The National tribune., 1906-07-05
THE FAMILY.
By SENORA SARA.

paying particular attention to the babies
and children. 1t takes very little to
snuff out the tiny life of young baby,
and yet it seems sometimes as though
they were gifted with endurance be-
yond anything an adult can stand. But
they can't talk to tell their little all
ments, so 1t Is wise to provide against
them. Babies usually suffer from heat
and nettle rash during the sweaty
months. The suffering from this is in
tense, and can be almost entirely al
layed by careful sttention. In the first
place, a baby, or anybody who suffers
from breaking out of any kind, should
be very careful about the kind of soap
used. Cheap toilet soap is an abomina-
tion You can use ii to scrub floors
with or wash windows, but as you value
a good smooth skin or velvety complex
ion do not use cheap soap. Having pro-
cured good mild soap. wash the baby
carefully, not rubbing too hard, and
rinse every particle of the soapy water
from it's little body, drying 1t with a
soft old towel. Then dust the child
with talcum powder, putting 1t on thick.
Tafcum powder is perfectly harmless
and makes an excellent face powder, If
you did but know it, enough sight bet
any of the face powders on the market.
If you have no taleum powder, n good
pure starch will answer, though not
quite as well. Pulverize it and put it
on thick. The object is to cover the
little pimples and rash away from the
air. If the day is very warm. put one
thin slip on the child, put 1t on the bed
or on a quilt on the very coolest spot on
the floor and keep it away from flies.
One fly will make it howl. Every little
while give the baby a spoonful or two
of cool water-not ice water, just cool
well water. You will find that its un-
easy walls will almost cease after this
treatment. Once day is often enough
to wash the baby that is broken out
with nettle rash. Water will only make
the skin break and roughen. If you
want to freshen the child up, take a big
clean soft muslin cloth, sprinkle it well
with talcum powder or the starch and
rub the baby gently Sometimes this
will ease crying child at once. The
skin prickles and itches and the gentle
rubbing and coating of the skin with
the powder stops this.
This same treatment is Just as good
for grown people as it is for babies. Do
not use ammonia, borax or anything OF
that character in the bath water If your
skin is broken out with heat or pimples.
ing the face when heated is another
sure way of causing discomfort and
often misery. 1t dries the skin, and the
heated air striking it makes it burn and
itch. If the face is needing cleansing.
rub it gently but vigorously with a soft
clean towel. No water, no soap, no al
cohol, no anything but towel. Then
dust with talcum powder or pure starch.
The comfort of this will delight you. AS
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with a rash, soap and water. three times
a day, if you like, in Summer, is none
100 often to keep the pores open and
the body in healthy condition. A bath
night and morning, If nothing more
than rub down." is a necessity, if you
would avoid the odors that are exhaled
and soon become nois0me IL the effete
matter brought to the surface is not re-
moved. Soap and water. and then
more soap and water" is the prescrip-
tion of great many physicians.
Pure water is more of a necessity in
Summer than in Winter. for so much
more of it is taken internally. Physi-
clans advise the drinking of a good deal
of water in the Summertime. To have
this fresh and pure is quite easy. In the
morning while getting breakfast, fill a
tin bucket with fresh water and set 1t
on the stove well covered. As soon as 1t
comes to boil remove it, carefully COW
ering all the time. and let it cool till 1t
will not break glass. Then fill large
glass bottles with the boiled water, cork
well and stand one or two in the ice
box. In half an hour the water will be
cool enough to drink. AS fast as one
bottle is emptied put in another, and in
this way you can have iced water all
the time, with no expense for ice. Ice
in the water is a useless extravaganza,
anyhow. as it is unhealthy. or is so de-
clared by eminent scientists. For my
self, ice water only adds to my thirst.
You can make delicious iced tea this
way. Put your tea in pitcher, pour a
pint of water on it and place, with a
cloth over it, in the ice box. In two
hours all the tea will be brewed out and
none of the tannin. When ready to
serve pour over it the boiled and ice
cold water. This will be a healthful
and refreshing drink. Do not put lemon
in it. 1t is a fashionable but indigesti-
BILE vice.
Perhaps you are fond of bananas and
they do not like you. This is unfor-
tunate If bananas are the only fruit that
is to be had. which is often the case.
Try this recipe and see If 1t does not
improve the fruit as well as the diges-
ton: Slice five not too ripe bananas in
a deep dish. Put over this a half tea
cup full of sugar. Squeeze over the
whole the juice of two lemons-or one
will do If you do not like so much
sour-dash three tablespoonfuls of wa
ter over the whole and place In the ice
box for an hour or more. 1t makes a
delicious breakfast or luncheon dish for
those who are fond of the fruit. An
other way to treat bananas is to use
only one lemon, slice an orange very
fine, and add to the dish also some
minced mellow apple. few cherries,
strawberries. pineapple or any other
fruit you may have on hand, when it
will be called tutti frutti, or fruit
hash," and it is good, too.
With new tomatoes coming on Just
now an appetizing dish is cream tomato
soup. Scald. skin and slice into a gran
ite or porcelain cooking pan-never put
anything sour into iron, tin or copper
to cook-half a dozen medium sized to-
masoes, and let them cook to rags, add
ing half pint of water. Heat in an
other vessel a pint or two pints of rich
milk, half cream If you can afford 1t.
When the tomatoes are cooked dash
in bit of baking soda the size of a pea
and let it boil up till it ceases foaming.
Then season with hcaping tablespoon
ful of good butter. salt, and a dash of
pepper. Pour the hot milk into the
soup tureen and pour in upon 1t, stir
ring all the time, the hot tomatoes. and
serve at once. Do not permit the milk
to boil, and do not mix while on the