The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-05

hour some fresh water or lemonade.
Abundant drinking during illness not
only has an excellent effect by the
mechanical flushing Of the system 1t
occasions, but it also has the advantage
of preventing the mouth from becom-
ing dry.
Apropos of repeated admonitions to
eat layishly of fruits, London health
journal says: Fruits are the natural
correctives for disordered digestion,
but the way in which many persons eat
them converts them into curse rather
than blessing. Instead Of being taken
on an empty stomach, or in combina-
ton with simple grain preparations.
such as bread, they are frequently
eaten with oily foods or they are taken
! at the end of the meal, after the stom-
ach Is already full, and perhaps the
whole mass of food washed down with
tea, coffee. or other liquid Fruits to do
their best work should be eaten either
on an empty stomach or simply with
| bread-never with vegetables. In the
| morning, before the fast of the night
has been broken. they are not only ex-
ceedingly refreshing, but they serve as
| a natural stimulus to the digestive Or
gans. And to produce their fullest, fin
est effect, they should be ripe, sound
and, of good quality. In our climate
| fresh fruit should constitute not the fin
ishing, but the beginning Of the meal,
particularly the breakfast, for at least
six months in the year. The good eff
| fects that would follow the abundant
| use of fruits are often more than coun-
| terbalanced by the pernicious habit Of
| saturating them with sugar. Very few
fruits, If thoroughly ripe and at their
best, require any sugar, particularly II
eaten in the raw state, but it unfortu-
nately is fact that what is intended
and prepared for us as great good in
the matter of diet should be trans
formed into exactly the reverse.
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YOURS FOR HEALTH:
1t is u curious fact that hair will not
grow upon scars.
To reduce the size of hard corn. rub 1t
with a fine sandpaper.
| Occasionally wash the head with water
in which a little vinegar has been diluted.
| 1t will cleanse both hair and scalp.
| A teaspoonful of the phosphate Of So
| d
each meal will. IL drank, often stimulate
a sluggish liver.
A mother with nursing baby must be
careful to keep herself well nourished
and take plenty of sleep. If she does not
she will not have good milk for the child
She must also be careful about bathing
SO that the child will not take impurities
into the system in nursing.
A warning has been sounded in the way
| in which books from q circulating H.
brary should be handled. 1t Is conveyed
| in the suggestion: Don't wet the fingers
to turn leaves of such books. The au.
thorities among the circulating libraries
| in Dresden have been conducting a series
of experiments to determine If books In
general use become medium for the com.
munication of infection. Soiled leaves
were rubbed first with dry fingers and
then with wet ones. and the results mi.
croscopically examined. No microbes, OIL
few, were found on the dry fingers, but
many on the others.
Never cut or trim the eyebrows. Thiei
beauty includes delicacy-delicacy IN
curve, width and texture. Trimming
| them destroys this by causing them tC
| grow coarse stiff and wild" To get the
well-detned, narrow arch many beauties
pinch the eyebrows after annointinl
them with oil to make the hair glossy. A
stray, wiry or gray hair may be removed
with a tweezers, but should never be cut
On the other hand, eyelashes are cult
waited by clipping them once a year
Hairdressers call 1t topping them, ant
the term Is pertinent. Only the irregular
tip ends should be cut, and this can only
be done by another. Cutting the lashe.
weakens .he eyes, remember that.-Phila
| delphia Press,