Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-07
THE HOME DOCTOR.
MAGNEsIA AND WATER.

A little magnesia and water will some
times correct the acldity of q child's
stomach, and render unnecessary any
stronger medicine. Powder a teaspoon
full of the magnesia, and put it in half
glass of water; it will not dissolve, of
course, but will mix with the water so
that an infant can swallow 1t. Give
teaspoonful of this three times day
until indications warrant you in discon-
tinuing it.
LOOK TO YOUR HOUSES.
Many houses, from the mansion to the
cottage, are unWholesome for some of
the following reasons: Damp and unven-
tllated easements, cesspools and foul
drains within the basement, rotten tim
Der in floors and skirtings and tainted
wall papers, kitchen sinks in improper
places and unventilated, water closets in
improper places and unventilated, rooms
without adequate means of ventilation,
water cIsterns and pumps in improper
places, supplying contaminated water.
These defects should be remedied by
landlords. Houses are also unwhole-
some from accumulated dirt, careless
ness and personal neglect. As when:
rooms are not sufficiently cleansed, car
pets are left down too long and never
swept, windows are seldom opened,
water closets are dirty, neglected and
without ventilation, dirty beds are I'M
made and shrouded by dirty hangings,
dirty WardrObes and dirty clothes
closets, hooks, corners and shelves which
are never busted. These are points of
construction to be attended to which I
will name, so as TO put them on record
for the remembrance of those who may,
at some time or other, build cottages or
small houses, or be In communication
with those who do build, or are going to
do so.-H0tPS Journal Of Health.
HOW TO ESCAPE NERVOUSNESS.
The first prescription is an ample sup
ply of pure, fresh and cool air. The
nerves will always be weak if the greater
part of the day and night be passed in
close, Ill ventilated and overheated apart
ments- The nerves, more than the rest
of the body, to be properly nourished,
require full supply of oxygen. They
will not endure vitiated air, whether the
lmpurltle come from sewers, gaslights,
subterranean furnaces, or the in1ivid-
uaPs own person, without making an
energetic protest. A gas burner con-
Stunning four cubic feet an hour produces
more carbonic acid In a given time than
is evolved from the respiration of eight
human beings. Bear this in mind, YOU
who suffer from nervousness, that when
you have shut yourself up in your room
and lighted an argand burner (Which
| consumes about twelve cubic feet of gas
per hour) you are to all intents and pur-
poses Immured with twenty three other
persons. all making oxygen from the
atmosphere. Is it a wonder that, after
few hours exposure to the depraved air,
your nerves should rebel, as far as their
weak state permits, and that your head
should ache, your hands tremble, and
that your daughters playing on the
piano almost drives you wild? An over
heated apartment always enervates its
occupants. It is no uncommon thing to
find rooms heated IN winter by an under
ground furnace up to ninety degrees.
Fights and murders are more numerous
in hot than IN cold weather, and the
artifcialIy heated air that rushes into
! our rooms, deprived as it is of its natural
moisture by the baking it has under
gone, is even more productive of vicious
passions. It is no surprising circum-
stance, therefore, to find the woman who
swelters all day in such a temperature
| and adds to it at night by superfuous
| bed clothing, cross and disagreeable
| from little everyday troubles that would
scarcely ruf1e her temper if she kept
| her rooms at sixty-fve degrees and
| opened windows now and then.-Our
| Continent.