The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-07-25
Camping Out dt Home.

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Easy Housekeeping and Good Health Secured
| by Common Sense Methods. A Word
! for The Babies.
| Correspondence of The Journal.
Happy the family that can live the
simple life in camp or cottage when the
mercury climbs between 80 and 100 de.
| grees.
Most people manage to get away for
at least short period, but the greater
number find summer days more or less
trying in the home, especially the busy
mother with babies or perhaps an inya-
lid to care for.
Why not try camping out at home?
Simplify the housekeeping to a point
where half the labor is saved, and at the
same time add to the health and happi-
ness of every member of the family?
| The plan is easy and practical, and
not beyond the comprehension of any,
one possessed of intelligence and COM
| mon sense.
The first thing necessary is to make
the home camp, by putting away all un.
necessary furnishings, ornaments, etc,
when the spring cleaning is done
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seem twice as attractive in the fall if
they have not been exposed to the dus t
all summer, and less than half the usual
cleaning will be necessary if only the
needful things are in use, besides a
house so stripped not only looks cooler
but it is more sanitary
The next thing is to simplify the ca
terlng and cooking. Specialists whose
advice is worth many dollars a minute,
advocate complete change of diet in
summer and the most rigid guarding of
food supplies to protect them from alb
sorbing those poisonous elements which
| breed rapidly when warm days foster
all sorts of vegetable growth.
A diet made up largely of milk, eggs,
cereals, vegetables and fruits is condu-
Give to health and happiness in warm
weather, with plenty of fish, and little
meat to vary the menu.
The main thing is to have everything
fresh, and to maintain standard of
cleanliness that answers to sanitary re-
quirements.
| With regard to the keeping of foods,
the best advice is Don't keep them if
you can help it. Buy in the smallest
possible quantities and renew the sup
plies frequently, being careful that
whatever food is stored in safe or ice
chest is absolutely clean before it is
put away.
A small quantity of citric acid
which is the same as the acid in a lem
on-added to the water in which fruits
or salads are rinsed is a safeguard
against any germs that may have lodged
on them.
Milk, which is an essential part of the
diet of people of all ages, and the main
dependence of babies, young children
and old people, is the food that needs
most careful watching to prevent de-
terioration.
The housewife should take extra pre-
cautions to insure the safety of her fam
lily in the use of this necessary household
supply, which too often becomes We
hicle to communicate contagion. I'm
less one can be sure of the sources from
which it is obtained, and unless it can
be delivered in air tight sealed bottles,
it is wiser to use high grade prepared
milk whose purity is undeniable.
Milk in this form is conceded to be
the best food for babies and young
children, and is generally used in chill
dren's hospitals and in day nurseries.
1t is the staple food among Hebrew
mothers in New York city, and notwith-
standing the crowded and generally un-
sanitary condition that prevails among
these poorer people, the death rate
among Jewish babies is exceptionally
low.
Frequent bathing is important to
! health for every human being, especial
ly in warm weather, but it is vital
necessity for the baby
Water at temperature Of 80 degrees
should be used at first for the bath, and
the temperature slightly lowered as the
child grows older. A warm sponge
bath at night as well as in the morning
is beneficial i'll warm weather, being
conducive to comfortable sleep.
Clothing should be loose and COM
Portable, and a baby must always be
kept warm. Warmth is vitality.
| Wet, soiled clothing should be re-
moved at once. The pores of the skin
must be kept clean and open if health
is to be conserved.
Fresh air, with protection from dust
and draughts, and quiet, regular living
is what keeps the babies well and con-
duces to good health in other humans
also.
The personal atmosphere counts for
more in the sum of human happiness
than people generally realize.
The mother who can regulate her
household affairs so that she has leisure
to enjoy a pleasant, short story on her
comfortable, shaded veranda, to give
little attention to her pet plants, to
gather a bunch of sweet peas for the
table in her outdoor room, or for any
other form of pleasantness that appeals
20 her, will be possessed of II serenity
of mind that will shed minor troubles
and make her presence benediction to
her family and friends.
ELEANOR FRANCES.
GEOLOGIC SURVEYS IN MAINE.