Good Health for 1905

MOTHER'S NUMBER VOL. XL. Edited by J. H. KELLOGG, M. D. NO. 8

August 1905 The Simple Life. Artificial Infant Foods. Pets for Children — Illustrated. Traveling with Children. A Natural Food Triumph—Illus. Rational Dress for Children—Ill. Milk Infection the Cause of Summer Diarrhea in Children. Tired Mothers and Nervous Mothers. The Ideal Nursery — Illustrated. What Children Have Done in Emergencies — Illustrated. A Natural Food Menu. Stimulants. A Simple Home Picture. CHAUTAUQUA SCHOOL OF HEALTH : Water Drinking— Summer Clothing — To What Extent are Foods Predigested by Cooking? Health Chats with Little Folks. Editorial.

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In replying to advertisements please mention GOOD HEALTH. PETS FOR CHILDREN 383 apt to be orgetful, and must be oftentimes rem ed of their charge. A duty to both th child and the pet devolves upon the • :rents,— that of seeing that the creature in question is faithfully tended by its •wner. To relieve the child of its care is t deprive him of the real sense of respon 'bility, and the opportunity for spirt al and intellectual growth which coma. to the child through the protection and nt ture of dependent creatures. Many lesso in self-restra t and self-denial are uncon iously le ned through attention to thei four ooted friends. In the selection of suitab 'ets it is generally wisest to choose ome eature which can be properly ',used and ared for outside the dwelli g, since, whi it is a frequent custo for human bein: s and certain kinds f animals to dwell together under t same ,roof, it is by no means the st hygienic practise, and is often a .ource of danger to health. Bacteria • d a particularly inviting lodging-pla in the hair of dogs and the fur of ca ; and many cases of diphtheria, scar t fever, and other contagious dis- ea s have been recognized as conveyed to the children through the medium of mands for fresh air and regular exercise. such indoor pets. On the other hand, the The joy of its companionship being thus pet whose natural habits require an out: a constant incentive to the child to spend door regimen, becomes a help to the child much time in the air and life-giving sun- in keeping his own health, in that it shine, may become a thing of real allures him out of doors through its de- hygienic value.

DIVINE GOODNESS

LIKE a cradle, rocking, rocking, And as little babes that suffer, Silent, peaceful, to and fro, Toss and cry, and will not rest, Like a mother's sweet looks dropping Are the ones the tender mother On the little face below, Holds the closest, loves the best, Hangs the great earth, swinging, turning So when we are weak and weary, Backward, forward, to and fro, By our sins weighed down, distressed, Shines the light of God's face bending Then it is thg God's own goodness Down, and watching us below. Holds us closest, loves us best. —Helen Hunt Jackson. TRAVELING WITH CHILDREN

BY MARY WOOD-ALLEN, M. D. HEN home is a safe and comfort- mother's satchel, with which to protect W able place for a child, it is by all the dress en route. odds the safest and most comfortable This same satchel will need to be a place that can be found, because in it the roomy one in order to carry all the ar- child can have more freedom than any- ticles needed for the various emergencies where else. It is recognized that he of the trip ; but its inconvenience of size belongs in the home ,and has certain and weight will be amply compensated rights there, whereas anywhere else he for by the added comfort given. Among may be only tolerated, and his rights con- other things it may hold slippers to rest sidered as privileges, to be withheld or the tiny feet, especially if the shoes be granted, at the pleasure of others. How- new and stiff ; for scarcely anything will) ever, it sometimes becomes a necessity to try the temper more than suffering feet. travel with children, and in this case the In selecting seats in the car it would wise mother will make the journey as be a wise precaution to see that it is not comfortable for them as possible. adjoining the smoker; for in a vestibule Three things are to be considered and train the doors are usually left open, and provided for,— the health, comfort, and the car adjoining becomes practically a occupation of the children ; for children smoking car, so thoroughly is it impreg- must be occupied if they are to be happy. nated with the smoke, which diffuses If the trip is to be a short one, the itself with great rapidity. problem is not great : but if it is to ex- For added comfort it is well to have tend over many hours, or for days, the two seats facing each other, and in most mother's patience, ingenuity, and wisdom instances a brakeman will turn a seat to will be sorely tried. accommodate the party. The hats and The dress of the little traveler should wraps of the children should be removed, be plain in style, strong in texture, and and preparations made for a comfortable pr'eferably of wash material, in colors. A day. This, of course, is much more easily neat, plain gingham or linen will be far accomplished in a Pullman than in a more comfortable for both mother and day coach. But if the mother is wise, child than a fanciful white or other del- she can secure much of comfort in an icate material. It should be adorned ordinary car. with the simplest and strongest of trim- If there are but two children, each can ming, so that it will endure the mishaps be given a seat by the window, and thus of travel. A " spick and span " white many hours of amusement secured to dress, elaborately made and profusely them. It is well, however, not to have decorated with embroidery and ribbons, the windows open, because of danger to may look very fine at the outset of a the eyes from cinders ; also because of journey ; but soiled and torn, with the the extra anxiety entailed on the mother trimming hanging in tatters, may be the in keeping the little heads inside and out condition in which it reaches the jour- of danger. Where there are more than ney's •end. two children, a system of rotation can For the smaller children a neat, long- be arranged, so that each will have his sleeved apron may be put - into the turn at the window, or the older chil-

384 TRAVELING WITH CHILDREN 385 dren can be allowed to sit in a seat near erally allowed. To keep them happy and by. well, even more than ordinary care is This in itself is a privilege much ap- needed in securing regular supplies of preciated. It gives such a " grown-up " good food during the trip. For this pur- feeling, arid, consequently, conduces to pose nothing is so satisfactory as the grown-up conduct. The lust of author- basket of home eatables, from which ity sometimes seems to have such a should be eliminated all rich, indigest- strong hold on parents that they, are not ible, highly seasoned, or very sweet ar- able to allow a little innocent freedom ticles. to their children. The staple supplies may be sandwiches, I once saw a man come on a train with each wrapped neatly in oiled paper, and his ten-year-old daughter. A group of with various surprise fillings, such as children were on the platform to see jellies, chopped nuts, peanut butter, nut- them off. Naturally the child wanted tolene, raisins, figs, dates, etc. A small to sit where she could see her little supply .of sandwiches made with fresh friends from the window, but the father fruit-gelatins, such as strawberries or gruffly bade her sit on the other side of other small fruits, or peaches, pears, to- the car, where she could neither see nor matoes; etc., could be supplied for the be seen. first day, but would not keep well for " Papa," she said earnestly, as the later meals, which can be helped but by train began to move, " can't I go over fruits purchased from the train boy. there in that empty seat till we get past No piecing between meals should be our home? I know mama will be watch- allowed, as this is one of the surest ways ing to see us." of disturbing digestion and creating con- I could not imagine a father's refusing sequent trouble and anxiety. Children so natural a longing. not allowed to piece at home will find it " Sit where you are," gruffly re- no hardship to be held to regular meals sponded the father from behind his news- while traveling ; and even those who have paper. been allowed irregular eating should be " 0, papa, please." The little hands held to regular habits while on a journey. were clasped in pleading', and the blue Perhaps the greatest problem will be eyes were filled with tears. how to assuage the sthirst of the little " Sit still, I tell you." people. The sight of the water tank, The child sat still, but the tears would and seeing other people visiting it, add not keep back. At last the father grew to the normal thirst, and the children are annoyed at the weeping, and said ungra- continually pleading for a drink. The ciously : " Well, go over there, if you safest way is to carry a supply of boiled will make such a fuss about it." water. If this is not practicable, a little The little girl went, but we were now orange juice may be given, and then the but of the town, and the opportunity of child's mind diverted into some other seeing mama was past. I wondered if channel. It is not safe to allow constant she, too, were disappointed at not catch- drinking from the tank; not only because ing sight of her little daughter waving the water may not be pure, but also be- her hand at the car window. cause frequent drafts of ice-water only One great cause of ultimate discom- provoke thirst instead of assuaging it. fort when traveling with children is the Washing the face and hands will often irregularity in eating which is so gen- answer in place of a drink. 386 TRAVELING WITH CHILDREN

If an infant is of the party, the ques- and the little ones are beginning to ask tion of food and drink becomes even for entertainment. more serious, unless he is so fortunate as For many hours they may be kept in- to be nourished from the mother's breast. terested in what is going OR about them, The milk carried for his food should be especially in the changing landscape seen sterilized and bottled before leaving from the windows. home, and will then keep sweet for two I have known children to find much or three days. enjoyment in searching for familiar ob- If the milk must be purchased en route, jects as they flashed past houses and vil- a little alcohol lamp should be carried lages. A very interesting game can be among the supplies. This will enable the thus played by assigning values to such mother to sterilize the milk by heating. objects, the first making too being Or if this is impracticable, condensed winner. Thus a hen may count one, a milk may be employed. Hot water can dog two, a cat three, etc. ; a white horse usually be obtained at eating stations and being assigned_the highest value. from the buffet car. When all these external interests begin The presence of the infant makes other to lose their charm, a pair of blunt scis- precautions necessary ; among which may sors and some paper will be received with be mentioned a rubber bag for holding pleasure. If the children have been used soiled napkins, a soft sponge for clean- to freehand cutting, a newspaper will liness, a supply of soft towels and wash give them ample opportunity. cloths, a bottle of boiled water, a little A few advertising pages from a mag- package of sugar of milk to sweeten his azine can be made to yield material to food. furnish a doll's house. Pieces of soft, old muslin, or cheese- If the car will supply a table between cloth, may be laid inside the napkin each the seats, that will be most convenient. time this is changed. These can be If not, a folding checker-board can be thrown away, and the satchel thus re- made to serve the purpose. lieved of an accumulation of soiled linen When tired of cutting, a bottle of gum which would taint everything around it. tragacanth paste and a few sheets of The great desideratum with the infant manila paper will give a new amusement is to keep it as quiet and serene as may in pasting. Or a box of colored cray- be. Let it lie still and unnoticed as long ons and an illustrated magazine will give as possible. "scope to artistic genius. A small box of How to secure the peaceful, happy oc- colored beads, a coarse needle, and a stout cupation of older children will often thread will employ the little hands, under severely tax the mother's ingenuity. She mother's supervision, in making neck- will not be able to give herself up to laces or bracelets, which will be greatly leisurely enjoyment, though by a judi- admired by the children. Older children cious foresight she may secure for her- can employ themselves in sewing. self many moments of freedom and By this time the little people will rest. probably be weary enough to be quiet, The ever-convenient satchel should and then comes a good opportunity for be supplied with such materials as can the mother to employ her story-telling easily be used in occupying the children's ability. attention, but these should be withheld Passengers often make the care of chil- until the novelty of travel has, worn off dren more burdensome through their TRAVELING WITH CHILDREN 387 well-meant, but ill-advised gifts of eat- aisles, or thrusting themselves on the ables, candies, etc., until it becomes quite notice of their elders. On the other a question whether to allow them to talk hand, if they are well-trained children, to strangers. One thing is sure : they they may give as well as receive pleasure should not be allowed to annoy other by being allowed to make short visits passengers by romping through the among the passengers.

A NATURAL FOOD TRIUMPH

EATS of endurance by vegetarians which in his case was hereditary. The F are now becoming quite common: seizures increased in frequency until at Karl Mann and his fellow vegetarian the age of sixteen he had more than thirty competitors in the Ger- in one day, and his case man walking race ; G. was considered hopeless. A. 011e3i, holder of ama- Describing himself teur cycling records ; at this period, Mr. Allen Eustace Miles, of Cam- says, " I was an ill- bridge, amateur tennis shaped boy, weighing and racquet champion of less than seventy England, and other s pounds, about four feet have forced the world ten inches in height, with to recognize that vege- short legs, and a head tarians are at least equal that required a 6g hat to meat eaters in phys- to fit it." He was a ical stamina. MR. GEORGE ALLEN physical wreck, and so The cause of vege- miserable that many tarianism in England last year received times he was on the verge of suicide. a distinct impetus owing to the remark- But at this darkest hour the dawn able record-breaking feat of Mr. George appeared. The unhappy boy interested Allen. This already celebrated pedes- himself in the study of physiology, found trian walked from Land's End, the south- out the causes of his disease, and became ernmost point of England, to John o' possessed of an invincible determination Groats, the northernmost point of Scot- to overcome it. He adopted a vigorous land, a distance of 9o9Y1 miles, in 16 system of exercise, diet, and cold baths, days, 21 hours, 33 minutes, which beats and 'literally ran away from his heredi- any previous record by 7% days. The tary complaint. " Well do I remember," average for the last week of the walk he says, " what a feeling of light-hearted- was 63 miles per day, the last day's walk ness a run of a mile or so used to give being 72% miles. me, but never in those bygone days did Mr. Allen is a life-long total abstainer I dream that I should ever possess such and non-smoker, and a seven-years' vege- a strong physique -as I do at this time." tarian. He has not attained to his pres- Such was the result of his systematic ent perfect physical condition without a exercise and well-regulated life that at severe struggle. In early life he was ex- the age of thirty he had won upward of tremely delicate, and from the age of one hundred prizes as an athlete. He eight years was a victim of epilepsy, then decided to compete no more. 388 A NATURAL FOOD TRIUMPH

During all this time the occupation of truth of his statements by putting on the young athlete had been that of a record a feat of strength that should journeyman shoemaker, which necessi- excel anything he had previously ac- tated .his working ten hours a day In an complished, hoping thereby to induce others to adopt a purer and higher life. The first great walking feat under- taken with this in view was the breaking of the Leicester-to-London record. On this occasion he walked nearly one hundred miles (973/) in 20 hours, 22 minutes, and 25 seconds without a single stoppage. His food during the walk was two melons, one banana, I% lbs. pears, y2 lb. grapes, two bromose tablets, lb. protose, lb. whole-meal biscuit, one breakfast cup cocoa, I% pts. cold water, taken in sips. Compare with this the

THE COTTAGE ON THE COTSWOLD HILLS alarming amount of food usually taken by flesh-eating athletes during a contest of unhealthful factory. His spare time only this description. was devoted to his athletic sports, and Although Mr. Allen walked at the rate as this was in " his unregenerate days of almost five miles an hour, night and when he ate meat," his training was a day, he was as fresh at the close of the serious matter. walk as at the beginning. After a bath Seven years ago, Mr. Allen, from con- and five hours' sleep, he went out again scientious scruples, adopted a non-flesh for a walk for pleasure. This is another dietary, but not with any hope of a phys- point of most favorable comparison with ical gain thereby. " My reason for adopt- flesh-eating athletes. The latter usually ing vegetarianism was," he says, " a collapse more or less at the close of a purely humane one. I had felt for some long-distance race, in some cases even time that it was not intended by nature becoming delirious, their systems being that man should live by depriving other poisoned by the large amount of uric acid animals of life." The reward of ,his hu- in the blood, which is a necessary conse- manity was that he soon found that he quence of a flesh diet. had adopted a diet that yields far better Before this walk Mr. Allen had left his results than does a meat diet. " My unhealthful factory life for ever, and state of health at the time I became a endeavored to solve another of the prob- vegetarian was good," he says, " but has lems of life by getting " back to the improved greatly since that time. Espe- land." His trip to Germany, where he cially have I become extremely vigorous, went to compete for the race won by as a comparison of my athletic perform- Karl Mann, opened his eyes to the in- ances will prove." estimable value of the open-air life day As Mr. Allen frequently made such and night. So at Whiteway, in the heart statements as this in his lectures on of the Cotswold hills, eight hundred feet healthful diet, he was asked why he did above the sea level, he built himself a little not prove it in some practical way. Con- cottage, and began the experiment of liv- sequently he decided to demonstrate the ing close to nature. A NATURAL FOOD TRIUMPH 389

All useless clothing was dispensed with, vegetarian fare as can be easily obtained the object being to maintain the heat of by any one under almost any circum- the body from within, instead of para- stances.. At the close of each day's lyzing the natural energies by employing walk a warm bath was taken, with the artificial means. The picture shows him exception of two nights, when the bath in what he calls his " Adamie costume," was not obtainable. On the days fol- in which he works as farmer and gar- lowing the omission of the bath he dener. "A bedroom," he says, " I scorn. suffered from terribly aching feet, caused, To my mind, open-air sleeping is an im- he says, by the presence of uric acid portant phase of the health question." in the blood. " This," he thinks, " is Under this simple and delightful regime something for people with rheumatic his face and whole body assumed a . tendencies to reflect upon." He lost no ruddy color, and his health became mar- weight during the walk, and after a few velous. days was as fresh as at the beginning. Not content with the Leicester-to-Lon- For those few days he ate and slept don record, Mr. Allen planned a thou- rather more than usual. sand-mile walk to be accomplished in The life and work . of this noble maten twenty days, but after two unsuccessful are a testimony to the value of right attempts, he decided to retire from active principles heroically followed. He does participation in athletic feats. Necessity, not believe in the permanency of any evil however, in the form of a record estab- thing, but is assured that all disease, even lished by a meat eater, forced him again though, as in his own case, " hereditary," ' to enter the lists. Dr. Deighton, a well- and " incurable," may be overcome by known athlete, walked from Land's End the exercise of the will power, and the to John o' Groat's in 24 days and 4 hours, faithful following of nature's unchange- his chief sustenance en route being a able laws of health. " We must deter- much-advertised meat juice. The credit mine," he says, " if we are at present of this performance was largely claimed weak, to become strong, and be willing by the company which ran the affair to sacrifice everything that hinders us in financially. our quest for health." The event in his " To prove that flesh foods generally, own case has thoroughly proved the and meat juices in particular, are utterly soundness of his theory. His splendid unnecessary for such a feat of endurance," courage and indomitable perseverance says Mr. Allen, " now seemed to be a have enabled him to demonstrate to the task it was my duty to perform." His world the superiority of pure foods ob- record walk, in which 'he covered the tained from natural sources — the fields distance gone over by Dr. Deighton in and orchards — over the effete products 7% days less time, was the result. of the slaughter-house. E. E. A. Mr. Allen's meals during this walk [In our October issue Mr. Allen will were obtained at the different stopping- tell why he is a vegetarian, and how he places en route, and were of such simple became strong.]

0! WHAT would the world be to us We should dread the desert behind us If the children were no more? Worse than the dark before. — Longfellow. RATIONAL DRESS FOR CHILDREN

BY ABBIE M. WINEGAR-SIMPSON, M. D,

T T should be the first garment that is usually placed upon 1 aim of every it is one which an older person, who is mother so to clothe able to assert his rights, would never her child as to en- wear,— a tight band, which at once be- courage the develop- gins the compression and deformity ment of its highest which are so well developed in later life, physical, mental, and especially in women. The child can speak moral nature. The the anguish it feels only in the one young child is as the language common to infants, and crying, tender twig, which can be bent in almost sad to. say, has to the mother but one in- any direction, and unless the training of terpretation hunger; so the suffering the whole body is in the right direction, little one is given all the food it will there will be defects in the child's phys- accept, thus adding to its suffering by ical development, which will to a greater distending the body from within. This or less extent influence the character of method of treatment continues through the entire life. the first months of the child's life. Childhood is the time to establish the The tight band is only one of the foundation of future health and strength garments of torture which the baby is of body as well as mind. The principle often compelled to wear. To this holds true that the farther back we be- . are added several skirt bands, to which gin, the more momentum we gain. The are attached skirts, a yard or more in body is a soft, pliable, yielding mass of length ; then comes the long dress, which, tissue, which may be compressed from with the skirts, hinders the free action without, distended from ,within, bent for- of the limbs. These garments often lead ward or to either side. to such deformities as bow-legs, round The same principle holds true ih cloth- shoulders, curvature of the spine. ing the child as in clothing the adult. It is gratifying, however, to know that There must be perfect freedom of every at the present time there is an effort to muscle and organ of the body. I think break away from this bondage, and I am safe in saying that far more im- mothers are beginning to study how best portance should be attached to the proper to. clothe their children. Every muscle adjusting of the clothing of the child must have opportunity for free and un- than of the grown person, because it is restrained action, and every organ must not only necessary to allow freedom of be able to maintain its proper position, motion, but consideration must be taken and perform its specific functions. This of the fact that the child is growing, and requirement may first be met by having that there is a constant demand for the clothing of as light material as is more space for expansion. This makes it consistent with the climate and season. imperative to study the subject carefully, It should always be such as to keep the that this demand may be met. body uniformly warm. The number of When the child enters life, so far as garments should be few, and so adjusted external influences are concerned, its and supported as not to interfere with troubles begin with the first dressing. The comfort, growth, or development. For

390 RATIONAL DRESS FOR CHILDREN 391 the infant, if a band is used, it should As the child advances in years, the be one made of stockinet or some yield- garments which are suitable for the in- ing material, to be slipped on and off -as fant will need. to be replaced by others desired, and requiring no pins ; but two adapted to the different ages and con- little straps to go over the shoulders and ditions, but the same principles hold true button in front. This is sufficient to with the older child as with the infant. support the usual dressing, and also al- There must be the same freedom from lows the necessary expansion and con- compression and stricture, and a like traction. The other garments should be opportunity for growth, exercise, and short, and made without waists, that there development. The first garment should may be no compression. be a union undersuit, such as can now be Few garments are required to dress purchased at any clothing or dry-goods the infant. Five or six are all that are store, or made at home. necessary : the bandage, the diaper, a The next garment should be a waist vest if desired, one or two skirts, and the that fits the form, but sufficiently large outer slip. The clothing of the feet is an to allow for growth. This should be important matter. If the foot is com- made from material firm enough .so that pressed at an early period, painful de- it will not stretch and pull in such a formities may result. When buying or manner as to counteract its purpose., making footwear for the child, care The skirt should be attached to this, should be taken to get one size larger either sewed or buttoned to it. The than the foot actually measures ; the hose supporters should be attached to the shoes should be soft and pliable, and the bottom of the waist on either side. The buttons such as will not press into the outer dress should be made loose, and the tender flesh. It is important, also, to entire, garment preferably in one piece. remember that from month to month Bands or corset waists are not at all nec- changes must be made ins the cloth- essary, and are the beginning of an evil ing to meet the r demands of rapid which • is so wide-spread as to need no growth. comment here.

INFANT'S OUTFIT Designed by Carolyn Geisel, M. D. The Pinning Blanket without Band.— Up-and-down buttonholes about an inch in length and worked in the upper edge of the blanket, and so arranged that they come in perfect apposition with similar buttonholes worked in the silk and flannel slips, at a point just above the baby's hips. A soft silk tape run through these unites all three garments. Silk Princess Slit.— To be worn next the body, instead of a vest lover the band for the few days that is needed). It is made of wash silk or silk muslin. Flannel Princess To be worn over the silk slip. Princess Dress.— Made of any desirable fabric. REST HOURS FOR CHILDREN

E are fast becoming a people who bed covering should be suited to the W do not know how to rest," says weather, not too warm and certainly not Dr. Hastings in Home Science Magazine, too heavy. And then prepare the child. and the result is seen in "the wide-spread If possible let him have some light, diffusion of those complaints of a nervous happy diversion from the cares and stud- character so peculiarly our own as to be ies of the day. Do not carry this too far, all classed under the head 'Americanitis.'" however. Too much excitement is worse Since the victims of these nervous mala- than no attempt at all. Let there be noth- dies rarely come to the physician until ing to worry or fret the little one as he most of the mischief to themselves and closes his eyes for sleep. Be sure not to others is done, Dr. Hastings makes some disturb or arouse him later. suggestions to mothers, that they may " Secondly, have another rest period protect their children from any such as near as may be to the middle of the harm. - day. Continue the two naps, morning " How many of you," he says, " can and afternoon, as long as practicable. lie down and fully relax all your muscles? Then persist in the afternoon nap. When Try it. See how almost invariably some this, too, must be abandoned, still be sure one or more groups of muscles will con- that the child has some chance to rest tract in spite of your best efforts. Nor soon after noon. The period need not be can most people any better give the mind long, but let it be as regular and as com- a rest. Without any volition, perhaps, plete as possible. Have the Child lie it at once seizes that first opportunity for down, even if he does not sleep. Teach planning, scheming, or dreaming." him to relax all his muscles. You will The child's education begins almost be surprised to note how often he will fall before he can talk. He most learn some- asleep, and gratified at the manifest re- thing of sciences, languages, history, art, freshment. music, etc., and of late much has been " Finally, look out for the child's va- added in the way of gymnastic training. cations. Let them be what the name in- But when is the child taught to rest? dicates. Plan them out in advance, and Children's nerve centers are much more be sure the life is quite unlike the every- rapidly exhausted than those of adults, day school life. If possible, place the and are replenished with corresponding child amid new surroundings, with new rapidity. The increase of energy ,from duties and pleasures. Moreover, let there stopping the machinery absolutely for be real rest days, days without any defi- only a few minutes is so marked that the nite purpose but rest. Such a custom training of children to certain rest pe- will help them when grown to take such riods would be greatly to their advantage. days occasionally, and save them from the Dr. Hastings would have these periods nervous breakdowns now so common." arranged as follows : — If, with all these rules and plans, the " First, at night. Prepare the bed- child gets the idea of rest firmly fixed in room for the purpose of rest, not merely his mind, he will gradually come to ap- of sleep. Have it quiet, dark, and full of preciate its value, and meanwhile habits fresh air, free from anything which might will be formed which will be invaluable stimulate their weary little minds. The in future years.

302 MILK INFECTION THE CAUSE OF SUMMER DIAR- RHEA IN CHILDREN HOUSANDS of children die from and strained starch water. All food T milk poisoning every year, the dis- should be withheld for from twelve to order being especially fatal among bottle- twenty-four hours, and even then milk fed children. Milk is a very good me- should be avoided. Use in its place well- dium for germs to grow in, and it is very cooked barley or wheat-meal gruel easily infected. When the germs have strained. These gruels should be boiled once invaded the alimentary canal of the in a double boiler four or five hours. infant, it is very unsafe to give milk as This diet, with fomentations to the bowels long as they are present, for it will fer- every three hours, has saved many a little ment under the action of the germs and one's life. Even when the worst symp- produce poisons capable of causing the toms are relieved, caution should be ob- death of the child as quickly as a dose of served about returning to milk diet. arsenic. When the vomiting and purging, The beaten white of an egg, mixed with which are usually the first symptoms of boiled water, may be added to the gruels. this disease, begin, the stomach should, The nurse should be careful to wash if possible, be washed out, and two tea- and disinfect her hands after changing spoonfuls of castor-oil given to move the child, especially before preparing its the bowels and free them from irritating food. Disease germs are often present poisons. in the discharges from the bowels, and by Enemas of hot water should be given carelessness may infect the food and every two or three• hours, followed by drink of not only the baby, but the other an injection of a teacupful of thin, boiled children of the family. K. L.

TIRED MOTHERS AND NERVOUS MOTHERS

BY ROSE WOOD-ALLEN CHAPMAN

I R E D mothers and nervous always been her ideal — and feels her- T mothers are often classified under self to be a miserable failure because her one head ; viz., cross mothers. endeavors toward improvement seem ab- The expressions of the two physical solutely fruitless ! conditions are often nearly identical, She looks back, it may be, to the happy, and are considered by most people, the careless days of her girlhood, when her mothers generally included, as evidences parents called her " Sunshine," her girl of an unfortunate temper or a woful lack friends loved her for her sweet disposi- of Christian grace. How many a devoted tion, and she herself never had occasion mother there is who sheds secret tears to question whether or not she could over this, her besetting sin, as she calls ever be cross. What has brought about it mourns to see the atmosphere of the this remarkable change? home and the action of the children re- In the majority of instances, mothers flecting her own shortcomings ; prays are cross because they are tired. They for deliverance, and promises herself to have worked, day in and day out, whether learn that perfect self-control which has they felt like it or not, ignoring Nature's

393 394 TIRED MOTHERS AND NERVOUS MOTHERS warnings that their supply of physical proof be more effective than a shaking ; vigor is being overdrawn, until at last and sympathetic interest in all her child's they have lost that buoyancy of disposi- life has always been her ideal. But the tion which comes from perfect health, and words are out of her mouth almost be- are upset by the slightest occurrence. fore she realizes it. They are now " working on their nerves," Thus the children grow up in an at- as we say ; in other words, each day they mosphere of sharp tones and short words. are using their nerve-force for their daily They may be heard commanding one an- tasks, borrowing from that which belongs other with arbitrary abruptness, scolding, to the future for the sake of what they slapping; in a word, reproducing with deem to be the all-important present, startling fidelity the treatment which they and living so near the margin of absolute themselves have received. Harsh tones bankruptcy that they have nothing left are the rule instead of gentle ones ; pleas- to fall back upon in the slightest emer- ant requests are seldom heard; there is gency. constant noise and uproar, quarrelings, They are like a delicate, vibrant ma- teasing, recriminations,— all the out- chine, put together with rubber cushions growth of the poor mother's shortcom- in all available places, whose rubber has ings, as she herself often deeply realizes. become worn and useless, and who, there- What can she do about it? If she has fore, respond with disconcerting prompt- awakened to a realization of the serious- ness to every unevenness in the road over ness of the condition, how can she change which they are traveling. it ? The Creator meant us to have such a She probably feels that she has tried stock of good spirits, resulting from every remedy in her power, but her con- abundance of physical vigor, that the little tinued lack of success points to her fail- things of life would not jar us, but would ure to try the only efficacious method. be taken with that cheerful philosophy She must get rested. That is the solu- which is supposed to be the expression of tion of her problem. Good resolutions, good temper. strenuous efforts, prayers even, will not It is most unfortunate for a mother avail without the aid of that simple to have allowed herself to reach such a remedy. state of physical weariness that her spirit Simple ? It does not seem simple to the seems continually to chafe and fret. overworked mother. How can she rest " Come here this minute ! " when there is so much to do ? " Stop that ! " There will always be more for her to " Here, just let me get at you and I'll do than she can accomplish ; it is no use teach you to mind me ! " for her to wait for that Elysian period " Oh, go away ; I haven't time to when she will have " time to rest." She bother ! " must make up her mind that rest is the Such is the language of the tired, and, essential thing,— and then see that she therefore, cross mother. Before her gets it ! children came, she would have been In other words, the mother must realize shocked had any one told her such would that the most important thing of all is be her manner of speech ; but now it is an a home of peace and harmony. The every-day occurrence. She knows that eternal welfare of the inmates of that a request would often bring better re- home is at stake ; can anything equal sults than a sharp command ; a gentle re- that in importance ? Sewing, sweeping. TIRED MOTHERS AND NERVOUS MOTHERS 395 baking,— all the routine of daily life that means that nerve-force is being con- fades into insignificance before this sumed. Her present " run-down " con- greater spiritual requirement. Anything dition indicates a lack of nerve power, can be sacrificed for the sake of the life and her every effort must be to conserve of the spirit. and build up that power. It will not even If this belief has once taken firm hold do to lie down with a book, for reading of the mother's consciousness, she will calls for brain power, or nerve power. be able to find time to rest. The family To get the best result in the shortest can live on simpler food ; bakings may time, the mother should lie flat upon her be omitted from the daily routine, for back, with all clothing loosened if it is a time, at any rate ; sheets, pillow-cases, at all snug, with only a small pillow, or, towels, stockings, underwear, may be better still, none at all under her head ; put away without ironing; the children's close her eyes, relax every muscle, and, clothing may be made more simply and'of breathing deeply, just rest. She should colored goods instead of the easily soiled not think of the work that is waiting to light-tinted fabrics. be done, for that will keep her muscles It is gratifying to have a well-kept stiff and tense. Let her, instead, have house; but it is infinitely more enjoy- visions of green meadows, a murmuring able to have a house of quiet and peace stream flowing lazily beneath drooping and comfort to come into at the end of willows, and contented cattle ruminating a wearying day. So, no doubt, will think in their shade. Fifteen to twenty min- the tired husband whose wife has awa- utes of such complete relaxation will kened to her condition and its remedy. make her feel like a new individual, ready There are so many things about house- once more to take up her task with ease work that may be omitted, if one but and pleasure. realizes the greater value of other things ; The mother who is in earnest in and when one learns that the only way to her " reform " must never let that tyrant, overcome an undesirable temper is to ac- the desire of " finishing," take posses- quire physical poise, the true value of sion of her. When nerves cry out for these unessentials is appreciated. rest, and conscience says, " It's time to The tired mother who has allowed her- lie down," then the tempter will whisper, self to overwork day after day, for weeks " Just wait until this is finished." But and months, until she is " worn to a the source of the plea should be recog- frazzle," must first of all make up her nized, and the temptation resolutely re- mind to get rested, no matter how long sisted. that process may take. She must reso- The time to go to rest is at the first lutely limit each day's work by that day's suggestion of fatigue. To postpone the strength. As soon as she begins to feel rest is to repeat the mistake of the past — tired, whether her task is finished or not, using reserve power instead of real phys- she must go and lie down. After a ical energy. It is consuming the very time of complete rest, she will doubtless supply which she is trying to increase. be able to resume her task and bring it to • In addition to these frequent rests, the completion with ease. tired mother must make it a rule to have But the rest must be complete ; it will a nap after the mid-day meal. Even if not do to sit down with a piece of fancy- she can not get to sleep, she should lie work, for muscles are still called upon to down and relax, as already described. hold her erect and carry on activity, and Even when apparently her strong, 396 TIRED MOTHERS AND NERVOUS MOTHERS buoyant self once more, she should keep It is hard to see a child doing risky up this daily rest. Indeed, if every things and keep silence. Yet, unless the woman, no matter how well and strong, risk is really dangerous, it is better to let would follow this rule of a short nap the child climb and learn from experi- every afternoon, she would find the day ence than to repress all activity and de- of gray hair and wrinkles postponed, and velop cowardice. The child who climbs, life itself made not only longer, but more and so gains perfect control of his mus- worth while. cles, is safer than he who never climbs, But how about the nervous mother? and so knows neither his powers nor his In the majority of cases, the nervous- limitations. ness is a sign of fatigue, and the re- Movements sometimes irritate the nerv- marks already made and advice given ous mother, and she wants her child are equally applicable in both cases. to " sit still." Yet, without doubt, these Even where the nervousness is a life- movements are an outlet of nervousness long condition, inherent in the make-up, in the child. To repress them and call nothing is so beneficial as plenty of rest. continual attention to them by prohibi- A nervous person uses up more nerve tions, is to foster in the child the very thing energy than one of a different tempera- it is desirable to avoid. Here, too, the ment in the simplest acts of life. There- nervous mother must learn self-control. fore, she needs more rest and more sleep. We have believed in the past that we Mental poise depends to a great extent were compelled to suffer from our feel- upon physical vigor; consequently, one ings ; we are learning that our feelings who would overcome so-called nervous- can be controlled as surely as can our ness must build up the body in every muscles. way possible. If the child's movements are disturb- But after that is done, if the nervous- ing, let the mother turn her attention to ness remains, then what ? something else. In the first place, the nervous mother There was great philosophy in the must realize that her nervousness is apt child's reply, when his nurse cried out, to have a detrimental effect upon her chil- " 0, it makes me nervous to see you do dren. They have, in all probability, in- that ! " herited a tendency in the same direction ; " Well, don't look, then ! " was his any expression of her nervousness, then, reasonable advice. will but encourage in them a development So with the nervous mother. Let her of the same condition. She must learn not look at the restless child. Let her self-control. Apprehensiveness is one of turn her thoughts in some other direc- the most common expressions of nervous- tion. ness. Each time she makes the effort thus " Don't climb that fence ; I'm afraid to control herself, she will find success you'll fall ! " coming more and more easily ; so that in " Don't do that ; you frighten me ! " time she will discover that her nervous- " 0, I'm so afraid to see you there ! " ness is not so great as it used to be. These are the exclamations of the nerv- It will be a help to her, in this effort ously apprehensive mother, creating the after mental poise, to choose some com- same unfortunate condition in the child's forting thought for the day and carry it mind and preventing that natural activity with her, recurring to it whenever which is essential to bodily development. tempted to nervous unrest : — TIRED MOTHERS AND NERVOUS MOTHERS 397

" Underneath are the everlasting arms." lying down to complete relaxation with " In quietness and in confidence shall a picture of rural calm and content be- be your strength." fore her mental vision. " They that wait upon the Lord shall Under such treatment, both tired renew their strength." mothers and nervous mothers would dis- Such thoughts will quiet the tingling appear from off the face of the earth, and nerves and bring the desired sense of we should have, instead, happy, rested rest and peace. mothers, whose mental calm would show If the nervous excitement seems be- forth in the home atmosphere and be yond control, let her seek her room and recorded in the peaceful, joyous lives of follow the advice given the tired mother, their little ones.

THE IDEAL NURSERY HE chief requirements fOr the ideal The walls should not be papered, but T day nursery are, according to a painted or varnished in such a way as writer in Babyhood, good light, good ven- to permit of frequent and thorough wash- tilation, genial warmth, and adequate ing. Pictures should be plentifully pro- protection from open fires and drafts. vided, of a bright, happy nature, chiefly 398 THE IDEAL NURSERY those dealing with child life. The large A safe play place for baby may be illustrations that appear in juvenile pub- made from a padded packing box, or a lications are often suitable, and excellent portable fence which folds up when not little pictures are issued gratis as ad- in use. For his daily nap, a hammock vertisements. They can be pasted to slung across a roomy corner is a com- a mat cut from a sheet of manila paper, fortable and safe place. and tacked into position upon the wall. A screen is indispensable, to be used In hanging them remember that a child's for shutting off any excess of light, heat, line of vision is lower than your own. or cold. One of home construction may For heating, a grate fire is preferable be covered with linen or cretonne and to either stove or furnace heat. What- provided with plenty of pockets. This ever kind of stove or fireplace is used, will serve as a holder for small toys, pic- a metal screen entirely surrounding it is a tures, bits of string, and other articles necessary precaution. too precious to be thrown away. The health-giving rays of the sun In furnishing, chairs and tables with should have free access to the room. well-rounded corners should be chosen. Shades and awnings are desirable during Low chairs and hassocks are necessary the hot weather, but for the rest of the for the little ones. If a rocker is used, year let only white lace or muslin sash- its tips should be wrapped with felt. A curtains intervene between the windows low kindergarten table is a source of and the room. Woven hangings of all pleasure to the little ones, as it serves kinds are receptacles for dust and dirt, for a doll's dining table, etc. It may be and the air is filled with irritating parti- used as a desk during study hours. cles from them which find their way into A gate hung across the entrance to the the eyes and throats of the children. The stairway is a good safeguard ; it should Japanese bamboo bead curtain is the ideal be provided with a spring hinge, which window hanging for the day nursery. causes it to fall back into place. The best floor is of hard wood, oiled, Window guards of some sort are a not polished. If this is not obtainable, necessity. They should receive frequent the floor may be stained and coated with inspection to see that the fastenings have shellac. A large woolen rug, which will not worn loose, as unless perfectly re- not wrinkle or slip, forms the best liable they are more dangerous than none covering. at all. WHAT CHILDREN HAVE DONE IN EMERGENCIES

BY BELLE V. CHISHOLM

OMPARATIVELY few are blessed gas burning low in the grate. Some C with the faculty of being able to do time in the night a puff of wind from the the proper thing at the right moment, es- open fireplace blew the fire out, and the pecially in emergencies, and yet this self- sleepers would all have been asphyxiated same gift has been the means of saving had not the fifteen-year-old daughter many a life. It is not often that we read awoke, struggling for breath. Failing to or hear of children having presence of arouse her mother and little sister who mind in the face of immediate danger, but were sleeping with her, she crawled out the following incidents prove that they of bed, and with much difficulty suc- can be equal to the occasion, and further ceeded in turning off the gas and raising emphasize the great value of educating the window. Two little boys sleeping on children along these lines. Fathers and a low couch, only a few inches from the mothers, as well as teachers, would do floor, seemed to be dying,' but she had no well to give more time and thought to strength to drag them outside of the door, just such instruction, teaching the chil- which was on the other side of the room. dren what to do and training them to be She had the presence of mind, however, cool-headed in emergencies. to lift them to the bed beside her mother, Not long ago in one of our city schools and then, feeling herself sinking, she a lad of thirteen was sent on an errand to managed to drop upon her knees, with her the basement. Just as he reached the head on the bed, before she became un- foot of the stairs a blinding sheet of flame conscious. And here, hours afterward, shot out from behind the furnace. He the father, coming home from work, opened his mouth to scream, but the next found her. Summoning medical aid, all instant his lips closed tightly, and spring- his loved ones were finally restored to ing past the blaze, he began to ring the consciousness. A little dog on the couch fire-bell, and the pupils, thinking it was was dead, and the doctors agreed that the drill-call, dropped into line and filed nothing but the sister's forethought had out, emptying the big four-story building saved the children from a like fate. in just three minutes. Last summer a three-year-old child in What do you Mean by this, sir? " a farmhouse drank a quantity of car- asked the superintendent sternly, meet- bolic acid. The mother and sisters in ing the boy on the stairs. " Who told their distraction could do nothing but you to ring the bell ? " wring their hands and cry. " Hold the The boy pointed to the fire, and the baby and let me give it this," said the man, having his answer, rushed to the little serving maid, and with a teaspoon front to see that the lines were marched she began pouring melted lard down the out of danger. The lad had already little one's throat. In response to a turned in the still alarm, and the engines, telephone message a doctor was soon quickly on the ground, were not long in brought, who succeeded in saving the getting the fire under control. child.• " But it would have been too late," During the cold weather two winters he said, " had not this little maid known ago, the family of a mechanic, who what to do, and had the presence of mind worked at night, went to bed leaving the to put her knowledge into execution."

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Last summer while a crowd of boys the schoolboys in the same village re- was blackberrying, one of them was ceived a cut in the leg that bled profusely. bitten on the leg by a copperhead. In- A playmate who had witnessed the treat- stantly a lad of thirteen, standing near ment given the carpenter, undertook to him, jerked off his suspenders and tied stop the flow of blood in the same way, one tightly above the wound, and the but was unsuccessful. " Tie the bandage other a little below it. Then, kneeling by below the wound," exclaimed the first the boy's side, he made an effort to suck boy, appearing opportunely on the scene.. the poison from the wound. As the boys " You didn't when the carpenter fell," were quite a distance from home, it was replied the would-be helper, as he fol- some time before the wound received lowed directions, with speedy success. medical attention, but so thoroughly had " That was an artery ; this is only a the boy friend understood the remedy he vein," was the answer. applied that no bad consequence followed. " I don't see how a fellow is to dis- Shortly after this, the same boy saved tinguish between the two," argued the the life of a young carpenter who in other. some way had severed an artery. The " If the flow is from an artery, the boy, who chanced to be present, pulled blood will be thrown out in jets ; but if the workman's bandanna handkerchief from a vein, the stream will be smaller out of his pocket, and, tearing a strip and more regular," explained the boy, from it, wrapped it tightly around the who had studied his physiology with a man's arm, above the wound, then in- view to making its lessons practical. serting a lead pencil in the loop, he During a terrific electrical storm a year twisted it round and round, and so con- ago, a schoolhouse a short distance out trolled the flow of blood until the arrival of town was struck by lightning, and a of the surgeon. number of the pupils were severely A few days after this incident, one of shocked. Two of them were thought to be dead, and in the excitement the teacher was as helpless as any of her charges. Fortunately, one boy, a slim, delicate lad, noted for his timidity, kept his head. " Let us lay them out in the rain," he said. The teacher objected, but with the help of another boy; the two thought to be past help were carried out and laid upon the ground with the rain beating on their faces, and by the time doctors arrived, signs of life were visible in both of them. " Best thing that could have been done, and without doubt saved both lives," said the old doctor, and the younger practi- tioners nodded approval. A young girl fainted in her class at school, and the next moment she was laid on a bench with shawls and cloaks piled

COMPRESSION OF ARTERY OF THE ARM under her head for a pillow. " 0, I WHAT CHILDREN HAVE DONE IN EMERGENCIES 401 believe she is dead," cried the young teacher, hysterically. " It is only a faint," said a thirteen- year-old g i r 1 , stepping forward and taking the " pil- 1 o w " from under the girl's head. "Raise t h e windows, please," she said COMPRE5GiNG MAIN ARTERY OF THE ARM. quietly, " and all a. COMPRE55iNO of you stand -ARTERIES OVINE FINGER. back, to give her 6 comPRE55ING ARTERIE3 Or me WRISt• air. Put a book under the f oot of the bench, John," she added as she loosened t h e girl's clothes and bared her neck. Presently the color began to come b a ck into her face, and there was a heaving of t h e chest that comPRE55ING THE ARTERY brought a sigh OF THE. ARM IN THE NECK.. of relief to the COMPRE-551NG THE—, frightened MAIN ARTERY OF THE LEG watchers. "Why did you lower her head? " asked one of the older girls, flow of blood to the brain, but fainting who had helped " pillow " her up. I am is caused by a lack of blood in the same sure that the doctor raised brother organ." Louis's head as high as he could get it " How can you tell them apart ? " asked when he had sunstroke last summer." the first speaker. " I would not know "Of course," admitted the younger when to raise or to lower the head." girl. " Sunstroke is caused by an over- " You see how pale Anna is, and —" 402 WHAT CHILDREN HAVE DONE IN EMERGENCIES

" Louis's face was fiery red," inter- word of complaint, and she smiled when rupted the questioner. " It is all plain she said, Please don't tell de mudder, enough now." doctor ; she be so scared if she know about Some years ago, in a prairie home, Willie.' " far from doctors and drug-stores, a little A little chap accustomed to making a child drank a quantity of lye. No one, pincushion of his mouth, swallowed a from grandmother down, knew what to small fish-hook. It was five miles to the do in the emergency, until a little Ger- nearest doctor, and the mother, terribly man neighbor remembered that mother frightened, was going to give him an gave Johan " winegar " when he swal- emetic. A young niece from the city, not lowed lye, and that it cured him. It yet out of short dresses, protested against cured the prairie baby, too, so that hours this remedy. " Give him a bowl of oat- later, when the doctor came, there was meal, without milk, instead, and then let nothing for him to do biit to recommend him have all the bread and butter he can a little of that same vinegar for the eye eat on top of that," she said, and for of the boy that was smarting with white- once Jack had more tempting food offered wash. him than he was able to dispose of. • The Observing little girl," said the doctor. hook gave him no trouble whatever, and " She is the same child who saved her the doctor's regard for city girls rose sev- brother's life when he drank an ounce eral degrees after hearing how this girl of laudanum. I had left it for the mother, had saved his patient from the dangerous and when Gretchen saw what the child experiment to which his mother was had done, she got out her list of antidotes. about to subject him. and finding strong coffee the proper " Common sense ought to teach people remedy for opium poison, she began to fight shy of emetics, cathartics, or a dosing him with it, and fighting against too liberal supply of fluids for twenty- the sleep that seemed determined to four hours after anything sharp, ragged, claim him. And she had the battle to or pointed is swallowed," he said. " The fight alone, poor child, for I did not get great trouble is, they lose their heads in there till the next day, after all the danger emergencies, at the very time they most was over. The girl had not slept a wink need them. And things will never be during the night. She looked pale, and any better until children are trained from there were dark circles under her eyes, their babyhood to act, instead of scream, showing exhaustion, but there was not a in times of unexpected danger."

