Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-23
Food, Healtkand Thrift
SUGGESTIONS FOR TRAVELLERS

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place grip-crib and bauy on the counter
until they have made their purchase,
and at night the grip is used as NOV
able crib and can be placed in the scooi-
est and most convenient spot in a hotei
room or other room. 1t is equally as
convenient for travelling on train or
boat.
Packing Glassware.
Pack bottles of medicine or backing
in your rubbers when going on snort
trip. When shoes are packed in trunk
the legs of old stockings will be the best
protectors for them. Slip shoe in the
leg of each stocking.
The ordinary so-called leather trunk
strap is largely composed of paper.
hence its habit of breaking so easily
Straps made of webbing are much more
durable than cheap leather. Be sure
and label your trunk. If you lose your
trunk key, examine the lock and you
will find on the outer surface, just above
the hinge, a small number indicating
the kind of key. Give this number to IA
trunk dealer and he will produce a key
that will fit.
very simple means of providing an
Identification tag is to get DISK or
metal a little smaller than a 50-cent
piece. Have a hole drilled through 1t
for the purpose of attaching it to d piece
of ribbon or tape. A hardware dealer
will punch your name and address on
the disk. Wear it around your neck.
Lemon Juice undiluted and used freely.
or tablets of black hcorice, chewing
gum or sailed popcorn will relieve car or
sea sickness. To allay thirst, cube OF
sugar soaked in lemon juice is excellent;
chewing tea leaves is also effective.
Sweetened lemon juice added to water
is much safer for drinking than plain
water on boats and trains When meals
are delayed, eat sweet milk chocolate
and prevent headac che. A good laxative
1or travellers is to be taken in the
morning before breakfast and con
sists of one teaspoonful of table salt
in a glass of cold water. Half an
hour afterward drink two or three
glasses of hot water.
Travellers are often put to incon- |
venience by the lack of proper drink |
ing cups. No careful person will use
or permit children to use the common
cup or tumbler found in public places. !
and it is worth knowing that a paper
drinking cup for each individual may |
be fashioned with very little trouble. !
Take a piece of smooth. clean paper |
about ! or s inches square. Fold di-
a gonally, then bend over one corner ,
until it reaches the middle of the OPP
posite side; then turn the paper over |
and bend the other corner in similar |
fashion. The two remaining triangu
lar points of paper are then pushed |
into the pockets at the right and left
and the cup is completed. Not only |
cups, but good sized paper buckets
may be made upon the same plan
from any sort of paper. Thus a foot
square piece of newspaper may be
quickly converted into a container for
berries, mushrooms or any other
delicacy which the rambler may wish
to gather. The inconvenient bucket
and pail may be left at home, as the
paper bucket is always ready for any
and may be kept in ones
pocket until wanted.
To prevent blistering of the feet,
pad your toes with thin layers of alb
sorbent cotton. if not hardened to
steady walking. Do it very carefully
and you will find it to be a great pro-
lection.
How to Care for Pets.
Do you expect to have a vacation
this summer? Then give your dog one
too. which means: Don't maui and
haul him or make him run and play
and this is your dog, think how you
wbuld feel If you were hot anS
thirsty and there was no water within
each. Keep a bowl of fresh water in
l place easily reached by your dog.
It is especially necessary that you
ioors for drinking. either a trough
,r a water pan, where your dog can
ind it, or he may suffer the conse-
luences Of drinking foul water. then
'Ou WILL lHteeQ, De sorry tndt you
we're SO thoughtiess.
In real hot weather feed the dog
With well cooked rice mixed with
,ither milk, buttermilk, soup or soup
neat. If the weather is very warm.
nix equal parts of powdered sulphur
Ind Cagnesia thoroughly together
Ind mix this with the evening meal,
Is much as will cover a ten-cent
piece. Continue this treatment for a
week. stirring the medicine well into
he food each night. Late in the sum-
ner give him cooked rolled oats mix
nominy. A good cake or bread for
him is made by mixing cornmeal and
oiled oats in about equal parts with
he liquor in which ham has been
boiled. The trimmings may be cut up
and mixed in, too. 1t SHOULD be
baked for an hour.
Your Pet Cat.
But perhaps you are little girl and
have a pet kitten or cat Do not give
her too much meat. 1t is better to give
her just little meat mixed with a lot
Of vegetables. Take five cents worth
Of liver or beef scraps and cook them
in three pints of slightly sailed water
some soft-cooked potatoes, carrots and
even a little turnip or cabbage, through
a food chopper. Serve this to Miss
Pussy either hot or cold three times a
day. To change this diet, use in place
of the vegetables some corn meal, |
graham flour and oatmeal, or some
corn meal and potatoes to thicken the |
water to a mush. Table scraps may
be ground and added to this. Enough
to last a week may be prepared in cool '
weather. This food is for little kittens,
but old cats like 1t too Do not give |
cats too much milk. 1t is true that |
they are able to digest very little of it.
Always keep your canary in a COM
Portable room and provide sunshine and |
shade at the same time. changing the |
position Of the cage in the room oc- [
casionally. Do not hang the cage near
the ceiling, for the air there is impure. |
and never allow the cage to be in a |
strong draft. as canaries dread a draft |
and at such times sit huddled up in tiny |
yellow balls. A sick canary usually |
squats on the cage floor and refuses to |
sing or eat. SO that it is easy to de- |
tect symptoms of illness. When ca
naries are shedding they are suscepti- |
BILE to pneumonia They quickl., die |
with this disease. but in some cases |
their suffering can be relieved if they |
are given some red pepper. A drop |
Of oil in the throat will also give |
relief.
Scales on the feet of canary birds
are caused by lack of sand on the |
cage floor. A canary must scratch !
in order to keep it's feet perfectly |!
clean, and Ut the same time prevent |
long nails that eventually cripple a !
bird SO that 1t is unable to stand on |
its perch. Many persons give a small |
dish of sand to a canary, thinking it |
valuable only as an aid to digestion.
1t is true that birds eat sand, but it |
is necessary for them to have it for |
external use. 1t takes the place of |
dust baths by which birds free them |