Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-12
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ing the past and forming new resolutions
for the future. We see how quickly the
old year slipped from US, how each sue
ceeding year grows shorter, till they fairly
rush by, and realize how soon the proba-
tionary period allotted to this stage of our
existence will all be gone. Though Mother
Symptoms prophecy did not come true,
1889 will be the end of the world to a
mighty multitude. To many of us the
faces of our own dead have multiplied
and most of US who have reached middle
life can count more friends upon the silent
shore than remain to us in this. But as
time goes on we grow more and more re-
signed to the common destiny, and will be
able to cross over with less regret when
our time comes.
Now is the accepted season for inaugu-
rating good resolutions and fresh strivings
after personal reforms; for the sacrificing
of small vices, the vigorous beginning of
diaries and expense accounts, and rules for
early rising, daily exercises, regular hours
for reading, etc. Among the mass of these
self-promises, most of them are prefer
naturally vigorous during the first month
of their existence, then begin to droop
into natural decay and die young, like the
children in the story books, so infinitely
easier is it in this tempting world to fall
into bad habits than to cultivate new ones.
However, we are none the worse for hav-
ing formed the good resolutions, and it is
60, 30,
succeeding 1st of January than to lose all
desire for Improvement.
If we cannot be active in good works, at
least let us live so that the world will not
be any the worse for our having been in
it. Let us watch the "little foxes" that
spoil the vines of life-ill-temper, un-
charitableness, proneness to gossip, neglect
of little acts of kindness toward those
we love, and failure to assist the down
trodden as we have opportunity.
In short, let us live as we had wished we
had, should 1890 prove our last here be-
low. When the end comes, fancy that
we shall realize that the true secret of hu-
man happiness lies in forgetting self and
setting our stumbling feet in the footsteps of
Him who walked with publicans and sim
ners, healing the sick and doing what He
could for others. Above all, let us not fail
in letting our dear ones know that we love
them. Life is so short at best, and moth
ing but death and change are certain.
How many hearts there are that are mex
pressibly saddened by doubts of another's
love, when lips which should have spoken
in life are dumb forever; how many full of
tenderness to which they never gave utter
ance, when daily opportunities presented.
would have the world if they could make
the dead ears hear the dead heart under
stand. Is there a mourner in the world
to-day who does not remember with
bitter self-reproach every unkind word
he uttered in moments of anger
to the one under the sod, every little
discourtesy, every neglected opportunity
for making their mutual life happier? Is
there a mother sitting in her lonely home
from which the children have all gone out,
either to take their places in the great
world or in the securer rest OF the tomb,
who does not look back with satisfaction
upon every sacrifice she ever made 10 en-
hance their childish pleasures, and with
regret upon every undue severity? Oh,
friends Among all your good resolu-
tions make this one and keep it: Let no
i'll temper betray YOU into one angry
word or act Of unkindness during the new
year. Sooner or later every family circle
must be broken; then live so that when
the inevitable decision comes, there will
be less of heartbreak in it.
Let love-pure, simple love-be the
ruling passion of our lives and let us so
live that when our time comes to enter
that better, brighter home that we may go
down to death surrounded by loving
friends who will miss US because we have
striven, by little deeds of kindness, TO
make their lives happy.
THE SEASON FOR COLDS
Has come, and the victim of asthma
wheezes while the catarrhal sufferer
sneezes. Coughs are in fashion, and while
one remedy will not cure every one, surely
some remedies are better than others, and
often the best of them are simple and
easily oStaired. A sister, who had been
troubled with constant catarrhal cough,
aud whose lungs were considerably irri-
tated, after trying doctors prescriptions
without relief cured her cough by a sim
pie mixture Of her own compounding. The
RECEIPT is as follows:
Beat the white Of one egg light, then
add the Juice Of lemon, one teaspoonful
of paregoric, and sugar to make creamy
syrup. Stir well. and take teaspoonfll
Of the mixture when the cough is trouble
some.
Often, for simple, catarrhal cough, the
white of an egg mixed with sugar alone
will afford relief And even an asthmatic
cough, that treacherous enemy so difficult
10 remove, may be relieved thereby. 1t
afforded some relief in the case of an aged
aunt who came to US with terrible cough.
She had been for years the victim of
asthma, and was passing sleepless nights,
so much did the cough affiict her. But
what afforded permanent relief was balsam
of wild cherry which friend induced her
to try. In her case it acted like magic ;
but all are not alike affected By the remedy,
as all are not alike afflicted by the disease.
One of our most prominent physicians
has been using pure oil of turpentine in
affections of the throat for some time, and
finds better and more satisfactory results
than from any other remedy he ever tried:
He uses the ordinary hand atomizer, and
throws a spray of the liquid into the
throat every few minutes, or al longer III
tervals, according 10 the gravity OF the
case. The bulb Of the instrument Is COM
pressed as the act of inspiration COM
mences, so as to insure application of the
gemedy to every part Of the surface, which
can be done in cases of children very sue
eessfully. 1t is surprising how diphther-
cite membrane viii melt away under an
almost constant spray of pure oil of turpen-
tine. In cases of tuberculosis of the lungs,
bronchitis and the latter stages of pneu-
monia | have known the turpentine inhal-
alton to be very beneficial, by using an
atomizer or paper funnel, from which the
turpentine may be inhaled at will. Some
people hang around the bed and in the
room fanneis saturated with oil of turpen-
tfne, and in all cases of catarrhal bron-
chitis the patients express themselves i9-
yariably as being much relieved.
NEW EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN.