Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-08-11
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wy HE heated term of the past two or
NV three weeks has served to wilt
the humanity out of everybody;
energy is absent, having as it
were, ooZed out at every pore.
els there" said friend to me,
s'such thing as keeping cool?'' The
qualities of food add a dreadful weight
to the average housekeeper and ten to
one house full of guests to entertain, if
she is country housewife.
last spoke of the children and some
home remedies for ready use; now [ will
suggest for the benefit of the grown up
people several things of benefit in every
family. | have so many times recently
heard from friends who have suffered
from attacks of the summer enemy,
cholera morbus, will give a prescription
used in my family for 25 years without a
single failure. Apply hot lamentations,
bag of salt or even heated stove-ld
well wrapped in flannel, to the stomach
and bowels, the first thing if there is
cramping and use for an internal remedy
the following: prepare equal parts by
measure, of spirits of camphor, laudanum
and tincture of rhubarb, put in small
bottle and shake well; give of this mix
ture, for person l6 years old, one tea
spoonful, if in an hour the vomiting and
action of the bowels is not relieved, give
another teaspoonful. In very severe
cases, small teaspoonful may be given
after each discharge. When the diarrhea
is checked give once in u hours tea
spoonful of tincture of rhubarb with as
much cooking soda put into it as will lie
on the point of penknife. For the
thirst and nausea in such cases, brown
well popcorn on the cob, break an ear,
or two If small, into quart of cold
water, steep it thoroughly and strain
clear, give the patient teaspOOnful or
tablespoonful if the nausea is not too
great In convalescence this is nourish-
ing with little of the top of the milk
added; | do not mean thick cream but by
placing a spoon down into the milk of
that which is few hours old, not day,
lift the spoon and take the top and what
milk the spoon contains. | am thus par
ticular, as many people think cream a
day old is just as well. Perhaps you
may fear to use vegetables and fruit but
with proper care they are preferable to
large quantity of meat, i. e., fresh meat,
and those living in remote districts
should buy spariDgly of meat carried for
hours in meat cart and on the verge of
absolute decay. The writer has known
of several instances when whole neigh
bOrhoods were afflicted with bowel
troubles, in one case of true dysentery,
from the use of it.
Unripe fruits should be avoided like
wise over-ripe. Banana vendors carry
fruit out into the country districts, sell
cheaply and often by the next morning
they are totally unfit for use. Wilted
vegetables and half decayed fruit is only
fit for the pig. | am reminded of an
other thing also prolific of these same
troublesome diseases and that is decay
ing vegetable matter. In thickly settled
places like your own busy Be llows Falls,
every family not owning on the premises
pigs or hens or other domestic animals
to use the refuse from kitchen and table
should burn and burn at once every
particle. You who live in tenement
houses, do not save swill for some farm
er, or neighbor, it draws the flies, creates
foul atmosphere, breeds disease and is
nuisance to yourself and your neigh
bOrs. Keep your wash tubs and pals
sweet and in the cellar; if you need the
wash water for garden or plants use at
once, over day old it is unfit to re-
main. Scald daily your sink pipes
and frequently powder some copperas
and scatter in the pipe and in the water
closets. All through the year, use
plenty of dry sand or road-dust in privys
and pig-pens. and the horse-stable is bet
ter for having a frequent coat of fresh
soil. Keep the flies out of your dwell
ings in some way and you will have to
use that ''eternal vigilance SO often re-
ferred to in higher matters. Flies carry
disease, l have not doubt, and are
most uncleanly torments. Dalmatian or
Persian powder will clear any room and
is harmless to those using.
If you have plenty of flowers these
days, good housewives, give to those
who have not; if some friend of yours has
laid away in the churchyard some dear
friend and they have no flowers, or even
if they have and you have something
rare carry them a bouquet to place on
the spot most sacred to them of any on
earth and your reward will come to you
in the conscious act of tender sympathy
Kindly deeds are for all seasons.
PRUDENCE WORK.