Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01

Cool, who goes on to state that the nervous
system contains as a constituent phosphor-
lied oil found in the yelk Of egg, in the hu.
man blood, aud in butter and cream espe-
eially. Without this phosphoriz.d oil
furnished by the blood Tor the use and
growth of the nervous system, it would cease
to grow, and with it would decline the en-
ergy of all the functions of the body"
Cream Easily Digested.
Babies and women alike need this, and it
is most attainable in cream which, diluted,
is far easier of digestion for the Youngest
child than cows milk. Many of the worst
dyspeptics find themselves able to digest
pure, sweet butter and diluted cream as we'll
as soft-boiled fresh eggs, and our nervous,
scrawny women want to secure these articles
of food in their best quality and freshness.
When shall we have the admirably con-
trived parcel post service of England and
the Continent, which furnishes the London
housekeeper with fresh cans of cream, and
butter churned the same morning in the
Cheshire dairies, with boxes ofnew-laid eggs
in sawdust, and cherries in moss, as we'll as
cut flowers from Scottish gardens for her
gaslit dinner table? Why on earth isn't it
as easy to send pound OF fresh butter from
the Genesee Valley to Madison Square by
post as to send three pounds of silk from
Twenty-third street to the Genesee? Instead
of putting a prohibitory tariff on foreign
supplies, let our lawmakers allow us
cheaper transportation of parcels by post,
and the producers of the Far West and
South will soon have no cause to complain
of competition for their produce. Fresh,
we'll nodded butter from the North Caro-
lima and Tennessee pastures, wrapped in
paraffine paper in a pasteboard box will
travel in perfect condition without injury to
other parcels and the canned haIfpint of
condensed, unsweetened cream, which is one
Of the last experiments in cannery, could go
from New Hampshire to the milkless
regions Of Texas unchanged. Your pre-
served fruits, nv dear madam, in Virginia
or Mississippi or Los Angeles would 60 in a
chip box direct to your customer in New
York as easily as the return check by letter.
Pointer for Aspiring Statesmen.
Think of the hand work that could travel
by mail between the lesurely women of
lonesome villages and the overtasked ones
in towns 1t would be possible to fix
standards of work and have patterns so
clearly understood that much work could
be done in country places which now the
country dwellers must crowd the towns to
lind. If any politician would deserve we'll
at the hands of his grateful countrymen,
and specially of the women, who influence
the men, let him make the parcel post of
England reality here. If it cannot be
done by rail, start the pneumatic system,
which has more fortune in 1t than any Of
the electric schemes now afoot.
That's all on politics, my dear lady.
Only food has so much more to do with your
beauty than cosmetics, and transportation
has so much to do with food, that we can't
afford to be Indifferent to it.
Some French recipes of undoubted value
must make up for the digression. A prep
aration for drying greasy hair has been
asked repeatedly. The Hospital st. Louis
uses salicylic acid part, starch 100 parts,
powdered and sifted, sprinkled in the roots
of the hair and combed out with fine comb
next morning. For falling hair, after wash
ing the hair clean with soap and water, the
following pomade is applied: Salicylic acid,
2 parts; precipitated sulphur, II parts: lano-
line and vaseline, each 30 parts. At night
friction with the following lotion should be
made with soft brush: Spirits OF rosemary.
100 parts; tincture of cantharides, 10 parts.
Some Medical Recipes.
A German prescription for preventing
cold sores and boils from coming to a head
is to paint them five to ten times daily with
equal parts of boracic acid and water. A
noted surgeon treats large carbuncles with
out using the knife in any way bv covering
the swelling with bicarbonate of soda, moist
with bandage. In few daysthe surface
is found in state of suppuration, when a
poultice and soothing ointment effect a cure.
1t strikes me that as soda heals burns and
carbuncles, it must be effective in pimples
of the face and arms, and paste of raw egg
beaten up with a tablespoonful of baking
'oda would be good dressing over night.
It should be applied only to the pustules,
not spread over the skin.
DR.. William Murrell, of the Westmin-
'ter Hospital, London, recommends various
forms of incense as useful in relieving
chronic bronchitis, and as this is pleasant
treatment for all his recipe is appended:
Styrax, 5 drachms. benzoiu, ounces; sum-
oui or jatamansi, 1 drachm; irankincense, 5
lrachms, This will be found richer than
my OF the pastilles usually sold.
Agreeable Disinfectants.
According to NJ. Keldyche, who has ex-
in hospital wards, air saturated
With eucalyptol is perfectly disinfected and
will no longer breed baciIli in gelatine. II
his is true, and everything points to its
ruth, we have pleasant disinfectant which
S an incense of itself and will prevent dis
.ase without warning the neighbois off like
'arbolic acid or iodoform or raising unutter-
Ible thoughts OF sulphur, not to mention
hloride of lime. One recalls with q sigh
he air of the California valleys, balmy
vita eucalyptus, and the long September
lays, haZy and aromatic as with the fumes
# a perpetually burning censer. Euca-
yptol has clean scent like pine. and SAN
al and thyme together.
A writer in the Popular Science Neus re-
,orts that be has watched the action of per-
umes on the system for years, and believes |
hat not only is inhaliDg the perfumes of |
lowers and plants valuable therapeutie |
gent, according to Prof. Schonlein's |
pinion, but that the living in periumed air
ill prevent lung disease and arrest con-
umption. In his connection with the per-
nmery business for 80 years he has en-
loyed several persons of both sexes con-
emned to die young of the inherited disease,
ut who lived to good age in the saturated |
ir of perfumes.
Flower Cure and Work Cure.
The same belief is found at Grasse, In the
outh of France, the flower mart of the
orld, where the air is full OF escaping vapor
ON the distilling of perfumes aud ethereal
lis, which is the chief manufacture of the
.gion, and the air out of doors and in is
.turated with the exhalations of flowers the
ear round. Imagine the flower cure, tine
ext aesthetic craze after the faith cure and
hristian science. 1 beg pardon of the
owers-there is truth in their cure, the
.hers are delusions.
Apropos, the Queen of Sweden has been
,newing her health by the working cure.
aking her bed in the morning and sweep
lg her room and spending most of the day