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The Huron News-Record, 1896-07-15, Page 7practical talks on "Domestic Economy," i± ln Boston, told of the proper method yY.. • n. . knew little of him, except that he wan of our albuminous foods -eggs and h��rapfndilAff» mutton -which are so frequently en- wife, who was the only other member add the auor and stir we1L of his family, and himself hadsome HINT$ 9$ HotISEXELro e. Wdhen all disscalved, remove and °+ �, some escape from by going into a far add the Judea of the, oranges and grate country. Ours was It quiet town, and the She respnppibliitlea ilf la0usuksepicyf; in the rind of one then pour in the of nutriment, and this Is where the are maniWA.. There are very few coo- rest of the cream, hate to sea if It is ' :, men who .940 xlaturallY endowed with the h sweet enough, if not, add more &tiger; cat in the freezer and pack turn slow - Py r '" requisite, w�wlodga and ability to , Do not leas It until it is frozen- leave ' in the act. For a wonder he wasn't lynched then and there, but he wasn't. sucoesdully ooAduot the affairs of the Then remove the put the cover while every extra one does not require' that muoh in addition, -there should be hova►ahold. ThIst is date in lame part to on, and let it stand two hours before other youngster to defend him. � "Really there wasn't any defence, and the toot that vary taco giCla are givens►IIA1g' I was frank enough to tell him that = proper inatrnetion in their girlhood THE KITCHEN FLOOR. er in the town, evidently led there by e days. Mothers, it seems, always have some stories he had heard of an old miser we had among us, and was a in tough without and very iodigest- ible, "So," said Miss Parloa, you see been, and always will be, asif-sacrWo- The money cannot always be spared I Ing, Instead of the d$ughterr -doing to lay a new floor when the old one y each their share of the housework, they is badly worn, and kitchen floors often kare too often allowed all the pleasures get into very bad oondition. There is or that comes from the wool and whichharder-looking and freodom of the times, while the mo- no room in which so much work is ' never saw. ther slaves from horn till night. done and no floor which receives such i"` Yet even the young housewife who hard usage as that of the kitchen. For t', has not had the advantages of early that reason it is almost impossible to �' training, may accomplish much if she spare it even for one day. ,he apologetically, 'possibly under the cir- eumstances you might not care to pro - will sot to work earnests to study her hve the The old-fashioned, soft, pine wood • I exon, of theemrs of the home.floors the economy of the purse. become ro h in a very short � nary, and f touched my client on the - arm and was about to remind him of One of the cardinal virtues of house. time and no amount of cleaning and thoroughly, dredge aeggain 1' htly and add little more bo111ng After keepers, in my mind, in system and or- scrubbing will keep them smooth• r� t der. There is nothing that is so con- ducive to peace and happiness in the "order The following suggestions may prove helpful to housekeeper who 1l home. If, indeed, is heaven's first law," remember that home is the some la pe cannot afford the expense of a new 11 heaven of this life, and where order floor and who is annoyed by the ap- �`" raison, peaae d happiness will follow pearance of the old one : ` �;' I as the night day. Thera are �r few men who are not Scrub the floor as clean as possible. thtow into cold water and shell them. if tibia tell It Procure some good paint -the color de - 11 ausoe a influence. s.9 ad p important as prompt and appatiztng Where both sired -and some putty. Mia a little of the paint with the putty, and by enough vinegar to cover the eggs, add meals, are attained it will save no end of discords and family ars the use of a knife fill every crevices, crack and hollow with it. This may oner dashed through a window and that make up all too much of this �ife. be done at odd times during the day ?;` Take Dara of the little things about the when no work demands attention. Than y home life. The great events are not to If the floor c nnot be spared for a �; ;, be controlled, but they may be shaped to cur good, if we take due care of day or two paint every alternate board, on the following day paint the �� L_ the trifles piace for everything, and every- others. Two coats of paint are neces- sary. The first one should be permit - IA thing in its place." This will save much time and worry. Don't trust to luck ted to dry before the other is apFdied. BY such a method the floor will be ', in anything, There is no luck in housekeeping. It all works by rule. smooth and shiny and no time need be wasted. t, Map out your work day by day. If _ —_ told on May 15. Born in