The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-25
HEALTH HINTS.


der will take off the shine"
Bathing with whisky or alcohol cleanses,
disinfects and hardens the skin. Massage
will give tone and firmness to the skin.
Pepto-mangan Is a most excellent
| blood tonis." Take a tablespoonful in
half glass Of milk three times day for
| six weeks.
Get some acid nitrate Of mercury, dip
a match stick into 1t and touch each wart
with the wetted stick, taking care that
none of the acid trickles on to the skin;
one application is all that is necessary.
| 1t is believed by some that vegetarian
grows taller than one who eats meat A
mixed diet-meats, fish, eggs, vegetables,
bread, potatoes, rice and sweet stuffs are
the best all-round growing food" diet.
DR.. C. w. Stiles, of the agricultural de-
| partment, Washington, has written an
article "On the Rarity of Tenia Solium in
America" DIR. Stiles describes the differ
ent kinds of tenia. The tongue Of the beef
| Is a favorite place for these parasites to
collect, and those who are fond Of beef
tongue sandwiches run considerable risk.
The sting or bite followed by the ,imme-
diate appearance Of small pimples Is prob
ably caused by lice. We are apt to pick
such unwelcome pests up in the street
cars or trains and in trying on hats or
garments Washing the scalp and hair
| in kerosene (he kind used in lamps) will
destroy lce-alcohol or vinegar destroys
nits. The itching at night will be cured
by sponging the body Off with equal parts
Of hot water and vinegar (mixed) on going
to bed at night ,rs
Set it as part of the child's education
hot hA yknn IL totr Hos Nf
rounds at the playground at a rapid rate
with his lips tightly closed. Make the
opening Of them demerit, and the COM
pletion Of the task In accordance with the
directions a merit. Increase the distance
and the speed daily. When a boy or girl
can walk at a rapid pace, or better, run
| 200 yards. breathing only through the
nose and repeat the performance thrice
during the day, there need be small fear
Of chronic nasal catarrh.
There Is no need for one to have an un-
slightly complexion If one will take proper
care Of oneself-one must be sweet and
clean from top to toe, within and without
Take a bath once every day-the skin on
ones body weighs ten pounds and repre-
| sents an extensive dirt-holding surface,
| which is covered with effete matter re-
sulting from tissue breakdown, as we'll as
the dirty visible and invisible particles
| which settle down upon 1t from outside
sources. This dirt accumulation is a
daily, hourly ocurrence-one can instantly
see daily scrubbing is most Imperative
II health and beauty are to be maintained.
1t is not necessary for one to bathe in a
tub--water, a wash-rag, soap and towels
are enough. Within, there are waste pro-
ducts that must be removed-the bowels
n n
there must be a daily movement The
lungs, the blood, must have oxygen, fresh
air; walk-ride wheel-exercse invigor-
ates, sends the blood swiftly through the
myriad vessels which penetrate every
crevice OF the, body. The red oxygen
bearing blood carries nourishment--is the
rain, the sunshine to every part both
great and small Try prevention--it is SO
simple, so easy, and SO sure.-Philadel.
phia Record.
A distinguished specialist In children's
diseases, writing in the American Practl-
tioner and News. has carefully noted ths
difference between twelve families of
drinkers and twelve families of temperate
ones during period of twelve years,
with the result that he found that the
twelve drinking families produced in those
years fifty-seven children, while the tenn
perate ones were accountable for sixty
one. OF the drinkers, twenty-five children
died in the first week of life. as against six
on the other side. The latter deaths were
from weakness,while the former were at
tributable to weakness, convulsive attacks,
or oedema of the brain and membranes,
To this cheerful record Is added five who
were idiots; five SO stunted In growth as
to be really dwarfs; FIVE when older be-
came epileptics; one, a boy, had grave
chorea, ending in idiocy; five more were
diseased and deformed and two of the
epileptics became by inheritance drinkers.
Ten, therefore,, of this fifty-seven, only
showed during life normal disposition and
development Of body and mind. On the
part of the temperates, as before stated,
FIVE died in the first weeks of weakness,
while four In later years of childhood had
durable nervous diseases. Two only showed
inherited nervous defects. Thus fifty were
normal, in every way sound in body and
mind. i1f.f., 4t Fr.
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