Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1883 — Hygienic Hints. [ARTICLE]

Hygienic Hints.

Dr. Cleanliness is the most competent and reliable of all physicians; his charges are lowest, the diet he prescribes the most wholesome, his medicines the most efficacious and his patients the longest lived. Consult him freely. Do not keep a swill-barrel half filled with fermenting milk and corn cobs .in the back kitchen. Far better have hogs enough to consume the kitchen and dairy refuse before it is a day old, or feed it to the cattle. Better bury it in the compost heap than have it standing around day after day, to draw flies and pollute the air of our homes. For a home-made disinfectant dissolve a bushel of salt in a barrel of, water, and with the salt water slack a barrel of lime, which should be vet enough to form a kind of paste. For the purpose of a disinfectant this homemade chloride of lime is nearly as good as that purchased at the shops. Use it freely about sinks, cellars, gutters and outhouses, and in this way prevent sickness, suffering and expense. The pain of teething may almost be done away and the health of the child benefited by giving it very small bits of ice to melt in its mouth. Let the bit be so small that it will but a drop of warm water before it can be swallowed, and the child has all the coolness for its feverish gums without the slightest injury. The avidity with which the little things taste the codling morsel, the instant quiet which succeeds hours of freifulness, and the sleep which follows the relief, are the best witnesses to the magic remedy.