MOLDING THE CLAY

" WITHIN their tiny hands my children hold "To-day, within my hands my children lie; A ball of yielding clay, I shape them as I will, And, as they try some dainty form to mold, And seek for aid from Him that is on high, I hear them softly say, That he may with his skill ' What shall we make? an apple, or a vase? Teach my weak, willing hands to rightly mold Some marbles, or a fan ? ' The clay that I have sought, One little boy, a smile upon his face, That in true forms of beauty may unfold Says, ' I shall make a man.' The Maker's highest thought." A DIET OF WORMS HEN Luther was about to face the the Biblical injunction, and we know that W memorable Diet of Worms, an John the Baptist is recorded as having old and valiant soldier remarked that lived for some considerable time upon more courage was required for that or- ' locusts and wild honey.' deal than he or any other captain needed " There are, of course, many ways of in his bloodiest battles. To the uniniti- preparing them. They can be fried after ated, a modern " diet of worms," at the their legs and wings have been plucked table of a rich London epicure, where, off, which was, as a matter of fact, the according to Pearson's Weekly, a typical process adopted in this particular in- insect menu was recently served, would, stance, or they may be powdered and we think, prove almost as great an ordeal. baked into cakes, or curried or boiled, Such a menu would call forth as vigorous turning red, like lobsters, in the process. a protest as that of Peter when told to " The wood-louse sauce, if properly slay and eat all manner of creeping made with fresh butter, flour, milk, pep- things. Yet we see no reason why " cat- per and salt, will be found fully equal to erpillar soup," for instance, is any more shrimp, which it much resembles in taste. objectionable than turtle soup, which it Indeed, the wood-louse, although he lives is said to resemble in flavor ; or why on land, is first cousin to that much- " deviled wireworms " are not as good as relished crustacean. anchovies treated in similar fashion. The " Cockchafers, curried or otherwise, following menu, with comments as to the are delicious if selected of a serviceable merits of the various dishes, we reprint size and plumpness. So, too, are their from a contemporary : — grubs when full grown. They should then be at least two inches in length and " Green Caterpillar Soup fat in proportion, and may be eaten un- Fried Locusts with Wood-Louse Sauce cooked, like oysters, or stewed in milk. Curried Cockchafers " Perhaps, however, the most tooth- Wasp Grubs Baked in the Comb Stag Beetle Larva on Toast some of all insect delicacies is that which Moths Baked in Batter comes forth on our menu of the day,' Deviled Wireworms wasp grubs, baked in the comb. These Grasshoppers au Gratin grubs have been fed by their parents on a saccharin fluid composed of fruit and " The green caterpillars that compose vegetable juices, and are simply tiny the soup feed entirely upon vegetables, balls of sugary fat possessing a flavor and mostly upon particular vegetables as exquisite as it is unique. No one who most relished by man, such as cabbage has once tasted them will ever again be and lettuce. surprised at the preference shown by " In appearance the soup itself is not fish for this particular grub when used unlike clear turtle, while its flavor is as a bait. delicious. " The stag beetle larva is, of course, " The locusts, which constitute the sec- identical with the cossus, which the old ond course, have, as every one is aware, Roman epicures used to fatten for their been esteemed by gormands the world table upon flour and wine. The sixth over and from the remotest antiquity. course should -be served steaming hot, Eat ye the locust after his kind,' is since there is no more appetizing odor

403 404 A DIET OF 'WORMS than that emanating from a baked moth. form of paste, spread upon sippets of " Deviled wireworms are eaten in the toast, and taste not unlike anchovies."

THE WONDROUS GIFT Ax, what a wondrous gift of God Dear Mother, when you see your babe Our human bodies are; Play with his tiny hands, Still serving us from day to day, As though just learning they were his, Both in our work and in our play, Remember, here a lesson is Without a break or jar! For one who understands. 0, help him as his body grows, To feel it is God-given; So that in all earth's happy ways, Through peaceful nights and busy days, His life may forecast Heaven! — Transcription from Froebel.

Infantile Convulsions. tion. The application of fomentations This is one of the most alarming of the to the head is also useful in these cases. diseases of infancy, but is not often fatal. The treatment should be prompt and en- ergetic. Plunge the child as quickly as How Children Become Infected with possible into a hot bath, pouring cool Tuberculosis. water upon the head and chest. When In a recent breach-of-promise case, the convulsion is the result of indiges- the defendant claimed exemption from tion, the child should be made to vomit, damages on the ground that after the if possible, by drinking warm water, or promise was made, the plaintiff was half a glass of water into which a tea- found to be afflicted with tuberculosis. spoonful of mustard or powdered alum The court held that if tuberculosis is in- has been stirred. When constipation and fectious and transmissible to offspring, it flatulence are the cause, give an enema is against public policy that one suffering of soap-suds. When the fontanel is from it should be married. The State prominent or bulging, the cold applica- must be cruel to the individual in order tions to the head should be very vigor- to protect the majority. ous ; ice may be used. When there is With regard to the transmissibility of considerable fever, cool sponging of the tuberculosis to offspring, Dr. Knopf, the body should be employed, together with great authority on tuberculosis, considers cold injections into the bowels. When that the popular notion is absolutely the fontanel is depressed, showing lack erroneous, and that the child is infected of blood in the brain, the convulsion may by its consumptive parent after birth. sometimes be relieved by inverting the The most common modes of infection child ; that is, turning its head downward. during early childhood are the follow- This is often recommended indiscrimi- ing : The consumptive mother kisses the nately for convulsions, which is a grave child on the mouth ; she prepares the error, as it might produce a fatal result food, tasting it with the same spoon in convulsions brought on by conges- or through the same rubber nipple the HOW CHILDREN BECOME INFECTED WITH TUBERCULOSIS 405 child uses; or when the child begins to Care of the Ears. play on the floor, he is liable to inhale the Few ailments are more common among bacilli floating in the dust, the full de- children than earache. The foundation of velopment of which may take place only chronic deafness is often laid in early in later years. As the child touches childhood. Most mothers are uncon- everything around it, the fingers become scious of the fact that they themselves are thoroughly infected; they are put into responsible for causing much suffering the mouth, and the child acquires tuber- to their children from attacks of this pain- culosis by ingestion, which gradually ful malady. In her anxiety that her develops into consumption of the bowels. children's ears shall be perfectly clean, Tuberculosis of the skin may result from the mother endeavors to remove every the scratch of an infected finger-nail. particle of ear-wax from the inner por- Although consumption is not hered- tion of the ear by boring it out with a itary, a predisposition may be, and such hairpin, with some other sharp instru- a condition should be overcome by judi- ment covered with a towel, or with the cious training, proper food, plenty of out- corner of the towel twisted to a point, door exercise, and the avoidance of all when really this portion of the ear re- excesses. quires no attention. Nature takes care of it in the most admirable manner. The Teach the Children to Love Nature. membrane lining the canal of the ear contains a great number of little glands, Dr. M. L. Holbrook gives the follow- which secrete a waxy substance having ing excellent advice as to the education an intensely bitter taste. The purpose of children : " So far as possible, a love of this is to prevent the entrance of in- of Nature should be early and continu- sects and to keep the ear clean. The ally inculcated. Nature is, in a physical layer of wax dries in scales, which rapidly sense, the father and mother of us all, fall away, thus removing with them every and a child that grows up to maturity particle of dust or other foreign matters with a genuine love of rocks and trees, which may have found entrance into the flowers and insects, animals and plants, ear. Nothing more irritating than a few storms and sunshine, cold and heat, fresh drops of olive-oil, warmed to a temper- air or the ocean wave, of every varying ature a little above blood heat, should landscape and mood of Nature and all the be placed in the ear. activities around us, stands not only a better chance of possessing a healthy nervous system, but of maintaining it during Teething. life, than if the opposite has been the case. During this troublesome period, chil- I am not at all in sympathy with any dren require special care, as the digestive system of education which takes chil- organs are more liable to become dis- dren far away from Nature. Nature is ordered than at any other time. The a book, a great library of books, whose child is often fretful and restless ; and if authorship is the Infinite. Our little it escapes being treated for worms half works, our libraries, vast and valuable a dozen times, although innocent of har- as they are, can not be compared with it. boring any such vermin, it is unusually They are poor transcripts at best of the fortunate. Teething is generally held thoughts of half-developed human be- responsible for every disease which oc- ings." curs during the period of cutting the 406 TEETHING teeth. It is probable, however, that the Teething is facilitated by allowing the process of teething is really responsible child to chew dry food, as thin slices of for but a small part of what is charged bread well browned in the oven, so as to it. Lancing the gums is seldom re- to be crisp throughout the entire slice, quired ; the tissue covering the teeth is or granose flakes. This may be given not sufficiently tense to require cutting after the eighth month. A nurse should in order to allow them to protrude. In never try to rub the teeth through with fact, they do not tear their way out, but the finger-nail or thumb, as the result the tissue covering is gradually absorbed. will be inflammation of the gums. Early About the only occasion for lancing the decay of the teeth, or the non-appearance gums is the occurrence of infantile con- of the teeth before the twelfth month, vulsions. Rubbing the teeth with various indicates the probable existence of rick- substances is also a questionable measure. ets. In some cases of this disease, after All the rubbing required will generally the shedding of the temporary teeth, be performed by the child itself with the some of the second teeth fail to ap- finger or thumb. pear. .

A WELL-BALANCED WOMAN HE real woman is the ideal woman," thinks each responsibility a privilege, and T said Mrs. Barber, of Boston, at does not call it a ' burden.' Scandal finds the National Congress of Mothers held at no carrier in her tongue ; there is no place Washington. Her idea of this ideal, real in her heart or mind for the unkind woman is " she whose exterior is in har- thought or word that so easily halts mony with the beautiful things of earth ; another soul on its way ; she has no room her countenance is open and serene ; her for that ugly brood — jealousy, envy, eyes clear ; her voice firm and sweet ; her malice, suspicion, distrust; she has dignity step and movements free and light,; her tempered with graciousness ; courage dress and appointments, however simple, softened by gentleness ; her poised soul decorative, and befitting her station and rests in God's will, and her thought, work ; she radiates health and vigor, and speech, hands, and feet do that will." is good to look upon. After such a description, which might " The real woman's mind is furnished lead us to doubt whether " the real wo- with calm judgment, discretion, decision, man " actually exists on earth, it is a com- imagination, and her soul with love, faith, fort to learn that " every woman has the hope, and a clear consciousness of God. real woman within, and in her individual She moves along the earth carrying help way may realize this ideal." and healing in the sympathy and tender- Among the essentials to this realization, ness which she pours out in unstinted health of mind and health of body are measure; she increases the joy of human- given a prominent place ; for " the health kind by her own joy in living; her clear of each is dependent upon the other, and courage puts strength into the discouraged the clear vision of the soul upon the health soul. She is a light illumining the ways of both. An understanding and apprecia- of her going. tion of this interdependence of soul, mind, " She meets adversity with courage and and body makes a firm foundation for the cheerfulness, and adjusts herself to it; she evolving of the highest human ideals. A WELL-BALANCED WOMAN 407

" Who stops to think what he owes his ual and intellectual development may be ; body ? And yet there is no thought or and an unhealthy, morbid, or irritable feeling of which one may become con- mental state will produce unhealthy phys- scious without it. Unto the least expres- ical conditions. A pain in one small nerve sion of self upon earth are we dependent will often make one's mental outlook upon it, and yet we abuse, distort, and lugubrious and cheerless ; a hurt to one's degrade this soul-house ; its rights we are self-love, or a disappointment, will so indifferent to; its laws we disobey; its re- disturb the nervous system as to cause bellions we quell with drugs that stunt bodily pain. Fear or anger will stop the and weaken. If nature did not always processes of digestion, just as surely as make for truth and perfection, we should food at an unseasonable hour, or an im- long ago have become a mentally irrespon- perfe-ct circulation from any physical sible and physically misshapen people. cause." But at each new birth she struggles back The cause of much of the dissipation of to her own ideal, thus constantly righting woman's nerve force, Mrs. Barber thinks the wrongs we as persistently commit, and to be " the living in the three tertes — saving us from ourselves. past, present, and future. If she could " If women would give their bodies a realize that from the past she gathered little loving care and attention,— not what there was for her as she went simply in the matter of eating and clothing through, and that the future will be deter- (that is already overdone), but in the ob- mined by her present thought and action, servance of natural laws ; seek to under- now would be her watchword." stand and develop them as their structure Child study is stated to be an important shows was the intent,— the response in part of every woman's education, whether health and happiness would be incalcula- she be a mother in the specific sense or ble. Lack of time is usually pleaded for not. " Such study will enable her better inattention to the care of the body. We to understand herself ; will help her to have, however, time for everything else — adjust her relations to others ; will give her while the instrument through which we do a wider horizon, deeper sympathies, more all these other things ' goes a begging.' gentleness and toleration ; in short, will " An unhealthy body gives unhealthy be a potent factor in developing the real mind pictures, however superior the spirit- woman,— which is the mother."

Stomach Capacity of the Infant. less than six teaspoonfuls at a meal. If It is proverbial that a hand-fed baby only the exact amount is put in the bottle always has a large abdomen, which for each feeding, there can be no danger means that some organ is overstretched, of overfeeding ; for when the food is all either by too large meals or by foul gases gone, the bottle can be removed. The generated from spoiled food in the ali- baby should never be allowed to suck the mentary canal. empty bottle or anything else after a meal. This leads us to consider how large a baby's stomach is. By actual measurement it has been found that at birth the ONE who has proved it by experience human stomach will , hold from six to says : " The bedclothes can be kept upon eight teaspoonfuls. The capacity de- a very restless child by sewing tapes to pends somewhat upon the size of the the first blanket and tying them to con- child ; small, pren-iature children needing venient parts of the crib." A NATURAL FOOD MENU

BY LUCY M. WINEGAR Cream Tomato Soup Bread Crisps Roast Protose — Bechamel Sauce Potato Cones Spinach in Croustades Creamed Asparagus Strawberry Salad Marguerites Bread Almond Butter Emerald Pudding — Whipped Cream Health Cocoa

Cream Tomato Soup.—This is whole- fine, and serve in toast prepared as fol- some and nutritious. One quart of lows : Select nice slices of white bread, strained tomato, one and a half pints co- and cut out the center; dry thoroughly, coanul cream. Strain the tomato into a and toast, and serve spinach in the double boiler, and heat ; bring the cream center. to the boiling point, and mix with the Strawberry Salad.—Select firm berries tomato; add one-half teaspoonful of salt. and pile on crisp lettuce leaves. Thin Cocoanut cream is preferable to dairy mayonnaise dressing with whipped cream cream, because it will not curdle. and pour over the berries. Serve ice Roast Protose.—Take one pound of cold. protose just from the can, cut through Marguerites.— One cupful flour, one- the center, lay the flat sides down in a half teaspoonful of salt, one cupful co- baking dish, and spread the top with coanut butter. Mix well together, add cocoanut butter. Grate a little onion half of an egg (after beating), and mix over it, and sprinkle lightly with salt. well. Roll out very thin and cut into Cover with a quart of boiling water. strips one and a half inches wide and Bake for one hour, slice, and serve with four inches long. Perforate with a fork, sauce. and bake slowly a nice brown. When Bechamel Sauce.— One-third cupful cold cover with the following: To the butter, one tablespoonful flour. Mix, and whites of two eggs well beaten add three- brown. Add one pint protose broth, let fourths cupful powdered sugar and two thicken, and serve. Cocoanut butter may tablespoonfuls of chopped nuts. Spread be used. on the wafers and brown lightly. Potato Cones.— Mold one quart of Emerald Pudding.— Take one-half well-seasoned mashed potatoes in tea- ounce vegetable gelatin, and after soak- cups ; turn out, and sprinkle with crumbs ing in hot water for twenty minutes, boil and a little cream. Brown in the oven it for five minutes and strain through from twenty-five to thirty minutes. cheese-cloth. Then add four cupfuls of Spinach in Croustades.—Wash thor- pineapple or lemon juice, two cupfuls of oughly one peck of spinach. Cook in as sugar, and one teaspoonful of crushed little water as possible for twenty min- spinach (or fresh spinach tied in a thick utes, remove from the fire, drain, salt, cloth and allowed to stand in the juice and add one tablespoonful of olive or for a while), to give it a green color. nut oil, four hard-boiled eggs, and three Pour into cups wet in cold water, and tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Chop when it begins to cool add pecan meats.

408 STIMULANTS

BY A. J. HOENES, M. D., Friedensau Sanitarium, Germany.

HE word " stimulant " has long meals ; he may believe that it aids his T been applied to such articles as digestion, and for a long time he may alcohol, tobacco, tea and coffee, flesh feel no evil effects from it. But after meats, spices, and the like. Enthusiastic many years he may be compelled to hear reformers have written much against the the physician's verdict : " You have a use of stimulants, until many people have tobacco heart. You are suffering from come to believe that stimulants are chronic nicotin poisoning." The elderly always harmful, and in every case to gentleman may drink his grog daily, be- be avoided. lieving it a necessary stimulant, but in If we give this word a wider applica- the end " it biteth like a serpent and tion, we can classify stimulants into stingeth like an adder." So also with the harmful, and wholesome or beneficial use of tea and coffee, cocoa, vinegar, ones. Stimulants are as necessary to the pepper, peppersauce, and the continued human body as food itself, and natural, use of large quantities of meat. They wholesome stimulants will do as much may seem to agree well for a long time, good as artificial stimulants may do harm. but by overstimulating the digestive It is sometimes difficult to draw the mucous membrane and the reflex nerv- line between these two classes. Some ous mechanism, they will gradually hold that onions, horseradish, cinnamon, weaken their action, and cause conges- nutmeg, lemon peel, even sage, celery, tion, irritation, and inflammation. and table salt, should not be used, on ac- All natural foods contain certain stim- count of their stimulating effects. Others ulating or seasoning elements. Fruits go so far as to allow a little pepper, contain their characteristic acids,— cloves, mustard, ginger, even some tea malic, citric, tartaric, oxalic, benzoic, and and coffee, etc. One person prefers this, gallic, and salts,— besides certain aro- and another that, flavor in food ; and, matic, volatile flavors which must be as a rule, that food which is pleasant to looked upon as stimulants, or force regu- the smell and taste is also the most de- lators, rather than foods or force pro- sirable for us. Pawlow, the Russian ducers. Grains, nuts, and vegetables con- physiologist, has shown that the food tain certain inorganic salts and essential which has an agreeable taste and smell oils which give them their characteristic stimulates the flow of gastric juice, as taste and smell, stimulating the appetite, well as the saliva, and is rapidly digested ; and the flow of the digestive juices in the while tasteless food, no matter how nu- mouth and also in the stomach. Foods tritious, does not stimulate the gastric should be eaten raw, or prepared in such mucous membrane, and is digested very a way as to retain their natural flavors slowly. as much as possible, and then, if desir- Yet the flavors which we like are not able, a little of some harmless seasoning always healthful. The fact that a stim- may be added. I believe, as Professor ulant agrees with us at the time, is not Schweninger has shown, that the same always a sure test of its usefulness. A stimulant should not be used day after young man may enjoy his cigar after day continually ; for in time the nerves

409 410 STIMULANTS become less sensitive to it; they fail at the present day deprives the body of to react ; and larger quantities must be the very valuable stimulant of a natural used to secure the desired effect, and this life. This must sometimes be artificially larger quantity may be harmful. This is applied by massage, muscle beating, and the danger even with salt. Sheep and manual and mechanical Swedish move- cattle are salted once a month with bene- ments. The irritation of the soles of the fit, but the daily administration of salt feet by walking barefoot is not accidental, in food would probably result in injury. but essential. The impulse is conducted It is particularly the external stimu- up the limbs, by the centripetal nerves, lants — air, water, sunlight, heat, ex- to the lower spine, which is usually a ercise, mechanical stimulation of the sur- weak spot in the human body, thence to face of the body — of which civilized man the pelvis, bowels, and stomach, and acts is deprived. Recognizing the want of as a tonic to the relaxed and torpid stimulation, and not knowing how to tissues. supply it, he resorts to artificial stimu- The writer often advises running and lants, which give him temporary relief. jumping on a straw mat in the room A better nerve tonic than a cup of the when walking barefoot out of doors is best breakfast coffee is a cool rub in the impracticable. morning. Its effect is more lasting, and It is a well-known fact that the sav- devoid of the evil after-results of the age tribes in our colonies are not, as former. A brisk walk after leaving the a rule, accustomed to use artificial stimu- office in the evening, or after sewing or lants to excess. They find stimulation studying all day, is worth more than the enough in their natural life. It is not until customary cup of tea, for it will not pro- the civilized traders introduce these perni- duce insomnia, nor leave you with a shat- cious substances to the natives, and they tered nervous system after a number of adopt the customs of the foreign in- years. It is sunlight which makes plants vaders, that they gradually yield to the ex- grow ; and it is as reasonable to expect cessive use of unnatural stimulants. to obtain the same result by sprinkling The best way to banish the evil and un- them with tobacco juice as to 'use this natural things in our lives is to intro- substitute for sunlight in your own case. duce the good, the health-giving, the in- The artificial life lived by most people vigorating, and return to nature.

Open-Air Exercise for Children. person, but it is easily possible for a Nothing is more important for a young young child to be exposed in such a child than an opportunity for daily ex- manner as to produce congestion of the ercise in the open air. After the first lungs, and serious, perhaps fatal, injury two weeks, the young infant should be from bronchitis or pneumonia, as the taken out of doors for several hours daily, result of injudicious exposure. Daily during the summer season, and for an open-air exercise is the best of all means hour or two even in the winter season, of developing constitutional resistance except in the very coldest weather. It against catarrh and consumption, and the should, of course, be properly protected, various maladies which find their begin- to avoid chilling or too great exposure ning in taking cold. Children who en- to cold. The tonic effect of cold air is joy this advantage are seldom subject to as healthful to an infant as to a grown colds, as are other children. Their ruddy OPEN-AIR EXERCISE FOR CHILDREN 411 cheeks, bright eyes, and red lips are an This he explains by the fact that diph- indication of their superior vigor and theria and scarlet fever are not so con- vitality ; while the pale faces, lusterless tagious during the early stages, but eyes, and lifeless manner of the hot-house measles is highly contagious from the children who form so large a proportion "start. He recommends the closing of of the little ones born and reared in cities, the schoolroom at once when measles is indicate the opposite conditions. prevalent. Too much coddling and continuous indoor life have killed more children Weaning. than the opposite course ; nevertheless, the so-called " hardening " of children Under this head it is important to call by subjecting them to unreasonable and attention to the following points : — possibly damaging exposure, is not to i. The proper time for weaning a be recommended. healthy infant is at about one year of age. Very weakly children sometimes require longer nursing. The custom Measles and Education. practised by some women of prolonging the nursing period to two years or more An English physician, Dr. Mackenzie, is injurious to both mother and child. has recently brought a strong indictment 2. As a rule, children should not be against the practise of sending children weaned in hot weather, for slight changes to school before the age of six years. In in diet are often sufficient to produce se- Switzerland, one of the best 'educated rious disturbances at this season of the countries, the lowest school age is seven. year. Not only does too early pressure stunt 3. Weaning should be avoided when their mental and physical development, the child is cutting teeth. but their attendance at school exposes them to attacks of measles just at the ages at which this disease proves most fatal. If all children under six were ex- A Naturalist's Prescription. cluded from school, and healthy children A writer in the Outlook, who gives kept away from sick households, measles his personal impressions of John Muir, would soon become the least dangerous says that " his cure for every ill is to of infectious diseases, instead of, as now, ' go up a canon,' and perhaps he is right responsible for the death of as many chil- in the larger sense that the country is to dren as smallpox, diphtheria, and gastric be looked to as the only hope for the fever put together. half-life, the stifling existence, of our Dr. Mackenzie's statements are in crowded cities." accord with facts just discovered by a Mr. Muir evidently knows by experi- German medical school inspector who ence that — has studied the statistics of the four larg- health and virtue, gifts est cities of Germany in order to learn That can alone make sweet the bitter draft whether infectious diseases are more or That life holds out to all, do most abound less prevalent during the school vaca- And least are threatened in the fields and groves." tions. He finds that the vacations have no effect on the prevalence of diphtheria or scarlet fever, but that measles drop " Do not apply adult standards of mor- abruptly as soon as the schools close. ality to little children." A SIMPLE HOME PICTURE

