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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-2-25, Page 3Ahlreliellelanleanalagelia .HEALTH. Infant Diet. One of the most frequent sources of dang er to infants is the sudden weaning on fresh cow's milk and water. The mass- ive curds formed from cow's milk are frequently beyond the feeble digeetftate powers of the infant. Dilution will partially remedy the matter, but, can- not as a rule be carried to a sufficient extent without unduly increasing the bulk of the food. Boiled milk not only is to a certain degree sterilized, but clots less firmly titan. raw milk. Another grave error is the prolonged use of artificially digested foods. The power of digesting casein becomes graaually less, nutrition is impaired, and the child thuds to become flabby, anfemic, soft in bone. Still another error consists in the furnish- ing of an insufficient amount of nutritive. material. The capacity of the stomach be- , ing limited, it may be impossible for it to take a sufficient quantity of a digestably di luted mixture to supply the znaterial (as as- en)requiredfor growth and nutrition. The difficuly may be overcome by the addition of creamer same good preparation of meat juice (bovinine. Food deficient in fat, as well as that deficient in protein, is certain to cause trouble. Those deprived of these two elements are often large and fat, but flabby, sntemic, artech(tic; yet most of the arti- ficial foods upon which children are so large- ly fed are almost wholly lacking in fat and to a less degree in proteids. The presence of an antiscorbutic element in the food is also a matter of prime import- ance. Fresh milk contains the element in sufficient quantity, but all farinaceous foods) and all the dry artificial foods, are deoided- deficient in this regard.—DR. C)IEA.»Lxll.. Mush and Milk. A famous doctor says : Eat a good bowl o mush and milk for your breakfast and you will not need any medicine. Indian corn contains a large amount of nitrogen, has qualities anti -constipating, and is easily assimilated. It is cheap and has great nutritive properties. A coarse of I1a- dian meal in the shape of Johnny -cake, hoe- cake,relieved corn or pone bread and mush, by copious draughts of pure cow's milk,. to which, if inclined to dyspepsia, a little lime water may be added, will make a life now a burden well worth the living, and you need no other treatment to correct your nervous- ness, brighten your vision, and give you t and peaceful sleep. r. travelling in Nosh and Eastern Australia the blacks in hie service made no secret of their liking for human flesh. The very thought of it used to make their eyes glisten. When they were asked what part of the human body tasted the best, they alwayo. indicated the ribs. The head they never -eat. Lumholz also says it isa misteke to suppose that cannibals look more repulsive. than any other savages. Many of thein have most gentle, peaceful -looking faces. Women as well as men take part in the feasts off human flesh. Tea Poisoning, an tea merchants, who, when pre. the Chinese frontier fat buying tea, s said, obliged to taste from ono d and fifty to two hundred specimens tea infusions daily, do not swallow ions but nevertbelesa, a slow intox- pearsin them. The symptoms are Lite, constipation which alternates hm a failure of general nutrition. epig.tlit e strio painenlargement of thsubsequent atrophic cirrhosis, and sallowness of the skin, tical frame of mind, merited ory, of sight, of visual recut - sines of taste and smell. ow to Give Nitre. it of nitro is one of the most mestie medicines. The dose for rem one-half to one teaspoonful with water. When using it in est to give small doses and re - them oft n, rather than give largo doses ong intervals. One-half a teaspoonful m a tumblorful of cold water, drunk a little at a time through the night, will be more eotive in subduing fever and bringing on perspiration than a whole teaspoonful taken at once. ' ane Siok Room, In waiting upon invalids many people make the mistake of serving a quantity of food at a time, thereby taking away the little appetite the aiok ones possess. Variety in food should be provided, and only a little delicate portion served at ouco, so to tempt the appetite. It is always advisable to keep beef -tea, jelly, custards, etc., in