a - ra A I AR 150 Health Hints. How to Preserve and Restore Health, NEw CURE FOR SMALL Pox.—A surgeon in the English army in China has discovered a remedy very eflicient in small pox. as follows: When the fever has reached the highest point, and before the patient with croton oil and tartaric ointment, which makes the eruption appear on that part of the body, and not on the rest of it. By means of this treatment they also obtain the re- out entirely, and of preventing the dis- ease from attacking the internal or- gans. in the English army in India, and it is considered a perfect cue Wary FEET. —Children and all fee- ble folks whose feet b come cold in bed, should be provided with a foot-blanket. An ordinary woolen blanket will make four, if cut in two and then across at right angles ; hem or bind the edges and the blankets are ready for use. To insure complete comfort, warm the blankets at bed-time. The habit most children, and many adults, have of drawing up the limbs in bed for great- er warmth is a bad one, as when the body is in a constrained position, the circulation of the blood is greatly re- tarded. Children in particular should be taught to lie straight in bed, and when they sleep in a very cold room, it is but common’ comfort to give them a foot blanket. It is one form of safety to warm foot blankets ready for such members of the family as have been out in the cold at night. Rubbing the feet smartly is better than warming them at a fire, For sick persens, warm shoes as hot as the feot will bear, and put them on; it is a much belter and vuicker way than using a bottle of hot water, or heating a brick. To go to bed with cold feet or hungry, is idiocy, when both can be avoided, — Rural New Yorker. MiLk AND On IN DIsEAsE.—Dr. W. W. Townsend, a well-known physi- cian in Philadelphia, in writing to the Seientific American on the use of milk as a diet in dysentery and typhoid fever, 2ays : and have witnessed several epidemics of ing fevers, small-pox, measles, &e., and have used milk in every case ceming under every stage of the disease. I will no say it is a cure, for [ do not believe in the so-called cures and ‘‘specifics.” Milk is the natural food of all mamma- liane, It not only sustains life, but raromotes the growth of every part of the system. No other article contains all these ingredients. It is the recup- the cure, and he who studies how to assist it by sustaining the system is the best agents that can be used. In dys entery I prefer fresh buttermilk, as all the patient wants is perfect rest, and discard all irritating cathartics and pur- gatives, Mercury in any of its prepar- ations is polson in dysentery or scarlet fever, and the physician who gives them will never be suceessful., If his patient recovers, it will be despite his treatment, I will add that in small-pox and scarlet fever I anoint the patient from head to feet with olive oil, by means of a Yadger brush, and repeat as often as it disappears ; thereby allaying the heat, keeping open the pores of the skin, pro- ducing quietude, preventing congestion of the capillary circulation, and obviat- ing the necessity of anodynes. I have practiced the greasing for 35 years, and was sneered at by my medical brethern for it and the milk treatment. Now 1 believe it is in general use, and with the best results, att sas A Doctor's Recollection of an Epidemic. Dr. C. H. Van Klein, of Hamiiten, ‘Ohioc, is perhaps the only phytician in the United States who went through the terrible cholera epidemic in Russian army in the war between Russia and Turkey, and was the only American physician in the Russian service proper. The unfortunate Dr. Lamson was appointed by the English Red Cross and was assigned to the Armenian troops, where he served with the dis- tinction, and was afterward decorated by the Princess of Armenia. Dr. Von Klein has a very vivid recollection of the scenes. When he was mustered out «of the service at the close of the war the cholera was raging at Astrakhan and other smaller towns on the line of Siberia, People were dying by the hundreds, and a semi-panic had taken were fleeing from town to town and city of about 16,000 inhabitants, and months, the government to go into the infected | region and break up the epidemic, if possible, When they arrived at A strak- | ham the mortality was great and all kinds of business was practically sus- pended. The local physicians were all . dead or powerless to help. the people, Burials were made in the night-time and the dead were hurried out of sight, sometimes three or four in one grave, Every measure was taken to stop the spread of the disease, but to no purpose, The towns were put in as good sanitary order as the means at hand would ad- mit. Tar, sulphur and juniper trees were burned in the streets, the burning of the juniper giving the most satisfac- tory results, The disease had taken such complete hold of the towns that sultation with the government, it was decided to burn the infected villages that were past hope. Astrakhan was spared, but five other towns cf conse- quence were obliterated by fire. The inhabitants were removed to the coun- try, the afll‘cted taken to hospitals and then the tourch was applied. The towns were fired at several places and one by une were speedly blotted out. In this way the scourge was checked after eight months, It was heroic treat- ment, but Dr. Von Klein thought it was the only thing to do, seeing that the whole country was threatened. Eight thousand persons died dur- ing this epidemic in a