BY ADA COX WO or three summers ago I went weather,— everything was well kept, and T to visit an old college friend of my good to look upon. The house among the mother's, and the impressions received trees was a plain frame one, but was well there were so lasting and inspiring that I painted, with glistening windows, neat, have ever since had a desire to tell what substantial chimneys, and roomy porches. I saw and learned during a stay of one We left the carriage at the side entrance, night and less than one day at the home and walked over a well-kept stretch of of simple-lived, plain, country folks. I lawn, and entered at a side door open- should feel that something had been done ing into the dining-room. if it could infuse new courage into a I wish I could make you see this din- sometimes half-discouraged soul as it did ing-room as it looked to me after a tire- inspiration and incentive to effort in the some, dusty ride. It was a long room with humblest ways, into mine,— a new deter- windows and a glass door opening on to mination to foster and stimulate to growth porches at either side ; it was so large that the one talent which God has given thirty or more persons could have been nearly every woman,— the ability to make seated at table and served most comfort- herself and her home attractive. ably. A large pantry opened off it, and It was August, and proverbially warm the open door nearly obscured the shelv- and dusty ; and at the end of my little ing, and showed only one end and a journey I was set down in what seemed, part of one side, which was entirely en- and probably was, the middle of a farm. closed in glass, and as potted ferns stood There was no highway, no farm buildings, on a low shelf running around beneath only an empty little station-house, and the sashes, the place had the, effect of a two steel rails, and poles and wires and little conservatory. The appointments fields. Before long, a comfortable-look- and arrangement were simple and good, ing, clean top buggy, drawn by a big, but it was the little touches that gave the handsome, well-groomed bay, came down charm. The table in the center was the lane, and the driver was none other daintily laid for three, with what seemed than my hostess, a large, pleasant-faced the snowiest and smoothest linen in the woman well into her sixties, in the spot- land. In just the right position on the less, wrinkleless, but unmistakable attire sideboard was a small, thrifty umbrella of the farmer's wife. It was quite a drive plant, and just far enough from that was up and down the hills before we reached one of those pretty, old-fashioned china her home, on what seemed to me rather fruit baskets made to imitate willow a lonely road. We occasionally see large, work, heaped with beautiful green apples well-painted barns, beautiful grounds, with crimson stripes. The carpet had and fine modern houses as the home and probably been passed on from the parlors, surrounding of the unusually successful for it was red and green and white in farmer, but here there was only one barn old-fashioned blockwork, always so clean of any size, and that unpainted and un- and cheerful looking. The room was so pretentious ; but the yard about it, the large that there was space for other pur- fence and outbuildings, were tidy ; there poses than that of meal serving, and in a were no old boxes or barrels, or littering darker corner was a wide lounge with of straw ; no farming tools out to the fresh-looking pillows, and near by, at a

412 WHAT CHILDREN HAVE DONE IN EMERGENCIES 401 believe she is dead," cried the young teacher, hysterically. " It is only a faint," said a thirteen- year-old g i r 1, stepping forward and taking the " pil- 1 o w " from under the girl's head. "Raise t h e windows, please," she said COMPRESSING MAIN ARTERY OF THE ARM. quietly, " and all 6. of you stand -ARTERIES OFTHE FINGER. COMPRESSING back, to give her -ARTERIES OF TItE WRIST. air. Put a book under the f oot of the bench, John," she added as she loosened t h e girl's clothes and bared her neck. Presently the color began to come back into her face, and there was a heaving of t h e chest that COMPRESSING THE ARTERY brought a sigh OF TNE ARM IN THE NECK,. of relief to the COMPRESSING frightened MAIN ARTERY OF THE LEG watchers. "Why did you lower her head ? " asked one of the older girls, flow of blood to the brain, but fainting who had helped " pillow " her up. I am is caused by a lack of blood in the same sure that the doctor raised brother organ." Louis's head as high as he could get it " How can you tell them apart ? " asked when he had sunstroke last summer." the first speaker. " I would not know " Of course," admitted the younger when to raise or to lower the head." girl. " Sunstroke is caused by an over- " You see how pale Anna is, and —" 402 WHAT CHILDREN HAVE DONE IN EMERGENCIES

" Louis's face was fiery red," inter- word of complaint, and she smiled when rupted the questioner. " It is all plain she said, Please don't tell de mudder, enough now." doctor ; she be so scared if she know about Some years ago, in a prairie home, Willie.' " far from doctors and drug-stores, a little A little chap accustomed to making a child drank a quantity of lye. No one, pincushion of his mouth, swallowed a from grandmother down, knew what to small fish-hook. It was five miles to the do in the emergency, until a little Ger- nearest doctor, and the mother, terribly man neighbor remembered that mother frightened, was going to give him an gave Johan " winegar " when he swal- emetic. A young niece from the city, not lowed lye, and that it cured him. It yet out of short dresses, protested against cured the prairie baby, too, so that hours this remedy. " Give him a bowl of oat- later, when the doctor came, there was meal, without milk, instead, and then let nothing for him to do bitt to recommend him have all the bread and butter he can a little of that same vinegar for the eye eat on top of that," she said, and for of the boy that was smarting with white- once Jack had more tempting food offered wash. him than he was able to dispose of. The " Observing little girl," said the doctor. hook gave him no trouble whatever, and " She is the same child who saved her the doctor's regard for city girls rose sev- brother's life when he drank an ounce eral degrees after hearing how this girl of laudanum. I had left it for the mother, had saved his patient from the dangerous and when Gretchen saw what the child experiment to which his mother was had done, she got out her list of antidotes, about to subject him. and finding strong coffee the proper " Common sense ought to teach people remedy for opium poison, she began to fight shy of emetics, cathartics, or a dosing him with it, and fighting against too liberal supply of fluids for twenty- the sleep that seemed determined to four hours after anything sharp, ragged, claim him. And she had the battle to or pointed is swallowed," he said. " The fight alone, poor child, for I did not get great trouble is, they lose their heads in there till the next day, after all the danger emergencies, at the very time they most was over. The girl had not slept a wink need them. And things will never be during the night. She looked pale, and any better until children are trained from there were dark circles under her eyes, their babyhood to act, instead of scream, showing exhaustion, but there was not a in times of unexpected danger."

MOLDING THE CLAY

" WITHIN their tiny hands my children hold "To-day, within my hands my children lie; A ball of yielding clay, I shape them as I will, And, as they try some dainty form to mold, And seek for aid from Him that is on high, I hear them softly say, That he may with his skill What shall we make? an apple, or a vase? Teach my weak, willing hands to rightly mold Some marbles, or a fan?' The clay that I have sought, One little boy, a smile upon his face, That in true forms of beauty may unfold Says, ' I shall make a man.' The Maker's highest thought." A DIET OF WORMS HEN Luther was about to face the the Biblical injunction, and we know that W memorable Diet of Worms, an John the Baptist is recorded as having old and valiant soldier remarked that lived for some considerable time upon more courage was required for that or- ' locusts and wild honey.' deal than he or any other captain needed " There are, of course, many ways of in his bloodiest battles. To the uniniti- preparing them. They can be fried after ated, a modern " diet of worms," at the their legs and wings have been plucked table of a rich London epicure, where, off, which was, as a matter of fact, the according to Pearson's Weekly, a typical process adopted in this particular in- insect menu was recently served, would, stance, or they may be powdered and we think, prove almost as great an ordeal. baked into cakes, or curried or boiled, Such a menu would call forth as vigorous turning red, like lobsters, in the process. a protest as that of Peter when told to " The wood-louse sauce, if properly slay and eat all manner of creeping made with fresh butter, flour, milk, pep- things. Yet we see no reason why " cat- per and salt, will be found fully equal to erpillar soup," for instance, is any more shrimp, which it much resembles in taste. objectionable than turtle soup, which it Indeed, the wood-louse, although he lives is said to resemble in flavor; or why on land, is first cousin to that much- " deviled wireworms " are not as good as relished crustacean. anchovies treated in similar fashion. The " Cockchafers, curried or otherwise, following menu, with comments as to the are delicious if selected of a serviceable merits of the various diOles, we reprint size and plumpness. So, too, are their from a contemporary : — grubs when full grown. They should then be at least two inches in length and " Green Caterpillar Soup fat in proportion, and may be eaten un- Fried Locusts with Wood-Louse Sauce cooked, like oysters, or stewed in milk. Curried Cockchafers " Perhaps, however, the most tooth- Wasp Grubs Baked in the Comb Stag Beetle Larvae on Toast some of all insect delicacies is that which Moths Baked in Batter comes forth on our menu of the day,' Deviled Wireworms wasp grubs, baked in the comb. These Grasshoppers au Gratin grubs have been fed by their parents on a saccharin fluid composed of fruit and " The green caterpillars that compose vegetable juices, and are simply tiny the soup feed entirely upon vegetables, balls of sugary fat possessing a flavor and mostly upon particular vegetables as exquisite as it is unique. No one who most relished by man, such as cabbage has once tasted them will ever again be and lettuce. surprised at the preference shown by " In appearance the soup itself is not fish for this particular grub when used unlike clear turtle, while its flavor is as a bait. delicious. " The stag beetle larva is, of course, " The locusts, which constitute the sec- identical with the cossus, which the old ond course, have, as every one is aware, Roman epicures used to fatten for their been esteemed by gormands the world table upon flour and wine. The sixth over and from the remotest antiquity. course should be served steaming hot, Eat ye the locust after his kind,' is since there is no more appetizing odor

403 404 A DIET OF 'WORMS than That emanating from a baked moth. form of paste, spread upon sippets of " Deviled wireworms are eaten in the toast, and taste not unlike anchovies."

THE WONDROUS GIFT Ax, what a wondrous gift of God Dear Mother, when you see your babe Our human bodies are; Play with his tiny hands, Still serving us from day to day, As though just learning they were his, Both in our work and in our play, Remember, here a lesson is Without a break or jar! For one who understands. 0, help him as his body grows, To feel it is God-given ; So that in all earth's happy ways, Through peaceful nights and busy days, His life may forecast Heaven! — Transcription from Froebel.

Infantile Convulsions. tion. The application of fomentations This is one of the most alarming of the to the head is also useful in these cases. diseases of infancy, but is not often fatal. The treatment should be prompt and en- ergetic. Plunge the child as quickly as How Children Become Infected with possible into a hot bath, pouring cool Tuberculosis. water upon the head and chest. When In a recent breach-of-promise case, the convulsion is the result of indiges- the defendant claimed exemption from tion, the child should be made to vomit, damages on the ground that after the if possible, by drinking warm water, or promise was made, the plaintiff was half a glass of water into which a tea- found to be afflicted with tuberculosis. spoonful of mustard or powdered alum The court held that if tuberculosis is in- has been stirred. When constipation and fectious and transmissible to offspring, it flatulence are the cause, give an enema is against public policy that one suffering of soap-suds. When the fontanel is from it should be married. The State prominent or bulging, the cold applica- must be cruel to the individual in order tions to the head should be very vigor- to protect the majority. ous; ice may be used. When there is With regard to the transmissibility of considerable fever, cool sponging of the tuberculosis to offspring, Dr. Knopf, the body should be employed, together with great authority on tuberculosis, considers cold injections into the bowels. When that the popular notion is absolutely the fontanel is depressed, showing lack erroneous, and that the child is infected of blood in the brain, the convulsion may by its consumptive parent after birth. sometimes be relieved by inverting the The most common modes of infection child ; that is, turning its head downward. during early childhood are the follow- This is often recommended indiscrimi- ing ; The consumptive mother kisses the nately for convulsions, which is a grave child on the mouth ; she prepares the error, as it might produce a fatal result food, tasting it with the same spoon in convulsions brought on by conges- or through the same rubber nipple the HOW CHILDREN BECOME INFECTED WITH TUBERCULOSIS 405 child uses ; or when the child begins to Care of the Ears. play on the floor, he is liable to inhale the Few ailments are more common among bacilli floating in the dust, the full de- children than earache. The foundation of velopment of which may take place only chronic deafness is often laid in early in later years. As the child touches childhood. Most mothers are uncon- everything around it, the fingers become scious of the fact that they themselves are thoroughly infected; they are put into responsible for causing much suffering the mouth, and the child acquires tuber- to their children from attacks of this pain- culosis by ingestion, which gradually ful malady. In her anxiety that her develops into consumption of the bowels. children's ears shall be perfectly clean, Tuberculosis of the skin may result from the mother endeavors to remove every the scratch of an infected finger-nail. particle of ear-wax from the inner por- Although consumption is not hered- tion of the ear by boring it out with a itary, a predisposition may be, and such hairpin, with some other sharp instru- a condition should be overcome by judi- ment covered with a towel, or with the cious training, proper food, plenty of out- corner of the towel twisted to a point, door exercise, and the avoidance of all when really this portion of the ear re- excesses. quires no attention. Nature takes care of it in the most admirable manner. The Teach the Children to Love Nature. membrane lining the canal of the ear contains a great number of little glands, Dr. M. L. Holbrook gives the follow- which secrete a waxy substance having ing excellent advice as to the education an intensely bitter taste. The purpose of children : " So far as possible, a love of this is to prevent the entrance of in- of Nature should be early and continu- sects and to keep the ear clean. The ally inculcated. Nature is, in a physical layer of wax dries in scales, which rapidly sense, the father and mother of us all, fall away, thus removing with them every and a child that grows up to maturity particle of dust or other foreign matters with a genuine love of rocks and trees, which may have found entrance into the flowers and insects, animals and plants, ear. Nothing more irritating than a few storms and sunshine, cold and heat, fresh drops of olive-oil, warmed to a temper- air or the ocean wave, of every varying ature a little above blood heat, should landscape and mood of Nature and all the be placed in the ear. activities around us, stands not only a better chance of possessing a healthy nervous system, but of maintaining it during Teething. life, than if the opposite has been the case. During this troublesome period, chil- I am not at all in sympathy with any dren require special care, as the digestive system of education which takes chil- organs are more liable to become dis- dren far away from Nature. Nature is ordered than at any other time. The a book, a great library of books, whose child is often fretful and restless; and if authorship is the Infinite. Our little it escapes being treated for worms half works, our libraries, vast and valuable a dozen times, although innocent of har- as they are, can not be compared with it. boring any such vermin, it is unusually They are poor transcripts at best of the fortunate. Teething is generally held thoughts of half-developed human be- responsible for every disease which oc- ings." curs during the period of cutting the 406 TEETHING teeth. It is probable, however, that the Teething is facilitated by allowing the process of teething is really responsible child to chew dry food, as thin slices of for but a small part of what is charged bread well browned in the oven, so as to it. Lancing the gums is seldom re- to be crisp throughout the entire slice, quired; the tissue covering the teeth is or granose flakes. This may be given not sufficiently tense to require cutting after the eighth month. A nurse should in order to allow them to protrude. In never try to rub the teeth through with fact, they do not tear their way out, but the finger-nail or thumb, as the result the tissue covering is gradually absorbed. will be inflammation of the gums. Early About the only occasion for lancing the decay of the teeth, or the non-appearance gums is the occurrence of infantile con- of the teeth before the twelfth month, vulsions. Rubbing the teeth with various indicates the probable existence of rick- substances is also a questionable measure. ets. In some cases of this disease, after All the rubbing required will generally the shedding of the temporary teeth, be performed by the child itself with the some of the second teeth fail to ap- finger or thumb. pear. .

A WELL-BALANCED WOMAN HE real woman is the ideal woman," thinks each responsibility a privilege, and T said Mrs. Barber, of Boston, at does not call it a ' burden.' Scandal finds the National Congress of Mothers held at no carrier in her tongue ; there is no place Washington. Her idea of this ideal, real in her heart or mind for the unkind woman is " she whose exterior is in har- thought or word that so easily halts mony with the beautiful things of earth ; another soul on its way ; she has no room her countenance is open and serene ; her for that ugly brood — jealousy, envy, eyes clear ; her voice firm and sweet ; her malice, suspicion, distrust ; she has dignity step and movements free and light,, her tempered with graciousness; courage dress and appointments, however simple, softened by gentleness ; her poised soul decorative, and befitting her station and rests in God's will, and her thought, work ; she radiates health and vigor, and speech, hands, and feet do that will." is good to look upon. After such a description, which might " The real woman's mind is furnished lead us to doubt whether " the real wo- with calm judgment, discretion, decision, man " actually exists on earth, it is a com- imagination, and her soul with love, faith, fort to learn that " every woman has the hope, and a clear consciousness of God. real woman within, and in her individual She moves along the earth carrying help way may realize this ideal." and healing in the sympathy and tender- Among the essentials to this realization, ness which she pours out in unstinted health of mind and health of body are measure; she increases the joy of human- given a prominent place; for "the health kind by her own joy in living; her clear of each is dependent upon the ether, and courage puts strength into the discouraged the clear vision of the soul upon the health soul. She is a light illumining the ways of both. An understanding and apprecia- of her going. tion of this interdependence of soul, mind, " She meets adversity with courage and and body makes a firm foundation for the cheerfulness, and adjusts herself to it; she . evolving of the highest human ideals. A WELL-BALANCED WOMAN 407

" Who stops to think what he owes his ual and intellectual development may be ; body ? And yet there is no thought or and an unhealthy, morbid, or irritable feeling of which one may become con- mental state will produce unhealthy phys- scious without it. Unto the least expres- ical conditions. A pain in one small nerve sion of self upon earth are we dependent will often make one's mental outlook upon it, and yet we abuse, distort, and lugubrious and cheerless ; a hurt to one's degrade this soul-house; its rights we are self-love, or a disappointment, will so indifferent to ; its laws we disobey ; its re- disturb the nervous system as to cause bellions we quell with drugs that stunt bodily pain. Fear or anger will stop the and weaken. If nature did not always processes of digestion, just as surely as make for truth and perfection, we should food at an unseasonable hour, or an im- long ago have become a mentally irrespon- perfeCt circulation from any physical sible and physically misshapen people. cause." But at each new birth she struggles back The cause of much of the dissipation of to her own ideal, thus constantly righting woman's nerve force, Mrs. Barber thinks the wrongs we as persistently commit, and to be " the living in the three ten es — saving us from ourselves. past, present, and future. If she could " If women would give their bodies a realize that from the past she gathered little loving care and attention,— not what there was for her as she went simply in the matter of eating and clothing through, and that the future will be deter- (that is already overdone), but in the ob- mined by her present thought and action, servance of natural laws ; seek to under- now would be her watchword." stand and develop them as their structure Child study is stated to be an important shows was the intent,— the response in part of every woman's education, whether health and happiness would be incalcula- she be a mother in the specific sense or ble. Lack of time is usually pleaded for not. " Such study will enable her better inattention to the care of the body. We to understand herself ; will help her to have, however, time for everything else — adjust her relations to others ; will give her while the instrument through which we do a wider horizon, deeper sympathies, more all these other things goes a begging.' gentleness and toleration ; in short, will " An unhealthy body gives unhealthy be a potent factor in developing the real mind pictures, however superior the spirit- woman,— which is the mother."

Stomach Capacity of the Infant. less than six teaspoonfuls at a meal. If It is proverbial that a hand-fed baby only the exact amount is put in the bottle always has a large abdomen, which for each feeding, there can be no danger means that some organ is overstretched, of overfeeding; for when the food is all either by too large meals or by foul gases gone, the bottle can be removed. The generated from spoiled food in the ali- baby should never be allowed to suck the mentary canal. empty bottle or anything else after a meal. This leads us to consider how large a baby's stomach is. By actual measurement it has been found that at birth the ONE who has proved it by experience human stomach will hold from six to says : " The bedclothes can be kept upon eight teaspoonfuls. The capacity de- a very restless child by sewing tapes to pends somewhat upon the size of the the first blanket and tying them to con- child ; small, preniature children needing venient parts of the crib." A NATURAL FOOD MENU

BY LUCY M. WINEGAR

Cream Tomato Soup Bread Crisps Roast Protose — Bechamel Sauce Potato Cones Spinach in Croustades Creamed Asparagus Strawberry Salad Marguerites Bread Almond Butter Emerald Pudding — Whipped Cream Health Cocoa

Cream Tomato Soup.—This is whole- fine, and serve in toast prepared as fol- some and nutritious. One quart of lows : Select nice slices of white bread, strained tomato, one and a half pints co- and cut out the center; dry thoroughly, coanut cream. Strain the tomato into a and toast, and serve spinach in the double boiler, and heat ; bring the cream center. to the boiling point, and mix with the Strawberry Salad.—Select firm berries tomato ; add one-half teaspoonful of salt. and pile on crisp lettuce leaves. Thin Cocoanut cream is preferable to dairy mayonnaise dressing with whipped cream cream, because it will not curdle. and pour over the berries. Serve ice Roast Protose.—Take one pound of cold. protose just from the can, cut through Marguerites.— One cupful flour, one- the center, lay the flat sides down in a half teaspoonful of salt, one cupful co- baking dish, and spread the top with coanut butter. Mix well together, add cocoanut butter. Grate a little onion half of an egg (after beating), and mix over it, and sprinkle lightly with salt. well. Roll out very thin and cut into Cover with a quart of boiling water. strips one and a half inches wide and Bake for one hour, slice, and serve with four inches long. Perforate with a fork, sauce. and bake slowly a nice brown. When Bechamel Sauce.— One-third cupful cold cover with the following: To the butter, one tablespoonful flour. Mix, and whites of two eggs well beaten add three- brown. Add one pint protose broth, let fourths cupful powdered sugar and two thicken, and serve. Cocoanut butter may tablespoonfuls of chopped nuts. Spread be used. on the wafers and brown lightly. Potato Cones.— Mold one quart of Emerald Pudding.— Take one-half well-seasoned mashed potatoes in tea- ounce vegetable gelatin, and after soak- cups ; turn out, and sprinkle with crumbs ing in hot water for twenty minutes, boil and a little cream. Brown in the oven it for five minutes and strain through from twenty-five to thirty minutes. cheese-cloth. Then add four cupfuls of Spinach in Croustades.—Wash thor- pineapple or lemon juice, two cupfuls of oughly one peck of spinach. Cook in as sugar, and one teaspoonful of crushed little water as possible for twenty min- spinach (or fresh spinach tied in a thick utes, remove from the fire, drain, salt, cloth and allowed to stand in the juice and add one tablespoonful of olive or for a while), to give it a green color. nut oil, four hard-boiled eggs, and three Pour into cups wet in cold water, and tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Chop when it begins to cool add pecan meats.

408 STIMULANTS

BY A. J. HOENES, M. D., Friedensau Sanitarium, Germany.

409 410 STIMULANTS become less sensitive to it ; they fail at the present day deprives the body of to react ; and larger quantities must be the very valuable stimulant of a natural used to secure the desired effect, and this life. This must sometimes be artificially larger quantity may be harmful. This is applied by massage, muscle beating, and the danger even with salt. Sheep and manual and mechanical Swedish move- cattle are salted once a month with bene- ments. The irritation of the soles of the fit, but the daily administration of salt feet by walking barefoot is not accidental, in food would probably result in injury. but essential. The impulse is conducted It is particularly the external stimu- up the limbs, by the centripetal nerves, lants — air, water, sunlight, heat, ex- to the lower spine, which is usually a ercise, mechanical stimulation of the sur- weak spot in the human body, thence to face of the body — of which civilized man the pelvis, bowels, and stomach, and acts is deprived. Recognizing the want of as a tonic to the relaxed and torpid stimulation, and not knowing how to tissues. supply it, he resorts to artificial stimu- The writer often advises running and lants, which give him temporary relief. jumping on a straw mat in the room A better nerve tonic than a cup of the when walking barefoot out of doors is best breakfast coffee is a cool rub in the impracticable. morning. Its effect is more lasting, and It is a well-known fact that the sav- devoid of the evil after-results of the age tribes in our colonies are not, as former. A brisk walk after leaving the a rule, accustomed to use artificial stimu- office in the evening, or after sewing or lants to excess. They find stimulation studying all day, is worth more than the enough in their natural life. It is not until customary cup of tea, for it will not pro- the civilized traders introduce these perni- duce insomnia, nor leave you with a shat- cious substances to the natives, and they tered nervous system after a number of adopt the customs of the foreign in- years. It is sunlight which makes plants vaders, that they gradually yield to the ex- grow ; and it is as reasonable to expect cessive use of unnatural stimulants. to obtain the same result by sprinkling The best way to banish the evil and un- them with tobacco juice as to use this natural things in our lives is to intro- substitute for sunlight in your own case. duce the good, the health-giving, the in- The artificial life lived by most people vigorating, and return to nature.

