The National tribune., 1907-09-12
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sENORA SARA.


ing and everything in the household
seems to pail upon the mother, she
should lake as much of natures great
est restorer as possible. Keeping the
children clean, seeing that the house
hold runs on smoothly. going to market
ana attending to all the sewing is not
the easiest task in the world, and plenty
of sleep viii help her more than all the
medicines that come in bottle.
The girl in business who sometimes
feels that the days will never come to
an end, is probably trying to work all
day and keep up a social life in the
evenings The girl with an iron con-
eventually it will tell on her as much
as it does on her weaker sister. Take
a half day in bed now and then, and
simply relax your tired body and
nerves.
Do not take an exciting novel and
read it, but let your brain have a holi-
day as well as your body. 1t is not
necessary to stay home from the office
on pretended plea of illness to take
this required extra Sleep-it can be
done on an occasional Sunday morn
ing the holidays that are bound to
come from time to time, or Saturday
afternoon. L do not doubt that you
have laid plans for all your Saturdays
and Sundays but if you will set one
aside every now and then, go to bed
and catch up with your lost sleep, re-
fresh your tired brain and wOrn-out
body you will enjoy the others far
more.
Women need far more sleep than
the average man. Many men can get
along with four or five hours sleep,
arise and are perfectly refreshed. Not
So with the average woman. She needs
at the very least seven hours of good
uninterrupted sleep, and if she is
nervous, high-strung woman she needs
at least 10. Just as soon as you begin
to steal the hours that you should be
sleeping, you will age with about twice
the rapidity that you would were you
giving the allotted time to rest that
your physical being Graves. Sleep re-
duces fever, it relieves pain, it helps
nutrition, it courts beauty-the loss Of
it leaves you wreck that nothing can
repair.
Should you be a restless sleeper.
should sleep come to you only at fits
and starts, try simple remedies, and
do not plunge into narcotics or stimu-
failed. A famous English physician
who is a specialist on the diseases of
women and children, is quoted as say
ing: Il can cure the worst case of in
somnia in this manner: When the pa
tient has retired, give her a heaping
bowl of boiled bread and milk, with
just a dash of salt to season it. This
will draw the blood from the head to
the stomach, it VIII quiet the nerves
and put the entire body in a healthy
glow, and in 80 cases out of 100 the
patient falls into healthy, restful
sleep"
Another tasty dose to take which will
induce sleep is a cold orange just be-
fore retiring. There are certain seduc-
tive as well as stimulating qualities in
an orange, and it is; probably one of the
most efficacious fruits that can be taken
for this purpose.
Women the world over have a bane-
full habit of leading inactive lives. They
persuade themselves that they get
plenty of exercise while doing house
work, and then when they go to bed
at night they cannot sleep. Just for
change, try little exercise out of
doors, after the afternoon sun has gone
down and the air is cool. Fill your
lungs with all the fresh air they will
hold, taking deep breathing exercises
as you walk along, then go home and
see if you do not sleep better than you
did the night before when you had not
taken any fresh air into your starved
lungs.
1t Is not easy to can beans so that
they will keep, but this is said to be
an excellent recipe:
String. if required, as for table use,
but do not break the beans. Boil for
one hour in plain water, then put in
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of beans and boil for one hour and a
half Have some vinegar boiling; when
the beans are thoroly cooked, fill the
glass jars with the beans, shake down
and when the jars are nearly full add
to every pint two desertspOOnfuls of hot
cider vinegar, have the lids hot on the
stove, fill the jars with the bean juice
and seal. The jars must be filled with
beans, but not too crowded.
In washing chamois gloves do not
rub the soap on them.
Make a strong slather instead and go
over them, squeezing and rubbing as If
washing the hands. Rinse in the same
way, always in cold water.
Wipe with soft linen cloth, getting
as much water out of them as possible
while still on the hands.
Dry and push into shape with glove
stretcher.
Old pieces of white or cream flannel,
made into wash rags, are effective for
children's use. They seem to get the
dirt out of the little mud pie hands
quicker than the ordinary kind.
Any one who has ever had a felon
knows what intense pain and suffering
it causes, often making the amputation
of a finger necessary. Here is a never
failing remedy: Take one teaspoonful
of fine salt. one tablespoonful vinegar,
one tablespoonful black pepper, and
the yol1 of an egg; simmer together
and bind on; renew twice a day.
Some one has suggested that hyp-
notism is needed in the quieting of a
refractory infant. There is good deal
of truth in this probably facetiouS state
ment.
When child cries for no apparent
cause-when neither hunger, nor pain,
nor discomfort is at fault, then the
probable reason is nervousness and ir-
ritability. In this case it only aggra-
Yates the complaint to attempt to
soothe the baby by jumping it, dangling
keys before it, and otherwise distra It
ing its attention.
What is needed is rest and quiet. not
excitement. The childs nerves should
be soothed by slow rocking to sleep,
not wildly excited by confusion and
noise.