The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-04
FARM, FIELD AND FlRESlDE.
Household 1Gss{er6;

FARM, FIELD AND NRESlDE
1oIsehola Masters:
Tho impression prevails that fuchsias
need the damp, close atmosphere of a
greenhouse to grow successfully. But
in England good, results are obtained
from open-air culture. Thus, the hu-
mid climate. of that country is better
adapted to these plants than our own,
but experience, best of teachers, has
shown that We also can cultivate them
thus in q very satisfactory manner. If
started early in spring in good, rich
soil, so as to be we'll established by
June l, they may then be planted in
the open ground without fear of injury.
A cool, partly shaded location should
he selected. and the plants must be
watered and syringed daily:
Undoubtedly improper food causes a
great deal Of i'll health; so does over
eating and, in some cases, undertaking,
too. But while they have slain their
thousands, hurried eating has slain its
tens of thousands. This is true of our
city and country population alike. The
farmer comes to his meals hungry,
tired, and may be overheated. His
food is ell prepared with a view to be-
ing swallowed with dispatch, every
thing being so't, or hashed, or mashed,
and there is lols of liquid to wash down
each mouthful. And yet nature evident
~ expected that most articles of food
would he hard or tough and whole and
consequently slow of mastication, there
by insuring that which she has decreed
as being indispensable to proper diges-
ton, namely. thorough mixture of the
saliva with the food.
Nobody can tell why carpets, among
numerous other articles, are so extraor-
dinarily cheap to-day. But they are.
This is a great carpet-using country.
We use more carpets than any other
nation. The European custom of bare
floors, except few rugs scattered about,
has never obtained here to any extent.
The very fashionable have tried it from
time to time, but though the wooden
floors could be made very handsome,
the style could not hold. To have
wooden floors always as they should be,
is more troublesome than the sweeping
of carpets, and besides, they are rather
cherries and noisy. How can one feel
as cozy and home-like IN a room lack
ing carpets as in an apartment where
all is warmly clothed?
That what might be called "fancv"
cooking is appreciated by many is
evidenced by the exorbitant wages com
manded by the cooks of our bast restau-
rants, hotels and clubs, and the avidity
with which all who are able avail them
selves of the products of these autocrats
of the kitchen; but good plain cooking
is comparatively rare among the mass of
our housekeeping population is an un-
doubted truism. We all know that
pleasant impressions made upon our
senses is the great secret of healthy life,
the great lever that causes harmonious
performance of all our vital functions;
do we not know also that the impress
sion of well-cooked dinner is a most
potent aid to digestion, and do We stop
10 rea1lZe now grleVOuSly CnlS ala 10
health is neglected? Medical and Surgi-
cal Reporter.
The general prevalence of neuralgia
of the head and face among women is
beginning to attract the attention of the
medical profession. And the absurdly
diminutive hats and bonnets which so
many women wear, covering, as they do.
only small portion Of the head, come
in for just denunciation as the cause of
this disease. A writer in the British
Medical Journal calls upon women to
abrogate fashion which is so unreason-
able and deleterious. But the practice
is not nearly so injurious IN the mild
climate Of England as it is in this coun-
try.