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1 j health food of the aged very few old people need stimulating diet very many are injured by an excess of nitrogenous food the kidneys like all other organs are futile and if meats and other rich foods are used in excess thoygreat- ly increase the strain upon thsae organs milk and milk products or preparations of breadstuffs cooked withmilk should form a very large proportion of the food of the ordinary aged individual but individual peculiarities differ so much that pergonal medical counsel should in all cases be taken so that the diet may be regulated to the peeds of the individual case very many old people are hurt by the use of food in excessive quantity but little exercise can betaken all growth has ceased and the bodily furnaces which make heat are able to destroy but very little of food fuel caring lor health a duty our earthly life is a treasure to be guarded it is an outrageous thing ro die when we ought to live people ought to know it is as niuoh of a duty to take care o their health as to attend church and pei form other leligious duties it is as much a sin to break a physical law as a moral law both were made by the same allwise being and both have their penalties it is as much a sin to commit suicide by overtax ing ones self and violating natures laws as to kill with a pistol talmage some dirt on hers a little girl of three years whose papa and mamma were so wlee and careful of her that they had never allowed her to eat any but the moat healthful food was one day allowed to take dinner with guests she wag especially interested in the mystery of the pepperbox an article which she had never before noticed she watched with close attention while one of the gentlemen peppered something and then extending her own little plate f aid with the utmost politeness please put a little dirt on mine too the heroic hlghlaodere wen at last hemmed in from all sides and daring the last three years of their desperate resistance were reduced in the literal sense to the spon taneous products of the wilderness all the arable lands of the foothills having been razed by the remorseless invaders bat in spite of those disadvantages the mohamme dan interdict of alcohol maintained the wild men of the rocks in good health as proved in many a hand tohand conflict with their aggressors while the abundant pro visions of the russian camp did not prevent thousands from succumbing to the latiguea of the campaign for those provisions includ ed a liberal allowance of vodka a tipple the muscovite ruatio considers an indispensable preliminary of a good days work dr oswald in good health tonio for children cod liver oil is the tonio par excellence for young children it is as much a food as a medicine and may be given with more safety than any other tonic it is surpris ingly well taken the little patient not infre quently seeming to regard it as a luxury if the pnre oil can be given it is as good or better than an emulsion in some cases it produces nausea and disgust and should not be forced upon the child in the bronchitis of infants nothing is so effective as an oil bronchial catarrh and cough that have resitted everything else will sometimes dis appear under the use of this oil it should be given three or four times a day beginning with half a teaspoonful of the pure oil or a teaspoonful of the emulsion increasing the amount if it is well borne the treatment of cats a doctor writes when a out happens many people mess at the wound washing it aaoking it and often poulticing it others put on oold- water or warmwater dressing nothing could be more foolish and contrary to the most advanced surgical practice should it be very dirty the wound can be washed but that is rarely called for gen erally speaking just bring the edges of the wound together and strap them up firmly and gently putting a little bit of lint upon the place and a fine bandage four or six times round it then leaving it quietly to itself for several days in this way bleeding is prevented the air is kept out and union takes place at once childrens clothing the clothing of babies must be subject to the methods of common sense the great rule here is to consider 10 babys comfort and safety it is as shameful as it is sill to make a baby a milliners model millin ery as it 1b now understood should be ban ished from the nursery if the writer could be a baby again and carry his present ex perience with him one of the first things he would do would be to organise a huge con spiracy of babies to barn down all the millin ers shops is it possible for any man or woman inside or outside a lunatio asylum to conceive anything more entirely destitute of a single grain of intelligence than the clothing of some babies it is stiff where it should be yielding tight where it should be looio short where it should be long and long where it should be abbreviated on certain parts of che body where olothing might be dispensed with as the hands and feet there are gloves and shoes and stock ings such as make movements impossible in certain other parts which should be warm ly clothed as the cheat and shoulders nud ity is the fashion which women most delight in but why repeat for the tenthousandth time theso stale platitudes for this reason that women who will not obey the plain dic tates of reason and experience may at least know that they are wicked fools the time to give medicine the aotlon of modloine varies greatly ac cording to the time and method of admlnls- tration iron requires plenty of digestive fluid and should be given soon after eating