Let a child's home be the happiest house to him in the world; and to
be happy he must be merry and cheerful; and he ought to have an abun-
dance of playthings, to help on the merriment. If he has a dismal nurse,
and a dismal home, he may as well be incarcerated in a prison, and be
attended by a jailor. It is sad enough to see dismal, doleful men and
women, but it is a truly lamentable and unnatural sight to see a doleful
child. The young ought to be as playful and as full of innocent mischief
as kittens. There will be quite time enough in after years for sorrow and
for sadness.
Bright colors, plenty of light, clean windows (mind this, if you please),
an abundance of ^6'^^ colored prints, and toys without number, are the
proper furnishings of a nursery. Nursery! why, the very name tells you
what it ought to be — the home of childhood — the most important room in
the house — a room that will greatly tend to stamp the character of your
child for the remainder of his life.
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REVALENT DISORDERS
and THEIR REMEDIES
SIMPLE REMEDY TO BREAK UP A HARD COLD.
WHEN you feel a cold coming on drink four or five glasses of hot
water (not warm water, but hot). In one-half hour drink foui more
glasses of hot water. If the throat is sore, gargle it with warm water and
alcohol, in the proportion of one teaspoonful of alcohol to one-half glass-
ful of water. On going to bed, fill the bath-tub one-quarter full of hot
water and sit in it eight minutes, keeping the water as hot as you can
stand. If you do not have a bath-tub then put the feet for the same
length of time into a foot-tub filled two-thirds full with hot water — take
no medicine, but drink more hot water and go to bed. If the lungs are
sore, put on a compress as follows: Dip a napkin in cold water, wring it
out dry and lay it over the throat and chest. Over this spread two or
three thicknesses of flannel, and with a long strip of cloth tie it on. Now
forget your troubles and go to sleep. In the morning you will wonder
what became of the cold. A Common Sense Mother.
HICCOUGH CURE.
(For a Grown Person.)
To cure the hiccoughs of a grown person, one has sometimes to be a
little more persevering. I knew a case where a patient recovering from
typhoid fever had the hiccoughs two days, and the phj'sicians had tried
every known remedy, but to no purpose, it was f hen that a very simple
remedy was suggested by the wife of the patient which though at first
ridiculed by the doctors, probably saved the man's life. The wife said to
the doctors that her husband had asked several times for some hot coffee,
and begged that she might be permitted to give him some. The doctors
although they had previously refused, finally consented, saying, "give him
only a little." The wife then went to the kitchen, with her own hands
made some fresh, weak coffee, poured out a small one-half cupful,
creamed and slightly sweetened it and took it up to the sick man. He
drank it hot and in fifteen minutes called for more. An additional amount
was made and also given to him hot. He again drank it, and then in a
few moments called for more — which was given him. The third time
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••A delightful supper, a good night's sleep and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same maa
who, by indigestion, a restless night and a rainy morning would have proved a coward."
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Let a child's home be the happiest house to him in the world; and to be happy he must be merry and cheerful; and he ought to have an abundance of playthings, to help on the merriment. If he has a dismal nurse, and a dismal home, he may as well be incarcerated in a prison, and be attended by a jailor. It is sad enough to see dismal, doleful men and women, but it is a truly lamentable and unnatural sight to see a doleful child. The young ought to be as playful and as full of innocent mischief as kittens. There will be quite time enough in after years for sorrow and for sadness.
Bright colors, plenty of light, clean windows (mind this, if you please), an abundance of colored prints, and toys without number, are the proper furnishings of a nursery. Nursery! why, the very name tells you what it ought to be — the home of childhood — the most important room in the house — a room that will greatly tend to stamp the character of your child for the remainder of his life.
p
PREVALENT DISORDERS and THEIR REMEDIES
SIMPLE REMEDY TO BREAK UP A HARD COLD.
WHEN you feel a cold coming on drink four or five glasses of hot water (not warm water, but hot). In one-half hour drink foui more glasses of hot water. If the throat is sore, gargle it with warm water and alcohol, in the proportion of one teaspoonful of alcohol to one-half glassful of water. On going to bed, fill the bath-tub one-quarter full of hot water and sit in it eight minutes, keeping the water as hot as you can stand. If you do not have a bath-tub then put the feet for the same length of time into a foot-tub filled two-thirds full with hot water — take no medicine, but drink more hot water and go to bed. If the lungs are sore, put on a compress as follows: Dip a napkin in cold water, wring it out dry and lay it over the throat and chest. Over this spread two or three thicknesses of flannel, and with a long strip of cloth tie it on. Now forget your troubles and go to sleep. In the morning you will wonder what became of the cold. A Common Sense Mother.
HICCOUGH CURE.
(For a Grown Person.)
To cure the hiccoughs of a grown person, one has sometimes to be a little more persevering. I knew a case where a patient recovering from typhoid fever had the hiccoughs two days, and the phj'sicians had tried every known remedy, but to no purpose, it was f hen that a very simple remedy was suggested by the wife of the patient which though at first ridiculed by the doctors, probably saved the man's life. The wife said to the doctors that her husband had asked several times for some hot coffee, and begged that she might be permitted to give him some. The doctors although they had previously refused, finally consented, saying, "give him only a little." The wife then went to the kitchen, with her own hands made some fresh, weak coffee, poured out a small one-half cupful, creamed and slightly sweetened it and took it up to the sick man. He drank it hot and in fifteen minutes called for more. An additional amount was made and also given to him hot. He again drank it, and then in a few moments called for more — which was given him. The third time
••A delightful supper, a good night's sleep and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same maa who, by indigestion, a restless night and a rainy morning would have proved a coward."