The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-20

ger nails try Fowler's solution in two
drop doses in wine glassful of water af-
ter meals for six or eight weeks.
Saturate bit of cotton with the oil of
cloves and apply to that aching tooth, TAX
Ing care that IL does not touch the gums,
as the oil of cloves is apt to blister
Stout persons who chafe should dust the
abrasions with Venetian tale, after first
bathing them with boraX water; teaspoon
full of borax to pint of warm water.
The French soaps are purest and best
for the toilet-the best American make OF
cashmere bouquet is very pure soap and
to be preferred after the French makes
wash the hair once every week, using
hot water and tincture of green soap;
when the hair has dried anoint the scalp
with cosmollne-use cosmoline night and
morning every day.
Don't eat anything acid just before go
Ing to the dentist to have your teeth
cleaned or filled. Acid fruits make the
teeth tenderer and more liable to hurt un-
der the manipulation of the dentist.
For an acid stomach, with nervousness
and indigestion, take five drops of diluted
hydrochloric acid in q wineglassful of
water before meals and ten drops of tine
ture of nuX vomica in tablespoonful Of
water after meals.
Rub sore lips with cosmoline upon re-
tlring at night, and every time you go
out OF doors to walk or ride. To enrich
the blood and give you rosy cheeks take a
tablespoonful of pepto-mangan in q half
glass of milk after each meal
To protect ones self from catching cold
take a full sponge bath of cold water
every morning upon rising, followed by a
brisk rubbing; then rub the surface with
sweet oil. This, in the opinion of the
Philadelphia Record, is the very best way
to harden yourself.
If you find that coffee disagrees with
you, yet are unwilling to give 1t up, try
drinking 1t without sugar and cream. 1t
is said that the combination of coffee,
sugar and cream is bad for person with
Impaired digestion, but that clear coffee
may be taken without disturbance.
Strawberries have for long time had a
well-established reputation as a remedy
for the gout DR.. A. George, in the An
males de la Societe Horticole de rAube,
tells us that in the last century the great
botanist, Linnaeus, who was gouty, had
much cause to eXtol the action of the fruit
in this disease.
The first cure for abdominal obesity
ought to be to secure as complete and as
nearly perfect digestion of food as possi-
BILE. To do this the digestive system must
be kept in good order, and only such food
eaten as will digest easily, and that con
tain the fewest elements of fat. These are
starch, sugar and water.
To make coarse skin fine, use a pure
soap, wash rag and hot water every night.
ly rubbing with a coarse towel. Rub the
skin in the direction opposite to the way
the wrinkles eXtend-if the lines on the
forehead run horizontally, rub the skin
perpendicularly, and so on And in the
winter time, dress warmly.
This treatment for catarrh in the head
is recommended by q physician. Take a
teaspoonful of the phosphate of sodium in
teacupful of boiling water (sip while hot
every morning before breakfast. Wash
out the nasal cavities with the following
mixture, which must be used as a spray
Get an atomizer with fine spray.
r Glyco-thymoline. e...............oz.
Sig.-Three teaspoonfuls to two ounces
of water, for the atomi2er. Use night anO
morning as directed.
The teeth stand at the entrance or gate
of the body and their chief duties are the
mechanical part of digestion. If the
| teeth are imperfect or decayed the mas.
tication of the food is imperfect Instead
of going to the stomach in fit condition to
be acted on by the digestive ferments it Is
more nearly in he condition of the food OF
birds, that have no teeth. but are sup
piled with a gizzard. Unfortunately in
our makeup the gizzard was omitted, and
the result Is that, If the teeth are not in
condition to do this work properly and
well, we suffer the pangs of indigestion
with all the sympathetic disorders which
follow in its train.
Tubercular meningitis is one of the
most fatal diseases of childhood. 1t is rare
before the first year. and after the fifth
year of age 1t occurs almost exclusive
ly in children of a scrofulous dathesis
either inherited or acquired. In such chill.
dren the tuberculous process is latent
and any debiltating disease, says the Phil.
adelphia Record, may excite it, such as
darrhea, measles, whoopng cough otor-
rhea and skin and scalp diseases of a
chronic nature; dentition, insufficient OF
| improper food; injuries to the head, moro
particularly at the base of the brain
The advent Of the disease is usually in
sidious, but if convulsions usher it IN
| its course is rapid. AS to the treatment
prevention alone is effective. The great.
est care must be exercised as to the hy.
| giene and diet during the first few year
of the child's life. Children who exhibit
the premonitory symptoms and in whom
| its development is feared, should be giveT
cod liver oil every day and kept out oi
doors as much as possible; a frequent
change of surroundings and of climate il
| important