HINTS FOR RHEUMATICS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1963, 5 February 1885, Page 4

HINTS FOR RHEUMATICS.

Khrr the skin in constant good tone and woi king order. The mituMnnl sponge bath will strengthen the mixes and keep open the pon s; the Turki-h bath, por table or othciwise, ouglit to be taken once a weik. or whenever ,\n attack is thrintuivd. If even or.cc a day for n tune should be deempd necessaiy, it will not hurt it is .1 wondei fully prophy ].ict:c. I could nddncc hundreds of cases in pi oof of this. Tho^e subject to rheumatism \eiy often feel tiled, di-jecte I, with or without lofcS oi appetite Tnc lwxly mnv not nolle. but it does not fee 1 fresh. Probably there is n little headache, but ii.ore often a fulness in brow or eyeballs, and the patient has but little heart for his ordinary employment, .md tilings that interested him only the day before now appeal devoid of any value. If he th'iiks luck, perhaps he will remember that for a day or two pieviov«ly be has not been living quite so abstemiously as he ouglit. Well, lie may call this little illness a mere fit of indigestion, if he pleases, but it is indigestion of a kind that has dctiimentally iucieascd the line and 111 hi* blood. Let him take a Turkish bath at once, if bis doctor will permit it, and live by rule acain. The living by rule includes a certain amount of daily exercise in open air. Without this no rheumatic persons can expect to be long fiec from aches and pains and weaii«orne ennui — almost as bad to bear as piin itself. As to diet, it will greatly depend on the age. The young n-quiie more nouiishment than tlie midd c aged, but old people must have their little often, and it must be well cooked and easy of assimilation. For breakfast, let tea and coffee both be avoided, substituting cocoa or cocoatina, with milk and sugar. Let toast be eaten, or, if bread be preferred it should be brown bread and butter, and the bi cad should be stale. Avoid meat except a little nicely cooked bacon, not too fat. Eggs, poached or mushed, or lightly boiled, not fried, and any kind of fish except salmon, herring, or mackerel. If hungry about twelve o'clock, a light biscuit or two, with butter, may be taken, and a glass of soda water and milk. Dinner should be early — say 1 30 or 2 o'clock. Soup the old may take, middleaged or young people do not requite it, and it is apt to get acid with some. Meat may now be taken sparingly, say twice a week. Game, fi»h, poultry and vegetables, except the stronger kind I',1 ', may be eaten every d.iy with dinner. No beer with dinner. Lemon juice is a giod substitute, but ginger bet r and gingerale should be avoided. Light puddings, such as bnad, tapioca, or ground lico may be taken, anil a little good whole some fruit ; but tli<s latter is bettei before bn a k fast. No pastiy : and cheese is poison. t'ne cup of not over strong tea at 3 o'clock and a tiny biscuit. Snppei at 7 or 7.30, with a cup of cocoa. Sauce* and hot peppers distgnc ; so do stews, foi this rtason, no cook lives who cm keep prci^e out of a stew, and, moreover, stews and fool of that consistency are gent rally swallowed too quickly, and. do not get mixed with the balivaiy juices. Salads are also to be avoided. — A Family Doctor 111 Cassell's Family Magazine for November.

A Swiss mountaineer has made a bet with n wealthy Englishman that ho can make the tour of Europe on foot, * isiting eveiy s>epai.itc cmintiy, inside of twelve montlio, to stait on Jan. 1, 1880. The wager is for a thon«atid pounds, with expenses. Matrimony is popular amongst the rising generation in Queensland. Last year 73 males and CSS females married under the age of 21. One girl— a Cingalese —w as man ied at 13, three Euro pcan f,'iils at 11, 13 at l."> jears of age, .">3 at lfi, 11 3 at 17, lt(i at 18, 170 at 19, and only 174 fit 20. At the other extreme, one woman of GO, and one of 02, were married during the yenr, and one man was married at (i 4. one at 6«>, one at 68, one at 00, one at 70, and one nt 70. CoviMTios 01 Ex<iiA\r>.— Mr John Mcuiinnn, e\-Minister of Public Works •\t the Cape, said to l.c one of the cleverest men in South Africa, furnishes the Pall Mall Budget with the following impressions of England : — "England feems to me marvellously prosperous. The talk about depießsion seems \ery unrcil ; no doubt thcic is a little depression heie ami there if you compare it with the highest tide of prosperity, but look back fotty years and jOllj 011 will be startled by the contrast. Your farmers, for instance, whose lot is supposed to be most miserable. The fanner of to day is a gentleman, whose sons are at the University, and the whole scale of his living is immensely higher than that w hich prevailed half a century ago. Ask any aged labouiing man what he lives on norv, and what he had w lien he was a boy. and you will find that what I say is confirmed to the letter. E\cn now, in your agricultural districts, fanners who have been trained in the keen competition of American colonial agiiuulturc, find no difliculty in making fanning pay ; it is only your sluggish, ignoiant farmers of the old school who 1 q behind the time, and attempt to kiep pace with theii rivals in this age of the steam-engine, using no more rapid means of locomotion than the stage coach which sufficed for their fathers." A Wonu for tub fir-uwow. — The English spanow in America lias many detractors, but he has also some friends, nuil one of the«e, wilting to the Philadelphia Ledger, says :— " Your thcoiists claim that the sparrow is dnsing away .ill other birds And desti 03 ing our fruits and flowers wholesale. Reasoning fioin these thcoiiea, England ought to be a ban en w aste from cud to end insteid of being a peifect gnrden, ns Hoiace Giecly described it, and it ought to have no other biid but the sparrow, wheieas the woods and foiests of Ki. gland arc teeming with sweet singing biids— the thrush, the linnet, the robin, the skylark, the nightingale, and a host of others that we read not of except in poetiy. While I have always been a factory worker, and aen one still, \ I have cultivated a garden in England and in se\eral States in this country — in New Jersoy, in Maine, in Pennsylvania, and in Maryland. In England the sparrow did twothiuls of the work in keeping my plants, fruits, and vegetables free from insects. In this country for want of the sparrow, 1 had to do it all myself. The result was that I could produce as much on a, rood of ground in England an I could get from thiee r< o s in this country, in any of the four States named. Anyone who has lived in both countries, and tried it, can bear me out in this. If you don't piotect your seed in early spring, before insect life is developed, the sparrow will cat some of it. But when the plants come up, the spanow is hunting for insects. If he digs a hole in your cherry or knocks off one side of your stiawbeiry, depend upon it he is after the grub that has taken lodging there. He does not caie half as much for your fiuit as he does for the insect destroying it ; and instead of being an enemy, the sparrow is one of youi best fuends."

Enjoy Life. What a tiuly beautiful woild we live in ! We can desire no better when in good health ; but how often do the majority of people feel like gi*in£ it up dishearteneci, discouraged and vonied out with disease, when theie is no occasion for tins feeling, Green's August Flower will make them aa free from disease as when bom. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint are the direct cause of seventy-five per cent, of such maladies aa BHlioiiane**, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Coslivenoss, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpitation of the Ileait, and other distressing symptoms. Three doses of August Flo'ver will pro\c its wondeiful effect. Mold by all Diu'r^ists at fo. 6d. per bottle. Sample bottles, 6d, Try it.