The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-07-06
health HINTS.

Nervous people, and those with weak
hearts, must abstain from coffee.
The nutritious value of dried beef
is said to exceed largely that of fresh.
That worry, rather than work, is re-
sponsibIe for many distressing all
ments.
That D hearty laugh will often re
lieve the tension of an, overWorked
brain.
A cup of very hot milk taken at bed
time will efectually prevent sleepless
ness.
According to Leibig, the alkali in
asparagus develops form in the human
brain.
That typhoid fever is due largely to
choked drains both within and with.
out the body.
Green vegetables and good fruit con-
tain certain salts and acids which may
be called Natures medicine.
While excessive crying is harmful to
a baby, the mother must not forget
that moderate crying develops the
lungs properly.
Raw eggs, milk and plenty Of fruit
are recommended for brain workers.
The fruit corrects the bilious tendency
Of the milk and eggs.
That a perpetual roundof duties has
a depressing effect upon the senses and
the mind, and the best relief from this
WEAKNESS is change of scene and air.
The most easily digested meats are
cold mutton, mutton chops, venison,
tenderloin and sirloin steak, lamb
chops, roast beef, rabbit and chicken.
A prominent English physician
claims that a plentiful diet of onions,
served in various ways, will protect
children from d~iphtheria, scarlet fever
and worms.
That brisk walking, with deep in
SEPARATIONS, with the mouth closed,
helps to sweep out the products of
waste; and also, by expanding the
chest, is an antidote to possible pneu-
monia.
An old physician once said: ''If
people fully realized what it meant to
themselves to laugh, and then laughed
as they should, ninety per cent. Of
the doctors would have to go out of
the business.
That when one is 4 everish all drinks
that are heating or exciting should be
avoided. Pure, fresh water is best,
then lemonade, orangeade or teas made
from some simple aromatic herbs for
quenching thirst in fevers.
A woman, afflicted with crushing
and continued SORROWS, determined, as
a salvation to her reason, to deliber-
ately laugh three times a day, and con-
tinued the practice for a dozen years,
with most b~eneficent results.
AS no two people should ever use the
same towel, arrange on your bath
room towel-rack towels with different
colored borders, assigning to one per-
son all those with red borders, to an
other all those with blue, etc.
Never bite your lips, Oh any bits Of
detached skin, unless you wish to ruin
your lips, destroy their color and
vitality, and, perhaps, give rise to
eruptions. The mouth, like the tongue,
ia one of the mirrors Of health"
That it is very unwise to tempt the
a~ppetite of one who is indisposed; the
cessation of appetite, especially at this
season, is a warning Of nature that the
system is in such a state that food can
not be easily digested, and a little
iudicious fasting may be of great
benefit.
That everyone with a tendency to
neuralgia, rheumatism or sclatlca
should beware Of taking off their fan
nels too early in the spring; in fact, it
is best to wear wool next to theskin all
the year round, as in warm weather
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