Open-Air Exercise for Children. person, but it is easily possible for a Nothing is more important for a young young child to be exposed in such a child than an opportunity for daily ex- manner as to produce congestion of the ercise in the open air. After the first lungs, and serious, perhaps fatal, injury two weeks, the young infant should be from bronchitis or pneumonia, as the taken out of doors for several hours daily, result of injudicious exposure. Daily during the summer season, and for an open-air exercise is the best of all means hour or two even in the winter season, of developing constitutional resistance except in the very coldest weather. It against catarrh and consumption, and the should, of course, be properly protected, various maladies which find their begin- to avoid chilling or too great exposure ning in taking cold. Children who en- to cold. The tonic effect of cold air is joy this advantage are seldom subject to as healthful to an infant as to a grown colds, as are other children. Their ruddy OPEN-AIR EXERCISE FOR CHILDREN 411 cheeks, bright eyes, and red lips are an This he explains by the fact that diph- indication of their superior vigor and theria and scarlet fever are not so con- vitality ; while the pale faces, lusterless tagious during the early stages, but eyes, and lifeless manner of the hot-house measles is highly contagious from the children who form so large a proportion "start. He recommends the closing of of the little ones born and reared in cities, the schoolroom at once when measles is indicate the opposite conditions. prevalent. Too much coddling and continuous indoor life have killed more children Weaning. than the opposite course ; nevertheless, the so-called " hardening " of children Under this head it is important to call by subjecting them to unreasonable and attention to the following points : — possibly damaging exposure, is not to i. The proper time for weaning a be recommended. healthy infant is at about one year of age. Very weakly children sometimes require longer nursing. The custom practised by some women of prolonging Measles and Education. the nursing period to two years or more An English physician, Dr. Mackenzie, is injurious to both mother and child. has recently brought a strong indictment 2. As a rule, children should not be against the practise of sending children weaned in hot weather, for slight changes to school before the age of six years. In in diet are often sufficient to produce se- Switzerland, one of the best 'educated rious disturbances at this season of the countries, the lowest school age is seven. year. Not only does too early pressure stunt 3. Weaning should be avoided when their mental and physical development, the child is cutting teeth. but their attendance at school exposes them to attacks of measles just at the ages at which this disease proves most fatal. If all children under six were ex- A Naturalist's Prescription. cluded from school, and healthy children A writer in the Outlook, who gives kept away from sick households, measles his personal impressions of John Muir, would soon become the least dangerous says that " his cure for every ill is to of infectious diseases, instead of, as now, ' go up a canon,' and perhaps he is right responsible for the death of as many chil- in the larger sense that the country is to dren as smallpox, diphtheria, and gastric be looked to as the only hope for the fever put together. half-life, the stifling existence, of our Dr. Mackenzie's statements are in crowded cities." accord with facts just discovered by a Mr. Muir evidently knows by experi- German medical school inspector who ence that — has studied the statistics of the four larg- . . . health and virtue, gifts est cities of Germany in order to learn That can alone make sweet the bitter draft whether infectious diseases are more or That life holds out to all, do most abound less prevalent during the school vaca- And least are threatened in the fields and groves." tions. He finds that the vacations have no effect on the prevalence of diphtheria or scarlet fever, but that measles drop " Do not apply adult standards of mor- abruptly as soon as the schools close. ality to little children." A SIMPLE HOME PICTURE

BY ADA COX WO or three summers ago I went weather,— everything was well kept, and T to visit an old college friend of my good to look upon. The house among the mother's, and the impressions received trees was a plain frame one, but was well there were so lasting and inspiring that I painted, with glistening windows, neat, have ever since had a desire to tell what substantial chimneys, and roomy porches. I saw and learned during a stay of one We left the carriage at the side entrance, night and less than one day at the home and walked over a well-kept stretch of of simple-lived, plain, country folks. I lawn, and entered at a side door open- should feel that something had been done ing into the dining-room. if it could infuse new courage into a I wish I could make you see this din- sometimes half-discouraged soul as it did ing-room as it looked to me after a tire- inspiration and incentive to effort in the some, dusty ride. It was a long room with humblest ways, into mine,— a new deter- windows and a glass door opening on to mination to foster and stimulate to growth porches at either side ; it was so large that the one talent which God has given thirty or more persons could have been nearly every woman,— the ability to make seated at table and served most comfort- herself and her home attractive. ably. A large pantry opened off it, and It was August, and proverbially warm the open door nearly obscured the shelv- and dusty ; and at the end of my little ing, and showed only one end and a journey I was set down in what seemed, part of one side, which was entirely en- and probably was, the middle of a farm. closed in glass, and as potted ferns stood There was no highway, no farm buildings, on a low shelf running around beneath only an empty little station-house, and the sashes, the place had the, effect of a two steel rails, and poles and wires and little conservatory. The appointments fields. Before long, a comfortable-look- and arrangement were simple and good, ing, clean top buggy, drawn by a big, but it was the little touches that gave the handsome, well-groomed bay, came down charm. The table in the center was the lane, and the driver was none other daintily laid for three, with what seemed than my hostess, a large, pleasant-faced the snowiest and smoothest linen in the woman well into her sixties, in the spot- land. In just the right position on the less, wrinkleless, but unmistakable attire sideboard was a small, thrifty umbrella of the farmer's wife. It was quite a drive plant, and just far enough from that was up and down the hills before we reached one of those pretty, old-fashioned china her home, on what seemed to me rather fruit baskets made to imitate willow a lonely road. We occasionally see large, work, heaped with beautiful green apples well-painted barns, beautiful grounds, with crimson stripes. The carpet had and fine modern houses as the home and probably been passed on from the parlors, surrounding of the unusually successful for it was red and green- and white in farmer, but here there was only one barn old-fashioned blockwork, always so clean of any size, and that unpainted and un- and cheerful looking. The room was so pretentious ; but the yard about it, the large that there was space for other pur- fence and outbuildings, were tidy ; there poses than that of meal serving, and in a were no old boxes or barrels, or littering darker corner was a wide lounge with of straw ; no farming tools out to the fresh-looking pillows, and near by, at a

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window, was an old arm chair, cretonne- marigolds, and kindred flowers. She had covered, with a towel pinned over the so little time for flower culture, she said, back. This corner bespoke much comfort that she planted the seeds there, and when to both mistress and master of the house. " Will " cultivated the garden, the flowers There was a telephone in the room, the got their share, and she seldom, if ever, first I had ever seen in a farm home. The gathered. her vegetables for dinner with- rooms in front were plain, but had an air out pulling a few flowers. Back of all this of elegance and charm. The carpets were were the fruit trees and vines, all kinds of velvet, and handsome ; the window that grew, thrifty and carefully tended. draperies simple, but daintily fresh; a It was evident that Will's days of useful- table or two and a few chairs, plain and ness were not over. substantial, and a large case full of books ; We went for a drive among the beau- few pictures, little or no bric-a-brac. tiful beech and maple timber, and re- Supper was soon served, and there I turned in time to prepare the twelve- met my host, a man of seventy, whose hair o'clock dinner. As Will had not re- was as white as it ever would be, stooped turned from a job of fence making, my and bent in figure from much planting and hostess came into the parlor, and, seat- digging potatoes, and hoeing of corn. ing herself at the piano, sang for me His hands were stiffened and like horn, " The Old Musician and His Harp," and he told me his days of usefulness " The Lost Chord," and some beautiful were over. He was " Will, dear," to his new hymns. Not being versed in musical wife, and I am sure her voice was as matters, I knew not they were new until sweet and as cheery when she called him informed, but I knew they were beautiful. as it was when she was a bride, forty-five As this woman of sixty-five or more sat years before. The short summer evening before me playing her accompaniments was spent in getting acquainted, and it and singing, in a clean print gown and was not until I was left alone for an hour kitchen apron, I thought, " This is a red- or two next morning that the desired op- letter day in my life. You have taught portunity came for looking over my host- me more in a few hours than many could ess's collection of books. There were few teach in as many years." novels, but there were histories, philos- If you were to meet her you would L, ophy, science, biography, and travel. " I see only an ordinary woman, one who have but little time for reading," she said, was, even in youth, attractive in neither " but I must know what is going on in the face nor figure. Born and reared on world." a farm far from any town, married The grounds around the house were as young, and moving on to an adjoining carefully tended as a city park. There farm, she has never been many miles from was a bed of geraniums and heliotrope, her home. She has had no social nor and several flowering shrubs. My host- what we consider educational advantages ; ess, with a pan under her arm, invited me she has worked hard, borne and reared to go to the garden. It was quite a long her family, made rag carpets and bed- .way from the house, across a tidy stretch quilts, cut and made her own and her of back-yard, and was inclosed by a high children's and much of her husband's picket fence to keep out the chickens, and clothing, made butter for market, and there, in the beautifully tended rows of done her own work. She has only com- beans and onions and tomatoes, grew and mon mental endowments, and no daugh- bloomed sweet peas, astors, mignonette, ters now living to bring fresh ideas and 414 A SIMPLE HOME PICTURE

new life into the home. She told me she There was nothing in or about her had kept up her music by singing in home that any moderately well-to-do church. She had made and kept herself farmer folk might not have, but by little an attractive woman by having the am- touches, by absolute cleanliness, and by bition to live up to her ideals and to expressing her personality in her home, cultivate her one talent. She lived " the she had made it a place that any one simple life." might be glad to tarry in.

Our Feverish Haste. majority of us are just as capable of fly- Speaking on the " Ethics of Holidays," ing as we are of thinking. Leisure for Dr. Charles F. Aked, of Liverpool, gives quiet contemplation of the world in which a vivid picture of modern rush and hurry we live is denied us. There is no grass which one can not read without being beneath our feet, no blue sky above our convicted of the folly of the age in this head. The world of trees and flowers respect. Of the words of Christ to his and singing birds is not for us. Art disciples, " Come ye apart and rest and poetry and gentle culture exist only awhile," he says : — in a world of dreams,— while, if we once " There has been no day in the his- gave ourselves pause to meditate upon tory of the world when such counsel was the deep things of God and the soul, on more needed than to-day. There are no time and its meaning, life and its mys- people on the face of the earth who have teries, why,— we might miss the next more need to heed it and to profit by it car. The injunction which insults me than we of the strenuous Anglo-Saxon every time I travel by the underground breed. Our cities are too vast and too is, ' Please hurry on for the lift.' The crowded. Man, like all other animals, ' please ' is in diamond type, and you need was meant for the fresh air and the open a microscope to see it ; the ' hurry ' you fields, for the storms, the snows, and the can read a mile away. Hurry, then, by sunshine. But he claps a stone box down all means, for we could not live if we did over his head, sits in the midst of a hun- not kill ourselves to get somewhere else." dred thousand other stone boxes as ugly as his own, shutting out God's air and A SOUND mind in a sound body is a light, until he is ready to faint on a warm short but full description of a happy state day and freeze on a cold one, and die of in this world. He that hath these two, pneumonia or of terror if the east wind hath little more to wish for here, and he blows on him. This crowded, rushing, that wants either of them, will be but crushing city life gets on our nerves. We little better for anything else.— Locke. live too fast. We live faster than men ever lived before. We live more than twenty-four hours in the day, and more HAPPY Ile with such a mother ! than seven days in the week. We burn Faith in womankind beats with his blood. And trust in all things high the candle at both ends; and then for Comes easy to him. fear our neighbor should get ahead of us. — Tennyson. we light it in the middle too. We are consumed by the fever of living. " HEALTH is the soul that animates all " We have no time to think. The great the enjoyments of life." Chautauqua School of Health

WATER DRINKING BY J. H. KELLOGG, M. D. HILE water drinking at meals is at one time, the blood may be injuriously W not to be commended, the free thinned. This condition will, however, use of water as a drink is of the highest probably give place to the opposite state, importance. The practise of water drink- in consequence of the rapid action of the ing is quite too largely neglected. Many kidneys, induced by the sudden absorp- persons never drink except at meal-time, tion of a large quantity of water. This and many seldom swallow any other bev- is a reason why it is better to take smaller erage than tea, coffee, or some similar quantities of water at intervals of an adulteration of water. Such persons fre- hour or so than to drink copiously at quently suffer seriously for lack of fluid longer intervals, except in cases of with which to cleanse their soiled tissues. dropsy, when the opposite plan is better. The sense of thirst, which to a normal In general, it is best to take water at person is a sufficient guide in relation to about the ordinary temperature — 70° F. water drinking, is often inactive as the The practise of drinking large quantities result of neglect. Water should be taken of hot water before meals, or at any other freely, but never in too large quantities time, is not to be commended, except in at one time. Half a glassful or a glass- cases of chronic gastritis or catarrh of ful is amply sufficient for a single drink- the stomach, when free water drinking ing. When several glasses of water are serves a useful purpose in cleansing the swallowed in quick succession, the stom- stomach from accumulated mucus. ach is likely to be overweighted, and be- Half a glassful of hot water may be comes distended, and thus more or less advantageously taken half an hour be- permanently injured. fore each meal in cases of hyperpepsia, It is particularly pernicious to drink at and the same quantity of cold water may once a large quantity of cold water. be taken with equal benefit half an hour Such a practise is sometimes highly before eating, in cases of hypopepsia. dangerous, especially when a person is In cases of fever, a half glassful to a in a state of exhaustion from violent ex- glassful of water should be taken every ercise. Cold water may be taken if de- hour regularly. sired, but should be slowly swallowed in Water should be given freely to in- small sips, so that opportunity may be fants and children, who are often neg- given for warming as it passes down the lected in this regard. The quantity throat, thus preventing injury to the should be small, and should be given stomach and other possible damage. often. Even nursing infants need atten- When a large quantity of water is taken tion in this respect.

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Persons who have a tendency to rheu- a case in which a whole family were matism should drink two or three pints made very sick by the use of water from of water daily, even though they feel no a well which was contaminated with barn- thirst. yard filth deposited in a hole on the op- Water may be rendered more accept- posite side of the road, fully sixteen rods able by the addition of fruit juice. Cane- away. sugar should be avoided. City water supplies sometimes become Fruit juices and the juice of melons contaminated with dangerous germs, ex- may be freely used to great advantage, posing hundreds, even thousands of peo- especially in the summer season ; but in ple to infection. eating melons, the pulp should always be Deep-bored wells, so-called artesian rejected. It is quite indigestible, and wells, are perhaps the safest sources of likely to give rise to sour stomach and natural water supply. The well should be other disorders. Overripe melons are cased, and should penetrate one or more exceedingly unwholesome. dense layers of rock, so as to reach what Soft water is preferable to hard water. is sometimes called the second water, to Distilled water is best of all, when it insure against contamination from the has been properly aerated. But good surface. spring or deep-well water, if free from Typhoid fever, cholera, malarial fever, contamination, is perfectly wholesome, and many bowel disorders are due to the even though a little hard. No injurious use of contaminated water, and hence are effects are likely to follow the use of unnecessary afflictions, as they may be water containing not more than twenty prevented by proper precautions. City to thirty grains to the gallon of lime or water supplies are seldom clean enough magnesia salts. Very hard water is in- for use without sterilization by boiling. jurious. It is useful to remember that water may The greatest care should be taken to be sterilized by means of acid fruit juice. secure absolutely clean water ; that is, The juice of a small lemon will in half an water which is not contaminated with hour destroy any disease germs which germs, animal organisms, or the excreta may be present in a glassful of water. of animals. Distilled water is certain to Ice, as well as water, may be a source be pure. Water which has been freshly of contamination, as ice is often gathered boiled for fifteen or twenty minutes is from ponds and rivers which are polluted safe. Filtered water can not be relied with sewage. Such water is certain to upon, as the filter easily becomes contam- contain germs, which, not being injured inated, and if not thoroughly cleansed by freezing, become active as soon as may increase the contamination of the the ice is melted. water passing through it. Dug wells Carbonated water or water containing or shallow wells are unsafe sources for the juice of acid fruits is more readily drinking water. Water from surface absorbed than plain water. In prepar- wells is always dangerous, because of ing beverages from fruit juices, however, the great facility with which drainage concentrated mixtures should be avoided, from cesspools, vaults, barn-yards, and and also the free use of cane-sugar, which filth deposited upon the surface, even is likely to increase the thirst, besides in- several rods distant, may find its way juring the stomach and overtaxing the into the well by percolation through liver when taken in considerable quan- the soil. The writer is acquainted with tities. SUMMER CLOTHING

BY KATE LINDSAY, M. D. HE warm season has come again, and servations during the summer that in T in many parts of the country the school children attention decreases in the chief effort of life for the time being is to warm months, and that the brain is indis- keep cool. When the temperature of the posed for mental activity, while there is an body and the temperature of the atmos- increased desire for out-of-door muscular phere are the same, or, worse still, when activity ; that in summer it is more difficult the temperature of the air is above that to enforce discipline in scliool than in of .the body, and the mercury in the ther- winter, and the grade of scholarship de- mometer creeps up to Ioo° or above, heat clines. The schoolboy longs to wade in elimination is difficult ; and cases of heat- the shady brook and to go swimming. stroke and heat exhaustion keep the city As clothing is one of the chief artificial ambulances busy during the months when agents for regulating heat elimination and the dog-star reigns, and the air is still and assisting civilized man to withstand the saturated with moisture. The failure of changes of temperature without damaging the body to eliminate heat, either by radia- disturbance of functional activity, attention into a cool surrounding air, or to pro- tion should be given to the subject of mote heat loss by evaporation,— by escape proper clothing, and such changes made as of water into the atmosphere,— lessens will prevent too rapid heat loss in the cold the metabolic changes and impedes body- season, and in the heated season favor cell activity, thus interfering with the heat elimination. normal actions of the organs of the body. The mistake of wearing too much cloth- Toxins which should be cast off by the ex- ing is made perhaps more often than that cretory organs accumulate. of not clothing the body enough. At best, Sunstroke is simply a severe form of clothing but retains bodily heat and im- autointoxication from deficient heat and pedes elimination. Therefore, with a waste elimination. The brain is so thor- view to coolness, it should be selected care- oughly poisoned that it ceases to act, and fully, and of such material as will admit the temperature of the body rises rapidly of perfect skin aeration, besides favoring because of the retained heat. These are rapid water evaporation. the extreme results of overheating; the Sunstroke rarely occurs on the plains, ordinary, less marked symptoms of the where the brisk winds carry off the mois- depressing effects of excessively warm ture and heat, and the surface is cooled weather being languor, disinclination for by rapid-moving currents of air. All exercise, irritability, loss of appetite, have experienced the invigorating effect sleeplessness, and a feeling of bodily dis- of a cooling breeze on a hot day. comfort, lack of nerve energy, and mental The texture of hot-weather raiment depression. should be open, and the fabric one that will Young children, old persons, and in- not retain moisture. The famous linen valids weakened by disease feel heat mesh owes its desirable qualities as hot- depression most keenly, and if any acute weather underwear to the fact that it is disease attacks these patients, their open-woven. Linen fabric allows of rapid chances for recovery are greatly lessened. water evaporation, and is a good heat con- It is stated by those who have made ob- ductor. Hot-weather clothing should be

417 418 SUMMER CLOTHING loose-fitting and evenly adjusted. The damage done the helpless babes' nervous color should be white, especially for under- system by want of sleep and deranged wear, because white or light-colored gar- bodily functions due to nerve irritation ments absorb and retain the least heat from rough, ill-fitting, air-tight, often and reflect the most. When of open badly fitting, inner garments. The writer texture, they allow the body heat to es- has ridden miles to see a sleepless infant cape and at the same time protect the which had worn out not only itself, but skin from excessive outside temperature. all the family, with continual crying and The sweat glands being active, summer fretfulness, and just by taking off the undergarments soon become saturated offending woolen nether garment and with perspiration, and this foul matter may allaying the skin irritation by proper be reabsorbed, or skin disorders may result bathing and a loose soft shirt, the child from foul underclothing. fell asleep before the treatment was over. The greatest care should be taken to It became a good baby from that time have the clothing clean, evenly adjusted, because it was physically comfortable. and properly fitted ; and, also, especially in To sum up the matter of suitable cloth- the case of infants and small children, to ing, both for adults and children : For make sure that it is not irritating the skin undergarments, select material of loose by roughness, or compressing some im- texture, light weight and light color, linen portant organ, causing pain and bodily or cotton, open-woven, and distributed discomfort, besides leading to deformities. evenly, of union-suit form. Knitted cot- Corns, bunions, and ingrowing toe-nails ton gauze inner suits, of fine, soft texture, are examples of ill-fitting footwear ; con- can be purchased for a few cents, and tracted waists, with floating kidneys and make very good summer underwear. displaced digestive and pelvic organs, are Change often and keep the skin clean by much in evidence as a result of tight waist- bathing. Never sleep in a soiled day gar- bands and corsets. ment, nor let any child go to bed in a soiled In hot weather the feet tend to swell, garment. Outside, as well as inside, gar- and the whole body relaxes and requires ments should be soft, porous, and of light room for expansion. Therefore tight weight. The use of starch should be shoes and stiff, tight waists are doubly avoided, especially in garments that come injurious in summer. The adoption of the in contact with the skin. loose sweater and discarding the padded In oriental countries, soft, raw silk is vest by men recreating out of doors is an much worn. Here, an objection to its illustration of how much loose, light gar- common use is its expensiveness. But ments promote life's enjoyment, even for now there are many pretty, soft-woven the robust. How much more need for cotton goods which do not need stiffening proper hot-weather clothing for tender to look well. These should be selected for infants, children, delicate women, and outside garments for children. Never feeble invalids. torture the little ones with starch-stiffened It is a tradition that infants must wear bands and ruffles. For every-day sum- wool next to the skin summer and winter mer wear make the garments few in to prevent taking cold. The vast number number, as plain as possible, and change of rashes, heat hives, and other irritating often. skin disorders due to this blind tradition Never sit down to enjoy the cool eve- will never be known. Nor is there any ning breeze in damp, soiled day gar- record of the suffering incurred or the ments. It is not the change of atmos- SUMMER CLOTHING 419 pheric temperature which causes the stiff- their two abbreviated garments, discard- ness, neuralgia, and rheumatism, but the ing even the shoes when above ground, dirt and dampness of the garments. but the skin and clothing were clean and In South Africa the writer visited a dry, and the surface circulation good. So, diamond mine compound where hundreds by avoiding mucous lining congestion and of colored men worked underground, clad skin-chilling, there was no soil for the only in knee-length overalls and short- pneumonia microbe culture, and camp sleeved shirts, and shoes to protect their health was the result. It needed strict dis- feet from sharp rocks. The overseer cipline to enforce this hygienic regulation, mentioned the fact that previously many but it paid the company in pounds, shil- contracted pneumonia and died from lings, and pence. The same rule enforced coming up from the hot air of the mine in every American household would pay and sitting around in the cool evening air in the improved mental, moral, and phys- in wet, soiled garments, but that then they ical health of the family. had few cases of the disease, as all were It is not so much the deficient amount of compelled to take a plunge bath and put clothing as the improper material and on dry, clean garments as soon as they make-up, and want of cleanliness of the emerged above ground. The change clothing, which causes much summer dis- for the better was due not to increased comfort, and lays the foundation for hot- amount of clothing, for they donned but weather disorders.

