TO OVER-CAREFUL HOUSEWIVES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2938, 25 November 1916, Page 5

TO OVER-CAREFUL HOUSEWIVES

SOME USEFUL 'ADVICE. If you are careful housewife, have you ever considered whether you are an over-careful one ? Do you lot household matters worry .you and occupy your attention from morning till night'( If s6, bo ■warned in tim©^—you are wearing yourself out to no purpose. Very often things will go wrong even in tho best regulated _ families—that pudding you were making' turns out a dire failure, Mary Arm breaks the souptureen, you discover dust in a number of unsuspected corners—and you feci that the next calamity will reduce you to tho verge of insanity. The natural thing-to do under these circumstances is to Worry over them, to render yourself hot and tired: over the making of a second pudding, to get a furrow down your forehead thinking about that breakage, to commence a frenzied dusting of those offending spots. Don't do any of these things (says George M. D. in "EveryladyV')—go and rest yourself oxl the handiest sofa, and lot matters slide. Jack, or (ieorgo, or whatever his name may ho, can do very well for one day without a pudding, and a little dust once in a way won't do any harm; and as for the soup-tureen, fretting won't mend it. It is of infinitely more consequence that your jangled nerves should bo soothed than that tho house should be attended to, And suppose that in tho midst of your annoyances your best friend makes her appearanoe to ask you to tea with her in the afternoon, don't say, "Oh, I couldn't possibly—l'm far too busy—there are a .hundred and one things to be attended to." Instead, forget household cares for the time being, put on your hat and go with her; and it is ten to ono that when you come_ back cheered and calmned you will find things have shaken into,their places, and that tho domestic machinery is working just as smoothly, or perhaps even nioro so, than if you had been at home all day worrying yourself into a brain-fever to get matters risht. ■ ■ MAGNESIA FOR ACID STOMACHS. TAKE A LITTLE IN WATER AFTER . EVERY MEAL. j Never mind the old-fashioned advice to try this or that remedy for your indigestion or dyspepsia. Be guided by physicians. and specialistsVwho have devoted years of study to these troubles, and have learned what it is that causes flushed face after meals, heartburn, flatulence, etc. They know that in nine cases out of ten these symptoms indicate acid in tho stomach and food fermentation, and so, instead of prescribing drugs 01' artificial digestants, they recommend tho 'use of half a teaspoonful of bisurated magnesia in a little water after meals. This neutralises the harmful acid instantly and also prevents all possibility of food fermenting in the stomach. This bisurated. magnosia is of greater value than drugs or medicines, for. it attacks the root cause of the trouble, whereas drugs merely deaden the nerves and disguise the symptoms. The genuine bisurated magnesia can easily be obtained from high-class chemists everywhere, but care should be taken not to use the citrates, oxides, and sulphates, as well as crude mixtures of bismuth and magnesia. Some of these are very similar in name to bisurated magnesia, and are apt to | confuse tho ■uninformed, hence the importance of asking tho chemist'very distinctly for bisurated magnesia—Advt.