very small area. In the event of the disease reaching our shores the doctor recommends that every family should take great precau- | tion against it, and it would be better if this were done right away. Cellars should be kept clean and dry, and yards and alleys put in the best condition possible. Tarshould be turned about the house and inside of it. The wood of the juniper tree, or juniper berries, he regarded as even better than tar for this purpose. Either or all of these could be burned in the house. As to food, oatmeal, cracked wheat and sweet milk are good. Eat sparingly of meats, Fowl and game | are less hurtful than beef. Vege- tables increase the temperature of the body, and should be avoided as a rule, — Cincinnati Enquirer, A Prominent People. | Brac iP URN. Governor Blackburn, | of Kenfucky, has issued 545 pardons during his administration. TeExNYSON, — Alfred Tennyson's | publisher used to guarantee him i $15,000 a year, but they can do it no | more. ARMOUR.—P. D. Armour, the | Chicago speculator, is fifty-four years | old. and worth $10,000,000, He isa | New York farmer's son, EADS. Captain Eads, the engineer of the Mississippi jetties, has been in- | vited to attend a meeting in Paris to consider the question of the improve- ment of the river Seine, | i | er's vacation has been extended by | the members of Plymouth church. The | extension is granted so that Mr. Beecher may lecture in some of the Southern cities, Kink woop, — Ex-Governor Kirk. wood, of Iowa, since his return from a tour to the Pacific coast, is earnest in his advice to sight-seers to visit the Rocky Mountains rather than to Switz- erland. HAWTHORNE. — Julian Hawthorne greatly resembles his father, Nathaniel Hawthorne, but is hardly so large and handsome, He lives at Morrisania, N. Y., where he is writing his’ father's biography. Burren. —General. E. G. W. But- ler, who, on the establishment of the Southern Confederacy, was offered the position of commander-in-chief of th Confederate forces, is enjoyng a heart old age in St, Louis, TeemeRr.~John Teemer, the young oarsman, who recently achieved the distinction of winning a race in which Edward Hanlan was his competitor, is a native of Pennsylvania, nineteen years old. He is tall straight, square shoul- dered, with large dark eyes, and weighs 155 pounds when he rows, CARLETON. — Will Carleton, the pop- ular verse writer, is thus described by a reporter in Indianapolis where he has been visiting: ‘‘He is nearly six feet tall, of slender build, with a bright, rather youthful face, blue eyes, aqui. line nose, and short whiskers, which cover only his chin, His hair which is slightly tinged with gray, is combed smoothly back, and this, combined with the somewhat clerical cut of his clothes, giver bim rather the appear- ance of a well-to-do young ministeron a vacation,” ibiasidione —Dr. T. R. Allison, a believer in the worth of vegetable food, says that diet is the philosopher's stone, ‘‘Allow me to diet a’man,” he says, “and I will make him lively or sad, good or bad tempered, lazy or studious, long, or short lived, or give him almost any known disease,” i Uncle Sam's Gold and Silver. Uncle Sam has a money house in Wall street, New York, called the sub-trea- have liked to visit. It contains, at pre- sent, in gold and silver coin, about one hundred and five milllions of dollars all neatly packed in bags, or stowed in bins, | in vaults which are supposed to be burg- lar proof, In fact, they are burglar proof ; else some gentleman of the profession would have attempted them during the last forty years, They are deep down in the bowels of the earth, under a building the most massive and solid in all America, The building was built as for eternity, cov- ering the whole basement with arches as strong as a stone quarry. Down in that marvelous understructure, Uncle Sam keeps the bulk of his gold. Doors beyond doors of solid steel protect it, these secured by locks that are wound up every night like so many clocks, which no key of man can open till they run down, The silver vault is a spacious under- ground hall forty-seven feet long, twenty-eight feet wide and twelve feet high, divided inte bins of various sizes. Here are nine hundred tons of silver coin, with thirty-three millions of dol- lars. The gold is all kept in bags, each of which contains five thousand dol- lars, and the bags are piled one upon another in even columns twelve bags high. When the sub-treasury bHI was before congress, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the whigs generally saw in it certain ruin of the republic. Since the syslem was adopted, how- ever, the sub-treasury has received and paid something more than a bil ion and a half of the without the of a dollar, and without disturbing the course of busi- ness, public money loss A lady of great ability, Mrs. Lamb, editor of the of Americ History, kas looking into vaults and offices of the sub-treasury Magazine been the recently, and gives us a pleasing view The any- of its excellent and easy working. sub treasurer, however, thing but an easy time. In day the office has paid eleven thousand pen- sion cheeks, averaging twenty-six dol lars each, and it 8 not uncommon for has one thousand times in one moming to bond and gold certificates. Youths’ pOnion, ome Keep the Children Happy. Invent every possible amusement to keep your boys at home in the evenings, Never mind if they scatter books aud pictures, coats, hats and boots | Never mind if they do make a noise around you, with their whistling