TO WHAT EXTENT ARE FOODS PREDIGESTED BY COOKING ? BY W. A. GEORGE, M. D. N these days much is said about pre- its elements either partly or completely I digested foods, yet few have a predigested. definite idea as to what the term means, The food elements as found in fruits, and still less as to how a predigested food seeds, and vegetables — albumen, grape- may be prepared. To be predigested, a sugar, starch, emulsified fats, mineral food must be in the same form that it salts, and cane-sugar — are either com- would be if digested by the healthy pletely undigested or entirely predigested digestive organs and thus made ready to as found raw in their natural condition. be absorbed by the blood through the Thus albumen, starch, and cane-sugar are walls of the intestines. As there are undigested, and must be digested before several food elements, and as each is they can be made use of by the blood, digested by a different process in different while grape-sugar, emulsified fats, and parts of the digestive system, it is evident mineral salts are already entirely predi- that no one artificial method can digest gested in their natural raw state. In all the food elements and thus take the other words, the three last named food place of all the digestive fluids. It is elements are ready to be absorbed into the also clear, from the fact that there are blood at once without any change what- several stages in the process of digestion ever in the digestive organs. So in eat- of some of the food elements, that a food ing fruit and nuts which do not contain element may be only partly predigested. starch, we are taking an abundance of A food, then, may have one or more of these three predigested foods and one 420 TO WHAT EXTENT ARE FOODS PREDIGESTED BY COOKING ?

undigested food element, albumen,— and candy, rich cakes and pies, sweet pickles we have a perfect food, for starch and and preserves, and especially when used cane-sugar, the remaining food elements, freely with milk, it may be very injurious. must both be changed to grape-sugar be- Free fat, such as butter and that found fore they can be used in the blood. Al- in all fat meats, as well as all free vegeta- bumen is supposed to be just as digestible able oils, must be digested — emulsified raw as cooked, if not more so. We have, — before it can be taken into the blood, therefore, in ripe fruits and nuts not con- while the fat in milk or cream and in all taining starch a perfect diet, which may seeds awl vegetables in their natural con- be taken as well or better raw. dition is already emulsified, and requires So far as we know, albumen is in no no digestion. Cooking has no effect upon way predigested by cooking, and it is fat, but when free fat is cooked with doubtful if any artificial method of digest- other foods, it may most decidedly retard ing albumen is ever necessary or of any their digestion. Hence the free use of particular value. Ample provision is unemulsified fat may prove a decided made for the digestion of albunien, for if injury and produce disease. the process is not completed in the stom- One food element which is never pre- ach, it can be finished in the intestines, digested as found in nature, and which if the albumen is taken in moderate is at the same time almost indigestible quantities. The thorough cooking of unless some artificial means is used to aid albumen may, however, remove its sticky digestion, is starch. This, the most nature, as is the case with the gluten of abundant of all food elements, deserves wheat, which, when raw, is very sticky, our most careful study. In the raw state but when thoroughly baked, becomes it is made up of very small, hard granules, crisp and brittle, so that it is more easily too small to be broken up by any me- masticated, and thus prepared for a more chanical means, and entirely insoluble in thorough mixture with the gastric juice. water ; so the saliva has very little effect So, although cooking may in no way upon them even if mixed with them for predigest albumen, it certainly prepares several hours, while starch that has been it for easier digestion. This can not be boiled for a few minutes will be changed said of poorly cooked albumen, for in to sugar in a few seconds when mixed that case it may be more sticky and tough, with saliva. If the starch is baked until rendering mastication almost impossible, it is light brown in color and then mixed and digestion slower than with raw albu- with saliva, it is changed to sugar almost men. instantly. Cooking starch 'does not Cane-sugar is not changed at all by change it to sugar, as some have sup- ordinary cooking. It is digested in small posed, but it does change it to dextrin, quantities only by a ferment called inver- and dextrin is easily changed to sugar tin, found in the intestinal juice. Taken by the saliva, so we may say that cooking in large quantities, cane-sugar clogs the does partly predigest starch, but further system, and may produce serious disease. than this it can not go. If we wish to If it were never used except in the dilute carry the process of artificial digestion form in which it is found in nature, as still further, we must look to other in sweet potatoes, the sap of trees, beets, methods besides cooking. The action of or even sugar-cane, there would be very saliva is first to change cooked starch to little danger of eating too much of it, but malt-sugar and then to grape-sugar. when used in a concentrated form, as in Malt-sugar may be produced by first TO WHAT EXTENT ARE FOODS PREDIGESTED BY COOKING? 421 letting grain sprout, then stopping the contains seventy-five per cent of water, growth at a certain point, when there is sufficient to boil and soften the starch the most malt-sugar present. This, then, during the first few minutes in the oven, has the power to change more starch into and then if baked long enough the starch sugar when mixed with it. All so-called may all be changed to dextrin. A good malted foods depend for their prepara- way to bake potatoes is first to peel them, tion upon this method for changing their then cut them into thin slices, and place starch into malt-sugar, which lacks but them to overlap one another in a baking one step of being grape-sugar, and so is pan, then bake in a slow oven until dry almost completely predigested. This and crisp. Thus prepared, potatoes are method, being a process of growth, is a very easily digested. purely natural one, and not only harm- So the cook has but one food element less, but of great value in the preparation to think of as far as thorough cooking is of foods for invalids and infants. concerned, and that is starch. As a rule, The only method of complete predi- starch is only half cooked. Eaten as it is gestion of starch is by boiling it for a in the form of mush or soft, poorly baked time with a dilute solution of some bread, it can not be properly masticated, mineral acid which changes the starch to and is not digested by the saliva as it glucose or grape-sugar, but this is strictly should be, but lies in the stomach a sticky an artificial method, and the sugar thus mass, preventing to a great extent the produced is of very doubtful value on action of the stomach upon albumen, until account of the poisons and impurities that the stomach often contains for hours and it is almost certain to contain. The ideal sometimes for days a putrefying mass way to cook starch to render it most easily which poisons the whole system. Starchy digestible is first to boil the food thor- foods should be well cooked and served oughly, thereby causing the starch gran- in a dry form, so that they can be well ules to swell to the greatest extent masticated and thus digested in the mouth possible and thus breaking up the capsule or soon after reaching the stomach. surrounding each starch granule; then Cellulose, or woody fiber, although not after the excess of water has been boiled to any great extent a food, since it can be away, place the food in the oven in thin digested only in very small quantities, layers and bake until it is well dried out is found more or less in nearly all our and a light brown crust formed. Beans, foods. It is very valuable in giving peas, and other foods containing starch volume to the food in the digestive are easily digested when prepared in this organs, in this way assisting in their way, while for many they are almost in- mechanical work of moving the food digestible when prepared by the common along ; at the same time it is very slow to method of boiling for a short time. A ferment or decay. Cellulose is only thoroughly baked potato goes at once slightly changed by cooking, and being through both the process of boiling and indigestible, it matters not whether it is of baking, from the fact that a potato cooked or raw.

LET your digestion be but sound, Your side unwrung by spasm or stitch, Your foot unconscious of a twitch, And could you be more truly blest Though of the wealth of kings possessed? — Theodore Martin. 422 DANGERS OF AN ILL-KEPT REFRIGERATOR

Dangers of an Ill-Kept Refrigerator. bringing to the palate of the subsequent Most people seem to think that all that partaker most unwelcome evidence of as- is necessary in order to keep food from sociation. spoiling, is to put it in the refrigerator. " People are sometimes poisoned by That this is not an infallible safeguard, the peculiar deterioration that goes on and may even in some cases do more in a refrigerator. I knew a child in mid- harm than good, is shown by a writer summer to sicken and die under circum- in Good Housekeeping, who says : " If stances that appeared no less than mys- raspberries are put in the refrigerator, terious in view of the extreme sanitary they will almost certainly be smitten with precautions that had been taken with mold. The sagacious housekeeper comes everything that pertained to the little to find out that raspberries are as surely one. My own by no means ungrounded spoiled by a sojourn in the ice chest as suspicion was that the milk which had they would be by being dropped into been so carefully sterilized for its use, the garbage barrel. Small fruits, such had later on been defiled by the thick, as raspberries, cherries, strawberries, and strong, and complicated smells that in- currants, are much better kept on a broad fested the ice chest in which it had been tray, carefully spread out so that the air kept, and whose walls were never thor- can circulate through them. Some house- oughly dried nor exposed to the sun's keepers will even put bananas and can- rays. An ill-kept refrigerator is a grave taloups in with milk and sterilized water, for the food put into it, and (not seldom) with the result of both milk and water brings to the grave the people who use it."

SCHOOL OF HEALTH SEARCH QUESTIONS

WATER DRINKING 2. What, is one of the chief agents for regulating heat elimination ? I. What evil results from taking too 3. Describe the texture and fabric most large a quantity of water at one time ? suitable for hot-weather raiment. 2. About what quantity is sufficient for 4. Name the disorders which may re- one drinking? sult from wearing foul, damp under- 3. What precaution should be taken in clothing. cold water drinking after violent exercise ? FOODS PREDIGESTED BY COOKING 4. What class of persons are benefited I. Name the food elements that do by hot water drinking? not require digestion. 5. In fever cases, how often should 2. In what foods are these elements water be taken ? most liberally supplied? 6. Describe a convenient way of steril- 3. What is the effect of cooking upon izing water without boiling. albumen ? 4. Which of the food elements can not SUMMER CLOTHING be digested raw ? I. Name some of the extreme results of 5. What is the only method of com- overheating. plete predigestion of starch ? Health Chats with Littk Folks ------5-- - ------OUT OF DOORS

" GREAT, wide, beautiful, wonderful world, With the wonderful water round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast,"—

HO would stay indoors when he to the beautiful, fresh, pure, outdoor air, W has a chance to be out in this which is blowing all over the world. beautiful, wonderful world? Who would There is life and health everywhere, in have a roof over his head, when he can the fresh air, in the sunshine, for all who be out under the great, clear, blue, open will go out and take it in. sky ? People who stay indoors get pale and At this time of the year a great many sickly looking. Those who go out in people are going away to the seaside, the the fresh air and sunshine get a brown, mountains, the country, anywhere, for rosy, healthy skin. This fine color means " change of air." All the change of air that the whole body is in a sound, healthy that many of them need is a change from state. house air — close, stuffy, indoor air — We can see that the sunshine makes the

A SANDY BEACH IN A BACK YARD 423 424 OUT OF DOORS plants grow strong and vigorous, and ing the turtles, or spearing the frogs. gives them beautiful, bright colors. It Many boys get a great deal of fun out will do the same thing for boys and girls. of fishing. This cruel sport may be fun So we should let the air and the sunlight to the boys, but it is anything but fun get not only to our hands and faces, but to the fish. But the boys are so absorbed as much as possible to the whole of our in their own sport that they do not think of this. How one boy learned what it means to the fish, is told by Mr. C. A. Stephens, who took a party of boys camping in the Adirondack Mountains. " Suddenly," he says, " a loud cry of distress rose near the end of the line of fishers, and I saw Porter capering wildly over the stones, with Malcolm circling round him, shouting, ' Hold still ! Hold still ! Hold still ! ' What I feared had happened. One boy had hooked another. By peranisston J Juvurvan Li)? " Malcolm had swung his hook, and FUN ON A HOT SUMMER DAY there were two large fly hooks on one bodies. For this reason, as little cloth- main line which forked six feet from the ing as possible should be worn in the end. One of these hooks had whirled summer. out sidewise, and caught Porter by the Our picture shows one way in which back of the calf of his left leg, upon boys and girls can have fun out of doors which he had leaped away, and buried in hot weather. Those who can not go the barb still deeper. When I reached to the seaside can have a sandy beach him the hook was up to the shank in right in their own yard. the fat, soft calf, and he was shrieking Some children are not happy out of like a young crow. Malcolm, still hold- doors unless they are making something ing the line, stood aghast. else unhappy — shooting the birds, ston- "After his first wild, foolish leap had OUT OF DOORS 425 buried the barb deeply, Porter had " I had the hook out almost before the dropped his rod, and, seizing the shank of boy knew it. Then, after making the the hook, had tried to pull it out. But the blood flow by squeezing the wounded barb held fast in his flesh. Frightened part, I took the boy across to camp in a anew because he could canoe, carefully covered not get free, and also and closed the wound hurt anew by his pull- with a piece of adhe- ing of the shank, he sive plaster, and turned pranced and shrieked him loose again. By again. this time he was smil- "At first I hardly ing once more, and as knew how to manage brave as ever. But the him ; he was so crazy accident had, so to with fear and pain, and speak, given the fisher- so angrily eager to man a taste of his own rush at Malcolm for medicine. ' satisfaction.' When " ' Mr. Stephens,' said we had secured him Porter very seriously, and forced him to sit ' do you suppose it down on a stone, I hurts a fish every time remarked, ' It's noth- one is caught as much ing ; don't be foolish. as that hurt me ? Be- Let me get it out.' cause if I thought it " He stuck out his did,' he added, his eyes under lip, stared at me, and said, I very wide and earnest, I would never guess you'd think it was something if go fishing again as long as I lived! '" you had it, Mr. Stephens.' There are so many ways of being happy " I dare say I should,' said I, smiling out of doors without interfering with the at him, ' and I'd certainly let some one happiness of others. We should respect else rid me of it.' the rights and the feelings of all God's " That seemed to calm him, and he let creatures, and be careful— me examine the wound. No wonder he " Never to blend our pleasure or our pride quivered, for the whole crook of the large With sorrow of the meanest thing that barbed hook was buried in the flesh. lives." E. E. A.

A WAKE-UP SONG FOR SUMMER

" WAKE up ! wake up !" chirps the sparrow, Everything is w?de-awake — " Don't you know it is to-morrow?" Hear the crickets in the brake! " I see you!" pipes robin bright, Grasshoppers, down in the grass, " Sleeping in the morning light!" Say, " Has it come to such a pass Up ! all lazy boys and girls, That the children sleep so late Straighten out your tumbled curls! As we heard the robin state?" Open eyes and brighten faces, Oh, who would be a sleepy head, Don your smiles and pretty graces! Lying in a stuffy bed? — Youth's Companion. . By the Editor . .

HOT-WEATHER TEMPER

A PSYCHOLOGIST has discovered that it evening bath should be at a temperature of is easier to keeP good natured in cold 92° to 96°. It should be a full bath. The weather than in hot weather, and suggests duration should be anywhere from ten to that as one can not change the weather, the thirty minutes. 'It is a most excellent means only thing to do is to keep one's temper in of cooling off, and has a quieting effect upon cold storage during the heated term. the nervous system which secures sound This is a capital idea. The practical sleep and complete recuperation. There is phase of the question is how to do it, which nothing like the neutral bath to combat our psychologist does not explain. Here insomnia. It is better than all the sleeping are a few suggestions for hot-weather regi- medicines ever discovered. men which have proved serviceable: — 5. Drink plenty of water during warm I. Avoid flesh foods. Flesh meats in- weather. Do not be afraid of taking a little crease irritability at all seasons, and espe- fluid at meal-time. Half a glass, or even a cially in hot weather, when the nerves are glassful, of water or some fruit juice may already overstimulated by the heat, and be taken at meals without injury, provided require a cooling rather than a heating it is taken at the close of the meal or in diet. Dog-keepers recognize this, and sup- very small sips during the meal. The prin- press meat entirely when teaching tricks or cipal harm from drinking at meals results training the animals for hunting purposes. from rinsing the foodstuffs down before 2. Eat sparingly in warm weather. An they have been properly masticated. If excess of any sort of food disturbs diges- care is taken to chew every morsel until tion, and the effects are speedily seen upon it is reduced to liquid in the mouth, and to the disposition. avoid taking water and food into the mouth 3. Avoid mustard, pepper, pepper-sauce, at the same time, the principal difficulty ginger, and all irritating condiments. These from drinking at meals may be avoided. things simply burn, blister, and sting. They Of course, it is harmful to drink great have no nutritive properties whatever, and quantities. The amount of water taken at their effects are altogether mischievous. a meal should not usually exceed four to The Mexicans are noted as being the most eight ounces. hot-headed people in the world. They are 6. Live as much as possible in the open also the greatest consumers of red peppers. air. Sleeping outdoors in the summer sea- 4. Take a short cool bath every morning, son is a most excellent practise. and a longer neutral bath at night. The 7. Make large use of fruits. Fruit juices morning bath may be taken with a towel are an excellent antidote for biliousness, wrung out of cold water, or may be a quick summer complaints, and other disorders pe- rub in a tub of water at the temperature at culiar to the warm months. which it runs from the pipe. However 8. Avoid excessive use of fats in the taken, the duration of the bath should not summer-time. There is a general tendency be more than twenty to forty seconds. The to a slowing of the digestive processes dur- 426 EDITORIAL 427 ing the hot months. Fats have a tendency everything which can not be made liquid or to interfere with gastric digestion, hence at least semi-liquid by mastication. A large should be used sparingly. amount of coarse rubbish swallowed into 9. Take great pains to masticate every the stomach is very harmful, especially to morsel of food so thoroughly that it will be persons suffering from gastric catarrh and reduced to liquid in the mouth, and reject slow digestion.

THE CAUSE OF GALL-STONES

THE experiments of Italia, Gilbert and The sedentary life tends to produce gall- Fournier, Herter, Hartmann, and others, stones because of the weakness of the ab- have shown quite conclusively that gall- dominal muscles which results from the stones are produced by an abnormal secre- sitting posture, and the lessened strength tion by the mucous membrane lining the and activity of the diaphragm that naturally gall-bladder and the biliary passages, and follow inactivity. In a healthy, well-de- that this abnormal secretion is generally veloped person, the descent of the diaphragm produced by the long-continued action of with each inspiration compresses the liver, certain bacteria. The colon bacillus and gall-bladder, and bile passages in such a the typhoid bacillus seem to be most com- way as to empty them of blood and bile, the monly active in producing gall-stones, but blood being forced onward toward the heart they are also caused by pus-producing into the hepatic vein, while the bile is forced germs, many of which are very commonly into the intestine. The effect of this action found present. Gall-stones frequently fol- of the diaphragm is very greatly increased low an attack of typhoid fever. In one case by exercise, whereby this great breathing a luxuriant crop appeared within three muscle is made to contract with unusual weeks after the onset of the fever. vigor. It is thus apparent that in a person From the studies which have been made who neglects to take daily active muscular on this subject, however, it seems very exercise, there is necessarily a decided tend- clear that microbes alone are not sufficient ency to stagnation of the bile. In conse- to produce gall-stones. There must be, in quence, the colon and other germs which addition, some interference with the nor- are constantly swarming in the intestine mal flow of bile. In health, the bile is al- readily find their way up through the duct ways found sterile, but if, from any cause, into the gall-bladder, and the formation of the outflow of bile from the biliary passages gall-stones begins. into the intestine is interfered with, mi- Still another cause of gall-stones which crobes make their way into the bile passages should be mentioned is infection of the gall- and gall-bladder, and stones may be rapidly bladder through the absorption of bacteria formed. into the portal vein from the intestines. Two causes are now clearly recognized Adami, whose authority to speak on this as being especially productive of gall-stones ; subject will be universally recognized, as- namely, the corset and sedentary life. The serts " that the colon bacilli in small num- recognition of these causes explains very bers are in a healthy individual constantly readily the fact observed by Schroder that finding their way into the finer branches of gall-stones occur nearly five times as fre- the portal circulation; and that one of the quently in women as in men. functions of the liver is to arrest the further The corset produces gall-stones by com- passage of these bacilli into the general pression of the biliary passages in such a circulation, and to destroy them through way as to interfere with the proper outflow the agency of the specific cells of the organ. of bile. Tight belts and bands may produce Then if the action of the liver cells has been precisely the same effect. disabled by the toxic products of the bac- 428 EDITORIAL teria, these may reach the bile and spread The cure for gall-stones is, then, not to be through the gall-bladder and ducts." found in surgery, but in a correction of It is evident, then, that the liver is a sort wrong habits of life which produce gall- of sentinel, guarding against the entrance of stones. A person who has gall-stones may microbes which may give rise to gall- need to have them removed by a surgeon, but stones, and which are constantly knocking the same causes which have produced the for admission. It also appears from Adami's stones, continuing in operation, will produce statement that this power of the liver to de- another crop, or a series of successive crops stroy germs may be lost through a crippling if he submits to successive operations. of the liver cells. Roger and other inves- Every surgeon who operates for the removal tigators have clearly shown that nicotin, of gall-stones should take care to see that the poison of tobacco, strychnia, lead, mer- the causes which have been in active opera- cury, and numerous -other poisons may thus tion to produce these concretions in each cripple the liver. Other investigators have particular case are as far as possible re- shown the same to be true of the poisonous moved, so as to prevent their re-formation. extractives found in the flesh of animals. But it is most important of all that those Voix has shown that the liver is crippled who have not yet contracted this diseased by pepper, vinegar, and butyric acid, as condition should so change their habits of well as by alcohol, all of which give rise life as to prevent its development. Post- to cirrhosis of the liver. Uric acid and al- mortem examinations made by Reckling- lied bodies produce similar effects. hausen showed that ten per cent of persons It is thus apparent that the average indi- dying between the ages of thirty and sixty vidual is in his daily life constantly exposed have stones in their gall-bladders, and that to causes which may give rise to gall-stones. the same condition exists in more than Errors in dress and diet, a relaxed position twenty-five per cent of persons dying at in sitting, and neglect of exercise, are potent sixty years of age or upward. causes which are in operation in the cases This is another case in which an of a very large proportion of men and ounce of prevention is better than a pound women in civilized lands. of cure.

Swimming for Obesity. bohydrate foodstuffs (starch and sugar), The best form of exercise for obese combined with swimming for one or two persons is swimming, but a short dip in hours daily, may reduce the flesh of a corpu- the surf is not sufficient. To be effective, lent person to healthy proportions. the exercise must be taken for from one to A very fat person can swim very easily. two hours daily. It is not only the exercise, It is only necessary for him to take a little but also the low temperature of the water, pains to keep his balance, and he can easily which burns up the surplus tissue. Exer- float on the water. The great mass of fat cise accelerates the movement of the blood, acts like a life-preserver for him ; but if he and thus stimulates the consumption of can not swim, he can walk or lie in shallow tissue in the muscles and other parts, while water and make active movements with his the low temperature, acting through the arms and legs. temperature nerves, stimulates heat produc- If conveniences for swimming are not tion. A person taking active exercise in accessible, an ordinary bath-tub may answer water at the temperature of ordinary sea the same purpose. The bath may begin water in summer-time, burns up his tissues with water at a temperature of 102°. The three or four ,times as fast as one who is patient sits in the bath-tub, which is filled sitting quietly in the shade, fanning him- within six inches of the top, and makes self to keep cool. The rational diet; that active movements with his arms and legs, is, the cutting off of a large part of the car- rubbing the legs and the trunk with his EDITORIAL 429 hands until he finds himself perspiring century boy, especially the city boy, has a freely. The cold water is then turned on poor chance for his life. so that the temperature of the bath may be The return-to-nature movement offers the gradually reduced to 75° or even 70°. Just only hope, from a physical standpoint, for at the close of the bath, a lower temperature the rising generation, but it is very unlikely of 65° or 6o° may be permitted for a few that more than one boy in a thousand will seconds as a means of producing a good be to any extent benefited by the simple- reaction; or, the bath may be terminated by life idea. Artificial habits and customs have a cool shower-bath of ten or fifteen seconds. obtained such a hold upon our modern so- The duration of the bath may be fifteen to ciety that there seems little chance to hope thirty minutes if reaction is good, but the for better things. Nevertheless, we must bather should never remain in until shiver- earnestly work for the promulgation of the ing or decided chilliness is produced. Cold truth, hoping that we may save some. hands or feet after the bath is an indication of defective reaction from too long con- Why Americans Die Young. tact with the cold water. Public Opinion calls attention to the fact that " a foreign investigator has discovered The Cocain Habit among School Chil- that Americans die young. In every L000 of the population, Germany has 179 between dren. the ages of forty and sixty, the United It has recently come to the knowledge of States only 170. Germany has 78 in i,000 the Chicago police that the school children more than sixty; America, 65. We have of that city are becoming addicted to the always known that the gods loved us, ma- use of cocain. It is claimed that in one king it easier for us to accomplish more in school more than fifty boys are addicted to a short time than other nations, and so the practise of using " flake," as the drug tempting us to exhaust our energies with is known to them. The cocain is purchased needless rapidity. And we are abusing this from the druggists by certain boys, and dis- gift of quick achievement. The trouble is tributed to their comrades. Those who are not so much that we work too hard, as that not familiar with the terrible consequences we work too nervously. Strenuousness has of the cocain habit are not prepared to been overpreached. Is it not time to enter a appreciate the enormity of the crime com- plea for good, old-fashioned leisure? " mitted by a druggist who will sell such a We can hardly agree with Public Opin- pernicious poison as cocain to boys, or, for ion respecting the cause of the lessened that matter, to any one who has acquired longevity of Americans. Americans un- the cocain habit. doubtedly live too fast, but it is not for Cocain works the destruction of mind and lack of leisure; it is rather the artificial life body more rapidly than any other known and the almost universal practise of such drug. The victim always ends in the insane destructive habits as smoking, tea and coffee asylum, if he does not die before he gets drinking, and the excessive consumption there, and the work of ruin is usually ac- of meat which must be regarded as the cause complished within one to three years. There of the rapid progress of race degeneracy in should be a law against the selling of co- this country. Return to simple habits of life cain for purposes of drug addiction, with a is the only remedy. The outdoor life, sim- penalty attached sufficiently severe to secure plicity in eating, thorough mastication of due respect for the same. The pitfalls for food, the disuse of mustard, pepper, pepper- boys nowadays are certainly manifold If sauce, tea, coffee, flesh foods, and all other a boy escapes the cigarette pit, he is likely unnatural and disease-producing substances, to fall into the hard-cider slough; and if are among the measures most necessary for he escapes this, the cocain habit offers a the staying of the downward march of race veritable abyss of evils. The twentieth- deterioration in this country. 430 EDITORIAL

The Open=Air Treatment in City Hos= The Corset a Cause of Cancer. pitals. According to the London Lancet, an eminent English physician has pointed out It is interesting to note that the leading the fact that the corset is a cause of cancer hospitals of the country, particularly the Johns Hopkins Hospital, of Baltimore, are of the breast. The pressure of the hard giving great attention to outdoor treatment. corset upon the delicate structures of the The nurses take their charges out in wheel- breast produces irritation which lowers the resistance of the tissues, and gives rise to chairs and on cots in great numbers whenever the weather will permit. cancer of the breast. The right mammary The writer recently had an opportunity to gland is most subject to the disease, because of th greater activity of the right visit the admirably managed State insane hospital located at Rochester, Minn., and arm. Dr. Lucas, who calls attention to this observed that a great number of patients form of malignant disease, gives to it the were outdoors. Some of the men were en- name " corset cancer." He recites numerous cases of cancer, the history of which gaging in an animated game of baseball, which was watched by hundreds more, ap- shows the origin to be such as he has in- parently with as much interest as is ordi- dicated. narily displayed on such occasions. It is encouraging to note that in the plans Arrested for Spitting. for the nine-million-dollar hospital which is to be built in New York to take the place of The newspapers announce that about the old Bellevue Hospital buildings, ample thirty persons were recently arrested in provision is made for wide balconies com- Chicago for spitting on the sidewalks. municating with every pavilion, and for a Every city should have an ordinance against great roof garden, so that all the patients spitting on the sidewalks, in street-cars and will have opportunity for contact with the other public places, and the ordinance outdoor air. The outdoor treatment is a should be enforced. This is one of the most measure of the greatest importance, and is effective means of educating the public re- destined to receive increasing attention from specting the dangerous character of saliva medical men and those for whom they care. as the principal source of infection by tuberculosis.

