HEALTH HINTS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 371, 18 June 1903, Page 2

HEALTH HINTS.

Fruit should be a large portion of Bile's breakfast. Hardwood floors and rugs ara better than carpet on sleeping floors. Hot water cools and cleanses, coIBT Water "firms,** and massage iron* .. * W »J ogly facial lines. But bare a care how and where you rub- or you will create lines. After bathing in the surf the lip&art •ften blue. The heart is in revolt. Take a few breathing exercises and then watch your lips freshen toward red. Women should take fire minutes a day from work and lie flat on the back, •11 muscles relaxed, with'eyes closed. This will be found a wonderful preaerver of health, beauty and strength. The bath is a semi-religious observance during torrid weather. Those ■rho must bathe in a thimble of water, to to speak, should spend a long tims In rubbing the body gently with a. coarse towel afterward. If you feel restless keep the fact to jourself. Arc-a raking chairs when you are entertair.h.g or are being entertained. Don't yo ur feet, thrust them forward, or oall attention to them by crossing aud uncrossing them One expects boys to go throng/, % hobbledehoy stage- when they don'' t \f*em to know quite what to do their limbs, but in a girl that sort oi thing is intolerable. .

OP PASSING OTTERESX .„ The world produces & Sssaiiou pounds of silk a week. Oxford university baa voted to do away with the Sunday afternos-n sermons. The railway companies of Great Britain pay on an average it 1.300 a day in compensation for damage. In jnze, not couat.ug coloiaes,. the European powers stand in this order: Russia, Austria, C»rrm»ny, Frai.i-r. United Kingdom, Italy. Several pairs of pigeoais a sci;-ntist has observed in Paris have raised thair young in nests made entirely of hairpins collected on the paths of the Luxembourg. Fort Worth papers are- authority for the statement that & conductor •f the Chicago, Rock Islam! <fc IVras railroad, during the recejrit ru«> to El Ueno, to reg***er for government Sioinesltads, collected, on. one run, ?« fares and tickets on th»s tops of the faacenger coach-s.