The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-11
Health Hints.
How to Preserve and Restore
Health.

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 should have a fire.
place or some mode of ventilation be-
side the windows.
The best remedy for eyes, weakened
by night use, Is a 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 or
working.
From one to one pound and a half
of solid food is sufficient for a person in
the 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
4 tribe of Bedouins a very celebrated
physician, who inquired on his arrival
how they lived. I'VE never eat till we
are hungry, and then not to repletion,"
was the swe II may return then"
said the doctor, 81 have no business
here
The New York Suns 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, Is to 30 drops in a
wineglass of water, according to age
and violence of attack. Repeat every
fifteen or twenty minutes until relief is
| obtained.
For SIeeplessness,
A physician writing to the Christian
Union on the subject of sleeplessness,
remarks: III neither beef tea or milk
can be easily procured, hot water with
an infusion of hops or mint may be sub
Stituted, or even hot water alone will
| quiet restlessness and induce sleep. A
darkened room, that the moonbeams
! cannot enter, a little fresh air from an
open window or fireplace, are valuable
assistants in making the sleep continu-
| Gus.
The Care of Infants in Summer.
The New York board of health rec
ommend the following rules for the
summer in regard to the nursing of in
fants: Overlooking does more harm
Than anything else nurse an infant
a month or two old every two or three
hours. Nurse an infant of six months
and over five times in n~wenty-four
hours, and no more. If an infant is
thirsty, give it pure water, or barley
water no sugar. In relation to the
feeding of infants, the board advise /:
Boil a ~teaspoonful of powdered barley
Ground in coffee grinder) and one-half
| pint of water, with a little salt, for ff-
teen minutes, strain, then mix it with
half as much boiled milk, add a lump Of
white sugar, size of a walnut, and give
it lukewaIm from a nursing bottle.
Keep bottle and mouth-piece in a bottle
of water when not in use, to which 8
little soda may be added. For infants
five OF six months old give half barley
water and half boiled milk, with salt
and a lump of sugar. For older infants
| give more milk than barley water.
For infants very c~ostive, give oatmeal
instead of barley. Cook and strain as
before. When the breast-milk is only
half enough, change off between breast
milk and this prepared food. DIR. Page
says that if infants are fed only three
times a day they will escape collie
and cholera infantum,
Variety in our Food.
Happiness and bodily comfort depend
largely on the food we eat, and how
cooked.
There is nothing more acceptable to
the appetite than a change in diet. A
long continuation of the same food,
prepared in the same way, is extremely
tiresome. 1t is easy to have a variety,
if one chooses to manufacture it, out of
the very same materials. Fol- instance,
one wearies of having boiled potatoes
continually. They are good, whole
some, but it is easy to mash the pota-
toes, add a little salt and milk, heat it
in the oven, and set the dish on the
table in a new form or cut the pota-
toes up, when cold, in chips, and stew
them in a butter gravy till well scalded.
1t is a delightful change, and an econo-
mical one, too, as it saves the whole
potato, which is quite an item in many
families at present prices. Slicing
and frying cold potatoes in drippings
is another good way to cook this vege-
table.
In meats, too, different methods of
cooking are very desirable, as well as
saving. One gets tired of fried meat /;
it is better occasionally to roast, bake
or stew. There are many dainty meth
DDS of preparing meats for the table
that it really seems as if there is little
need of urging the necessity Of change
in the method of cooking. Still, many
families are in the habit of having the
same bill of fare all the week. No Won
der people who live in this style like to
make visits so as to get a changeof diet
once in a while. Vegetables should
form one item of food at every dinner
table. Perhaps farmers cannot obtain
so great a variety of those as if they
lived next a market, but every man