The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-22
some Health Hints
Suggestions That Nay Enable Many Tribune
Readers 10 Feel Better.
WISDOM FOR The HOUSEHOLD
These Hints Don't Cost Much, Are
Not Copyrighted and if They Don't
Do You Any Good You Can Have
the Satisfaction of Knowing That
They Will Not Do You Any Harm.
For the SATURDAY. Tribune.

Ifone and q half grains of common
alum, which can be procured at any
drug store, be put in a teaspoonful of
impure water, or teaspoonful of alum
to a gallon, the former will act on the
water and produce precipitation.
This is ofa Shiny nature and will stick
on the bottom of the vessel, so that the
water can be easily poured off almost
to the dregs. The water will be clear
as crystal, and if only this small
amount of alum is put in, it will not
taste at all different from pure water.
No matter how full Of mud the water
may be the alum will act quickly and
harmlessly. This could be used in fill
tering water in large quantities, but is
open to the objection that people would
be continuously blaming the alum for
their illnesses. 1t is good, however,
for family use, either for washing or
drinking.
1.-THE old adage, After breakfast
walk q mile, after dinner sleep
awhile,' )" says Mrs. Ellen Richards,
who is an authority on food topics,
twas founded on experience when
starch in the form gilmore or less heavy
bread, and of potatoes, and fat in
the form of pork was the chief source
of the carbohydrates and fat taken.
Does the same hold true at this date
when the more readily assimilated but
ter replaces pork, and when the already
partly digested sugar replaces q part
of the starch, and when the light, fine
wheat bread taxes much less the power
or digestion? In other words, how far
is it physiologically correct to encour-
age brain-workers to omit the after
dinner rest by furnishing them with a
MONDAY meal which will not tax all
their bodily powers so as to leave moth
ing available for mental work For my
own part, 1 believe that whatever may
be the case for the morning and even
ing meal, the character of the food
taken during working hours of stu
dents should be such as to sustain the
supply of force-producing material in
the blood, without requiring a large
per cent. of the force already at hand
to convert the food eaten into q new
force e-producing power"
sx4
Many of the current cures for earache
advise the dropping of various sub
stances into the ear. One of the best
specialists of the day pronounces this
'fusually an unadvisable procedure y
and in place of such remedies, prefers
the application of warmth to the re-
gion Of the ear, either by dry heat in
the form of heated flannel cotton,
wool, bags of hops, bran or meal, or
by cloths wrung out of hot water,
steam, or poultices of faxseed, or roast
ed onions. Cotton should not habitu
ally be worm-wedged into the ear, for
the reason that the air-passage is thus
closed, causing the secretions of the
ear to flow more slowly or vey little,
and thus causing an unnatural and
disagreeable and perhaps injurious dry
ness. AS, however, many cases of
| acute aural trouble have resulted from
bathing, and especially from diving
and plunging in salt water, it is u wise
precaution to plug the ears with cotton
at such times.
Believing that personal. cleanliness,