readiness, for in many oases if a patient has to wait while these dishes are being prepared, he or she loses the desire to eat, and will often turn from them when brought. In serving food to invalids every thing should look as tempting as pos- sible—a pretty, clean tray .cloth, clean cups and saucers, sparkling glass, every thing to invite the appetite. Another great mistake frequently made is the habit of keeping plates of food in the sick room --this should never be done. When something is brought for which the patient had no appetite and refuses to eat, it should be taken away at once and brought again at the right time ; for food left standing by nauseates the in- valid, and oftentimes causes him or her to turn from it altogether. The introduction of flowers in the sick room brightens it up as nothing else does, and to the invalid who is confined to the room their sweet scent is grateful and refreshing. Baron Sir Ferri. Von Mueller, M. D., F. R. S., has introduced in Victoria the use of green eucalyptus branches in sick rooms, by recommending the placing of them under the bedsteads, and renew- ing them when necessary. He considers this plan applicable to all infectiouseand contagious diseases, and it is said to have been sueces fu1 with phthisical patients, not only anti optically, but also as a sedative, and to some extent hypnotic. Dr. J. B. Curgenven states as his experience of this plan in scarlet fever, in twelve months' trial, that the bedding is thoroughly disinfected, and the volatile vapor penetrates everyarti- cle, even the mattress, and the room re- quires no other dis',nfection, as every germ that escapes from the patient is killed by the vapor. Aoross the Top o' the Bars. Ruthie an' me, wuz neighbors,, An' hod ben for yars an' yars Atween us a ole Yirginny fence With a handy pair o' bars. An' Ruth an' me frum childhood Ilod got in a sort o' a way 0' corrin' each to our side tho fence, Jest at tho end o' the day, Fer tor keep up a neighborly feelin', An' gossip a little, perhaps. Prophecin' bout the weather. An' talkin' about the craps, A-lingerin' along in the twilight (We'd done it ter yars an' yarn), Exchangin' of neighborly intrust Acrost tho top o the bars Wo begun it when 1 wuz a shaver An' Muth wuz a mite o` a girl, With eyes big ez blue chitty gassers An' hair alters tryin' ter curl In spite o' their off its ter smooth it .An' braid it up spick an' span (Fer Ruthie's folks they wuz Quakers Bliovod plainness wuz part o' God's plan) An' Ruthin an'mo we wuz playmates, An' the` we'd got spunky an' riled, We alters cooled a -towards evenin` An' met at the fence, calm an' mild, Ter sorter review the events o` the day An' chat about this an' `bout that; Ter relatenests,how the hens hed stole out their An' the hired man had drownded the eat. A-lingerin' along in the twilight (We'd done it for yarn and yars), Exchangin` of neighborly intrust Acrost the top ce the bars. An' somehow er other the older At Rutbio an'me 'peered ter!t The more store we sot by that ole rail -fence, An' the ouroaist part of it Sit Wuz thet when we both wuz rarely groomed Ruthie, fair, blue-eyed, with gold locks, An' oto a great feller with whiskers, A-standin'six Pectin my socks, We kept corrin` jest ez we alters hed done, An' wo alters found plenty tor say When we mot for a chat by the ole rail -fence, Jost at the end o' the day, Ann t' z shinin` o when c � t n thv full moon wuz , An' Ruth looked uncommon fair— I think'twuz the spell o' the moonlight -- But I lost my ho:ul then an' there, An' I wondered how in creation I hed never thort of it afore••- Thet' Ruth wuz the one livin' woman 'At I could love an' adorn, An` some wy hund lttttttie! As wo lint orcfaymunderlipstfireyefostars, Exchangin' of neighborly intrust Acrost the top o the bare. —Elizabeth. A. Vero, Cannibals Menus. Dr Lumholz, the Norwegian naturalist, has just published a bcok entitled " Among Cannibals," which has awakened a good deal of interest. Dr. Lumholz is quite a connois- seur in cannibal cookery, and gives much information respecting peculiar delicacies. The natives of the Australian Archipelago, he says, often slaughter their children from culinary motives. They regard human flesh as the mot delicious of all .neat, but not the flesh of white persons ; that, they say, has a nasty, salty taste. What