The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-11-09
NO. 45
AIDS TO YOUR
KEEPING WELL.


Do not eat a hearty breakfast if you
have any mental or physical work to
do thereafter. The full stomach may
satisfy your craving, but cannot give
you the needed or desired strength
under about three or four hours. Di-
gestion, absorption and assimilation
must take place before you can get
any good from your breakfast. If
these processes are not completed the
hearty breakfast simply clogs the vital
machinery Therefore the hearty six
o'clock dinner, which will not only
build up the waste Of the day, but pro-
vide reserve for the morrow, is to be
commended
Few people know how good cold
water hath is for the eyes. Numbers
of folks bathc the eyes with sponge
and cold water, but this ofnecessity is
done with the lids closed; it is very
much better if the eyes are opened in
cold water. This can be done by fill
ing basin with water, putting the
face in and opening the eyes once or
twice under it this is not always con-
venient, however, as one IS apt to
wet ones hair at the same time.
At any chemists one can buy
for small price a little eyeglass,
made to fit the hollow of the eye; one
of these should be filled with clear,
cold water, and the eye opened or shut
two or three times in it. Clear water
should be used for each eye. When
you have nothing to do, when you are
just resting, close your eyes. So long
as the eyes are open they are to GER
tain extent at work; besides the mois-
ture of the lids is very good for them.
Good sight is one Of the greatest bless
ings of life and it behooves us, for our
own sake, to take care of our eyes.
But remember always that you may
spoil the sight by using the eyes too
little; that is only degree less harm
full than using them too much. 1t is
unnecessary to say that belladonna
and all advertised beautiliers for the
eyes are most injurious. The eye is
SO delicate az organ, sight is 80 vital
to the enjoyment Of life that these SEN
sitive windows of the soul should be
subjected to no tricks. If one is in
good health the eyes will be sufficient
ly bright and beautiful; if they are
dull and heavy looking pay visit to
your doctor.
The uses of rhubarb are many and
varied, and, moreover, are not as we'll
known as they ought to be. 1t is very
wholesome, and even those who do not
like it should take it incidentally in
the spring, for it purifies the blood,
keeping it cool and healthy. One
great virtue rhubarb possesses, and
which is not generally known, is that,
mixed with other things, it takes all
flavors, while giving none in return,
and is, therefore, of the greatest use in
adding to tart or pudding when the
fruit used has run short or is expen-.
sive. For instance, if raspberry tart
is required, and there is not enough of
the fruit to fill the dish, take some
rhubarb, wash it we'll, mince it up,
then stir in sugar. and bake till 1t is
quite soft when cold mix the rasp-
berry in with it, make the tart and
place it in the oven just long enough
to cook the paste; the presence OF
rhubarb will not be discovered, and
the tart will cost only half the price it
would have done if made sorely of
fruit.