Science.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 422, 19 May 1904, Page 7

Science.

FOK THE COMPLEXION.

eat when very tired, if you jlhk expect to get any good from your S&20& food and preserve your beauty. Don't eat mora than one hearty meal a day. This is the secret of good lookß, health, and long life—a secret which if everyone followed the doctors could not make a living. Don't eat much in hot weather if you would keep your skin free from eruptions. Don't eat hot or fresh bread if you want to ba healthy and beautiful, Don't eat cold, starchy foods, like potato salad and cold porridge, unless you have strong digestive organs. Don't eat ice cream too fast. Eaten slowly and allowed to melt in the mouth it can do no harm.

Don't drink much water at, meals, bnt take a glassful the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, Don't drink too much coffee or tea unless yon want a complexion like leather ia colour and texture.

Don't eat potatoes, peas, macaroni, cream, olive oil, pastry, and bonbons if you want to lose flesh.

Don't go to bed hungry. A glass of milk or a oup of chocolate will refresh you. Don't think you can eat too much spinach, lettuce, watercress, dandelion, and carrot. They are complexion beantifiers.

Sore Throat Cure.—lf you take a small piece of the skin of a T*ngerine orange and masticate it very slowly it will cure a sore throat, For Hoarseness.—l£ you are hoarse, lemon-juice squeezed on to soft sugar till it is like a syrup, and' a few drops of glycerine added, relieves the hoarseness at once.

Useful Thirst Q lencher.—To assuage thirst and cure feverishness, apple tea is a notable sick drink, It is made by slicing up raw apples into a jug, filling up the jug with boiling water, as in teamaking, then sweetening to ta-ste. When cold, this apple tea will be found pleasingly tart and refreshing. Walnuts for Gout.—Nowadays doctors forbid gouty patients to eat any kind of sweet food, but recommend them to eat at least a dozen walnuts a day. There is no doubt that walnuts are most useful to gouty subjects, or in cases of chronic rheumatism. Swelling goes down and pain decreases. To Treat Bruises.—To prevent a bruise from becoming discoloured, apply to it a cloth wtish has been wmng out of water as hot as oan be borne comfortably, and change it as it becomes cold. Supposing

hot- water cannot be procured, the nest beat thing is to moisten some dry starch with cold water and to cover the braised part with it.

Nursery Hint.—.Very young children should never be out after sunset, or whenever the weather is damp. Neither should they be put to sleep in a cold room But let them have plenty of fresh air and sunshine. Let them play in a room bathed in sunlight. Never mind the curtains fading} your child'a health is o! far more importance. W hen l;he doctor giv6B permission, you can begin to give a cold bath daily; this will not hurt if the immersion is only of a few seconds duration. Overwork and Worry.—To eat a grape a minute for an hour at a time, and to repeat this performance three or four times a day, eating very little elee meantime but dry bread, may seem a monotonous way of spending the time. This treatment works wonders for thin, nervous, atramio people whose digestions have got out of order from worrying or overwork. It is no mere quack prescription, but a form of cure recognised and advised fcy many well-known physicians. Grapes are, perhaps, the most digestible ot any fruit in existence. A HINT FOR TEA. DRINKERS. It is said that the following simple teat applied to the tea in everyday use will prove its wholesomeness. Turn out the infused leaves; and if they are found a good brt-wn colour, with ( fair 3ubatance, the tea will be wholesome; but if the leaves are black and of a rotten texture, with an oily appearance, the tea will not be fit to drink. The purer the tea, the more the distinctively browa colour of the leaf strikes the attention; also note that the leaves have the serrated or saw like edges, without which no tea is genuine, HYGIENE FOE HOLIDAYS, In a timely note upon holidays and ' health resorts, the ' Medical Press' pointß out that these resorts are oftentimes [ selected with such a lack of hygienic forethought and absence of all modioal advice that it is hardly to bs wondered at that those seeking rest and recuperation frequently not only gain '.no benefit, but are precipitated into such morbid conditions as they are endeavouring to avoid. The clear leas on is that, in the selection of a holiday resort, and in the conduct of a holiday, hygienic principles should b« allowed directing force. Medical men, and particularly those who are still privileged to fulfil the honourable duties of a' family practitioner," mijjht exercise a wide beneficial influence if they were more frequently consulted as to the manner and method of holiday-taking. MEDICINAL TOBACCO. A good deal of the world's tobacco crop is neither smoked, snuffed nor chewed. At ene time tobacco was very iargely prescribed in medicine, and even to-day considerable quantities are so made use of. As an external remedy for wounds and bruises and sprains a wet tobacco poultice is commonly used in all countries where tobacco is grown. On sore throata, erysipelas, sciatia and swellings of various kinds, tobacco, externally applied, has a wonderfully good effect. Moist tobacco is one of the best cures imaginable for the bite of any poisonous insect. Being so good aa it is, tobacco is sometimes applied by soldiers to raw wounds. It is said that no case of lockjaw or mortification has ever occurred where thie precaution has been taken.