they like is the flesh of blacks or of Chinamen. They like blacks best, but if they cannot get a black they will eat a Chinaman. They say a black has a more delicate flavour, because he feeds chiefly on vegetables and eat no salt; but a fat, ricefed Chinaman is not to be de- vised. Dr Lumholz declares that if the aborigines in Queensland were allowed their own way, and the Chinese immigrants were pot carefully guarded by the police, the flhinete question tteere would flnda summary pointless at site lianas e-2 the natives them- selves, and would : cease to trouble the Colo- nial Secretary. Ile says that when ho was LOST ALL Bur THEIR LIVES. Row the Crew of a, "'rine. Edward Island. Schooner 'Were Saved from Death. Sr. Jolfiv's, Nfld., Feb. 25,—The Prince Edward Island schooner Avenger was driven on the rocks 20 utiles from St. John's on Saturday in a blinding enowstortn, While' the vessel was pounding to pieces the boat was launched and immediately swamped. Death stared the crew in the face. Capt. Rice called for a volunteer to swim to the shorn with a life line. Murdoch Gillis re- sponded. He was carried shoreward on the breast of an enormous wave, but the shore was composed of precipitous rocks, upon which, in the tumult of the waves, it was extremely difficult to effect is landing. There were in tho sea a number of barrels of oil which had been swept from the vessel's deck and impeded and hindered the swimmer. Gillis could not obtain a hold upon any poi'ut on the shore, and was obliged to give. it up. He was drawn back on board the vessel, where he rested an hcur. Then he tried again, this time being successful, (hitting his hand in a holo in ono of the rocks, he Brow himself up, and by catching points of rock he succeeded in climbing to a spot on which he could fasten a line. Then he drew ashore a longer line, and by means of this the captain and crow all got safely to the shore. Gillis had nothing on but his drawers, undershirt, socks and a pair of slippers, In this scanty clothing, hatless and shivering, he walked five miles to the nearest lighthouse, where he obtained more clothing, and the party proceeded to St. John's, having lost everything but their lives. The Ameer and His .English Engineer. Mr. Pyne, the English engineer who man- ages the Ameer's workshops at Cabul, pass- ed through India recently on his way home for a well-earned holiday. He is an enthsi- aatic admirer of Abdurrahntan, and says that the peaceful industries he has been instru- mental introducing into his capital are hav- ing a wonderfully civilising influence on the turbulent Afghans. According to Mr. Pyne the Ameer regards the Russians with intense dislike and suspicion. He learned their character during his years of exile, and told. Mr. Pyne with evident relish how, by pre- tending to a dulness of intellect, he succeed- ed in leading them to betray themselves in their true light. The Ameer seems to be a wag in his way. On one occasion he, after he had come to the throne, received a com- munication from the Russian Governor of Turkestan stating that it was proposed to exercise some 500 artillery and cavalry on the Afghan frontier, and expressing a hope that it would not give rise to apprehensions on the part of his Highness. Abdurraham replied that he had no objection, because, as it happened, ire was about to exercise 5000 cavalry, artillery, and infantry on his side of the frontier at the same place, and there was plenty of room for both. The hint was enough. The Russians wrote thanking the Ameer, but intimating that they had found another site for their manoeuvres. " BIG BEN'S" WARNING. A furious Coinefdenee Regarding the Death or the Late Dnlro. A most curious coincidence with regard to the death of the late Duke of Clarence has come under the notice of the London corres- pondent of the Manchester Courier. It is as follows:—There is, it seems, a superstition that when "Big Ben," the clock at West- minster, strikes irregularly at midnight evil will befall the Royal House within three months. At 12 o'clock on the night of Nov- ember 141h, the members of a political club within a stone's throw of the Houses of Par- liament were astonished to hear the quarter chimes sounding simultaneously with the hour strokes, and to note that "Big Ben" struck 13 times. The, event was commented on, and