The Jersey City news., 1905-10-28
WHAT HOT WATER
ACCOMp pLISHES
Used Externally and Inter
nally It's Benefits Are
Iacalculable
DO YOU SIT PROPERLY 2
you MUST CULTIVATE GRACE
If YOU WANT TO BE ADMIRED
DRAWING ROOM DEcoRA-
TIoN.

11ON.
Hot water sovereign remedy or
panaeac that should be more often used
in households Both externally and in
ternally it serves many different uses,a nd
for certain light sicknesses is rs effa-
cious as medicine. II should, however,
always be hot and not warm, being
brought to as high temperature as can
be used with comfort.
Taken internally in large quantities it
will help to reduce flesh. When used for
this purpose it at times takes the place
of food. and none should be eaten with
II, or theeffects1yiil be fattening. Lemon
juice mayifhe taken at the same time if
desired, and undoubtedly hastens the re-
duction.
Fo- this purpose a large gaassful
should. be taken on arising and at inter-
walls of an hour until noon, when the trst
food is eaten, and that not of fattening
kind. Non water should be taken until
half an hour before the meal, nor until
half an hour, at least, after it. Alto
gethcr two quarts, or even more, should
beiaken between the time of rising and
going to bed, large glassful being drunk
the last thing on retiring. This is a sys-
tenn of reduction that is advocated only
for persons who are very strong. 1t is
weakening. for the food supply is cut a
great dead, and water is sustaining for a
time but not nourishing.
If lemon juice is taken in IT, the
fresh fruit should be used and about half
one lemon to half pint Of water. No
sugar is taken.
Nothing,is better to take on rising than
cup of not water, even though reduc-
ton system is not necessary. One hot
drink on an empty stomach clears the
systern-ferSthe day, and for many per-
sons tablespoonful of lemon junce in
creases the effacy. Taking on going to
bed without lemon it win help to induce
sleep. Both night and morning it has
the effect of helping to clear the eom-
plexicn.
A quarter of a teaspoonful of biear-
Donate of soda taken in cup of hot
water before meals will relieve severe in
digestion or without soda it will allay
pains in the stomach if. drunk at that
time.
Everybody knows so vel the many uses
to which hot water bags are put 10 ease
pain that it is unnecessary to mention
them. But it is not SO widely known
that hot mustard foot bath will help
to allay earache by drawing blood from
the head, lessening the pressure on the
ear. II is one of the first things that
should be done in cases of earache.
Hair that has the slightest natural ten
dency to curl viii look better if slightly
moistened after dressing with a brush
wet in hot water. Hot cloths wrung dry
and placed on the face, renewing them
as soon as they cool, keeping up the
treatment for fifteen minutes steams the
complexion, opening the pores TO eject
foreign matter.
Food that is cooked and kept standing
will not lose its flavor or freshness if put
into covered kettle and set into one
Z larger partially filed with hot water.
Tors 1taned eyes hot water is won
derfuliy 'fYs6oafAfliing. 1t should be hot,
without burning AID cloths wet are ap-
piled 10 the eyes, the person lying down
while the lamentations are used. They
should be put on for half an hour. Tired
feet will be rested if soaked for fifteen
minutes in tub of hot water, and fin
gers before being manicured should al
wayss be well soaked
Cloths wet in boiling water in which is
one-third alcohol and applied to the head
frequently cure neuralgia headache.
One of the most delicate ways of per-
fuming a room is to fill a wide mouth
bowl or other dish with boiling water and
then pour over it a few drops of perfum-
cd oil. Half teaspoonful of oil of Law
anier so used viii make room delight
sally fresh at the cost Of fraction of a
rent. Any other oil may be treated in
fbe same way, rose Or violet giving the
s8eet Of conservatory 1t is the oil
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