Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-24

grunt, as it Is in the laundry. IF you have
any trouble on your mind, glass OF hot
water mixed with mustard, drank just after
rising, will make you think Of something
else so earnestly for the ensuing ten minutes
that your trouble will be forgotten. Then,
if you choose to think of it afterward, when
the other things have ceased to trouble you,
it is your own fault.
If you are suffering from weak lungs, or
IL you are apublic speaker or reader, and
find that your voice is exhausted, just be-
fore going to bed-if you are very wealthy
and away up in society and had Just as Lief
60 to bed as pot, or if you are lowering
about somewhere between the kitchen and
the parlor of life, then just before retiring
thrust both feet into foot bath half filled
with scalding hot water. You will find
that your voice will be restored in about
one-tenth of second to all its pristine
vigor. If you doubt the evidences of your
own senses, ask the people who rush in
without knocking to see who is numbering
you.
A pitcher half full of hot water, emptied
from second-story window upon the back
of a neighbor's dog on = very hot day in
July has been known to cool the atmosphere
down to within 80 Of freezing point for the
ensuing six weeks. Hot water poured down
rathole will drown the rat It takes ten
barrels of water to one hole. At least I
have poured nine barrels of cold water down
rathole without reaching him, and I sup
pose another one would have fetched him.
But by the time had the nine used up it
was time to go to church. A big tin dip
perful Of hot water thrown out of q kitchen
window, will drive away the LATEST and
savagest tramp that was ever surprised with
hot shower bath. 1t will also. as rule,
set fire to the barn that night. 1t is well to
bear this caution in mind when using this
heroic remedy.
A rigid adherence to q purely vegetable
diet, daily course of cold baths, summer
and winter, and drinking q glass of hot
water every morning before breakfast, never
fails to insure perfect health. At least I
have known a good many men who have
tried this regimen and without exception
every last one Of them 50 long as they lived
looked so much like his corpse that after
his death when you went up to the coffin
you couldn't help saying, "Howdy, old
man?" and we all know there is nothing the
matter with corpse. And when there's
nothing the matter with you, you're all
right
If you have in your own house no con-
veniences forkeeping hot water on draft
constantly, whenever you feel the need of
vigorous application Of it 60 over to your
neighbor's and tell her you saw her little
son Freddy throwing mud at the meeting
house. and heard him swearing and calling
people names as they passed BY, and you
thought she would be glad to know of it.
You'll get into hot water that will make you
wear blisters long, long, after Freddy has
forgotten what he was scolded about
A strip of flannel four inches wide and
two yards long, wrung out in hot water and
wrapped around your throat on going to
bed, is good thing to unwind itself during
the night and wriggle down into the bed and
twist itself around your legs and make you
dream of snakes. There is another way Of
bringing on dreams and visions of snakes in
bed, but this is the cheapest It is also the
easiest to get over.