the day being a critical one in the illness of Prince George, his name was— happily incorrectly—associated with the evils omen. Two months after, to the very day his elder brother died. Popular opinion of the polecat—don t like t for a scent. Many men imagine that the world couldn't get along without them, but when they die the town in which they lived ex- periences a boom. Baby Selene. She /vas only a child of the May dav: That came when the swept blossoms fell, But rarer than any fair lady Of whom the old poets may toll. Then the days brought to us everything sweeter Of sunshine and love in their train, But better than all and completer, Was Baby Helene. With a kiss and a smile she came to us, The sunshine of God in her hair, Alt! never a sweet wind that blow ue A blossom se tender and rare. Wo sang a now May-songtogether. New found and of jubiant strain, Ah 1 our hearts they wore light as a feather, With Baby Helene. Oh'. lips running over to kiyaes, Rod cheeks kissed to brow by the sun,? Shall we: ever again know what bliss is, When the song and the kiesesare done Ohl lady, brown -hatred, on thy tresses The Bands of the angels had lain, And joy laughed new-born in comm. Of Baby Helene. 111 Oh! baby -love, heart -sweet, the sunlight That fall on the way that you went, Shall bo to our feet as the one light, The lamp the sweet angels have lent. And the nights and the days snail bo light- er. And the ways that were dark ways be plain, And the stars where thou artshall be bright- er tor Baby Helene. Youth and Age. When Time was young and the faint golden spears Of dawn -light stirred the curtains of the deep So true our hearts—our wills—the nighty sweep Of unseen wings had borne us o'er ourfoars. But shadow lies upon the folded years— Dim shadow of a twilight that must creep And creep, until forgetfulness and sleep Round bit our world kissing its doubts and tears Into a dream and gathering the old, Old memories as a reaper who among The fair rough hillocks of his harvest gold, Would, have the withered blossoms that are sprung From the rieh soil of youth, and must unfold The fragrance of their hope while Time is young, --[0. A, Dawson, The Women, of London, Tiers at a moment's glance you may see the distinctive curse of London's poor. The women drink. Mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, grown women, children of tender years—the ginshop is open to all, and all go to it, Nowhere in New York did I see or hear of women not utterly abandoned habitu- ally frequenting saloons. Nowhere in Lon- don is there a public house but the women will be as good (?) eustomers as the men, It is impossible to overrate the influence, the soul-destroying influence, this has had upon the hones of the poor, for it is by this, I am convinced, that the idea of right and wrong has come to be hopelessly confused where it is not absolutely lost. 11 is not, uncommon to find a. mother who since marriage has been. a faithful wife, and perhaps before that a virtuous girl, looking on with indifference while her daughter "gons on the streets" and is lost in the unnumbered legion of vic- tims hourly sacrificed to the deuton of vice. She may regret the fact, as a mother in a wealthier station might regret her daughter marrying beneath her, but there is no shock, no natural horror, at the wanton marring of God's fairest handiwork, a woman's soul. In our long worship of Mammon, the shame of poverty and the shame of sin have got con- fused ; to the poor in their misery the Bur- don of disgrace is but a slight addition to the load they already carry.—[,Lady Henry Somerset. Uncomfortable Wedding Rings. The Bayanzi, who live along the Upper Congo, have a strange custom which makes life a but den to the married women. Brun rods aro wielded into great rings around the necks of tho wives. Many of those rags worn by the women, whose husbands are well to do, weigh as much as thirty pounds, and this burden must he parried by the poor creatures as long to they live. Frequently ono sees a poor woman whose neck is galled by the heavy weight and in places tho akin is rubbed off by the ring. This is a surd sign that the ring has been recently welded around the neck. After a short time the skin becomes calloused and then this strange ornament produces no abrasion. Teo weight is a perpetual tax upon the