The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-12-25
THE HOME CIRCLE AND FARM.
Household Rsints.s


A Gargle made Of strong black tea,
and used cold night and morning, is
now the fashionable preventive ID Lon
don against falling victim to sore
throat during the cold winds Of spring,
and similar @cold spells" ct other times
Of year. .s ss.
Fire in chimneys may be checked, #
not arrested, by throwing salt on the
FIRE below. s,..' .2,s
The easiest and best way to remove
Jelly, blanc mango, etc., from moulds
is to vet cloth in boiling water and
wrap it around the mould forsa minute.
Then with 4 little care You will have no
trouble in taking the jelly out. u
Don't put off house cleaning until SO.
late that some member of the family
contracts q heavy cold or pneumonia
from the damp and chilly rooms.
Dr.. Cuyler. says: aP robably there
never was marital union that did notin-
yolve a single particle Of friction sim
ply because no man is a demi-god and
no woman q sinless angel. $S,ss
To remove warts the following treat
nlent may be followed II: If il can be
done, q strong, fine thread or wire
should be put tightly around the neck Of
the wart, and left until the wart falls
of, when some &caustic may be applied
to it. Il. the wart. is o, fiat -one the sur
face should be touched all over with
nitric acid once aday until the wart is
.corrodetl down tos the skin and the
wound should be dressed with, common
ointment to which small quantity Of
yerdigris (acetate Of copper is added.
Preservation Of Health In the Family. &
Line upon line has been given 81 late
apropos Of the fatal nsequenses Of
polluted air and water..s BY way Of en-.
forcing the important truths we make
room for illustrative instance s-two Of
any-reported BY the Michigan
board of Health: ;t !i5s
IN one Of the family man and wife
and five childrsn varying in ages from
eighteen years to fifteen months were
sick with any namable disease, but sew
eral Of them, especially the mother and
o daughter aged ten. or eleven, COM
planned Of a sense of weakness and q
general want Of ambition. The priyy
vault was filled with the excreta sccum-
ulations of years, had been disinfectcd in
no manner, and its contents were q mass
of fernenting putrescence The water.
from the kitchen sink, where all the
dirty, greasy soapsuds had been emp.
tied, fell into plank drain without the.
sign Of q trap, and was conveyed two or
three rods under the ground to. q large
Shogshead. that, being sunk IN the
'gr ound, served as cesspool. The whole
house seemed filed with gases caused
by the decompb sition of the contents
Of these two convenient receptacles Of
filth s s53
Earnest and emphatic warming as to
dangers certain to coma from these
sources OF disease were disregarded as
exaggerated or ground less:
6 In N ovember, one child, about twelve
years Of age, was taken with malignant
diphtheria. and il q short time the pow
ers of the system, already poisoned for
weeks and months, gave way, and this
child, by an sinscrutable providence
was taken from the loving embraces Of
this family The funeral of this child
was followed by the opening Of the
;cesspool and drain, and the emptying Of
their fermentinK tepts;upon . pile of
stable manure The weather being
mild "a younger child, five OF! ak years;
old. vas allowed to play in the, yard,
and was over and near to the open cess-
pool and drain and their reeking COM
tents, where they were emptied. In:
two or three days she was taken with
dRhtherla Of q precisely similar charac-
ter with that of her sister, and soon
died. An infant who had for some time
appeared dull and fretful was taken to
another house. and being we'll fed and:
in pure air, escaped the disease, and
was soon well and sprightly. Two older
Sons, sixteen and eighteen, were both 4
good deal depressed, and had for some
days sore throats, with loss OF appetite.
But both Of them were and had been q
good deal in the open mir away from
home and they soon recovered Il. i -sssS
Another case was that Of. two child
rem: whom q physician found sick with,
some obscure :ailment Stimulating quite
closet typhoid or filth fever :.E
ST ascertained that they slept in q
small bedroom on the first floor, on the.
north side pf. the. house. Not more!
than three rods from their; window,
which was always open ii summer,
were two privy vaults feeking with the
putrefYing accumula tions Of years.
directed that their sleeping room be al;
once changed to "a chamber on the
south side of the house, and that the
vaults be mediatel semptied and dis
infected. An immediate improvement,
in the condition 81 The lads was appar-,
5ent sand they were soon restored TO;
health = E5
Country people who neglect to lid
their premises of all sources Of pollu-
lion should rernemtsr that even when
typhoid, diphtheria, 6r ptliief speedily;
fatal zYmotic disease is not developed,
there may still sbas slow poisoning, Nv
the gases or germs of decay, that shows
itself as q Maine Farmer correspondent
says in nltitnde * ailments which,
keep their yictim & down below the nor
NAL hed1th-linet and decrease their 81.
fectiyeness as workers. Egg 4
81 Just aa: in malarial regions the pinch
Fed moses and sal low compie are
much more frequent than the cases Of,
fully developed 'cbills Z 30, as 8 result
OF this domestic foul air poisoning,
general ability langnor paleness.
headache, feyerishne 1855, vomiting and
other simpt toms app ar instead Of more
prononnc diseases Women5 for be-
ing more closely tied to the home, more
freq enNy suffer than the men and
children on account 81 the delicate sen.
sitiyeness Of their org nniisms to noxious
Influences are very eqneptly affected