Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-11


differ as to the best food fora cat, but
the best authorities agree upon raw
beef cut very small, bones to pick, fish
of all sorts, milk, boiled rice or oat-
meal with milk or without it, brown
bread and milk, some boiled vegeta-
bles, stalks of asparagus, cabbage and
even carrots. 1t is good plan to mix
rice or oatmeal with fish. Raw meat
is generally considered the best and
most natural food for cats. Cooked
meats, mashed potatoes, raw eggs and
and clans can be added to the list
above.
Great care should be taken in remov-
ing all the bones from fish before it is
given to the cat. The chill should be
taken from milk in cold weather, and
fresh water should be left where a cat
can find it at all times.
Good authorities condemn liver as
food for cats it should only be
given occasionally.
Give cat now and then Il square
inch of fresh butter.
1t is very necessary for cat to have
grass. In the country she will lind 1t
herself, but in the town it should be
given to her. In the winter keep a
sod of growing grass in the house
where she can get at it. Give her
catnip often.
Cats should be fed regularly. 1t is a
great mistake to suppose that because
4 cat catches mice and birds OCCASION
ally she needs no other food. Some
Deople feed their cats SO little that
they are compelled to help themselves,
and then they are called thieves. a
cat that is well cared for will be Il bet
ter mouser than one that is not.
SLEEP IN SICKNEss.-COnccrnlng
sleep, in connection with sickness,
there is Il good deal of heresy regard
ing the matter, among otherwise well
informed people. "Don't let her sleep
too long!'' "Be sure to wake him
when it is time to give the mcdl-
cine: it will be Il great deal bet
ter for him not to sleep too long at
one time - How often we have heard
the words to that effect, when, i'll fact,
in nine cases out of ten, and very likely
in nincty-nine cases out Of the hun
drcd, they are the exactly opposite OF
the truth. Gentle, rcstful sleep is
better than any medicine: and how
often. even how almost invariably,
does the "change for the better,' for
which anxious friends arc waiting SO
prayerfully, come during sleep-mak-
ing it's first manifestation when the
patient awakes with frightened eye,
stronger voice, Il faint tinge of return
ing health mantling the features, i'll
place of the wan hue of threatening
! death In the words of Sancho Pam
"a. we may well say, ''Blcsscd be the
man who invented sleep" There are,
! of course. critical situations in which
troubled, imperfect sleep may prop
erlv be broken to administer mcdl'
cincs but in these latter days phySl'
clans. quite generally, give instructions
that in case of rcStful sleep the patient
is not be awakened for the administers
ing Of medicines.
THlNGs | HATE TO SEE.-l hate tC
see il man always talking about what
happy place heaven is, and dong
/ nothing to make his home resemble H.
| hate to see Il man with Il SllSpI-
! cious breath boast Of temperance prIh'
ciplcs. :, :,
I hate to see il man continually talk
inrabout how much he loves everybody
and never doing anything to help amy
body. :,
hate TO see prominent church
member slipping into butchcr-shop to
buy something for breakfast on Sunday
morning.
hate to see people overly particular
about their clothes and underly partlcll'
lar about their morals.
hate to see Il man remember every
thing the clown said twenty years age
and forget every word the preacher
said last Sunday morning.
| hate to see people giving all thell
sweet to the world, and keep all their
sour for the lircsidc.-Ram's Horn.