Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1916 — Health Notes. [ARTICLE]

Health Notes.

When your feet are hot and tired after a hard day’s work, bathe them in hot water and pure soap, then soak them in a quart of hot water to which has been added powdered alum, two ounces; borax, two ounces. To do away with excessive perspiration under the arms, bathe the armpits with tepid water, add a little tincture of benzoin, night and morning. Then apply this powder: One-half pound of pure borax, one ounce of ordinary baking soda, one drachm of any preferred sachet powder. Physiologists are agreed that fish is one of the foods most fully absorbed. Not only is this the case, but the nutriment it contains will bear comparison with that in any other flesh food; and, taking the cheaper fish, one may safely affirm that more value for money can be obtained in fish than in butchers’ meat. It is difficult to grade fish with exactitude as to their relative nutritiousness, hut the following is a fairly accurate guide: Herring, eels, salmon, salt cod, mackerel, halibut, red mullet, plaice, sole.