RECIPE FOR A COLD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 363, 14 January 1880, Page 2

RECIPE FOR A COLD.

The following reoipe for a cold we can say is truly worth the price of this paper for many years. It was prescribed for us when we were suffering from a cough that seemed as if we were on the brink of consumption ; no cessation or rest, day or night. We took it, and wer« cured in three days. The woman who gave the recipe has reared a large family in Oneida county; has Been hundreds suffering from colds and consumption; and she assures us that, in thirty years' experience with the prescriptions of the ablest pbysiciaha, and the' experience of her friends' before her, Bhe has never, heard of or used any other remedy bitter thin this for colds of every

condition; even when on. the of that scourge of man,, consumption, , Beoipb.—One tabiespbonful of. molasses ; two teaspoonfuli castor oil; one do. Iparegorio; one do. spirits camphor. Mix and take often.—Northern Farmer, \oure for sprains or Bruises.—Take two ounces of cast steel soap, half pint of alcohol or spirits of wine, mix them together, then add half pint beef gall; put it in a bottle and stop it tight. The older it is the better. Bathe the parts affected with it, and you will find immediate 1ief....,. -. ............ ■^■■■■-■-^^^J EXPANDING THE LUNGS^^M . .... ~ fl ..,,..,;.,:. <IH Step out into the purest air you find; stand perfectly erect, with thd and shoulders back, and then'fixing the lips as. though you were going to whistle, • - • draw the air, and not through the nos- ••. trils, but througij.the lips, into the lungs. When the chest is about full, raise the ' arms, keeping them extended, with the palms of the hands down as you suck in the air, so as to bring them over the head just as the lungs are quite full. Then drop the thumbs inward, and after gently -. . forcing the arms backward, and the chest ' open, reverse the process, by, which youdraw your breath till the lungs are en- - tirely empty. This process should be : repeated three'or four times during the day. It is impossible to describe to one who has never tried it the glorious sense ' of vigor which follows the exercise. It is ■ : the best expectorant in the world. We know gentlemen the measure of whose- - chest has been increased by this means-., three inches in as many months.

THE TITANS'OF AMERICA. '■"♦

A correspondent of the American Phre-, r-' " nologioal Journal i»y«:—While y«u have /, • ' spoken of the Kentuckians, Tennesseeans, I Virginiani, and Marylanders, as being bo, Ilarge and finely developed, permit me to \ say that the true Titans of America, have <■■' escaped your notice—men among whom, ,' though nobody myself, I have walked . • feeling myself among gods—physically v ■•'■'' speaking, of course—men beside whom the Highlanders are in a measure pigmies —men among whom six feet three inches and * chest of forty-five, forty -eight, and even fifty inches, are not uncommon—l mean the backwoodmen of Maine, to whom three generations, spent for the most part in the open air, battling withthe piny monarohs that girt, the Umbagog, the Moosehead, and other lakes and - streams .of that wild bracing Northern climate, have given • the most gigantic development, of physical power which I ever saw or had any authentic account of.