Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-29
PIE AND SODA WATER.
Both Awtully Bad When They're Bad
but Good When They're Good.
HEALTH AT THE SUMMER RESORTS
Simple Ways to Fix Up the Blood and
Complexion in Hot Weather.
HINTS FOR THE CARE OF THE TEETH
WRITTEN FOR THE prspArcH.1

resorts, and the momentous questions oil
stitchery and dress being over, turn what
attention they have to spare to the health OF
the bodies under their gowns Considering
how long ago it was said, SIS not the life
more than meat and the body than raj
ment?" and who it was that said it, ideas on
the point should be far better defined than
they are.
Families go away from town languid and
thin, pale and blue Tipped, to return pasty
faced from the mountains and seaside;
freckled and burnt, not with the clear, tan
like bronze, which is beautiful in its way,
as the pink and white of an English girl,
but that coarse, fiery hue like crisped flesh
which is too like erysipelas to be desirable
or becoming. What good must people get
from the summer vacation is from air and
change of scene. The food in general is
most unfit for hot weather, the drainage is
simply dresdtul and the water worse. If
anyone wants to get rid of an enemy with
out suspicion the best way would be to in
vite him to summer sojourn at boarding
house and feed him assidiously on clam
fritters and fried CLANS, hot breakfast cakes
and underdone oatmeal for breakfast, fat
mutton and string beans, spinach and early
| cabbage dripping with fat, and suet pud-
dings in August, and sure-to-kill pastry of
the consistence of tripe.
PASTRY AS A MEANS OF DEATH.
Modern pastry was vehicle of death un-
| known in the time of the Medici, or they
would never have risked their throats by
sending white arsenic in confectionery or
putting chopped horsehair in an enemy's
| victuals. That compound of lard dripping
and white -four which has just escaped
baking in an .underheat produces morbid
effects in the system which exactly follow
the symptoms of slow poison. 1 do not
wish to speak disrespectfully of good pastry,
which is one of the best-made dishes in the
world but pastry is like religion, it must be
the right sort or it is the worst diabolism.
If tombstones told truth they would say,
"Died of green currant pie and boiled din
ner in the midst of his usefulness, or "She
died, deplored by her friends for tart tenn
per caused by too much fondness for straw
berry short cake and Washington pie"
In choosing a resort for summer one does
not omit questions as to how far it is to
church or station, whether o'clock dinner
is served or there are spring mattresses on
each couch-matters of just interest and
comfort But add such pertinent inquiries
as these: Do you serve oatmeal or cracked
wheat for breakfast? Can 1 have brown
bread and fruit three times day? Have
you water filter in good condition? How
far Is the we'll or the water supply from the
cesspool and drains? And, last but not
least, have you a well ventilated earth
closet? All boarding houses and summer
resorts should be visited monthly by sani-
tary inspector with power to enforce neces-
sary Improvements for the health of inmates.
The Catskills and the north shore demand
supervision in this way just as much as
Mulberry street, Baxter street and South
Fifth avenue, those flowers of the slums.
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.
Ny dear madam, you can't depend on sun
and air to undo all the injury to health by
careless diet and bad drainage. You may
come back feeling fresher for time; but the
! effect is short, and the strength which should
carry you through the fatigues and inferior
conditions of city living three parts of the
| year you have been cheated of by the cook
and the proprietor together.
| Suppose you should for your own sake do
little evangelizing for health, and take a
dollars worth of cracked wheat tor instance
into the country with you to be served at
| your own table. En- PEASANT, madam, who
| value your figure, it is less fattening.
| For beverages, instead of the cheap soda
water, with its corrosive ingredients and
syrups made from spoiled fruit insist on
having pure lemonade or fruit juices. Good
soda water, as offered by the best city drug
| gists, or any man who understands his busi-
| ness, is not a bad thing for health or taste;
although caution ought to be used not to
pour down large glass of iced drink when
one is warm, after the almost invariable
habit. The rule with everybody. men and
women alike, seems TO be to see how soon
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result of turning pint of cold, acid water
! into heated stomach is to burden it with
too much liquid, reduce the temperature
with dangerous suddenness, and headache
| or cramps are in the direct line after this.
DRINK YOUR SODA SLOWLY.
Good soda should be slipped; quickly
| drinking off the effervescence which is mere
foam, an interval of minute or two should
be allowed before the last half OF the glass
is taken. Clerks should know this and give
customers time, without warning by looks
| or actions that they are expected to leave in
the shortest possible order after boiling their
soda and paying for it. A glass of soda SO
taken is a refreshing stimulus better than
food in a very hot noon, but tossed off as most
people take it is recipe for cramps and in
digestion. If it is poor soda, tasting of
metal with the silver worn off, or standing
| in silver too long, favored with syrups
| made from oranges or lemons whose musty
taste is plain to all refined palates, the less
one takes the better for lie and health.
| Girls who serve the cheap soda fountains at
| fancy stores well know this from experience,
| and the old hands rarely touch soda them
| selves. The girls behind the counters who
| depend on soda TO keep up their strength
through the close days injure their digestion
by it, and perhaps owe more of their sudden
| indispositions to it than they imagine.
BY all means, take quarter pound of bak-
ing soda with your medicines and use
for any acidity of the stomach onedourth Of
a teaspoonful in half a glass of water; hot
water il there is pain and uneasiness. Most
summer troubles OF health begin with fer
mentation, which is active in hot weather,
and anti-acids are indispensable.
USES OF BAKING SODA.
Try powdered charcoal or magnesia, lime
water or soda till you find which suits best,
but have the latter ready, for cup of hot
soda water taken IN time will often prevent
| the worst summer attacks OF nausea and
| cramps. 1t may be your lot as it has been
| mine more than once, to want soda for some
victim in distress, only to find that neither
house nor shop could produce pinch of
baking soda, obsolete since the advent of
baking powder. Keep down the acid ten
dency and you prevent pimples, redness and
rawness of the face, fshy eyes and unpleas-
ant odor OF the perspiration, all derived more
or less from acids in the blood. With cool,
| healthy blood the heat is felt less, there is
less tendency to freckles and sunburn.