Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-30
Remedies and Pre,enti,e..

Remedies and Preventivcs.
Poison from bees, hornets, spider
bites, etc., is instantly arrested by the
application of equal parts OF COM
mon salt and bicarbonate OF soda,
well rubbed on the place bitten or
stung.
A physician tells US that preyen-
tive measures are generally taking the
place of the heroic treatment long prev
alent in medical which is
good news. Regularity OF habit, mod
Grafton in all things, simple food, pure
air, freely inhaled day and night, and
avoidance of continued or excessive
strain of mind or muscle, are main
conditions OF comfortable and pro-
tracted life.
Cultivate in your children the habit
of breathing only through the nose;
many distressing ailments are due to
the evil effects OF mouth breathing Ii
there is disposition to throw the
head back when asleep, inducing
breathing through the mouth, correct
it as often as is necessary by gently
bringing the head forward somewhat.
Onions. says a correspondent of
morning paper, inhaled cause sleep,
rest and repose. The soldier on his
march and the exhausted iron worker
get great strength from eating the
onion Tie fresh onion around the
neck and bruise it to make its odor
thorough, and you secure sound sleep
from its nightly inhalation.
Absolute cleanlinessis an important
requisite in the care of the hands.
They should always be washed in
warm soapsuds just before going to
bed. White soaps are much the safest,
as colored or scented soaps are near
" always made from rancid fats. A
mixture of rosewater and glycerine, in
equal quantities, with few drops of
ammonia added is excellent for rubbing
over the hands at night on retiring.
This simple treatment will wonder
fully i'm prove their condition in
very short time.
As rule meat-eating animals--tl e
cat, the tiger-are lean. Grain-eatiDg
animals are fat-the OK, the horse,
the sheep. heterogeneous compounds
tend to leaness; carbonaceous, starchy,
saccharine compounds tend to
adispose. But some people can't be
made fat, no matter what they eat,
and others will put on weight, no mat
ter what they eat. NJ. l.. W., who
wants to pull down the scales, should
eat starchy and sweet foods, drink
drinks, such as tea and coffee, alone.
A Philadelphia physician-Dr. Hor-
ace Williams-believes long walks will
cure dyspepsia. The hot water cure
is still popular, and it has long been
held that exercise is needed to pro-
mote good digestion. There may be
more truth than fallacy in the long
walk theory.
II. b. II. asks why we are advised
to have our beds point north and
south rather than east and west. A
magnetic needle always takes a posi-
ton at right angles to magnetic cur.
rent passing over or underit. Magnet
ic currents pass around the earth
from east to west, and the magnetic
needle, arranging itself at right angles
to them, points north. When our
beds point north and south we are,
when sleeping, at right angles with
these magnetic currents, and the theo-
ry is that we are better thus.
How to treat silverware is thus told
by Art and Decoration: Place in
stoppered glass bottle nitric acid, 6
o.; powdered bichromate of potash,
l o.; water, 2 o., and apply to the
ware to be tested with the dropPer oil
the stopper, previously rubbing a file
over some Obscure part OF the sur.
face. If the article is pure silver a
clean blood.red mark will be left, less
deep and lively the lower the quality.
On platinum the test will have no ac-
ton; on German silver fine brown
mark appears, removable with a
sponge and cold water; on Britannia
metal black mark appears; on other
metal a wholly different result takes
place to that on silver.
Never put particle of soap about
your silver If you would have it retain
its origina! luster, When it wants
polishing, take piece of soft leather
and whiting and rub hard. The pro-
prietor of one of the Oldest silver
establishments in the city OF Phlladel-
phia, says that "housekeepers ruin
their silver by washing IN soap suds,
as it makes it look like pewter"