The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-07

pound of cure. A little spring tonic is
better than a gallon Of summer medi-
cine.
In the far southern countries folks are
already beginning to take antidotes
against malaria, or connections for purI-
tying the blood. Human beings, like
trees, wish to put out fresh sprouts in
a few weeks. A good dose of spring
medicine enables them TO do so in better
form.
l asked a physician yesterday what was
the best tonic for this season OF the year.
He answered, ..fruit.'
Nothing is better than a plentiful diet
OF fruit for the spring." he continued.
1 would omit bananas; they agree with
some. but are apt to give the majority
the Indigestion
l told him that in my school days each
spring the scholars were allowed to buy
a barrel CT apples. No restriction was
put upon our eating as many as we
wanted. The teachers selected good
stock and our parents approved of the
programme. II was an old-fashioned
school, and that spring diet OF apples
was part of the curriculum.
When some one Intercepted our old
s-choolmaster once about the oddly of
this custom. he answered.: Il never
could teach anything TO children with
torpid livers.' Hence the diet of apples.
Your scheolmaster was a man after
smy own heart said the physician. APP
pies are the finest spring medicine there
is. A half dozen a day is a good dose.
With children SO desirable a medicine
has no terrors. Where something out of
a bottle could not be forced down their
threats an apple Will be begged for, and
the young rascals are just administering
to themselves the best Of medicine.
a woman may talk about the benefit
resulting to the skin from this or tina
cosmetic. but if tina woman would go
in for a fruit cure. take my word for it
she would get NOR admirable results
than ever hoped for"
What fruits would you include in this
cure?" l asked.
Lemons oranges. grape fruit. apples
and grapes.
Just before breakfast every morning
squeeze a lemon into a glass of hot wa
ter without sugar. Don't gulp this down,
but sip it. The hot water is excellent
for the stomach and the lemon cuts
through the dryness in the throat. which
is a usual morning condition.
1T stimulates the appetite and filters
its way into the blood, purifying as it
goes. This is an hour probably before
your coffee, preceding ones bath and
toilet. By breakfast one is ready for the
orange which puts the palate into a
pleasant tickle for its food.
Grape fruit, or the large Florida shad-
dock, is excellent for luncheon; eat it
with plenty of sugar, and as you know it
is a most toothsome dish.
Fer dinner l know of no special fruit
to adopt. Bake apples are always pail
atable with ones meat, and oranges can
follow with the coffee.
Before bedtime comes the apple, or
two of them if you care"
But that doesn't make up your six
apples, DOCTOR I said.
'Oh, the others are added all through
the day" he answered. Eat one when
ever you feel so inclined. 1 should adj
wise a woman to keep a bowl of fruit in
the room she oftencst sits in, SO that
whenever she feels inclined her appetite
may be easily satisfied"
tBut as I don't care especially for fruit.
Doctor 1 said, ''tEe inclination may new
er come"
Yes 1t will" he answered. ITS like
drinking beer in Germany. You can't
stand a glass when you first go there,
but you find yourself drinking quarts a
day in a few weeks time.
IF one is in the habit of awakening
in the night and feeling thirsty a lemon
squeezed over a glass Of cracked ice and
placed on a table near the bed win be
found the most palatable of drinks.
You have great faith in fruit, doctor"
I said. cts a cure all, eh?" II
well, it would serve the purpose of
medicine very frequently if adopted; it
is less expensive and it would prevent
many headaches and much nausea-and
as for the skin and eyes. well, you try
it and show me the result"
1 admire and respect the woman who
works honestly for a living.
No matter what she does, if she does
it well, SO long as she is -self-supportlng
she must necessarily be self-respecting.
The maid who dusts your bric-a-brac,
IL she does 1t thoroughly and well and
in a manner TO be depended upon, deser-
yes the regard of a housekeeper above
ore whose work is faulty and who,
through carelessness, might well deserve
4he appropriate sobriquet of butter
fingers 50 often heard in good, old
Yankee households.
The girl to whom you trust valuable
china and costly glass for its care and
cleaning should not think that the charge
is a light one, for it requires inmate re
hnement of nature and delicacy of per-
cepticn TO clean glass and porcelain ac-
ceptably, and certainly an artistic eye is
required in the arranging Of it in closet
and china shelves to the best advantage.
What a Jewel the cook who can WELD
the kitchen implements economically and
to the taste OF all concerned is. And also
the laundress, into whose hands we trust
the dainties of fabrics.
1t is not the work done or the position
of the doer; it is the filling Of place one.
has been called to hold, whether it be the
peeling of potatoes or the dispensing of
inequalities in the Executive Mansion of
the nation.
Honor and shame from no condition
rise.
Act well your part; there all the honor
les"
like to meet the woman who is brave
enough to refuse to make of herself a
barnicIe on the Industrial ships hold, or