Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14
FOR HEALTH AND COMFORT.
Hygiene-Danger in . Pimply Nose
Helen Watterson's suggestions-Cooking

Shirley Dare's Answers to Questions on
Hygiene-Danger in q Pimply Nose
Helen watterson's suggestions-Cooking
for the sick-OId Age.
Among the questions sent by readers of
THE DISPATCH to Shirley Dare the follow
ing she has deemed worthy of attention.:
Lilith-She is not %. and is troubled with
Inflammation in the nose, showing itself in
disagreeable little pimples in each corner
and on the tip.
The pimply noses, when the rest of the
face Is perfectly clear, mean mischief, in
ternal inflammation and depravity of blood.
/ One does not feel like passing such things
lightly after seeing women with the end of
the nose eaten off by ulcers which began
with little pimple. Possibly should not
have taken this case seriously if had not
lately twice seen such instances in we'll
dressed well-appearing, middle-aged women,
going about with bit of white rag on the
nose lilly concealing the ravagcs of disease.
The time to insure against such miseries is
in early life, and Lilith is fortunate that
the vexatious little pimple on her nose has
called attention to a state of things which
might develop in rodunt ulcer or worse.
She must begin at once to study health as
she would English literature in one of the
fiddlefaddle clubs women adore, where they
attend to every subject but the indispen-
sable one of hygiene. They would find no
subject so absorbing if once rightly entered
upon. 1t is not possible to advise with
mere mention of a single symptom. Proba-
bly, the first thing needed is dosage with
Eng0m sol 1ta in hot for
q week, the food to be cereals, coarse brown
bread, fresh lean meats, (not pork, which
may account for the pimples alone), no salt
meat or fish, and plenty of vegetables which
contain sulphur, turnips, fresh cabbage Gun
cooked), crosses, caulifower, with mustard
and horseradish as relishes. Baths twice q
week or oftener, hot lamentations to the
regions of the hips. front and back, and
warm dressing for the lower limbs from the
hips down are indicated, to avoid conges-
tions. 1t has lately come to light that
much of the backache and inflammation
which reflects upon the face among women
is caused by neither garments which shrink,
leaving q sensitive part of the back ill-pro-
tected. Lumbago, spine trouble, chronic
colds and a number of others are traced to
this defect.
Daisy B.-she is too stout, although she
usually takes but two meals day and does
know the best diet, and whether lean meat
is fattening.
Lymphatic persons, slow, pallid, unen-
ergetic, tend to fatness whether they eat
less or more, above starvation point. Lean
meat AID fish are the best food for them, as
supplying the nervous stimulation they
need. Leave out the cereals, rice and pota-
toes as regular articles of food, and take
green vegetables, salads and fruits with the
~ af
which no part of the wheat has been bolted
or removed, is an indispensable corrective
for stout people, but it should be hardbaked
or toasted. Spiced food may be INDUCED in
by such persons more freely than by others.
Milk isforbidden, coffee and tea are allowed,
but not cocoa OF chocolate. All fermented
liquors must be let alone strictly, and the
bread for corpulents is better made with
baking powder than yeast. Well ventilated,
sunny rooms with good fires and dry cellars
are very necessary to stoutish persons who
fatten like Strasbourg geese in close, dull
air and grow dropsical in damp houses. Sun
and air oxydize tissue so that it is used up,
instead of cloggiDg the body. Hot ammonia
baths-one teaspoonful of liquid ammonia
to twelve quarts of water-cleause and
stimulate; and once in a month or six weeks
an old-fashioned dose should be taken of
cream and tartar and compound powder of
jalap, which is much kinder to corpulence
than the obesity waters, 30 much advertised.
Thelka-Please tell me how to cure red,
weak looking eyelids and an overly sensi-
tive lachrymal duct.
1t is out of the question to risk advice on
such slight particulars. The age and tenn
permanent of the person, general condition,
the use of the eyes, the duration of the
trouble should all be considered. II it is
transient Inflammation apply rose water,
with borax the size of common pea dis
solved in half pint; keep the lids wet as
often and as long as possible. An old
remedy for inf1amed lids is the pulp of
tender apple with rosewater; this is bound
on the eyes with old linen. Another quaint
method was to cut thick parlng of juicy
apple and bind the cut side on the lid. Red
eyelids and watery eyes, from impurity of
blood, call for Alternative medicines and
thorough treatment.