The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-01-28
HumOrOusIy Inclined.

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HumOrOusIy Inclined.
Young Lady-How much?
Telegraph Clerk-A quarter.
"For that one word?"
Yes; same charge for ten words or
less. You can repeat the Yes ten
times if you wish"
"Um-no; that wouldn't look well.
1t is an answer to a proposal of
marriage"
FRUITS FOR IRRITABLE IN WINTER.
Mrs. Rorer Tells the Best Kinds-How
They should be Served and When
Eaten.
Fruits are more appetizing, and,
perhaps, more easily digested, if
taken in the early part of the day
whether or not before the breakfast
must be determined by the eater.
Grapes, oranges and shaddocks
may be served before the cereal.
Baked apples, peaches, baked ba.
nanas, figs, dates, prunes or stewed
fruits should be served at the close
of the breakfast.
Raisins, sultanas, dried figs and
prunes should be soaked thoroughly,
so that they may take up the same
amount of water with which they
have parted in the process of drying,
and should then be heated Just
enough to soften the skins.
The sub-acid fruits, such as apples,
figs, dates, peaches, persimmons,
pears, prunes and aprlcots, are, per-
haps, the best of winter fruits, and
may be used to good advantage with
animal foods.
Acid fruits must at all times be
used most sparingiy, especially by
persons inclined to rheumatic troub-
les. The continued use of an orange
or shaddOck before breakfast will
diminish the power of stomach di-
gestion, for which reason they
should be served with cereals, or
such foods as require only intestinal
digestion.
The papaw and pineapple belong
to a class alone. They contain a
vegetable pepsin which assists in
the digestion of the heterogeneous
principles. These fruits, then, may
be served with meats, aad will aid
in their digestion; when served with
bread and butter they do not form so
good diet. They are more digest
ible raw than cooked, as the heat
destroys the activity of the fer
ments.
Apples, as rule, are more easily
digested cooked than raw, although
raw apples are more palatable.
The fashion of adding sugar to
fruits should be avoided, as they
have already been endowed with a
sufficient amount of sugar, and as
all the starch and cereals are con-
verified into sugar, any further
amount would be stored in the sys-
tenn, to its detriment. If our bilious
friends would throw aside their
liver pills, and with them, sugar
they might be free from much dis
comfort.-Ladies' Home Journal.
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Walking Upstairs.
A physician, who declares that
but few people know how to walk up
stairs properly, gives these instruc.
tions: Usually person will tread
, on the ball of his foot in taking each
step, spring himself up to the next
,, step. This is very tiresome and
,, wearing on muscles, as it throws the
entire suspended weight of the
, body on the muscles of the legs
: and feet. You should in walk.
, ing or climbing stairs, seek for the
: most equal distribution of the body's
! weight possible. In walking up.
. stairs your feet should be placed
!, squarely down on the step, heel ano
all, then the work should be per.
formed slowly and deliberate
ly. In this way there is no strain
upon any particular muscle, but each
is doing its duty in a natural man
ner. The man who goes upstairs
I with spring you may be sure is ne
philosopher, or his reasoning has moi
/, been directed to that subject. He
r might well have gone a little fur
? Their in the same line, and protested
{ against the habit which many per
: sons have of bending over half dou'
BILE whenever they ascend a flight o.
{ stairs. In exertiou of this kind
{ when the heart is naturally excited
: to more rapid action, it is desirable
I that the lungs should have full play
!; But the crouching position interfere:
4 with their action, the blood is i'm
: perfectly @rated, and there Is trou.
T BILE, right away. Give the lungs {
8 chance to do their work everywhere
s and at all times.-Good Housekeep
S ing.