The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-09

erysipelas and blood-poisoning may re-
suit. There is nothing to be done in
these last stages but to follow a ply
sician's orders. What has been said in
reference to treatment pertains only
to lighter cases; more serious burns
should be treated by the family ply
sician.
The old prejudice against the mid
night lunch is rapidly disappearing. 1t
held up as a warning against this mild
indulgence horrible descriptions of
nightmare and gruesome predictions of
early death from dyspepsia. But the
superstition could not make headway
against the growing tendency OF
modern persons toward nighe carous-
ais, with their resultant calls upon the
appetite. "AS a matter of fact" says
a physician in % recent magazine, go
ing to bed hungry is about the most
foolish thing that a sensible person can
be guilty of. To be sure, one should
not eat heartily of indigestible food; but
under no circumstances is the craving
for something to eat to be denied.
Delicate persons, especially those who
have little appetite, and who never eat
heartily, are frequently kept awake
and pass sleepless nights on account of
the demands of the stomach for some
thing to work on. The digestive pro-
cesses continue during sleep, and, in
deed are carried on in the best posi-
BILE manner at this time, there being
no forces at work to draw the vitality
from what is for the moment its most
important business 1t would be well
If every family made some provision
for this need, and could keep ever
ready milk, hot or cold or a cup of
broth or hot soup. 1t would take very
little time and expense to do this, and
the mental and physical condition
of delicate members of the household
would be greatly improved"
1t is a wonder that the sharp-eyed
sanitary experts have not yet singled
out the trolley car strap as means of
disease propagation. Take, for instance,
Laurel Hill car on Saturday night
and see how many different conditions
of health and cleanliness cling to this
support, each imparting to its leather
sides contributions of animalculae and
microbes which are in turll taken up by
the person or the clothing Of the next
victim of the overcrowded car. 1t Is as
reasonable to suppose that this strap
helps to spread disease as 1t is to think
similarly of the communion cup or the
bar-room towel. If mankind Is to be
pestered to death by endless scientific
danger-sgnals it might as we'll die OF
the trolley strap as of any other COM
mon dissemination of fatal contagious.
HEALTH FOR THE MILLION:
Rapid eating is slow suicide.
| Never begin a journey until breakfast
has been eaten.
| A quart of wheat contains more nutri-
| ment than u bUshel of cucumbers
Sleep is the rest of tired nervous sys-
TEN and the time of its recuperance.
| There Is nothing more soothing in case
of nervous restlessness than q hot salt
| bath just before retiring.
| In sleeping in a cold room establish q
habit of breathing through the nose and
never with the mouth wide open.
Digestion is accelerated by cheerfulness,
| 1t is true. but this does not occur till the
| close of the meal, nor till the fluids are
absorbed, or solidiiied, as in the case of
milk.
| Cold water Is the salvation of the COM
| pleXion. 1t strengthens the skin by slim
ulating circulation. and renders 1t almost
proof against chaps and eruptons. When
| the skin needs cleaning, warm water is
absolutely necessary.
Nervous people should eat fat food. Ev-
cry irritable and exhausted nerve should,