and hurrab- ing! We would stand aghast if we could have a vision of the youug men who had gone to utter destruction for the very reason that, having cold, disa- greeable, dull, stiff firesides at home, they sought amusement elsewhere, The influence of a loving mother or sister is incalculable. Like the circle formed by casting a stone in the water, it goes on and through a man’s whole life, Circumstances and worldly pleasures may weaken the remembrance fer a time, but each touch upon the chord of memory will awaken the old time music, and her face, her voice, and her loving words will come up before him like a revelation, The time will come, before you think when you would give the world to have your house tumbled by the dear hands of those very boys; when your heart shall long for the noisy steps in the hall, and their ruddy cheeks laid up to yours; when you would rather have their jolly whistle than the songs of Neilson; when you would gladly have dirty carpets, aye, live without carpets at all, but to have their bright strong forms beside you once more, Then play with and pet them. Praise Johnny'sdrawing, Betty's music, and baby’s first attempt at writ- ing her nase, Encourage Dick to per- severe in making his rabbit hutch. If one shows a talent for figures, tell him he is your famous mathematician ; and if another loves geography, tell him he is sure to make a good traveler or for- eign missionary. Go with them to see their young rabbits, and chickens, and pigeons. Have them gather you mosses, and grasses, and flowers to decerate your room. And you will keep your- self young and fresh by entering into their joys, Preserves, JAMS AND JELLIES keep better if the pots into which they are put are sealed up while hot, because if exposed to the air until cold little germs will fall upon them from the air and retain their vitality, and will soon fall to work decomposing the fruit. On the other hand, if the jars are sealed while hot the germs are destroyed by scalding. Ge ns of Thought. leave home with unkind words, . =—Never neglect to call upon your | friends. Never laugh at the misfortunes of others, ~ Never give a promise that you do not intend to fulfill, —We walk on the verge of two worlds ; at our feet lies the very grave that awaits us. --Keep your religion sweet, A sour kind of piety that is always finding fault with others, grumbling and growling because things are not differ- ent from what they are, is neither well pleasing to God, nor profitable to men, Open your heart to the sweet influences of divine grace, and let a little of God's sunshine into your soul. A Touching Memorial, The superintendent of a street rail way leading out of New York into the country, tells how a father and mother erected a memorial to their dead boy. Sitting alone in his office one day, a strange gentleman entered, who proved to be an officer in the army. He carried a little box in nis hand, and after some hesitation, said : “I bave a favor to ask of you. 1 had a little boy, and I've lost him, He was all the world to me. When he was alive my wife used to search my pockets every night, and whatever loose change she found, she would put it away for the baby, Well, he’s gone, Here is the box. “We talked the matter over, and came to the conelusion that we could not do better than to bring the money to you to pay the fares of poor sick children out of town during the sum- mer, “It would please him to know that Le is pelping to save the lives of other poor children. as the box is empty it. While we will keep up the bank.” The box has been twice emptied and As soon we will fill we live dren have owed to this dead baby their one breath of fresh air this summer, Duties of Dally Life. Life is not entirely made up of great evils or heavy trials ; but the perpetual of petly trials is the ordinary and appointed ex- To bear with the failings of those about with their infirmities, their bad judg- ment, their ill breeding, their perverse tempers to endure neglect feel we deserve attention, and ingrati- tude where we expected thanks: to recurrence evils and small ercise of the christian graces, US when we bear with the company of disagreeable people whom Providence has placed in our way and whom he has provided on purpose for the trial of our virtue, these are the best exercisers of patience and self denial, antl the better because not chosen by To bear with vexations in business, with disappoint- ment in our expectations, with inter- ruptions of our retirement, with folly, intrusion, disturbance iu short, with whatever opposes our will or contra. dicts our humor this habitual quiescence appears to be more of the essence of self-denial than any little rig- ors or afflictions of cur own imposing. These constant, inevitable, but infer. jor evils, properly improved, furnish a ourselves, ac the days of ignorance, have superseded pilgrimage and penance. EE ————— Home Economies, iss. LerTucE SALAD.