well diluted with water oils designed to act upon the bowels must be given upon an empty stomaoh cod liver oil designed as a general remedy should be given a half- honr after eating quinine is decomposed by too active digestion and should be given upon an empty stomach the different bit ter remedies designed to increase the appe tite should be taken before eating soda or other alkalies when given to increase the appetite and aid digestion must be given before meals rhubarb frequently admin istered in very small doses for the same pur pose should also be given before eating these rules are general and will often be changed by the dootor for special reasons but may prove of servloe where no definite directions are given a fallacy berated the idea that hardships cannot bo long endured without the sustaining aid of alco holic stimulants was perhaps never more conclusively refuted than during the rus sian campaign against the independent mountaineers of the caucasus after a ceaseless guerilla war of twentytwo years for tee eruption of the permanent set proper way to dress the real art of bearing the clothing is to divide it between the shoulders and the hips and so divide it not only that each shall bear part of the weight but that dur ing motion they shall supplement and relieve each other the theoretical garment for such a purpose is some elastb material made on the shape of the vest worn by men with enongh of stiffness to keep in shape and with the clothing below the waist suspended therefrom the only design of any waistband or girdle should be to equalise the weight and to keep the central garmekt from which the others are suspended enough in place to ad just it and yet such as not to oonstriot or confine the body thus only can the hips and the shoulders do their put in bearing weight and act interchangeably as our motions may make desirable the in dependent jbating too muoh growth and waste and repair go on in a uniform way the whole year through but the amount of focd necessary for these oper ations is surprisingly small the generation of bodily heat requires a most variable quantity of food in winter with the tem perature of the external air at zero the temperature of the blood in healthy persons is 98 3 degrees and when toe heat of summer drives the mercury of the thermometer near to or above that mark the blood still regist ers 98 3 degrees the marvellous mechanism by which this nniform blod temperature is mantained at all aeasone is not necessary to consider but it must be evident to every one that the force needed to raise the temperature of the whole body to nearly 100 degrees in winter is no longer needed in summer tne total amount of food needed for repair for growth and for heating physiology teaches ua is much less than is generally imagined and it impresses us with the truth of the greit surgeon abernethys saying that onefourth of what we eat keeps us the other tnree fourths we keep ac the peril ot our lives in winter we burn np ths surplus food with a limited amount of extra exertion in summer we get rid of it literally at some extra risk to health and of oonrae to life we oaunot burn it our vital furnaces are banked and we worry the most important organs with the extra exertion of removing what would better never have bean taken into the stomach the family doctor how to breathe nobody teaches american boys how to breathe city boys and many from the country too have finer cheats before they 0 to school than they ever do afterwards iltting in a schoolroom or shop or factory or any other room fivs or six hours a day and then sitting moat of the rest of the day besides does much to weaken the chest for when yon ait still you do not breathe your lungs half full take one large foil breath now and see how your breast rises and ex pands and how differently from a minute ago when breathing only aa you generally do many boys actually do not breathe their longs full onoe in a whole week is it any wonder that they have weak chests and that they easily oatoh cold how are you td have strong lungs it you do not uae them which haa the strong arms the invalid leaving a sick bed or the blacksmith he who uses his arms or he who does not when walking at the rate of four miles an hour you breathe nearly five times as much as when you are sitting still now the fuller breatha you take and the more of them yon take in a day the stronger and fuller chests yon are going to have if every boy in the united states would take a thousand alow very deep breaths every day from now on throughout his life it would almost double our vigor and effectiveness as a nation for deep breathing not only enlarges the chest itself and makes it shapely and strong bnt it gives power and vigor to the lungs and heart makes them do their work far better and it does the same for the stomaoh and bowels the liver and kidneya indeed to all the vital organs it makes the blood rloher it adds directly to the vigor of the brain as well and so enables it to do more work in short it la about the best known way of getting and keeping health and who would care to hire a sick man to work for him 1 or who can do much hard work when he is siok not that we can always avoid sick ness bat it is less likely to come and has harder work to enter when we are robust and in good training than when we are weak and run down win blaikie in harpers young people the deep sea the ocean bed a desert of ooie and nine after the fln mile or depth despite the fanciful pictures which some writers have drawn of the ocean bed its desolation at least in its deepest parts must be