THE HOUSEHOLD.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 5, 29 April 1893, Page 12

THE HOUSEHOLD.

Cinnamon Bus's. Beat in a basin 2 tablespoonfuls of brown sugar, and 1 tablespoonful of butter, using the back of a wooden spoon, add 1 teaspoonful of cinnamon, -J----teaspoonful of baking soda, and teaspoonful of cream of tartar, beating all the time. Then stir in a little at a time, alternately, the breakfast cupful of buttermilk, and as much flour as will make a stiflish dough. Drop in spoonfuls on a greased baking tin, and bake in a rather quick oven for ten or twelve minutes. When cool, brush over with milk and dust with castor sugar. The idea that much clothing, many bedclothes, hot rooms and close confinement will prevent colds and sickness is fallacious. The mo 'c a thriftless youth is helped, the more help he needs, and the less able is he to take care of himself. If you keep the body too warm, it will not keep itself warm. A low or even starvation diet for a few days, with the free drinking of warm, mildly stimulating teas, is better for a cold than any drug or combination of drugs. If with this a warm bath or hot foot-bath is taken, little more will be needed. Nine cases out of ten of colds can be broken up in this early stage by a hot foot or rather leg bath, keeping the bath as hot as can be borne until perspiration arises. After the bath, drink a half-pint of hot lemonade and go to bed. Hurried eating of meals, followed immediately by some employment that occupies the whole attention, and takes up alk or nearly all, of the physicial energies, VS sure to result in dyspepsia in one form or another. Eat slowly, without preoccupation of mind, and allow the stomach at least half an hour’s chance to get its work well undertaken before the nervous force is turned in another’ direction.