—Directions for the preparation of lettuce were given in the “emergency dinner,’ and also a tule for making a boiled dressing, which is one of the most delicate and delicious of smiad dressings. A word or two re garding treatment of lettuce may not be out of place just here. Never cut it or use a knife to it in any fashion, Tear it apart and arrange it with the larger leaves on the outside and the smalier light yellowish leaves in the centre, so it will look like a head of lettuce fully opened. Itis well not to dress it unless you fully know the tastes of each individual and find they are similar, for tastes about salads are quite apt to differ. Some prefer sugar and vingar merely ; others like best the French dressing, while still others de- sire the boiled or the Mayonnaise dress ing. If you don’t want the bother of making a dressing yourself it will save you much trouble to have a bottle of salad dressing always on hand in the chest. CARAMEL SAUCE. ~ Pour one-half a cup of sugar in an omelet pan and stir over the fire until it is dark brown; add one-half a cup of boiling water, and just simmer, not boil, for a quarter of an hour ; pour ever the custard just be fore serving. This ‘so delicious onan apple pudding. Frexon Dressing, —This is made and the lettuce is dressed at the table, Mix one salt-spoonful of salt and half a saltspoonful of pepper in the salad. spoon ; then fill the spoon three times with oil and once with vinegar, and toss all lightly together, i Cocoaxvr Cake.—Take the whites of five eggs, one small cup of sweet milk, one cup and two-thirds of another of granulated sugar, two-thirds of a cup of butter, one teaspoonful and a half of baking powder, about three cups of sifted flour ; flavor with almond extract ; bake in layers. Beat the whites of two or three eggs to a froth, add pulverized sugar enough to make rather thin frost- ing, and put between the layers; on this scatter cocoanut ; put on enough to make a nice layer ; for the top and sides of the cake the frosting should be a little thicker, CHOCOLATE CAKE. —Take a half pound of melted butter, and stir it un- til it froths, Take the yelks of twelve eggs, stir them into the butter, add half a pound of pounded sugar, the same of ground almonds, a quarter pound of chocolate, ground, a tablespoonful ef cinnamon, half a teaspoonful of cloves, pounded, Stir all well together for a quarter of an hour. Then beat the whites of the eggs to a froth, and add these to the above mixture, Bute ter the and bake the above in a moderate oven for an hour and a quarter, JELLY UAKE.—Deat three eggs three minutes ; add one teacupful of white sugar ; butter the size of a small egg, warmed but not melted, and one small teaspoonful of lemon extract, Beat altogether five minutes, and add one- third of a teacupful of sweet milk. Sift one heaping teaspoonful of baking pow« der into one teacupful of flour, and stir into the other ingredients. Spread thin on round tins, and bake in a quick oven. When partially cool spread with currant jelly, and put the layers to- gether, CanaMer Custarp.—Put one-half a cup of sugar in an omelet pan and stir until it melts and is light brown, Add two tablespoonfuls of water and stir in- to one guart of warm milk, eggs slightly, add one-half a teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of mold, Beat seven Strain it into the remainder of the milk and pour it into a buttered two quart vanilla and part of the milk. mold ; set the mold in a pan of cold water and bake thirty or forty minutes, or until firm and a knife-thrust comes out clean. Serve it eold, with a To ina pan of ice walter, caramel sauce it for dinner poured over it, cool place the mold and do not remove it until it fectly cold and you are ready to serve it. ing veal has been very much liked at the cooking-school, and several repeti- tions of it have been asked in the dem- onstration lessons. Veal from the leg is always used for cutlets. This pore tion of the meat is tough, and, if fried or broiled, as is often doney without any preparation, is hard and indigesti- ble. Pounding and trimming carefully, and then simmering in the nicely sea- soned gravy, make it tender and deli- cious. Take one slice of veal from the leg, wipe it well, and remove the bone, skin and tough membranes. "Pound and cut into shapes for serving. Sprin- kie with salt and pepper. Roll in fine cracker crumbs, dip in beaten egg, then roll again in the cracker crumbs, Brown the pieces in hot salt pork fat, and put into astewpan, Make abrown gravy with the pork fat, if it is not scorched, by adding to It and working thoroughly iato one heaping tablespoon- ful of flour; when this is smooth and well cooked add one and one-half cups of hot water, or stock if you have it, Season with Worcestershire sauce, or onion or tomato, as suits your own taste, Pour the gravy over the cutlets and simmer until tender, which will be in about three-quarters of an hour, Take out the cutlets and put them on a hot platter, remove the fat from the gravy, add more seasoning if needed, and strain over the meat. Garnish with sliced lemon, In seasoning any dish remem- ber always that a successful flavor is one which cannot be defined. If any taste is marked the delicacy and refine- ment of the dish is lost. Too many cooks insist on emphatic flavors, and by #0 doing lose all elaim to the title of artists, Sh. i Liberal in One Way, at Least. ¢} should hate to have a husband who "lowanced me every time 1 wanted to buy anything,” said Mrs. Slimms, “When I tell Slimms that I want a little change to go shopping with he doesn’t hum and haw as some men do, He just takes out his pocketbook and says : ‘‘Certainly, my dear ; how much do you want, a five or a ten?’ “And what do you say?’ asked Mrs. Smith, “Oh, I never say anything. He gives me the money right off, without wait- ing for me to answer,” “And how much does he give you?’ “A dollar, generally—unless he has some change handy. But then it isn’t the amouut that I care so much about. It is the readiness with which he responds to my request that makes me think so much of him.” AAA IRSA ~