The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-22
HOME, FARM AND RANCH.
The Family Doctor.

10 Tel1SNe q severe ned0acne. Dino
the temples tightly with handker-
chief or cloth.
Hemorrhages of the lungs or stOm-
ach may be quickly stopped by small
doses of salt.
Burns and scalds are Immediately
relieved by the application of dry
soda covered with wet cloth, moist
enough to dissolve it. Use the BIZ
carbonate or common cooking soda.
The Mischief of Even Loose Cor
set.-But may not corset be worn so
loose as to do harm? IT by a corset, a
machine with steel, whalebOnes, or
other stiffenings be meant, the answer
is, NO" The corset is hard and
stiff, while that portion of the body
which it surrounds is particularly
soft and flexible. 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 some
times sit, when the parts under the
corset are greatly enlarged. Bending
Onward, as in sewing or reading. she
leans against the upper ends of the
whaleboneS, and the pressure 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 will be surprised at the pressure.
This pressure upon the abdomen dur
ing all the long hours of sitting does
serious mischief. In one word, IL
may he added, with every bend
ing of the body, even the
very loose corset is brought into
contact with yielding parts. The
floating ribs, that masterpiece of the
human mechanism, and those soft
parts Of the person covered by the cor
set. cannot perform the undulating
and vital movements incident to re-
spiration and digestion, even under a
loose corset. Then what must we say
of Il corset which is not loose p-Dio
Lewis in n. A. Review.
Division of Time, Sleep, Etc.-Pro-
badly 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
celebrated Alfred divided his time in
this way.
l have long thought that the native
American required more sleep than
the average European. For myself,
l find that nine or ten hours of sleep
in single night will cure me of all
the trifling maladieS of which, from
time to time, l may be afflicted. Some
extraordinary advice has been given
by certain distinguished persons with
reference to time devoted to sleep;
but each writer falls into the COM
mon blunder of applying 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 declares that
during his life he never knew any
one to retain vigorous health. even
for a year, with a less quantity of
sleep than six hours, and he thought
| that women required more than men.
Which advises students to 20 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
fluences, produces dulness Of mind
and body, corpulency, disposition to
dpOploAyi HeuCo Qdlou Calls steep Lilo
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. L do not mean to say that cir
cumstances may never justify their 81 =
ting up till midnight, or later, but 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.
But Yankee women most need a
chaLge to early hours. Their crazy
nerves, neuralgia and other evidences
of premature decay, would be at once
checked and they would become
younger and fairer.
What with tight corsets, pastry,
candies, furnace-heat and midnight,
Yankee girls begin to fail at twenty
and women are old at forty.-Dio
| Lewis.