Chloride of Lime is essential to the purification of all sick-rooms.
It keeps the atmosphere healthy, even in the most terrible epidemic
diseases.
It is a Mistake to load a weak stomach with water on the theory
that it is a tonic. Water should be taken only as it is desired to
quench thirst.
The Leaves of Geranium are an excellent application for cuts,✪ Application for Burns
when the skin is rubbed off, and other wounds of the same kind.
One or two leaves must be bruised and applied on linen to the part,
and the wound will become cicatrized in a very short time.
Two Teaspoonfuls of finely-powdered charcoal taken in a half-
tumbler of water will often give relief to the sick headache, when
caused, as in most cases it is, by a superabundance of acid on the
stomach.
In Smallpox the pits can be entirely prevented by covering the
pustules as fast as they brftak with a coating of collodion — a liquid
cuticle sold by all druggists.
When a person is overheated and exhausted, both the hands and
feet should be bathed in cold water, and something warm should be
taken at once✪ Cold Water Bath for Overheating — hot lemonade, ginger water, or something of this
kind. m
ECONOMY IN THE HOME.
"A penny saved is two pence clear,
A pin a day's a groat a year."
•OMESTIC ECONOMY ought to rank as one of the fine
arts. It is a duty which everybody preaches, but very
few know how to practise. There is stinginess in
thousands of homes, but true economy and good man-
agement in very few. There are thousands of house-
keepers who mistake meanness for economy, and there are thousands
more who want to be economical and don't know how. What they
save in one thing they waste in another, so that their efforts to re-
duce their household expenses are like pouring water into a bucket
that has a hole in the bottom. What is put in at one end runs out
at the other. The dollar saved in a carpet is spent upon some frail
mantel ornament whi'ch is broken the first week. What is saved in
the gown is lost in the bonnet, and people will go without a new
pair of shoes which they need to buy a new ribbon which they don't
need. There are men who will walk two miles to save a five-cent
car fare and spend the five cents on the way in a vile cigar made of
cabbage leaf, or a glass of froth which makes them hiccough for the rest
of the journey. There are women who will go slipshod with their
heels out of their stockings all the week in order to astonish their
neighbors by some piece of finery on the Sunday. ' There are families
that are half starved during the week in order to eat too much at
Sunday's dinner. There are mothers who will even sacrifice their
children's health to what they call economy, and have to pay ten
dollars to a doctor because they would not pay for nourishing food
in sufficient quantity. It was said of some highwayman when he died
(216)
ECONOMY IN THE HOME, 217
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Chloride of Lime is essential to the purification of all sick-rooms. It keeps the atmosphere healthy, even in the most terrible epidemic diseases.
It is a Mistake to load a weak stomach with water on the theory that it is a tonic. Water should be taken only as it is desired to quench thirst.
The Leaves of Geranium are an excellent application for cuts, when the skin is rubbed off, and other wounds of the same kind. One or two leaves must be bruised and applied on linen to the part, and the wound will become cicatrized in a very short time.
Two Teaspoonfuls of finely-powdered charcoal taken in a halftumbler of water will often give relief to the sick headache, when caused, as in most cases it is, by a superabundance of acid on the stomach.
In Smallpox the pits can be entirely prevented by covering the pustules as fast as they break with a coating of collodion — a liquid cuticle sold by all druggists.
When a person is overheated and exhausted, both the hands and feet should be bathed in cold water, and something warm should be taken at once — hot lemonade, ginger water, or something of this kind.
"A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year."
•OMESTIC ECONOMY ought to rank as one of the fine arts. It is a duty which everybody preaches, but very few know how to practise. There is stinginess in thousands of homes, but true economy and good management in very few. There are thousands of housekeepers who mistake meanness for economy, and there are thousands more who want to be economical and don't know how. What they save in one thing they waste in another, so that their efforts to reduce their household expenses are like pouring water into a bucket that has a hole in the bottom. What is put in at one end runs out at the other. The dollar saved in a carpet is spent upon some frail mantel ornament which is broken the first week. What is saved in the gown is lost in the bonnet, and people will go without a new pair of shoes which they need to buy a new ribbon which they don't need. There are men who will walk two miles to save a five-cent car fare and spend the five cents on the way in a vile cigar made of cabbage leaf, or a glass of froth which makes them hiccough for the rest of the journey. There are women who will go slipshod with their heels out of their stockings all the week in order to astonish their neighbors by some piece of finery on the Sunday. ' There are families that are half starved during the week in order to eat too much at Sunday's dinner. There are mothers who will even sacrifice their children's health to what they call economy, and have to pay ten dollars to a doctor because they would not pay for nourishing food
in sufficient quantity. It was said of some highwayman when he died (216)
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Application for BurnsCold Water Bath for Overheating