Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-24
FARM, FIELD AND PRESIDE.
Household Matters.

Household Matters.
The 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 hui
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 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
be selected. and the plants must be
watered and syringed daily.
Undoubtedly improper food causes a
great deal Of i'll health; 50 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 all prepared with view to be-
ing swallowed with dispatch, every
thing being soft; or hashed, or mashed,
and there is lots Of liquid to wash down
each mouthful. Andyet nature evident
ly expected that most articles of food
would be hard OF tough and whole and
consequently SLOW of mastication, there
by insuriny that which she has decreed
rs 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 d 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 III a room lack
ing carpets as in all apartment where
all is warmly clothed?
That what might be called clancy"
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 ketchen; but good plain cooking
is comparatively rare among the mass of
our housekeeping population is all I'M
doubted truism. We all know that
pleasant impressions made upon our
senses is the great secret of healthy lite,
the great lever that causes harmonious
performance Of all our vital functions;
do we not know also that the impress
sion of we'll cooked dinner is a most
potent aid to digestion, and do we stop
10 feallZe now gr1eVOusly tn1s a1d 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 a 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 a 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.