Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-30

could not bring him the comfort OF an Irish
woman's tenement room.
An invention was shown in New York
city last spring which meets the wants OF
households better than any other warming
apparatus. Perhaps its excellence is the
very reason why it was hustled out of the
way, so that its present address cannot be
found. 1t would not be the first invention
SO useful it had to be killed for fear of its
superseding everything else of the kind. A
sheet iron tank holding several gallons of
kerosene was fixed on the wall with a quar-
ter inch pipe leading to firebox of porous
clay or stone. through which the oil filtered,
| filling the box with flame. ANY more COM
plete economy of fuel is not to be found, and
| the ease with which it was regulated was a
great recommendation. The room once
warm with quick fire, the oil could be
turned off to the merest dribble sufficient,
with slight fame. to keep the house at an
even warmth all day or night without at
tention.
NO EXTRA INSURANCE,
It was said to be so safe that the insur-
ance companies charged no extra risk for it,
and one gallon of oil was enough to keep a
Is loot room warm for "a hours. 1 want to
know what has become of this invention.
Just such method is needed to heat houses
in the uncertain seasons when children and
women suffer mild miseries or not so mild
for want of dry warm air.
1t is stern truth that no one can Judge of
the warmth necessary for another's system
differing so widely. 1 have enjoyed a full
experience of la grippe which draws heavily
on the reserve of force, and will for some
time to come, because hot-tempered wom-
an resolved that her boarders needed no
more heat than she saw fit to give them, and
two authors, bent on serious work, shivered
three days over their writing last December
and came down with this unknown malady,
which takes ten years out of life, story
which hundreds of others can duplicate. So,
pleasant readers, whose kindly messages
come day by day, if your letters and ques-
tions are not answered, it is because for
months it has seemed easier to lie down and
pass out of existence than t6 do ANYTHING
else. That is the way the epidemic leaves
you. One galvanizes oneself to work un-
avoidable, and then drops into inertness of
body and soul.
THE BEST OF FOODS.
People must take to eating food which has
the fullest nourishment. The new process
has nearly ground and bolted the life out of
-four, so that bread, the staff of life, is
slighter than wheat straw. A new COM
pany in Philadelphia has started the bust
ness of making perfectly nutritious bread
without the yeast or powders, which is a
surprise to everyone who eats it. Two of
their mullins with cup of coffee make more
of working breakfast than a whole meal
beside. The company furnishes a dozen
forms of these cakes, made from whole wheat
meal mixed with water and salt, and baked
by steam. the application of quick heat rails
ing them perfectly.
The brown sweet little breads" are gain
ing in favor with all brain workers who try
them. One physician well-known in New
York, has five dozen sent by express each
Monday for his supply. An excellence of
the new process is that the bread is as good
week after baking as the day it is baked.
1t feeds the nerves, it satisfies the appetite,
the eyes grow brighter for using it, the COM
plexion clearer, the color richer. Wheat
supplies nearly complete food or the foun-
dation for it, with small amount of the
best meats and fruits and vegetables in
variety. Sedentary women, as a rule, eat
far too much meat. It should be taken hot
and well served at one meal, with fish, broth,
salad or croquettes at another. but certainly
omitted at the third meal. Less work for
the digestion means more vigor for the
brain.
ANOTHER GOOD FOOD.
Where even the steam baked cakes are a
tax on the system, lighter food is the stale
mullins dried in the great oven and pounded
into coarse meal, very nourishing, crisp
and nice to take Two or three tablespoon
fuls of this with a cup OF broth or grape
juice furnishes repast on which one can DO
more brainwork than on an ordinary dinner.
1t is really an ideal food and the wonder of
being suddenly free from the malaise which
attends common food inclines one to turn
anchorite and live on it at once. Most
healthful foods pass for very much more
than they are worth, but here is perfectly
wholesome bread, prepared in the simplest
way from the best material, and Is
is precious little selEdenial in going
without headache, dullness, 1anguor
and exchanging these for light frame
and spirits, clear eyes and clearer head So
if the epidemic has left you feeling only
half yourself, the first thing is to build up
the ruins by supplying good nutrition,
suited to weakened powers. Then the black
line under the eyes will disappear, smooth,
fresh cheeks will replace gaunt, sallow out
lines, while mental improvement keeps pace
with the outward.
Lastly, keep in the sun and pure air, and
if you cannot go out for it, let sun and air
come to you. Choose the sunny window for
your work, and keep the room ventilated,
opening windows every hour for few min
utes. Rest with lounge or bed drawn into
the sunshine, an hour of which is better
than many grains of quinine for giving
strength. Not an hour of the priceless sun
should be wasted between this ana July, by
those who would und2 the ravages of dis
ease. SHIRLEY DARE.