extreme beyond the first mile it is a vast desert of slime and ooze which is con stantly dripping a rain of dead carcases from the surface which carcases supply the nour ishment for the acuity fauna inhabiting the abyssal region in some places more than five miles from the eunshine and the mi cros ope reveals that the slimy matter co vering this deepest ocean bed is similar in composition to the ancient chalk of the cre taceous period while mixed with it here and there are minute metallic and magnetic bodies which have been proved to be dust from meteoritles at long intervals a phos- pborscent light gleams from the head of some passing fish whioh has strayed hither from a higher and happier zine rut it is not until we have mounted a good deal near er the snrface that the scene changes for the better we nov meet with forests of brilliantly coloured sponges while the phos- phorscent animals swimming about are much more numerous and the nearer we get to the littoral sone more and more phosphor escent lights appear till at length the scene becomes truly animated when only 1200 feet separate us from tha sunshine we come npon the first seaweed and kelp 1200 feet is the deepest limit of plant life in the wa ter but we must rise still another 1000 feet and more and get as near the top as 120 feet before we find any reef building corals as plants do not live in the deep sea the deep aea animals either prey on one another or get their food from dead organisms and plants whioh sink down to them thus maury aays the sea like the snowoloud with its flakes in a oilm is always letting fall upon its bed showers of mlcroacoplo shells and experiment proves that a tiny shell would take a week to fall from the surface to the deepest depths since sunlight does not penetrate muoh fur ther than the littoral zone there would be beyond thia perpetual darkness except for phosphorescence many of the anlmala in habiting the continental and abyssal zones have merely rudimentary eyes but these blind oreaturea have long feelers which help them to grope their way along the bottom other deepsea animals on the contrary have enormous eyes and these likely con gregate around suoh of their number as are phosphorescent and may perhaps follow the moving lampposts about wherever they go and so bright is this light on many of the fish brought up by the dredge during the brief space the animals survive it is not difficult to read by it the reason why fishes and molluaks living more than three miles nnder water are able to bear a pressure of several tons is that they have exceedingly loose tissues which allow the water to now through every inters- tloe and thus to equalize the weight when the pressure la removed they perish in the challenger expedition sent out by tht brit ish government all the sharks brought np from a depth of a little less than three- quarters oi a mile were dead when they got to the surface catholio magszlno an arizona wedding do you take this woman whose hand youre aequeezln to be your lawful wife in flush times an skimp i reckon thats about the size of it tqviro do you take this man youve j ined fists with to be your pard through thiok and thin j well youre about right for onoe old man all right then kisa in oourt an i reckon yonre married as tight aa the law can jino you i guess four bita ii do bill if i dont have to kiss the bride if i do its six bits extra the effect of tea upon the teeth a writer in the british medical journal states that in the district in whioh he re sides about two thousand persons who are employed in cottonfactories are in the habit of drinking strong tea to excess and that they almost without exception have bad teeth that many of thtm loso their teeth at puberty and that the disease what ever bo its cause seems to be hereditary children during the teething period ofton losing their first teeth before the time how to cook a grouse the primitive cookery which attends camping out is always immensely popu lar among those who have betaken them selves temporarily to the woods and fields its cooking formulas are not elaborate and neither are they in very common circulation one howerer set down by the author of a ramble in british columbia may be worth copying we eat round the fire six in number ane one began operations by plucking thd grouse and sticking it on a long skewer whioh was fixed in the ground so that it leaned a little over the fire thus it was roasted for about half an hour then some one woke np and said i think i should put a scrap of onion in it so another took four or five onions and crammed them with difficulty into the in terior of the bird then the roasting pro ceeded for a space i should turn it like this said another by and by whereupon he turned it upside down and the onions rolled out upon the grass and were planed upon the fire and their perfume was grateful then another searoher after truth said solemnly i think it onght to be split and it was split and again the roasting went on finally an impatient one said lets finish the old thing in the morning i and it was placed outside the lodge to cool while there a wanderer trod upon it and rolled it 1 n the sand and in the morning being faozen harder than a rock in was divided with difficulty and hatchet and fried and with one voice the people oried out deelioiousl a fame for the baby my dear i have been reading np within the past week and i think i have a name for the baby said mrs greening as her liege emerged from his bath this morning you have eh 1 what is it i read that phoobus the god of day comes up bright and beautiful in the morn ing