A Curious Occupation. Solution of Pig's Kidney. In passing a London pawnshop nowa- One of the most recently suggested rem- days one is almost certain to see displayed edies is a solution of the kidney of the pig in a conspicuous manner a sign reading, prepared by pounding the kidney to a pulp, " Old teeth bought and sold here; " and and macerating in water for several hours. from the advertising one sees in the news- The solution thus prepared is to be drunk papers, it is apparent that quite a business in three portions during the day, in cases has sprung up in Great Britain in the traffic of inflammation of the kidney. It would of second-hand teeth. seem that one would be quite as likely to Now comes the news that a considerable contract renal disease from a pig's kidney number of persons in London make their as to be cured of disease of the kidney, for living by selling portions of their skin the pig certainly does not take much better which may be needed in the surgical re- care of his kidneys than does the average pair of the victim of some accident. This human being. Examinations by experts traffic in human skin is an illustration of have shown that the kidney of the hog is in the influence of new discoveries and many cases affected by tuberculosis. The scientific progress in creating new in- kidney is also not infrequently the seat of dustries. cancer.

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10,225. Acidity of Stomach— Nuts --- 2. You ought to visit a sanitarium and have Linen Underwear. — G. C., Wisconsin: " I. your stomach put in order. Possibly it may Will meltose agree with one having free acid be helped by a correct dietary. You should in the stomach? 2. How many ounces of nuts, say pecans, should one eat to get the required adopt immediately the Sanitarium system of amount of fat? 3. Can linen underwear keep diet. We would advise you to address the the body warm enough for out-of-door work Sanitarium Food Co. for special diet pre- during zero weather? 4. What kind of linen scription, which will be sent you, from the is preferable —a knit garment, or one after the style of the Deimel linen mesh? Is there Dietetic Department, with other instructions. more warmth in the latter? 5. In wearing linen, with excessive exercise I soon become exhausted, and oftentimes have headache. Is 10,227. Nervous Dyspepsia.— K. B., Cal- it on account of too much evaporation? 6. ifornia : " Have a continual gnawing sensation In wearing woolen over linen, is the ordinary in the stomach, and a burning sensation over outside woolen clothing all that is necessary, the solar plexus, which is increased when any- or should it be a suit of woolen underwear thing is taken into the stomach. There is worn over it?" much gas ; food comes up covered with mucus ; sour and oftentimes leathery froth, resembling Ans.— i. In such cases meltose must be saliva. i. Is this nervous dyspepsia? 2. Can taken in moderation with the meal, or at the it be cured? 3. What diet would you recommend? I use no butter, sugar, nor meat; live beginning of the me 1. principally on eggs, milk and cream, zwie- 2. Two and one-half to three ounces. back, malted nuts, fruits, and gluten wafers. 3. In cold weather, woolen underclothing, 4. If one gains in flesh,- would it denote that for warmth, should be worn in addition. the nerves are getting better? 5. Is the burning sensation nervousness or inflammation? 4. It is not very material, but of course the 6. Will it gradually leave? 7. Would mustard heavier the fabric, the more protection it plasters be of benefit? 8. Which is the most affords. injurious to stomach, due to fermentation,— 5. The headache is doubtless due to the exer- the acid from fruit, milk, butter, or vegetables?" cise, and not to the evaporation. 6. The amount of woolen underclothing Ans.— Your case is a very aggravated one should be adjusted to the season and to the of indigestion and gastric catarrh. You will bodily needs. A maximum sunp1y of under- have to follow a very strict dietary for a long clothing is better than an excess of heavy time, and improve the general health. Our outer clothing. advice is to visit a sanitarium for treatment and training. There are several excellent institutions in your State. You will find their 10,226. Inflammation of Fingers. — Mrs. address in the list of sanitariums given else- W. K., New York : " For some time the little where in this number. Your case is too com- finger of each hand has been inflamed and plicated to be properly managed at home, but swollen to the first joint; there is also a dis- charge of pus from the nail roots. At times we will make a few suggestions in answer to it seems about to heal, but in a few days the your questions. trouble appears again. T. What is the cause? I. Your disease is gastric catarrh. 2. I am troubled with constipation, dyspepsia, 2. Yes, by a long and special course of foul breath, and bad taste in the mouth in the morning. Kindly suggest treatment." treatment. 3. Avoid milk and cream; otherwise your Ans.— i. You should consult a physician at dietary is all right. once respecting your fingers. The disease may 4. Yes. be parasitic, or it may be something more 5. Neither one, but the congested and irri- serious. tated state of the nerves.

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6. It will be somewhat improved. 5. There is probably a spasm of the abdom- 7. The relief will be merely temporary. We inal muscles due to visceral irritation. advise fomentations night and morning, and 6. It is probably distended with gas. the moist abdominal bandage to be worn night 7. Stop smoking. Follow a sanitarium and day. The bandage should be covered well dietary strictly, and the appetite will disap- with mackintosh and flannel. pear. 8. Butter and all clear fats are very harm- 8. Yes. Local palpitation often results from ful in such cases as yours. Milk and cream indigestion. are also detrimental. Your stomach is doubt- 9. That may be hectic fever. The tem- less dilated, and milk must always be avoided perature should be taken. The cause may pos- in such cases. Fruit is healthful if properly sibly be indigestion. eaten, avoiding the skins, seeds, etc. Very so. Yes, very frequently. acid fruits may be avoided if irritating. Coarse Is. Indigestion, with' prolapse of the stom- vegetables must be avoided. Only such should ach and bowels and a congested state of the be taken as can be reduced to a pulp in the viscera, is the most common cause of blues. mouth; for instance, spinach, green peas, ex- cluding the hulls, etc. 10,229. Itching Piles—Pain in Back — Kidney Trouble.— Mrs. L. W. K., Cal- ifornia: " i. Kindly prescribe treatment for itching piles. 2. Give cause of pain and lame- 10,228. Stomach Trouble.— Mrs. A. 0. ness in back between shoulders, more espe- B., Illinois : " r. What are the indications of cially toward the left; same pain sometimes prolapsed stomach, cause, and remedy? 2. Are down in left side. 3. Is it neuralgia or rheu- the bowels necessarily elevated when a full in- matism? Have used hot applications without spiration is taken by a person in an erect improvement. 4. Does puffiness under the eyes position who has never constricted the waist? indicate kidney trouble? 5. Give cause of and 3. Why, in the same person, is there an up- cure for sleeplessness." ward movement of the bowels when the lungs are filled while in a lying posture? 4. Does Ans.— i. Bathing in very hot water will heart trouble have anything to do with it? often give relief. 5. What is indicated if one feels as if holding 2. or drawing in the bowels if there is a slight There may be prolapsus of the bowels, or disposition to elevate the shoulders instead irritation of the solar plexus and lumbar gan- of freely dropping them? 6. What is the glia arising from indigestion. state of the stomach when gas is eructated if 3. Probably not. one or two long breaths are taken? 7. Sug- gest aid to overcome habit of smoking. 8. 4. Not necessarily, but frequently. The case Does indigestion give consciousness of heart should be carefully investigated. pulsations in the back or in the top of head? 5. The disease may be due to too much blood 9. What is indicated if the cheeks flush? so. in the brain, or to irritating poisons in the Does an empty stomach or indigestion cause a feeling of depression and foreboding? blood. The cause must be removed. A warm Is there any particular disorder of the stomach foot bath taken just before going to bed will that causes the ' blues '? " often induce sleep by withdrawing the blood from the head. A wet bandage, well covered Ans.— 1. The only positive indication is with flannel so as to produce thorough warm- prolapse of the stomach. The bulging of your ing, will often accomplish the same result, and abdomen is a pretty certain indication of pro- also the moist abdominal bandage, covered lapsed stomach. The location of the stomach with mackintosh and well covered with flan- can be determined with precision only by a nel, worn about the abdomen. The neutral careful physical examination by a skilled phy- bath is an excellent means of relieving sleep- sician. lessness due to irritation from poisons in the 2. No. When the lungs are filled, the bowels blood. The temperature should be from 93° are compressed by the descent of the dia- to 95°, the duration fifteen minutes to two phragm. hours, or until the patient is tired or falls 3. The abdominal walls are drawn in by the asleep. Great care should be taken to avoid lifting of the ribs, but the bowels are not ele- chilling or too much rubbing and exercise vated. after the bath. The patient should be gently 4. Probably not. dried after the bath and put back to bed. LITERARY NOTES

A REMARKABLE book, full of interesting sug- Organization Society of the City of New York. gestions for all educators and parents, is " Tol- Cloth, $1.00. Paper, 5o cents. stoy as a Schoolmaster," by Ernest Howard This is a valuable contribution toward the Crosby. When the Russian serfs were freed world-wide movement " to put an end to the half a century ago, the Count set to work to most deadly and most needless scourge with educate the peasant children of his native vil- which humanity is afflicted." It contains a lage, to fit them for their newly acquired number of papers and essays on the causes of freedom. The views on education set forth consumption and the proper methods of treat= in this small volume are based mainly on his ment, and gives the social and statistical as- personal experience and experiments. pects of the subject. Crowded cities are The ideas contained in the book are some- shown to favor the development of this what revolutionary, but not therefore to be deadly disease, and certain races and occupa- condemned. The summing up of his deduc- tions seem to be specially liable. tions is that the sole basis of education is Indirect methods of dealing with the dis- freedom — the freedom of the pupil to make ease are coming to be more and more relied up his own mind as to what he will learn and upon. " The problem would soon disappear how he will learn it. " That the pupils should of itself," says the report, " if it were possible come to learn of their own accord, is a con- for everybody to breathe fairly pure air, to be ditio sine qua non of all fruitful teaching, just clean with a reasonable effort, and to have as in feeding it is a conditio sine qua non that enough of the right sort of food to eat." Con- the eater should be hungry." What a child cerning the recent magnificent donation of eats with an appetite nourishes it, but that Mr. Rockefeller of seven million dollars to which you force down its throat gives it indi- search for a specific medicine to cure consump- gestion. The best thing to do, therefore, is to tion, Dr. Knopf says : " I could wish that the confine instruction largely to the answering University, representing the city of Chicago, of the cravings of the child, helping him to which is the recipient of the gift, were al- develop along his own lines. The prevailing lowed to use the greater portion of these mil- education of the day he regards as moral des- lions for the purchase of the worst tenements potism,— the determination of one individual in that city, and the erection of model houses to make another individual exactly like him- for the laborer in their stead; for the estab- self. The hours of school should be fixed, he lishment of a few playgrounds ; for public thinks, but the pupils should be free to come baths ; and last, but not least, for the estab- or not, as they pleased. lishment and maintenance of sanatoria for Tolstoy would take especial care to free the poor consumptives." children of the well-to-do from what he calls One very encouraging feature of the report " the parasitic tendencies " of their position. is that the mortality from consumption is de- " Let them," he says, " do all they can for creasing, especially in those localities where themselves ; carry out their own slops, fill their attention is being paid to the necessary sani- own jugs, wash up, arrange their rooms, clean tary reforms. their boots and clothes, lay the table," etc. These things he believed to be one hundred " The Coming Revolution in Diet," reprinted times more important for the children's hap- National Review, is an able advocacy piness than a knowledge of French or history. from the by Neville Lytton of the uric-acid-free diet so The book is full of charming little incidents strongly recommended by Dr. Haig. The so- showing the practical working out of the prin- called " uric-acid diseases " are shown to be ciples laid down. It should have an honored simply "poisonings by unnatural food," which place in the library of every parent and may be prevented or cured by refusing to swal- teacher. low it. The progress of the revolution in diet The Hammersmark Publishing Co., 151-153 is shown in the fact that the vegetarian " is Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. • no longer a special type. He exists where he is least expected, in court circles, in sporting " The Handbook on the Prevention of Tu- circles, and among workingmen. The ideal berculosis," issued by the Committee on the would be if he could multiply to such an extent Prevention of Tuberculosis of the Charity that hostesses, hotel-keepers, and' those who

433 434 LITERARY NOTES cater for table d'hote on board ship, would strength of the nation. Only as all children not think it unreasonable to provide at least have the very best opportunities for develop- one nourishing dish for those who abstain ment will our homes, our schools, our fac- from meat, and thereby save them from much tories, our laws, and our national life reach unnecessary privation." the highest standards.— The July Pilgrim. Printed and published by Walbrook & Co., Ltd., 13-15 Whitefriars St., London, E. C. Under the title of " Women in Turkey," Mary Mills Patrick, in The Forum for July- September, gives a vivid picture of the posi- For both timeliness and vivacity the July tion of women in the land of the Sultan, number of the Atlantic is a notable one. The showing the progress they are making in leading article, a plea for Publicity for Ex- many fields, and tending to dispel some of the press Companies, by Prof. F. H. Dixon, is a popular notions concerning them. The edu- searching study of the vast but little under- cational advantages afforded to young girls stood business of the express companies in are especially dwelt upon. this country which will open the eyes of many people. rIOTHER'S CAKE. The Woman's Home Companion for July WHITES of three eggs; beat them well; has much that is appropriate to the season (Mollie, let me fasten your pin, besides the regular good things for which it Lost your rubbers? I'll find them, dear- can always be depended upon. Here, you forgot to bring them in.)

One cup sugar (Certainly, Dick, Gen. Nelson A. Miles contributes to Success I think I hung it up in the hall; Magazine for July an interesting article on Wait till I brush your coat, my boy; " The Ambition of Japan." He discusses the Yes, I cared for your bat and ball.) subject of her military successes from the viewpoint of an expert, and is evidently im- Four tablespoons of water, cold; pressed with the fact that Japan has become (Your check-book, Jack? I laid it up, one of the great world powers. Afraid the children might get it there.) Pastry flour, one level cup.

So commendable are the aims and purposes Baking powder and flavor next; of the National Congress of Mothers, it is (My! the baby has wakened now.) not surprising the organization has the hearty Have I forgotten to add the yolks? support of hundreds who are not mothers, but Surely I must, though I don't see how ! who have the welfare of the country at heart. As the chief object is to raise the standard of Rock-a-by, baby, rock-a-by — home life and develop wiser, better-trained Ah, you rogue, you are wide awake! parenthood, the work of the congress is civic I'll tie you into your little chair, work in its broadest and highest sense. Ju- And you shall watch mama finish her cake. venile-Court work and the probation system —Florence J. Boyce, in July Good House- have been successfully inaugurated in many keeping. localities, and through the public schools the homes of the masses are being reached. The preparation of children's lunches, the hygiene The New England Magazine for July holds of home and food supply, and the care of its own well among current publications. The childhood mentally, physically, and morally number opens with some illustrated material is furthered by the association. The work of on the quaint and historically interesting the congress, though unique, many-sided, and town of Kingston, Mass., by Ethel Hobart. far-reaching in its scope, is practical, effectual, Other excellent articles are too numerous and vital, the sole aim being the protection, to mention. The number also contains some in its highest possibilities, of the home — the unusually excellent poetry. PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT

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25, and should be addressed to Goon HEALTH, have been heard denouncing the evils in to- Publishers' Department. bacco, but the masses have been asleep, till the habit of using tobacco in some form has become almost a household evil, and tobacco A NFAN VEGETARIAN CAFE FOR ST. shops are far more numerous than the saloon. LOUIS. And it almost seems as if nothing short of the WE have received the announcement of the deadly cigarette would ever arouse sleeping opening of a new vegetarian cafe at 814 Pine fathers and mothers to the danger lurking in St., St. Louis, Mo. Judging by the sample tobacco. menus, this new departure will be welcome Hon. Geo. W. Stubbs, judge of the Juvenile indeed to those who wish to obtain healthful Court of Indianapolis, recently read a paper and palatable preparations, and to those who before the Indiana State Teachers' Associa- are tired of peppery dishes, accompanied by tion, on " The Evils of the Cigarette," in which still more " fiery " relishes. Meals served at he said : — "The Vegetarian" are free from all injurious " I have had before me more than six hun- condiments and from the poisonous substances dred boys who were users of cigarettes, most found in flesh foods. of whom had become cigarette fiends — that is Those in St. Louis who have heretofore ex- to say, they had been addicted to the habit perienced a difficulty in obtaining many of the so long that it had mastered them ; and I Battle Creek Sanitarium foods will be pleased have found that in nearly every case where the to know that a complete line is carried in offense charged was of a grievous, criminal, or connection with the cafe, with an experienced degrading and debasing nature, the defendant salesman in charge. was a user of cigarettes. Never a week goes by, and sometimes scarcely a day passes, that boys are not brought before me who are cigar- THE annual International Congress of the ette fiends." Vegetarian Federal Union was held in Lon- Mr. E. E. York, superintendent of the Indiana don at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon St., Boys' School at Plainfield, Ind., says that "out June 21-24. The first day of the Congress of the six hundred boys admitted to this insti- was occupied by the meetings of the Women's tution during the past three years, sixty per Vegetarian Union. On the 22d, Mr. Eustace cent were absolutely known to have been Miles, M. A., of Cambridge University, took cigarette fiends, while less positive evidence at the chair, and papers were read by Dr. A. B. hand shows that ninety per cent formed the Olsen, Mr. G. H. Allen, Mr. Albert Broad- habit that sapped their virtue and strength at bent, and others, on Diet and Physical De- an early age." The charges that he lays to terioration, Diet and Temperance, The Se- the effects of the cigarette are, listlessness, lection and Cooking of Vegetarian Foods, restlessness, nervousness, no energy or am- etc. On the 23d, the Rev. James Clark was bition, bleared eyes, emaciation, sunken chest, chairman, and the subject of the papers read and agonizing deaths. was The Ethical Aspect of Vegetarianism. Miss Martha J. Ridpath, principal of the A great variety of vegetarian products were Greencastle High School, says of the boy who on exhibition during the Congress. uses cigarettes that " his moral sense becomes so perverted that no dependence can be placed upon what he says. He does not know the truth from a falsehood. His moral sense is SAVE THE BOYS. low in all respects. He will turn the most No person can fairly estimate the ruin that lofty sentiment in literature to vulgarity, and has been accomplished by the various alcoholic the most beautiful paintings to vileness. He beverages. But as great as it may be, when we is slouchy in his manner, his clothing, and his consider all the conditions of the case, the ruin talk. There is a point beyond which a boy can wrought by alcohol is far exceeded by tobacco not be saved." using. For the past fifty years or more the And now we appeal to the readers of this various temperance organizations and legis- journal; we appeal to them in behalf of the lation have in some measure stayed the ruin boy who has not yet gone beyond that " point ; " of the rum traffic. But all this time the in the name and for the sake of Him who masses have been asleep to the onward march died to save the boys, we appeal to them to of the death-dealing nicotin. True, some voices arouse to the situation, and aid us in the cir-

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REDUCED TO $5.75 8212Zg! Our Famous 60 YEARS' PURITAN WATERSTILL. EXPERIENCE Finest made. Solid Copper. Used by II. S. Gov't- Over ?2,000 sold. Wonder- ful invention. Beats filters. Placed over kitchen stove it purifies the foulest water, removes every impurity. Furnishes deli- atitireetw:it.e.r. iirl3crs tir Mill.' lewdly id and other fevers andn esumemaerYstLees. Only safe water for babies, children, in- :PATENTS valids, etc. Cures disease. Customers delighted. Guaranteed as represented or your money refunded. Shipped promptly TRADE MARKS to any address. Booklet free. Last Chance. DESIGNS NAFIRISON MANUFACTURING CO., 73 HARRISON BLDG., CINCINNATI. a COPYRIGHTS &C. Anyone sendlug a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an CENTS bwr elnegk ay, o eo nI raita thir-el r- Invention is probably patentable. Communica. teen tions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. the old national Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive 15 news review. This paper special notice, without charge, in the gives you every week all the important news of the world, stated clearly and without bias. It is the only news review that is truly comprehensive, and at the Scientific Jimerican• same time it is not padded or bulky. It gives you the A handsomely illustrated weekly. largest cir- wheat without the chaff. It is a time sayer for all culation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a busy people. In purpose it is high-toned, healthy, and $1. Sold by all newsdealers. year; four months, inspiring; it is a protest against sensational journalism. 361Broadway, It takes the place of periodicals costing $2.60 and MUNN & Co New York $3.00. Try it, and you would not be without Branch Office. 625 F St., Washington, D. C. It for many times its cost. MOO per year. Address, PATHFINDER, Washington, D. C. READ OUR COTIBINATION OFFERS

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THE ALLEN FOUNTAIN BRUSH set- tles it. So simple. convenient, effective. Dawn A Perfect Sanitary Bath, hot or cold, with two quarts of water. Friction, Shower, Massage combined. Cleanses skin, promotes health, cures • HE D. & B. Line Steamers Leave Detroit disease. For every home, every traveler, T daily at 5.00 p.m. ( central time) and with or without bathroom. SEND $2.00 only, Buffalo daily at 5.30 p.m. (eastern time) Y3 regular price, balance 30 and 6o days, reaching their destination the next morning and we will ship our $6.00 Superb Portable after a cool, comfortable night's rest en route. Outfit,No. 1A including Superb Fountain Brush, Metallic Sanitary Fountain Tubing, and Safety By special arrangement all classes of tickets ONLY Floor Mat. FULLY GUARANTEED. reading via the Michigan Central, Wabash and Grand Trunk Railways, between Detroit Write for Free Book, "SCIENCE OF THE BATH" and Buffalo, in either direction, are optional and will be accepted for transportation on D. B. Line. ke S5O weekly the & AGENTS MaAsk for terms Detroit & Buffalo Steamboat Co. THE ALLEN A. A. SCHANTZ, Gen'! Supt. at Pass. Traf. Mgr. MANUFACTURING Detroit, Mich. tOILEEr`l sO:

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Is the Eastern Branch of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and follows the same rational principles as to diet, treatment and health culture. It is thoroughly equipped with every convenience for the care of invalids, and with the latest and best appliances for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic conditions. The location is truly ideal. Within six miles of Boston, and yet completely hid- den away in midst of the famous Mid- dlesex Fells, a natural park of 3,500 acres preserved by the state on account of the wonderful charm and beauty of the scenery. It is just the place to rest tired nerves and recuperate from brain fag; assisted by a corps of experienced physicians and trained nurses.

