, who inquired on his arrival
how they lived. "We never eat till we
are hungry, and then not to repletion," :"
was the answer. 81 may return then, :"
said the doctor, 81 have no business
here"
The New York Smu'S infallible chol-
era cure is as follows Take equal parts
of tincture of cayenne, tincture of
opium, tincture of rhubarb, essence Of
peppermint and spirits of camphor.
Mix well. Dose, 10 to 80 drops in a
wineglass of water, according to age
and violence of attack. Repeat every
, fifteen or twenty minutes until relief is
obtained.
For Sleeplessness.
/, A physician writing to the Christia,
q Union on the subject of sleeplessness
q remarks: If neither beef tea or mill
:. can be easily procured, hot water will
an infusion of hops or mint may be sub
stituted, or even hot water alone will
quiet rcstlessness and induce sleep. A
darkened room, that the moonbeam
cannot enter, Il little fresh air from al
open window or fireplace, are valuable
assistants in making the sleep continu
io ous.
- The Care of Infants in Summer.
II The New York board of health rec
nj ommend the following rules for tn
ty summer in regard TO the nursing of il
nj fants: Over-feeding does more harl
d. than anything else; nurse an infan
he II month or two old every two or thre
Il hours. Nurse an infant of six month
re and over five times in twenty-fou
o. hours, and no more. If an infant
es thirsty, give it pure water, or barle
ls water; no sugar. In relation to IL
ch feeding of infants, the board advis,
it, Boil teaspoonful of powdered bari,
tie (ground in coffee grinder) and one-ha
az pint of water, with little salt, for Fl
Ise teen minutes, strain, then mix it wit
eli half AS much boiled milk, add lump
We white sugar, size of walnut, and gil
to it lukewarm from nursing bottl
is Keep bottle and mouth-piece in bOtt
he of water when not in use, to which
we little soda may be added. For infar
of five or six months old give half bari
he water and half boiled milk, with S;
,se anda lump of sugar. For older infaI
give more milk than barley watt
he For infants very costive, give oatme
p a instead of barley. Cook and strain
its before. When the breast milk is oil
ire half enough, change off between brea
no. milk and this prepared food. DR.. Pa
ace says that if infants are fed only thu
md times day they will escape co
m. and cholera infantum.
hin Variety in our Food.
no Happiness and bodily comfort dept
the largely on the food we eat, and h,
We cooked.
era There is nothing more acceptable
, of the appetite than change in diet.
,ral long continuation of the same foC
nee prepared in the same way, is extrem
,ler tiresOme. 1t is easy to have q varie
ten if one chooses to manufacture it, out
md the very same materials. For iustan
ing one wearies of having boiled potato
I'M continually, They are good, who
'oic some, but it is easy to mash the po
lpt, toes, add little salt and milk, heat
,or- in the oven, and set the dish on
table in a new form or cut the po