Health in the Home.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 February 1913, Page 4

Health in the Home.

———•-# BY A YANKEE OiIANK. THREE HOT WATER CURES. • Headache.— To cure headache, apply towels, wrung out in boili.ig water, simultaneously to the feet and back of neck of the patient. Neuralgia.—Fold a several times, dip it in boiling water, wring out, and apply to the part of the head or faco. The Croup.—Fold a length oi flannel lengthways, immerse it in hot water, wring out, and wrap it round the neck of the child. Relief will be obtained in ten minutes. HINTS. Never neglect your daily exercise. A brisk walk for a couple of miles in the fresh morning air, or a four or five miles bicycle ride, is ono of tho first essentials. Plain, nourishing food, and abundance of good ripe fruit is another. Fruit is best eaten in the morning. Bananas are easy of digestion by some and very nutritious; grapes are nourishing and fattening; apples are especially good for •'brain-work-ers, and oranges are for the benefit of people afflicted with rheumatism. Personal cleanliness is the next essential to keeping young. A daily hath and a good rub will clear tho complexion fiaeter than medicine. Have plenty of fresh air in your living and sleeping rooms. Leave your bedroom window open from the top several inches every night, no matter how cold the weather; have your bed covering warm and light. On getting up in tho morning airrange your bedding and bed so that they may -bo thoroughly aired; lea«? the window open in your bedroom for the greater part of the day. In your living room ventilation is also necessary, and sunshine, too. Poor ventilation is accountable fo; much ugliness, and in children deformity. Fresh air nnd sunshine a>re essential to a, human lioing as they are to a. plant. Avoid tight clothing; corsets, garters, sleeves, uirmholes, collars, ani 1 waistbands. Tight clothing disturbs the circulation of the blood and is the cause of red noses, enlarged veins, flushing, etc. Eight hours sleep is absolutely refill i red to rest the brain, and a ten minutes' natp twice a day will do much towards warding off wrinkL'S and keeping the faco youthful. TAKING CASTOR OIL. A hint to thoso who have to take castor oil—und don r t like it. Take ouo quarter of a tumberful ot warm peppermint water, and add to it the doso uf castor oil. From another glass lill the mouth with popperiniut water and hold it lliero for a lew moments, then swallow immediately and drink tho oil and water from the other glass. In this way the oil is often not tasted. BILIOU.S HEADACHE. The one great difficulty which is to be met with in treating so-called bilious headaches, is that ouco tha hwidacho has become severe both secretion and absorption from tho stomach aao generally arrested, and that any medicine taken by the mouth when tho headachy is fairly begun lies in the stomach unabsorbed and useless. It may not ini're(juontly be noticed that if tho head ache conies on shortly after food has been taken—for example, an hour or so after breakfast—tho secretion will have occurred "bofore the pain has commenced, and tho gastric juices will dissolve tho food. But tho food will not be absorbed, and will bo brought up in full quantity but well-digested many hours afterwards—eay, in the evening. Should tho headache, however, have become well-established before breakfast, and food bo takon. notwithstanding the pain, the gastric secretion is often arrested, so that the food «ill be returned unchanged at night. Tn consequence of this want of absorption, drugs, administered by the mouth after tho pain has become severe, sure little or no use; hut if taken before the absorption has ceased they frequently act like a charm upon a hondache. For black eye. There is nothing to compare with tho tincture of strong infusion of capsicum mixed with an equal hulk of mucilage of gum arabic with thr» addition of a few drops of glycerine. Tin's should be painted over the bruised surface with a onmol's hnir pencil and allowed to dry on. a second or third coating hoing applied as soon .as tho first is dry.