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And we will send you Goon HEALTH one year, and a $3.85 HormArr BIBLE, bound in Egyptian morocco with divinity circuit, red under gold, size 53,(x7. The type is bourgeois, 8vo., easy to read. Contains column references, fifteen maps, four thousand questions and answers on the Bible, concordance of nearly fifty thousand refer- eines, and a new illustrated Bible dictionary. We will send a smaller Holman Bible, size 434x6%, with fine minion print, 16mo., in place of the larger size, if desired. Thumb index, 50e extra. Send for our 1904 Catalogue. COMBINATIONS

We will send GOOD HEALTH one year with the following for price set opposite each: Life Boat $1.00 Life Boat and Medical Missionary $1.23 Medical Missionary 1.00 Vegetarian 1.25 Little Friend . . . — ...... 1.10 American Motherhood 1.25 Bible Training School 1.00 Youth's Instructor 1.50 Atlantic Union Gleaner 1.00 Southern Watchman 1.25 Advocate of Christian Education 1.00 Signs of the Times 2.00 The Review and Herald may be included in any of the above offers by adding $1.50. New or renewed subscriptions accepted. All sent to different addresses if desired. HEALTH BOOKS

We will send you any of the following named books, written by J. H. Kellogg, M. D., Super- intendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, with one year's subscription to Goon HEALTH and Medical Missionary for the prices set opposite each : The Stomach, Its Disorders and How to Man the Masterpiece, cloth Cure Them, cloth $2.00 Half-buff $34..030 Half-buff 2.50 Library 4.25 Art-of Massage, cloth 2.75 Home Hand-Book, cloth 4.75 Half-leather 3.50 Half-buff 5.25 Ladies' Guide, cloth 3.50 Library 5.75 Half-buff 4.00 Or Science in the Kitchen, by Mrs. E. B Library 4.25 Kello4g, in Oilcloth. 2.25 Miracle of Life, cloth 2.00 Healthful Cookery. cloth . 1.45 HAVE YOU A COLD? DO YOU SUFFER WITH CATARRH?

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COURSE IN DOMESTIC SCIENCE HE Battle Creek Sanitarium management have organized a new department of instruction, to be known as the School of Domestic Science. It will be carried on in connection T with the Training-school for Nurses and other educational work conducted by the institution. This course will cover a year of study. The course of instruction will consist of lectures, demonstrations, practical drills and training, and laboratory work. The following subjects will be included in the course : Elementary Anatomy ; Physiology and Hygiene; Household Physics and Chemistry o f Common Things ; Didactic and Laboratory Work ; Sewing — Dressmaking ; Domestic San- itation ; Household Bacteriology ; Economy ; Heating ; Ventilation; Lighting; Care of the House; Sanitary Laundering; Household Pests; Cleaning, Special and General; Hot Weather Housekeeping; Gymnas- tics of Housework ; Dietetics; Cookery ; Microscopy ; Chemistry of Cooking; Cooking for the Sick. The course will be in every way practical and up-to-date. Nowhere in the world can so thoroughgoing a course be obtained as in this course. Only such persons as can give first-class references will be admitted to this course. TERMS: The terms for instruction in this course are exceedingly liberal. Students will be given an opportunity to pay for room, board, laundering, and instruction by six hours' work daily. Those who desire to do so will have an opportunity to work eight or ten hours daily, and receive compensation at a fixed rate per hour for this extra work. This will make it possible for able-bodied persons to earn eight or ten dollars a mouth in addition to board, room, and instruction while taking this course. The class hours are arranged in the evening, and at such other times as will not interfere with the regular duties, so as to enable those who desire to do so to put in full time in work. This is by all odds the most favorable opportunity offered young men and women, of limited means, who desire to prepare themselves for a useful life work. A young man or young woman without a dollar in pocket can begin this course in Domestic Economy, and after complet- ing it, can enter the Sanitarium Training-school for Nurses, and, after passing through this course, can enter the American Medical Missionary College, and can finally graduate into the medical profession and pay his way from the beginning to the end of this long and thorough course of training in labor for the institution. Each course fits those who take it for a useful and lucrative position. Those who finish the Domestic Science work can readily find positions as cooks, matrons, and in other domestic capacities. Graduates from the Nurses' Training-school are in constant demand, and command good wages. Those who are interested in this educational opportunity should address for further information, Mrs. M. S. Foy, Secretary of School of Domestic Science, Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich. The course begins June 1st. Students received until July 15th, but may be received at any time by special arrangements.

in replying to advertisements please mention GOOD IlEALTK • ADVERTISEMENTS. New York Styles by Mail If you lived in New York, would you go out to a small under-stocked store in a village to buy your shoes ? That's exactly what you are doing if you live in a small town and haven't yet learned the advantage of the Regal Mail-Order system. It puts you in direct touch with the largest shoe $350 store in the world. Send for our new Style Book. It shows you, with large photographic reproductions, shoes that are being worn now not only in New York, but by the most fastidious dressers of two continents. If you haven't already decided on a style, allow us to suggest The "CAMPUS" A good shoe for bad weather and a fine shoe for fine weather. Correct style has been worked into the most enduring Regal materials. Finest Oil Grain Leather. Heavy double sole, broad walking heel. ORD1111 BY STYLE Style 93EC.—As Illustrated. tyle 93EA.—Same, except in Black King Calf. Style WEB. —Same, of Heavy Russet Oil Grain Leather. The " Campus," like all Regals, is made Send for our with famous Regal King Calf Uppers and New Spring genuine Oak Tanned Soles, as carefully moulded and shaped as any rnade-to- Style Book order shoe. It shows 75 new hand- We guarantee you made some Spring styles. It to-order fit, too. All Re- is the very next thing to gals are made seeing the shoes them- IN QUARTER SIZES selves. It contains com- That means 8 widths in 36 plete descriptions and in- lengths — 288 fittings. The structions for taking your custom-maker's foot-measures measurement and ordering. cannot beat this. With our system of measure- With it you can buy shoes by ment a Regal expert can pick mail with as much satisfaction as from our enormous stock and if send you by mail a pair of you bought in our largest New York Regals that will fit absolutely store. every contour of your foot. Samples of leathers sent on request •-• is the price for $3.5 all Regals. Regal shoes are delivered, carriage prepaid, anywhere in the United States or Canada, Mexico. Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaiian and Philipp ne Islands, also Germany and all points covered by the Parcels Poet System, on receipt of $3.75 per pair. (The extra 25 cents is for delivery I

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ONLY $10.00 Cash, balance $5.00 a month, buys this 3 - year guaranteed Buggy— $37.50 on time payments or $33.50 cash. We trust honest people located in all parts of the World. write forfree catalogue of Buggies. Surreys, Phaetons, Spring and Farm Wagons. CENTURY MANUFACTURING CO. Dept. 1107 EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.

ivbRIDER AGENTS WANTED No Money Required until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone on Ten Days Free Trial Finest guaranteed 1905 Models $10 to $24 with Coaster - Brakes and Punctureless Tires. 1903 & 1904 Models $7 to Best Makes n Any make or model you want at one-third usual price. Choice of any standard tires and best equipment on all our bicycles. Strongest guarantee. We SHIP ON APPROVAL C. 0. D. to any one without a cent deposit and allow 10 DAYS \k ,r FREE TRIAL before purchase is binding. ESTAB- L1SHED 500 Second Hand Wheels 3 t $8 tak en in trade by our Chicago retail stores. 0 12 YEARS all makes and models, good as new a bicycle until you have written for our FACTORY DO NOT BUY PRICES AND FREE TRIAL OFFER. Tires, equipment, sundries and sporting goods of all kinds, at half regular price, in our big free Sundry Catalogue. Contains a world of useful information. Write for it. PUNCTURE-PROOF TIRES $4,:,7,! Regular price $8.50 per Pair. To Introduce $ we will Sell .75 NAILS, TACKS You a Sample OR GLASS WON'T LET Pair for Only OUT THE AIR NO MORE TROUBLE from PUNCTURES Result of 15 years experience in tire making. EASY RIDING, STRONG, No danger from THORNS, CACTUS, DURABLE, SELF HEALING PINS, NAILS, TACKS or GLASS. Serious punctures, like intentional knife cuts, can be FULLY COVERED by PATENTS vulcanized like any other tire. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS Send for Catalogue "T," showing all kinds and makes of tires at 52.00 per pair and un— also Coaster-Brakes. Built-up Wheels and Bicycles—Sundries at Half the usual prices. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "I)." This tie' will outlast any other make—Soft. Elastic and Easy Riding. We will ship C. 0. D, ON APPROVAL AND EXAMINATION without a cent deposit. We will allow a cash discount of 5% (thereby making the price S4.50 per pair) if you send full cash with order. Tires to be returned at our expense if not satisfactory on examination. 43tt MEAD CYCLE CO., Dept. "J.L." CHICAGO, ILLS In replying to advertisements please mention GOOD HEALTH. SANITARIUMS The following institutions are conducted in harmony with the same methods and principles as- the Battle Creek Sanitarium.

BOULDER-COLORADO SANITARIUM, Boulder, Colo. HINSDALE SANITARIUM, Hinsdale. Ill. Howard F. Rand, M. D., Superintendent. David Paulson, M. D., Superintendent. CALIFORNIA SANITARIUM, Sanitarium, Napa Co., TREATMENT ROOMS, 44 E. Main St., Middletown, Cal. N. Y. NEBRASKA SANITARIUM, College View, Lincoln, A. J. Read, M. D., Superintendent. Nebr. ROCHESTER TREATMENT PARLORS, 156 Monroe W. A. George, M. D., Superintendent. Ave., Rochester, N. Y. PORTLAND SANITARIUM, West Ave., Mt. Tabor, Ore. SEATTLE SANITARIUM, 1313 3d Ave., Seattle, Wash. W. R. Simmons, M. D., Superintendent. Alfred Shryock, M. D., Superintendent. NEW ENGLAND SANITARIUM, Melrose, Mass. PEORIA SANITARIUM, 203 3d Ave., Peoria, Ill. C. C. Nicola. M. D., Superintendent. J. E. Heald, M. D., Superintendent. CHICAGO SANITARIUM, 28 83d Place, Chicago, Ill. KEENE SANITARIUM, Keene, Texas. Frank J. Otis, M. D., Superintendent. P. F. Haskell, M. D., Superintendent. IOWA SANITARIUM, 603 E. 12th St., Des Moines, GLENDALE SANITARIUM, Glendale, Cal. Iowa. J. A. Burden, Superintendent. J. E. Colloran, M. D., Superintendent. TRI-CITY SANITARIUM, 1213 15th St., Moline, Ill. PENNSYLVANIA SANITARIUM, 1929 Girard Ave., S. P. S. Edwards, M. D., Superintendent. Philadelphia, Pa. PARADISE VALLEY SANITARIUM, City Office and H. B. Knapp. M. D., Superintendent. Treatment Rooms, 1117 Fourth St., San Diego, Cal. SURREY HILLS HYDROPATHIC INSTITUTE, Cater- Sanitarium, Box 308, National City, Cal. .ham, Surrey, England. GARDEN CITY SANITARIUM, San Jose, Cal. A. B. Olsen. B. S., M. D., M. R. C. S., Supt. Lewis J. Belknap, M. D., Superintendent. LEICESTER SANITARIUM, 80 Regent St., Leicester, MADISON SANITARIUM, Madison, Wis. England. C. P. Farnsworth, M. D., Superintendent. F. C. Richards, M. D., M. R. C. S., Supt. SPOKANE SANITARIUM, Spokane, Wash. CALCUTTA SANITARIUM, 50 Park St., Calcutta, Silas Yarnell, M. D., Superintendent. India. TREATMENT PARLORS, 137 Oneida St., Milwaukee, R S. Ingersoll, M. D., Superintendent. Wis. PLITMSTEAD SANITARIUM, Cape Town, So. Africa. TREATMENT ROOMS, 201 Granby Block, Cedar Rap- Geo. Thomason, M. D., L. R. C. S., Supt. ids, Iowa. CHRISTCHURCH SANITARIUM, Papanut, Christ- R. L. Mantz, M. D., Superintendent. church, New Zealand. BUFFALO SANITARIUM, 922 Niagara St., Buffalo, KOBE SANITARIUM, 42 Yamanoto-dori, Nlchome, N. Y. Kobe, Japan. A. R. Satterlee, M. D., Superintendent. S. A. Lockwood. M. D., Superintendent. NASHVILLE SANITARIUM, Cor. Church and Vine GUADALAJARA SANITARIUM, Apartado 188, Guad- Ste., Nashville. Tenn. alajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico. 0. M. Hayward, M. D., Superintendent. J. W. Erkenbeck, M. D., Superintendent. PROSPECT SANITARIUM, 1167-1161 Prospect St., INSTITUT SANITAIRE, Basle. Switzerland. Cleveland, Ohio. P. DeForest, M. D., Superintendent. F. A. Stahl, Superintendent. SKODSBORG SANITARIUM, Skodsborg, Denmark. TACOMA SANITARIUM, 426 S. C St., Tacoma, Wash. J. Carl Ottosen, A. M., M. D., Superintendent. T. J. Allen, M. D., Superintendent. SYDNEY SANITARIUM, Wahroonga, N. S. W., Aus- COLORADO SPRINGS SANITARIUM, 126 N. Cascade tralia. Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo. D. H. Kress, M. D., Superintendent. T. J. Evans, M. D., Superintendent. FRIEDENSAU SANITARIUM, Post Grabow, Bea. KANSAS SANITARIUM, 3200 W. Douglass Ave., Magdeburg, Germany. Wichita, Kans. A. J. Hoenes, M. D., Superintendent. B. E. Fulmer. .M. D.. Superintendent. KIMBERLEY BATHS, 32 Old Main St., Kimberley, So. UPPER HUDSON SANITARIUM, Hadley, N. Y. Africa. E. F. Otis, M. D., Superintendent. J. V. Willson, Mgr.

Health Food Restaurants Eating-houses where food prepared in accordance with the principles of rational dietetics and scientific cookery may be obtained are now open in the following places: — RESTAURANTS. Vegetarian Cafe, 214 Union St., Seattle, Wash. White Rose Restaurant, W. H. Nelson, 36 W. 18th St., The Pure Food Cafe, 13 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, New York City. Utah. Vegetarian Cafe, S. 170 Howard St., Spokane. Wash. Hygienic Company, 1209 G St., N. W. Washington, D. C. The Laurel, 11 W. 18th St., New York City. Dining Room, Church and Vine Sts., Nashville, Tenn. Hygeia Cafe, 203 3d Ave., Peoria, Ill. Hygela Dining Rooms, 5759 Drexel Ave., Chicago, Ill. Vegetarian Cafe, 105 6th St., Portland, Oregon. Hygienic Cafe, 426 State St., Madison, Wis. Pure Food Cafe, 607 Locust St., Des Moines, Iowa. STORES. Pure Food Cafe, 403 E. 11th St., Kansas City, Mo. Pure. Food Store, 2129 Farnum St., Omaha, Nebr. Good Health Cafe, 145 S. 13th St., Lincoln, Nebr. Health Food Store, Herman M. Walen, 16 Pinchon Vegetarian Cafe, 19 East Bijou St.. Colorado Springs, St., Springfield, Mass. Colo. Health Food Store, J. H. Whitmore, 118 Miami Ave., Vegetarian Restaurant, 655 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. Detroit, Mich. Vegetarian Cafe, 814 Pine St.. SA. Louis, Mo. Boston Health Food Store, W. F. Childs, Room 31$, Vegetarian Cafe, 1519 Stout St., Denver, Colo. 100 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. The Vegetarian, 755 Market St., San Francisco, Cal. N. E. Sanitarium Food Co., 23 Wyoming Ave., D. M. Vegetarian Dining Rooms, 317 W. 3d St., Los Angeles, Hull. Mgr., Melrose, Mass. Cal. Health Food Store, 156 Monroe Ave., Rochester, N. Y. Portland Sanitarium Rooms, Mt. Tabor, Oregon. Nebraska Sanitarium Food Co., College View, Nebr. In replying to advertisements please mention GOOD HEALTH. ADVERTLSEMENTS. A New Book

SOME OF THE SUB- Dangers in the Air, and How to Avoid Them.—Diseases Due to JECTS TREATED Germs—The Marvelous De- fenses of the Body—How to Combat Germs—Soap as a ,Disinfectant—Are Germs Use- The Wonderful flysteries of Life. ful? Marvelous Intelligence Mani- The Curing, Healing Power of fested in Plants—The Strange Light.—Wonderful Pr o per- Instincts of Carnivorous Che t ies of Light, and Its Effect Plants—Intelligence in the Inanimate World—The X-Ray upon the Skin—Skin Train- and Radium—Can Atoms ing—The Morning Bath. Think?—Tissues Which How the Body Is Warmed.-- Think, Feel, and Work—A Regulation of the Body Heat Physiological Puzzle—The —Fever. Vital Fire—The Source of Bodily Heat. The Proper Clothing of the Body.—Waist Constriction— fliracies of Digestion and Nu- The Deformities of Civilized trition.—Creative Power miracle Women—Savage Fashions— Manifest in Digestion—Why The Barbarity of Popular the Stomach Does not Digest Modes of Dr ess—Displace- Itself--The Miracle of the ment of Vital Organs Due to Cornfield—Pa wlow's Inter- Waist Constriction—Far- esting Experiment—The Re- reaching Mischiefs from Er- markable Discoveries of Hor- rors in Dress. ace Fletcher. How to be Strong.--A Day's Dietetic Sins.--The Divine Way Work—Exercise Assists Di- in Diet—God Feeds the World of gestion—R ound Shoulders —Erroneous Notions about and Flat Chest—Correct and Fruits—The Curative Value Incorrect Sitting Attitudes— of Fruits—Nuts—Milk Germs The Amount of Exercise Re- —Vegetable Milk. quired—Estimation of the Shall We Slay to Eat?—Flesh Work Done in Taking Exer- Eating and Cancer. cise. The Natural Way in Diet.—Why The Brain and the Nerves.-- Fats Render Food Indigesti- Feeling Cells and Working Life Cells The Windows of the ble—Condiments the Cause of "Gin Liver"—Cane-sugar a Mind—How to Have a Good Cause of Disease. BY 11,mory—Recent Interesting Discoveries about Nerve Cells " Life in the Blood." Marvels —How to Have a Clear Head of Healing and Creation.—The —How the Human Mind Dif- Battle in the Lymph Glands 3.1. Kellogg, M. D. fers from Mind in Lower Ani- —The Mystery of the Heart 111.1 i,—Huulan Instinct—The Beat—The Life in the Blood— Ministry elf Pain—The Prob- The Creative Power of the lem of Heredity--Man's Kin- Blood—The Healing Power of ship with His Maker—Chris- the Blood—How the Blood Physiology from a New tian Science—Rational Mind- Cells Combat Germs—How Standpoint. cure. the White Cells Destroy Ma- larial Germs—Blood-building What Is Disease?--The Rational Foods—How to Strengthen Use of Water—Cold Bathing the Heart. Old Truths Presented in a —Stomach Disorders—The New Setting. Hydriatic Treatment of Ty- What to Do in Case of Sudden phoid and Other Fevers—The Illness or Accident.—Proper Tonic Use of Water. Breathing—The Use of the Simple, Practical, Surpass. Drugs Which Enslave and Kill. Abdominal Muscles in Breath- — ing—Breathing a n d Diges- ingly Interesting. A Drunkard's Liver—Ap- tion—Vital Capacity—Culti- palling Statistics—Tea Tip- vating Lung Capacity. pling and Drunkenness. AGENTS WANTED 31 FULL-PAGE PLATES 6 COLORED PLATES 600 PAGES EVERYWHERE. $1.50 by MAIL, POST-PAID

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BIG TREES

Famous over all the world are those in the Mariposa Grove on the Raymond-Wawona Route to the Yoemite Valley. They are Reached Only by

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LT1 The largest and best equipped institution west of the Rocky Moun- tains, affili- ated with and employing the Battle Creek San tarium methods of treatment. Beau- tiful scenery. Delightful winter climate. A postal will bring large illustrated booklet.

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THE PASTEUR WATER FILTER

Typhoid Fever is very frequently propagated by contaminated well water. It is safe to say that scarcely a well exists in this country the water from which is wholesome to drink. The well is usually sunk as conveniently near to the house as possible, and most persons think that nothing finds its way into the well unless it jumps in from the top. On the contrary, it is positively shown that a well draws contamination from a V-shaped radius, draining a large surface where slops and animal excretions are usually seen. Under such conditions, a filter becomes an absolute necessity, and the Pasteur Water Filter easily ranks as the best. An ounce of prevention is always better than a pound of cure, and you can certainly pay the price of a filter more cheerfully than a doctor's bill, to say nothing of the care and anxiety which typhoid fever involves. Send for catalogue.

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The Battle Creek Sanitarium management were the first to organize a thoroughly complete system of physiological therapeutics. Water cures bad existed before,— eclectic institutions, mineral springs, and similar establishments,— but the Battle Creek institution was the first to organize a system and method embodying all physiological agencies. The fire which consumed the main building of the institution Feb. 18, tgoz, gave opportunity for complete reorgani- zation and new equipment. The new structure is absolutely fire-proof; the mode of fire-proof construction employed was, of all so-called fire-proof constructions, the only one that stood the test of the recent conflagration in Baltimore, One hundred and seventy-five rooms with private baths; six hy- draulic elevators; electric lights; and private telephone in each room. Spacious parlors on every floor, roof garden, dining-room and kitchen at the top. Beautiful outlook from every window. Accommodations for eight hundred guests. Staff of thirty doctors; three hundred and fifty nurses. Nearly forty years' experience in this institution has demonstrated that the great majority of chronic invalids of all classes, including many considered incurable, can be trained up to a state of healthful vigor by a systematic regimen based upon scientific principles, combined with a thoroughgoing application of the resources of hydrotherapy, phototherapy, thermother- apy, massage. Swedish movements, Swedish gymnastics, electrother- apy, and the open-air treatment, guided by the findings of bacteriological, chemical, microscopical, and other accurate methods of examination. Special ward for surgical cases with perfect appointments. Special departments for diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat, and in charge of experienced specialists. For information concerning the facilities afforded, tetras, etc., address, THE SANITARIUM, Battle Creek, Mich.

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THE BOULDER-COLORADO SANITARIUM is a well-equipped and well-regulated institution for the treatment of all chronic disorders. It is the only Sanitarium in the Rocky Mountain region intelligently employing the same system of rational treatment and conducted upon the same general health principles as the Battle Creek (Mich.) Sanitarium. • The buildinzs are equipped with all modern conveniences, including steam heating, electric lighting, elevators, gymnasium, etc. The medial appliances and equipment embrace Baths of every description, including the Electric Light Bath ; Massage and Manual Swedish movements ; Electricity in every form ; Classified dietary; Laboratory of Hygiene, for bacteriological, chemical, and microscopical investigations; Experienced Physicians and well-trained nurses of both sexes. No contagions or offensive diseases are received Into the institution. NO CONSUMPTIVE OR TUBERCULAR PATIENTS ARE RECEIVED. SPECIAL REDUCED RATES ARE MADE TO WINTER PATIENTS FROM NOVEMBER 1 TO JUNE 1. Write for catalogue and card of rates. Address, BOULDER-COLORADO SANITARIUM, Boulder, Colo.