that he lights the world that without him now look here madam lots have no foolishneas here von cant call that child by any suoh name did phoebus of history yell from 11 p m to 3 a m and intermit tently from 3 to 7 oolook i myself am doing the godofdaybuainoss in tho matter of getting np and im not dividing honors if lyou want a mythological cognomen for that deatroyer of rest 1 have it what is it asked mrs greening with considerable asperity aurora 1 brutally yelled ehsha then he left the houso beeolred to please tne author of the five talents ot woman cays that often a husband is more difficult to manage than children bat the wife who keeps her temper and perseveres cuban justice a tourist in cuba reports that a philo sophic ch was occe heard to remark after having been on the island for some time that it seemed a peculiarity of the country in her efforts to please will in the end con- j that every town contained two principal quer by kindness he tells the following i buildings one of which the church was al- story to confirm his assertion zachariah hodgson was not naturally an illtempered man bnt he treated his wife more like a slave than an equal if his temper was ruffled abroad she was sure to suffer when he came home his meals be insisted were badly cooked though the good wemaa did her best to please him one day zachariahsent home a large fresh cod with orders to cook it for dinner the wife knew that whether she boiled it or fried it or made it into a chowder her husband would scold her when he came home she therefore cooked portions of the fish in several different ways that for once if possible he might be pleased with his dinner she did more she secured a frog from the brook back of the house and put it into a large dish at noon zaohariah came home with his usual faultfinding look well wife said he how did you cook the fish i suppose youve spoiled it for my eating then as he took off a cover he continued i thought so why did you fry it id as soon eat a fried frog i why didnt yon boil it ways open and always empty and the other the ju always chsed and always full the same tourist relates an incident which goes to show that in cuba as ia other places the ways of the law are sometimes eery curious a man known to me bought of a certain tailor abojt five hundred dollars worth of mourning clothes and failed to pay the bill on which after long wai ing the tailor sued him for the amount the defendant went into court and made the following showing that at the time the said tailors anra was brought he the sid defendent was about completing the purchase of a valuable property and the transaction would have resulted in hu great pecuniary benefit but tho terms of the sale contemplated a de ferred payment by the said defendant and the party selling hearing of the aotion of the tailor against the defendant had declin ed to negotiate further fearing that if he could not pay his tailor there was small chance of his making good his agreement in a much greater sum therefore this defendant and man of j mourning says that he ia not only justified i have boiled some 1bo said she lift- j in not paying the said tailor ud plaintifffor a cover and showing the shoulders of the cod the said clothes but is entitled to damages nicely boiled boiled fish 1 chips and porridge growl ed zichariah if you had not been stupid you would have made a ohowder with a smile she placed before him a tureen of chowder my dear baid she i was determined to please you there is your favorite dish favorite du indeed i growled the surly man its a wishywashy mess id rather haye a boiled frog than the whole of it his wife had anticipated his favorite ex pression she uncovered a large dish and showed a bull- frog stretched out at full length zaohariah sprang from his ohair my dear said his wife i hope now you will make an excellent dinner the humor of the whole scene overoatne his sullennees he burst into a hearty laugh and declared that never again should she have occasion to expose him as a croaker he was as good as his word j against him for spoiling a profitable trans action the judge deoided for the defendant and the tailor not only lost bis five hundred dol lars but was mulcted in damages to the amount of two hundred dol s i i will only add that all the intelligent natives with whom i conveied about the case seemed to regard tho finding of the court as very reasonable juat and wise ooal in the morthweat mr maltby an eminent american mining engineer has been prospecting for ooal in alberta and british columbia during the past summer and has made a very favour able report upon the result of bis investiga tion in the crowfoot district mr maltby continued an old and abandoned shaft a depth of 470 feet penetrating four soams of coal the first being eighteen inches thick the socond nine inches and the third and principal one nine feet maltby mined the lost mentioned seam and took out several car loads of coal which were tested with highly satisfactory results this bed of coal he says extends from near the c p p where outcroppinga are seen to the red deer river a distance of thirtyfive or forty miles the coal is similar to the lathbrldge coal but while it has a strong blaze it does not emit any smoke and ia suitabe for steam and domestic purposes mr maltby made an examination of land in the vicinity of vancouver and expresses the opinion that vaat coal beds exist there but at a depth of 1000 feet he thinks it is the same bed that crops out on vancouver island he is alao of the opinion that there ia sufficient coal in the north- west to bupply canada with