HEALTH HINTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3748, 7 February 1907, Page 3

HEALTH HINTS.

PORTER FOR INVALIDS. The following is a most valuable recipe for invalids, which is a saving of great expense, and is an invaluable stimulant: Two gallons of water, half a pound of hops, one quart of barley (burn and grind as for coffee), one tablespoonful of ginger and one pint of the best treacle. Boil the hops and the barley in the water two hours, so as to obtain all the strength, then strain; when cool, put in a cupful of yeast, also the treacle and ginger. Let it stand and ferment until it is covered with a scum. Skim this off and bottle the mixture up tight. It will be ready for use in a few days, and will be found a most beneficial stimulant for invalids. VALUE OF BROWN BREAD. Brown bread is richer in fleshmaking substance than fine wheaten bread, because the outer husk of the grain, which constitutes the bran, itself contains a large quantity of that material. When the dough is formed from wholemeal, instead of from fine ‘ fToUrs -the cost of the bread is considerably diminished ; at the same time its bulk and weight are inincreased. The addition of a little r* cream or milk to the dough has the effect of still further raising the ■ nourishing power of the bread, besides causing it to keep fresh longer; a pint of milk adds one pound to the weight of a loaf. A quarter of a pound of mashed potatoes, mixed in with every four pounds of flour and meal, also improves the keeping quality. CARE OF THE EYES.

“ The light of the body is the eye,” and the darkness which ensues when the light is quenched is one of the saddest of physical afflictions. Still, some take no more care to protect the fragile “ windows of the soul ” than if they were as hard and insensible as a rock, instead of being the most delicate structure, consisting of a liquid covered with a thin film, and pervaded with nerves of the most exquisite susceptibility . The eyes are, indeed, shamefully abused. We strain and overtax them in a hundred different ways, and when they indicate by their weakness and irritability, as plainly as possible, that we are destroying their utility, we rub them and make them worse. We know that they are growing weaker, still we are too proud or too senseless to give the aid of spectacles at the time when such aid would not assist but strengthen the vision. Hence one daily sees people who need only the assistance of properly adapted glasses to see almost as well as their youthful neighbours. The truth is, the use of suitable spectacles, which should be chosen by an oculist, when the sight begins to fail does not injure, but often restores it. LAUGHING AND CRYING. Many things happen to us| all which it is just as well to laugh about as to cry about —disappointments, unfortunate coincidents, the disparity between intention and performance. You might as well take them as part of the day’s or month’s or year's experiences, and as cheerfully as possible charge them to profit and loss. At any rate, grumbling and whining are not going to change them, and the expenditure of emotion in. those unfortunate directions may unfit you for retrieving your ‘blunders. Indeed, it often turns out that the unhappy and disagreeable mood into which one is thrown by a disappointment is a severer loss than the thing about which he complains. FOR SHINGLES.

" Shingles may be readily relieved by applying a thick layer of starch over the affected part, then covering with a cotton bandage drawn snugly so as to fit skin-tight. This will usually give almost complete relief. The bandage should be • left on several, days. - When rek painful eruption will be.

BENEFITS OF A HOT BATH. It is impossiple to overrate the value of the hot bath for any sudden illness in children. It cannot do harm, and in nine cases out of ten is highly beneficial. If any eruptive fever is coming on it helps to hasten the development by opening the pores of the skin, and in fits, or internal pains, it relieves by causing the blood to flow to the surface, it thus gives the congested internal organs and brain a chance to recover their lost energy. Care should always be used not to let the child get a chill after giving it a bath; it should be wrapped in hot flannel, and a fire should be lighted in the bedroom, and kept up till the patient is better. No sheets suould be used, only blankets.

SICK EGGS,

It should be remembered that an egg is a very young fowl. When an egg is perfectly fresh, it is alive, and it needs to be kept alive in order to be healthful as an article of food. Unless an egg is preserved by cold or salt or some other antiseptic measure, just as meat must be preserved, it sometimes becomes sick and then dies, and is unfit for food. The yolk and the white are each enveloped in separate membranes, and if on breaking an egg it all runs apart without retaining its form, it is sick. When an egg sticks to the shell, it shows that fever or inflammation has been going on which has caused the membrane to adhere. An egg is a very delicate perishable creature, and it sometimes gets so sick that there is as much danger in eating it as in eating the flesh of any other sick animal. TAKE CARE.

i. Take care of your health. A sound mind depends largely on a sound and healthy body ; and without good health you are not likely to have vigor, or cheerfulness, or courage for duty, or success in life. Do all in your power, men, to have and keep good health. 2 Take care of your time. It is one of the most precious of God’s gifts.. Misused, it is loss, injury, ruin ; rightly used, it is success, character, influence, life to the intellect, life to the soul. Know, then, and constantly remember the value of time. Seize and improve every moment as it passes. Never put off to the future what may be done now. Count as lost the day in which you have made no improvement or done no good.

3 Take care as to your associates, Not only will you be known by the company you keep but will soon become like it. “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but the companion of fools shall be destroyed.”