The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-10
Health Hints and
Rules Of Hygiene
Suggestions That May Save iou Many
a Doctors Bill.
WISDOM FOR THE HOUSEHOLD
These Hints Don't Cost Much, Arc Not
Copyrighted, and if They Don't Do
You Amy Good, They'll Not
DO You ANY Harm.

Here are four dishes for invalids that
are recommended by the Philadelphia
Record as helpful and not too exactlng in
their demands upon weakened stom-
achs:
Toast Water.-Toast slice of bread
very brown, break it into pieces and
pour over them one cupful of boiling
water. When cool this will be found a
nourishlng drink.
Jelly Water.--Put in a tumbler a tea
spoonful of currant jelly with one table
spoonful of wine. Mix them we'll to-
6ether and fiji the glass with icewater.
If the patient is feylrish, the wine
should be omitted.
FlaXseed Lemonade.-Steep two
tablespoonfuls of flaXseed in one quart
of juice of three lemons, large cupful
of wine, stirring together. This will be
found an excellent drink for persons
suffering with colds or lung troubles,
and may be drunk either hot or cold
Beef tea.-Two pounds of lean beef
chopped into small bits and put into q
glass fruit jar in kettle of cold water.
After boiling for two or three hours
the juice should be poured off and sea-
soned to taste.
| Rice for Invalids. a teaspoon
full of rice, pint of milk; put them in
an open dish and bake in the oven for
two hours. Keep the dish covered for
the first hour, after which the cover
should be removed and the rice stirred
occasionally. Sweeten if preferred.
As result of extended investigation.
DR.. Billings writes out the following
conclusions as TO the variations in the
death rates of the various races: /. The
colored race is shorter lived than the
white, and has a very high infantile
death rate it is specially fable to tu-
berculosis and pneumonia, and less lla-
bic than the white race to malaria, yell
low fever and cancer. 2. The Irish race
has q rather low death rate among
its young children, but very high one
among adults, due to a considerable
extent to the effects of tuberculosis,
pneumonia and alcoholism. 3. The Ger
mans appear to be particularly liable
TO disorders of the digestive organs and
to cancer. A. The Jews have a low
death rate and a more than average
longevity; they are less affected by
alcoholism. but are especially liable to
diabetes locomotar ataXy and certain
other diseases of the nervous system.
If a girl will take the trouble, says
the Philadelphia Record, to walk about
the room on tiD-toes for lightness of
step, balancing book or sofa pillow
on her head for dignity, half an hour u
day for year. she will walk like the
nobility the rest of her natural life. Two
things are incompatible with grace of
locomotion-heavy step and downcast
eyes. Step lightly, gentle woman.
Look up, little girl.
Each morning after the bath, stand
erect, feet together, shoulders back,
arms straight down, and take twenty
five full, deep breaths. Better begin
with fifteen the first week. then gradu-
ally increase until you can take fifty.
BY that time the lungs will be stronger
and the chest will begin to expand.
Then throw the shoulders firmly back
until the blades almost meet, take a
full deep breath and make the rotary
with the shoulder joint that is made in
rowing and repeat this several times.
Then move the shoulders and arms
backwards in regular motions until the
elbows are only few inches apart.
Try these exercises only few times at
first, then increase until hundred mo-
tions or more may be taken without
fatigue.