fuel for centuries how to tell pure water pure water is colorless odorless tasteless to ascertain whether it is colorless fill a large bottle made of colorless glass with water look through the water at some dark object if it has any color it will then be discovered to ascertain whether the water is odorless pour ont some of the water and leave the bottle half full cork the bottle and place it for a few hours in a warm place shake up the water remove the cork and critically smell the air contained in the bottle if it has any smell particularly if the odor is re pulsive the water should not be used for do mestic purposes by heating the water an odor is evolved that would not otherwise appear the water should also be without taste water fresh from the well is usually taste less even if it contains a large amount of putrescrible organic matter all water for domestic purposes should be perfectly taste less and remain so even after it has been warmed slnoe warming often develops a taste in water whioh is absent when cola waterloo veterans are still to be found in france but it is doubtful if there are alive at tho present moment many old campaign- era who returned from moscow under murat in the disastrous retreat of tho grand army in november 1812 one of those warriors at least lives in bordeaux and he will be 103 years old on december 4 next that is to say on the seventyalxth anniversary or thereabouts of the day when ninth leaving the command of tbe army king of naples he set out for paris this veteran who is of polish origin by name zalenski lives at no 4 rue l coq bor deaux and is in receipt from the state of a magnificent pension of forty francs a month his occupation many a loving yonng bridegroom may de serve the epithet whioh illumines the follow ing anecdote but aa a general thing no one discovers the fact in so short a time after marriage the niece of a deaf old gentleman way down in maine recently married one of the beat musical critics of tho west on their bridal tour the husband was the first time presented to this relative who asked another nieoe in a loud whisper whatdoeshedo hes a musical critic was the loud reply waal said the unole gazing at the young man no accounthv fer tastes but why did she marry him if hes a mis erable crlttor musical review pain cannot stay where poisons nervlllne is used com posed of the most powerful pain subduing remedies known nervlllne cannot fall to give prompt relief in rheumatism neuralgia cramps pain in the back and aide and the host of painful affections internal or exter nal arising from inflammatory aotion a 10 cent sample bottle of nervilinc will give over every 0 largo 10 cents elementary mathematics teacher tommy what is half of eight pupil sideways or top teacher what do you mean papll why half from the top of 8 la 0 and half sideways is 3 poor widow bedott i she tried to write love poetry to the dea con and could frame only affllotiou sore loop time i bore had the lone creature used dr pierces favorite prescription the sure remedy for the weaknesses and peculiar ailments of her sex she might have secured the deacons favor by the cheerful oharaoter of her verses mrs barkley are yon familiar with songs without words o yes quite mr berkley frequently sings them when he comes home in the morning dont you know thet you cannot afford to neglect that ca tarrh dont yon know that it may lead to consumption to insanity to death f dont you know that it can be easily cured dont you known that while the thousand and one nostrums you have tried have utterly failed that dr sages catarrh remedy is a certain oure it haa stood the test of years and there are hundreds o thousands of grateful men and women in all parts of the country who can testify to its efficacy all ding- gists lawyer i have my opinion of you citizen well you can keep it the last opinion i got from you cobt me 150 the power of ink a small drop of ink falling like dew upon a thought proclaims that which makes thousands perhaps millions think wrote byron the inspiration of his pen might give the dusky fluid such a farreaching power and we wish we were possessed of such an inspiration that we might through a like medium bring into euoh extended notice the matchless virtues of dr pierces pleasant purgative pellets those tiny sugarcoated granules which contain in a concentrated form the aotive principles of vegetable extracts that dame nature de signed especially to promote a healthy ac tion of the liver stomach and bowels the highest patriotism and philanthropy consist not so much in altering laws and modifying institutions as in helping and stimulating men to elevate and improve themselves by their own froe and independ ent individual action consumption surely cured to the editor j pleaae inform your readers that i have a positive remedy for the above named disease by its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have bten permanently oured i shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who have con sumption if they will send me their express and p o address rcspy ta slogum mc 164 west adelaide st toronto our first fault may be the child of sim plicity bnt every other is usually the cftv spring of guilt coff no more- watson s cough drops are the best fn the world for the throat and ohest for tho voice unequalled see that the letters r t w are stamped on each drop man little knows what calamities he can bear until he tries them doht dim thk joys of chriatmas eve by having smoky lamp chimneys and poor light use only carbon safety oil for 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