Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17

small teaspoonful of phosphate of soda may
be added, making a, very good mineral
! water. or some of th6native salts NAV be
taken which taste so mildly bitter and leave
| a signally sweet condition Immediately after.
There is no use crying up Sprudel or Carls-
| bad salts when our own cSuntry has. so much
| pleasanter salines and springs. This hot
draught of water washes out the foul accre-
| tions and by its heat stimulates the flow of
digestive fluid Rank dyspeptics need it
before each meal continually, others want it
till good functions are restored, and it is a
good dose occasionally when the mouth
| tastes bad in the morning.
Use of Fruit and Lemonade.
Food is the best physic generally, as it is
taken in larger doses, with more regularity,
than medicine. Fruit is the great corree-
tive of bile, but it needs quantity and
variety. One poor little orange of morn
ing is Just better than nothing, but oranges
are often too sweet or not juicy enough to be
of much use. A large glass of hot lemon
ade, with some very hard, crisp graham
toast, is all the breakfast a bilious girl often
can eat and relishes better than anything
else. All the lemonade she can drink
through the day is q capital thing:
When appetite languishes live by drink
ing. Nature knows what she wants well
enough For pimply girls and boys nothing
is better than bunch of water crosses
dipped in lemon juice, eaten daily. Cress
of any kind is good and uncooked cabbage,
shaved fine as broom straws, with mayon-
naise or lemon dressing. If one wants to
make meal of it with bread and butter, all
the better.
One must give appetite good deal of
leeway in spring, contrary to the received
mi hot 1uh tac nil rct ha
injurious Grape juice, if relished, is
good liquid food and one can live and work
on quart of it for two meals and eat a
hearty dinner with relish and digestion
for the third. But most of the grape juice
sold is injurious, being so sweet as to cause
fermentation inwardly, often with great dis
tress
Garden Rhubarb Panacea.
The juice of garden rhubarb, stewed in
earthenware and strained, diluted with boil
ing water, sweetened and cooled till pleas
ant, is better than most of the wretched
grape Juice abroad. 1t makes spring
medicine such as the monks of old used to
take for the benefit of soul and body.
If woman wants to keep in delightful
ease, with neither too much flesh nor too
little, she should make the we'll cooked wheat
with beef juice and fruit her staple diet
Cooked long and slowly its loses all irri-
tating quality, if it ever has any, and is
grateful as well as wholesome. 1t feeds
white teeth, strong, steady eyes, clear skin
and sound nerves. If you are boarding and
can't get it ask for it till you get it, and
make it the condition of remaining. Moth
ing in the way of society or service can
make up for insufficient breadstuffs or cereal
food improperly prepared. If you have an
exceedingly nice, obstinate hostess who is
persuaded in her own mind that spoonful
of sticky oatmeal with thin milk and sugar
once day is all the staff of life her board
ers need, and there is no choice of boarding
houses, get
A Packet of Clean Bran.
Another most delightful, tempting thing
for weak appetitite is the best canned cher
ries, white ones preferably, scalded in
porcelain and taken cold or hot. Cooked
cherries, with their delicious acids and the
touch of prussic acid from the stones, are
the gratefulest medicine nature ever left to
tempt mankind for their own good The
juice drained from freshly opened can and
drunk by the glassful is both tonic and good
for the lungs.
Semi-fasting, two meals on fruit Juice and
graham toast, will usually give good relish
for meat once day. If not take cup of
cracked wheat, cooked an hour, mixed with
dessert spoonful of strong gravy or clear
beef extract stirred in. Few things equal
this for strengthening properties, making
fresh blood and flesh. 1t is palatable,
moreover, unlike many messes recommended
for persons out of health. With the wheat
well cooked other alternatives will soon be
given up and the green skin disappear with
them.
Broiled Steak Twice Day.
As soon as it can be relished good broi1ed
steak with the wheat should be eaten for
two meals daily at least. Whenever symp-
drink and toast again, with the hot water
before meals.
And take two tablespoonfuls night and
morning, any way you can coax it down in
soup, milk or coffee. 1t isn't worse than
taking medicine, and does away with the
need of it. Don't ask me where you can get
the bran, for don't know. 1 have sought
it in city shops in vain. The only way is to
buy whole wheat meal and sift the bran out,
until some wise man OF woman sees the
chance to make q great deal of money by
selling neat little boxes of bran at three
prices to men and women for whom it is the
condition of ease, health and beauty.
All the animals in menageries suffer from
being fed white bread instead of coarse foods
and human beings are more dependent,
being more sensitive and nervous. 1t is
magical to see the change in vigor, spirit,
and complexion wrought by change to
proper food in this respect.
l tell you plainly, you may as well throw
away cosmetics unless you can get the food
which should accompany them.
SHIRLEY DARE,