energies. In every crowd of women inay be seen a num- ber who aro supporting the ring with their hands, and thus for a time are relieving their weary shoulders of the burden. A ring is never put around a woman's neck until she is believed to have attained her full physical development. Once on it is no easy matter to get ie off. The natives have no files, and, although they can hammer a lot of brass rods into one it is very difficult for them to cut tho thick mass of metal. Women who increase largely in flesh after the rings have been fastened on their peeks are in danger of strangling to death, and in- stances of this sort have occurred. Thewo- men, howaver, regard the curious ornament with pride, imagine it enhances their im- portance and beauty and wear their burdens with light hearts. Brass is the money of the country and in putting it around their wives' necks the men are certain that it will not be stolen or foolishly expended.—[Bos- ton Courier. We learn from the Montreal Gaaette that the new Anglican Bishop of Mackenzie Fiver, the Right Rev. William Day Reeve, is in the primo of life, and has a long ex- perience of the wilder northern parts of bis vast, bleak diocese. Born in Lincolnshire in 1844, he came to Canada in 1869, end was ordained deacon in St. John's y, metrool- eathe- clral, Winnipeg, by Dr. ivIaehra metropol- itan of Rupert's Land, before setting out for Fort Simpson. There he received a hearty welcome from the traders and his brot115r missionaries—then only two, the Rev. (afterwards Bishop) W. C. Bompas and Mr. O. now Archdeacon, McDonald. He had taken his young bride with him and the young couple began their wedded life in the midst of scenes that might have deterred less faithful Christians. His first task was to learn the language of the country, and lie had to unlearn a good many things at the same time. Many things that he had been accustomed to regard as of daily necessity had to be dispensed with. Letters twice a year, in August and March ; supplies of tea, flour, etc., once a year, vegetables rarely ; game in abundance (at times)—moose and reindeer, rabbits and fish forming the staple food --such was the life in store for Mr. and Mrs. Reeve. Not until Bishop Bompas was consecrated had Mr. Reeve an oppor- tunity of being admitted to the presbyteratr of his Church. At the same time Ile was made bishop's chaplain. In 1876 he started a school at Fort Rae. In 1877 he and bit wife returned to Fort Simpson. In 1881 they visited England, where some trans lations into borean dialects were put througl the press and where the children were left at school. In 1889 Archdeacon Reeve oma: again in England, bearing thither Dog-ril and other copy. He is an expert Indian and Esquimaux linguist and familiar wit); the Syllabaries. The new bishop's diocese is the largest in the world. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. agmergegansmiglasegamehes ABATT S LONDON ALE AND STOUT, AWARDED GOLP 1E0AL AT INTEI1liTIDIIL �an�oiT�or. JAMAICA, 1891. Only Gold Medal Awarded for Ale to Canadian or United States Exhibitors. JOHN LABATTi LONDON, CANADA Easily Amused. Young Man—"I have been—er--very at- tentive to your daughter for some time, and she—er—has listened favorably to my suit. If you will give your consent, I will do my best to make her happy." Mr. Olddad—"Oh, that's easy enough, my dear young friend, easy enough. Just give her a blank check -book to fill out as she pleases." "Is this man charged with profanity?" asked the Judge, " I don't think he is, yer Honor," replied the policeman. " He may have been, but 01 think most av it finest have escaped by this time." The European nations that have been scrambling to acquire possession of all the coasts of Africa have had a good deal to say about the "Hinterland," and have set up the theory that the nation which has pos- session of a certain coast line has a right to the unappropriated regions behind it. Un- fortunately this rule does not seem to work in the case of Liberia. It seems that the negro republic should have i ed " Hin- terland," for she has been in possession of her long stretch of coast for many years and, moreover, her explorer, Anderson, was the first to travel into and describe the ele- vated country lying east of Liberia proper. 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