Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1882 — Handy Health Hints. [ARTICLE]

Handy Health Hints.

Don’t sleep in a draught. Don’t go to bed with cold feet. Don’t stand over hot-air registers. , Don’t eat what you do not need just to save it. Don’.t try to get cool too quickly after exercising. "" Don’t sleep with insecure false teeth in your mouth; Don’t start the day’s work without a good breakfast. Don’t sleep m a room without ventilation of some kind. Don’t stuff a cold lest you be next obliged to starve a fever. Don’t try to get along without flannel underclothing in winter. Don’t use your voice for loud speaking or singing when hoarse. Don’t try to get along with less than eight or nine hours’ sleep. Don’t sleep in the same undergarments you wear during the day. Don’t toast your feet by the fire but try sunlight or friction instead. Don’t neglect to have at least one movement of the bowels each day. Don’t try to keep up on coffee and alcoholics when you ought to go to bed. \ . Don’ t drink ioe water by the glass; take ifc jn sips, a swallow at a time. DOn’t eat snow’to quench .thirst; it brings on inflammation 'of the throat. Don’l strain your eyes by reading or working with insufficient or a flickering light. Don’t be too modest to ask the way to the water-closet when you have a I call that way. ’ Don’t use the eyes for reading or fine

work in the twilight of evening or earlywn,. r Don’t try to lengthen your dave by cutting short your night’s rest; it is poor Don’t wear close, heavy, fur or rubber caps or hats if your hair is thin or falls out easily. Don’t eat anything between meals excepting fruits, or a glass of hot milk if you feel faint. Don’t take some other persons medicine because you are troubled somewhat as they were. •Don’t (blow out a gaslight as you would a lamp ; many lives are lost every year by tbps mistake. / Try popcorn for nausea. Try cranberries for malaria. Try a sunbath for Try gingei ale for stomach cramps; Try clam broth for a weak’ stomach. Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas. Try a ß wet towell to.the back of the neck when sleepless. Try swallowing saliva when troubled wlQi sour stomach. Try‘testing fresh rddlshes and yellow turnips for gravel. / Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings. Try buttermilk for removal Qf freckles, tan and butternut stains. 1 <r-' Try to cultivate an equable temper, and don’t'borrow trouble ahead. Try a dry hot flannel over thfe seat of neuralgic pain and renew frequently. Try taking your codliver oil in tomato catsup, if you want to make .it palatable. Try hard cider—a wlneglassfijl three times a day—for ague and rheumatism.

Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to relieve whooping cough. .. < ‘ . Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the evening. Try a cloth wrung out litom cold water put about the neck at night for sore throat. Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrhal “cold in the head.” Try an extra pair of stockings outside of your shoes when traveling in cold weather. Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent forward. Try a silk handkerchief over the face when obliged to go against a cold, piercing wind. j Try planting sunflowers in your garden, if compelled to live in a mhlarial neighborhood. Try a saturated solution of bicarbo-, nate of soda (baking soda) in diarrhoeal troubles; give freely. Try a newspaper over the chest, beneath your coat, as a chest protector in extreitaely cold weather.