GOOD HEALTH

Manawatu Herald, 11 June 1898, Page 4

GOOD HEALTH

UTTLE DIGESTIVE TROUBLES.

P. iry Smith's Theory of the Source of Half the World's Unhapplness. The longer I live," said Sydney Smith, "i. :•« more I am convinced that half the un-hn-mness of the world proceeds from little cl ' .opages, from a duct stopped up, from a Ye id duodenum or au agitated pylorus. ?.f y friend sups late. Ho eats some strong so: p, then a lobster, then some tart, and he j dilutes these esculent varieties with wine, j Th*nexfc day I call upon him. He is going to \*-II his house in London and retire into tli. country. Hois alarmed for his eldest d; *.: ■".■■liter's health. His expenses are hourly increasing, and nothing but a timely retreat can save him from ruin. All this is the lobster, and when overexcited nature has had times to manage this incumbrance thedaughter recovers, the finances are in good order, and every rural idea is effectually ex•*ed from his mind. In the same mancl*a<~ " ■"> iendships are destroyed by toasted tier old . 1 hard salted meat has led to suicheese, nno. . "nit feelings of the body procide. Unpleash. ->• sensations in the mind, duce corresponding "-tchednessissketched Bnd a great i;cene of wtt. * *ble and misguidout by a morsel of indigesu. Ed food." '9. "Don'ts" for Visitors to Sickroom . The anxieties of the sickroom would to* greatly lessened for patient, nurse and members of the family if sympathetic vi*sitiii^ friends could be induced to observe the following rules (especially the last), formulated by some very sensible and practical per.son of unknown name: Don't sit by the side of tho patient, for then she can't look at you without straining ber neck. Don't sit where the patient must change her position to look at you. Don't, if there is already another person in the room, sit so that the patient will have to be constantly shaking her head to look from one to the other. Don't rock your chair incessantly. Don't play with anything in your hands or anything affixed to the furniture. Don't talk about sickness or other disagreeable subjects. I- . n't let the bureau knobs fall heavily or bai.'.ii* the doors. Don't shut the register with a clashing BOUllil. T'lun'ttalk so fast that it is a straiu on th-.- patient's nerves to understand all you •sa 1 . . Don't kiss the patient if you have just come, out of the cold. Don't come into the room "with wet clot*! dng on. Don't stay so long as to tire the patient. Ringworm of the Scalp. I* ; ngworm is always acquired either from a (hiid wearing the hat of another child or coming in contact with some person having riu ■.*•;' vorra, or not infrequently from handli**"* domestic pets, such as the cat or the do . The lirst symptom that usually attr." -; the parent's attention to the disease is ihat the child scratches the head. Inge- -* ion will show that there are one, two or perhaps more patches on the scalp that rarj ealy and that the hair over them is ■hrn '-a olf so that at first they look as if halo. The size of the patches varies from tha i of a marrowfat pea up to a silver dollar. Examination of the body may show that, the child has there also one or more rif" shaped patches with i-ed raised borders en. 1 scaly centers. For a*, child to acquire rin ...-worm of the scalp is an unfortunate Be i'Mit, because ifc takes six or moro tne hs to cure a case by the best of treat* me..; -if once it is well established. So go to your physician as soon as you find a rin v vovni of tho scalp, advises The Mother's Nursery Guide. A Family Doctor's Advice. When a child gets a cut with a knife or euy sa-M-p nbject, such as glass, or from a fall, w<r-*h the cut well with warm water to remove any divt that may have got in, and then put v piece of clean soft linen round the part and fasten it on by winding cotton round it or by means of a handkerchief or bandage. Should there be much bleed m_ or tho. wound be large, you should 6end for the doctor, as a stitch may be required to prevent a very ugly mark, which would be left if the cut were allowed to gape open.