HEALTH APHORISMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3178, 5 November 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

HEALTH APHORISMS.

Liquor dealers should avoid doing anything which may have a tendency to keiip up their epiritu. Never attempt to deceive your doctor. If you tell him to call at a certain time, have his money ready, Arsenic is excellont for the face. If taken in sufficient quantities, it Dever fails to whiten the complexion.

If you are troubled with life's fitful fever employ as young a physician as passible. With youth in his favour, he rarely fails to effect a cure; In the matter of contagions disorders, when you give a disease to a friend it ehould be borne in mind that it is tnore blessed to give than to receive, and that the idea of being just before you are generous is a narrow and selfish one. Drafts should be avoided, particularly sight drafts. They are bad for the eyes. But if heroic treatment becomes neoessary, have the grace (three day's grace) to cheqae them without protest. If you have a girl—and you probably have—caution her against taking cold. At ninepence a dish it may dovelop into pneumonia, a portamonnaia, or some such unpleasant malady the inroads of which aro often disastrous. Avoid quacks; they are of no value Even in the case of duck-3, i" is a we 11 established dietary fact that the quack is about the only part of the bird that is unfit for food". Butchers should never allow themselves to be troubled with their liver. In oase they are unable to sell it, they osn always give it away. A good healthy liver U a priceless boon, particularly to boarding—house keepers and in more than one instance it has been known to save their bacon. Matton, as an article of food, is wholesome and rutritious, and may be eaten with impunity and caper sauce. In female seminaries, where the male element is an unknown quantity, sidos.iddles of mutton only should ba used, ai.d care should fce observed that the young ladies do not indulge in too many capers. They f,re apt to get too sancy sometimes.