Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-27

does most effectually when they walk mile or
more TO gather them from country brooks. The
family which does not provide a bushel
of cress for its table in the course of the
season. fails to be kind to its young people.
None of these things to be forced upon one,
but provided so frequently and attractively that
they are q temptation not to be resisted. The
action of water cress or any cress in purifying
depTaved or weakened blood, and bringing and
brilliant color to the eyes and complexion is ira
ditional and just as strong as it ever was If the
overwrOuget and valued workers who were sent
South every spring to pick up strength against
summer could only have a good country
air. great deal of fresh water cress, high
favored oranges and delicate catering in the way
of salads, fresh fish and dainty cookery, they
might save on the passage money. Why should
you depend on doses of medicine, three four
tablespoonful daily, when one can be SO much
more thoroughly medicRted by the food of which
he takes two OF three pounds daily? When appe-
tle fails Tor hearty meals and cereals 1t IS te to
take vegetables piquant and relishing, which be-
ing largely water do not clog the system, but
rather work off it's humors. Only do not lose
their value by boiling most of the goodness out,
in the common way of cooking them.
Even the nice girls complain of little red spots
and coarseuess Of their compilations, with per-
haps sallow shading which may look well in
Mr.. William Chase's pictures of black-haired
women In pink dresses, but doesn't bear day
light so well in the flesh. As they have
averaged an inquiry every week since
last SPRING about the charcoal and tar
axacum which is so effective in clearing coarse
and bilious compilations, the directions are re-
peated. If your head aches DULY, with dizZi-
ness, languor and unsatisfactory complexion,
of fluid extract OF tarax acum to which have
the druggist add tablespoonful of mandrake
extract, or twice as much cascara to complete
the Alternative effect This should cost not over
S1.50 for all. Or you may dig mp the whole plant
of taraxacum, clean and boil it in earthen
ware, closely covered, using a peck of
the green plant with just water enough to keep
from burning, say a pint, letting the plants
cook till very tender and pressing the juice
morning, take one dessert spoonful Of charcoal,
in water or milk, thoroughly moistening it. and
after breakfast teaspoonful of taraxacium,
following with a teaspoonful after each meal.
and at bedtime. The morning dose of
charcoal and the four teaspoonfuls OF taraxacum
are to be taken for three weeks, then omit for
a week, and resume if necessary. A six week 8
course of this will work wonders IN ordinary
compilations.
If there is troublesome acidity, and the mouth
tastes as if one had been using bad words, take
a teaspoonful of half charcoal and halF prepared
chalk as often as the unpleasant taste returns.
If the symptoms are not soon relieved. take an
old-fashioned mixture as follows: One and one
half ounces of SIENNA, three ounces each of the
pulp of French prunes and figs, six drachms ia
marinds, one-half ounce rhubarb powder, ten
ounces molasses and forty drops oil of caraway.
Boil the fruit in the best cooking syrup
IN the powders, and when Cool add
the oil of caraway, mixing all thoroughly
by rubbing with the back of a spoon in a bowl
or with pestle in marble mortar. The dose of
this not unpleasant preparation is half tea
spoonful at night. 1t is a medicine very kind to
the complexion, and may well be taken two
nights before party, to clean the skin when
one wishes to look well If the careful mother
desires her daughter to keep a brilliant com
plexion, she must not allow aloes given her in
any form OF medicine, and doctors should
be enjoined to regard this caution.
alter g -AS month Of medication, land and
for a complexion draught nothing is much
better than a decoction of wintergreen, made
by boiling one ounce of the herb IN two pints of
water down to one, and straining, taking two to
four tablespoonful three times a day, just
before meals. 1t promotes the secretions and
ne Igh Ita
and digestive process.
A very nice medicine for the skin and impart-
ing liveliness to the limbs is this True sarsa-
parilla root cut in slices, four ounces; sassafras
root, raSped, two ounces; dandelion root, four
ounces. and one ounce OF hquorice root in
fused IN two quarts OF water for twenty
four hours. The water should be filtered, if
possible, and be Just boiling when poured over
the roots and Kept in warm place just below
the boiling point, closely covered. Boiling for
the length of time required TO reduce the ordina-
~ preparations often renders the extract totally
inert. This recipe IS especially valuable from
the sarsaparilla. which has a particular action
on the skin, without producing dangerous per-
splratlon: But medlclnes ior tne oIood should
never be taken without careful bathing and diet,
or the immediate effect will be an eruption,
which may be weeks in disappearing.
AS warm weather comes, it is good thing to
take a vapor bath once week, or, as a substi-
tute, hot water bath, warm enough to start
perspiration freely. Get right into clean night
gown and blankets and sweat and sleep an hour
or two. Sponge off with pint OF sea water
made with the sea salt sold by druggists, and
na1 pint OF eicOhOl OF cOIOSnes uEeSS IN thin
fannels and silk underwear, and there will be
little danger of taking cold. Spring languor can
be relieved in this way and the blood improved.
If the face is oily and blackheads imminent
take charcoal and taraxacum with q pureatiye
week avoiding aloes or calomel. A table
spoonful of castor oil taken with half as much
lemon Juice is kind medicine III this case, and
is especially valuable to relieve oppression of
the chest and colds.
For greasy noses with large pores, apply borax
dissolved in camphor, lavender or cologne as
frequently as possible. Also wiring linen cloth
or folds of lint from hot water with any good
soap IN it, and apply to the face four or five
minutes. Do not rinse, but wipe with so Il
warm towel, and Immediately dust with fine
chalk or Fulier's earth toilet powder. while the