The Dickinson press., 1884-12-27
THE HOME CIRCLE and FARM.
Household Hints.

household Hints.
A Gargle made of strong black tea
and used cold night and morning, il
now the fashionable preventive in Lon,
don against falling a victim to sore
throat during the cold winds of spring,
and similar "cold spells" at other times
of year.
Fire in chimneys may be checked, il
not arrested, by throwing salt on the
fire below.
The easiest and best way to remove
jelly, blanc mango, etc., from moulds
is to wet q cloth in boiling water and
wrapit around the mould for a minute,
Then with q little care you will have nc
trouble in taking the jelly out.
Don't put off house cleaning until SO
late that some member of the family
contracts a heavy cold or pneumonia
from the damp and chilly rooms.
Dr.. Cuyler says: Probably there
never was a marital union that did notin.
volve q single particle of friction-sim-
ply because no man is a demi-god and
no woman o sinless angel.
Toremove warts the following treat
ment may be followed: If it can be
done, a strong, fine thread or wire
should be put tightly around the neck OF
the wart, and left until the wart falls
off, when some caustic may be applied
to it. If the wart is a fat one the sur
face should be touched all over with
nitric acid once aday until the wart is
corroded down to the skin and the
wound should be dressed with common
ointment to which u small quantity OF
verdigris ~(acetate of copper) is added.
Preservation of Health In tho Family.
Line upon line has been given of late
apropos of the fatal consequences OF
polluted air and water. By way of en-.
forcing the important truths we make
room for illustrative instances-two of
many-reported by the Michigan
board of Health:
"None of the family-man and wife
and. five children varying in ages from
eighteen years to fifteen months-were
sick with any namable disease, but sew
eral OF them, especially the mother and
a daughter aged ten or eleven, COM
planned of a sense of weakness and q
general want of ambition. The privy
vault was filled with the excreta accum-
ulation of years, had been disinfectcd in
No monnnC O0l ifo no~to~%, y.2.o $500
of fermenting putrescence. The water
from the kitchen sink, where all the
dirty, greasy soapsuds had been emp
tied, fell into a plank drain without the
sign of a trap, and was conveyed two or
three rods under the ground to a large
%hogshead. that, being sunk in the
ground, served as cesspool. The whole
house seemed filled with gases caused
by the decomposition of the contents
of these two convenient receptacles of
filth"
Earnest and emphatic warning as to
dangers certain to come from these
sources of disease were disregarded as
exaggerated or groundless:
"In November. one child, about twelve
years of age, was taken with malignant
diphtheria. and in a short time the pow
ers of the system, already poisoned for
weeks and months, gave way, and this
child, by IN 'inscrutable providence, >
was taken from the loving embrace of
this family. The funeral of this child
was followed by the opening of the
cesspool and drain, and the emptying of
their f%ermenting contents upon a pile of
stable manure The weather being
mild, a younger child, five or six years
old, was allowed to play in the yard,
and was over and near to the open cess
pool and drain and their reeking con
tents, where they were emptied. In
two or three days she was taken with
diphtherla of a 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 well fed and
in pure air, escaped the disease, and
was soon we'll and sprightly. Two older
sons, sixteen and eighteen, were both a
good deal depressed, and had for some
days sore Threats, with loss of appetite.
But both of them were and had been a
good deal in the open air away from
home and they soon recovered"
Another case was that of two child
ren whom a physician found sick with
some obscure ailment Stimulating quite
closely typhoid-or filth-fever:
II ascertained that they slept in a
small bedroom ON the first floor, on the
north side of, the house. Not more
than three rods from their window,
which was always open in summer,
were two privy vaults reeking with the
putrefying accumulations of years. l
directed that their sleeping room be at
once changed to a chamber on the
south side of the house, and that the
vaults be Immediately emptied and dis
infected. An immediate Improvement
in the condition of the lads was appar-
ent, and they were soon restored to
health"
Country people who neglect to rid
their premises of all sources Of pollu-
ton should remember hat even when
typhoid, diphtheria, or other speedily
fatal zymotic disease is not developed,
there may still be slow poisoning, by
the gases or germs of decay, that shows
itself as a Maine Farmer correspondent
says in a multitude of ailments which
keep their victims down below the nor
NAL health-line and decrease their Of
fectiveness as workers.
Gust as in malarlal regions the pinch
ed noses and sallow compilations are
much more frequent than the cases of
fully developed 'cbills;' SO, as a result
of this domestic foul-air poisoning,
general debility, languor, paleness,
headache, fe~verishness, vomiting and