Florence, she was named after her birthplaocA Her yyou have got to alight anything, slight it, and iucluda it A SENTENCE OF DEATH. Corn Meal 1lritterm--southern cooks famous for their fritters. in the next day's work, Don't try to do everything, _, daughter, was, with her mister, Fran - and accomplish nothing, and be always The Tragic Ending or a Murder Trial in tg, topsy-turvy. Don't 'trust to memory, the West. Y P either, Have a blankbook, in which to keep notes of everything, especially "One of the (most tragic scenes I i" marketing. Jot down from day to day ever witnessed," remarked a Western sea' Institution in Harley Street, Lon - your needs. When you go to make Judge, "occurred ina court room in a flour in which 1 teaspoon of cream your purchases, take it with you. When you buy, do not make small quantities Small town in one of the new Western sal fund of AC50,000 contributed by a grateful country after the (Crimean enough to drop readily from he spoon. wants, if you can possibly avoid States That is to say, it was ❑eco the Lamp," Miss Nightingale ,mhended for powdeYtld,iqlulg sprinkled over them, to which a ,illsa;gat and ginger b ave Ityou 1t. 'L'here are so many things that will I then, but that has been forty years ago, Delicate health has made Mies Ni ht - Orange ice Cream. --Allow 1 quart of kcceep any length of time in the house, a>1d I was out there growing up with 1, I; and by getting enough to last you, say i dz months, you not only cave coat the country and showing people how of the pericardium was sewed up. The price, but you are saving your time r much law a youngster of twent ,one y � twenty,ons dozen varieties of medicine made up, and your nerves. or two has at his fingers' ends. The Et most popular complaints, fixed upon a town, a Friday night trans- Judge was a man of sixty or more. t surgery beyond the precincts of the and in addition to a most venerable r EGGS AND MUTTON, and dignified appearance and manner. f Mies Maria Parloa, in her series of i he was the saddest -faced man I ever saw practical talks on "Domestic Economy," I He had come to our town ten or a doz- ln Boston, told of the proper method . en years before from the east, and we Of cooking two of the most important knew little of him, except that he wan of our albuminous foods -eggs and an able lawyer and jurist, and that his mutton -which are so frequently en- wife, who was the only other member counter improperly cooked. Both of his family, and himself hadsome these fo4qli, she said, are hard to digest great sorrow which (they had sought if improperly cooked, but by main- some escape from by going into a far taining a heat just below the boiling country. Ours was It quiet town, and the point, they are easily digested and full Judge and his wife assailed to live Be - of nutriment, and this Is where the renals enougji, but they were evidently cook's art comes in. The market val- ,'arowing old and feeble ahead of their ue 1s no indication of nutritive quasi I tame One night our town was all torn up by a rob ar and murder and the ties capture of the killer and thief almost It is a simple fact that the amount of water affects the cooking of ' in the act. For a wonder he wasn't lynched then and there, but he wasn't. eggs. Half a pint Is necessary for one, and [ and as soon as daylight came proceed - Ings were instituted, against the pris- while every extra one does not require' that muoh in addition, -there should be i oner, and I was appointed, with an - plenty of water. Having it boiling, other youngster to defend him. � "Really there wasn't any defence, and put in the apse, take the pan from the fire, cover and wrap closely, or set on I was frank enough to tell him that the back of the range for ten minutes, the he might be thankful if we could nave him from a lynching He was a rang - when albumen will be cooked even- ly, whereas if it had been boiled three er in the town, evidently led there by e minutes it would have been soft with- some stories he had heard of an old miser we had among us, and was a in tough without and very iodigest- ible, "So," said Miss Parloa, you see 'man o2 perhaps thirty three or four, that the right way to 'boil' an egg is not to boil with a most unprepossessing appear - ,ince greatly accentuated by a week's it at all, This principle," rhe went on to nay, "applies to soups that require a regular, low tempera- growth of rough whiskers, years of dia- eipation, and hard living. In those days ture and also cooling in fresh' and in such cases the law's delay was quick current of air.' not much in force, and by 8 o'clock Mutton was nett considered, and Miss Parloa showed how the "matton" flav- of the second day the prisoner was standing before the Judge to receive or that comes from the wool and whichharder-looking sentence. As he stood there that day, a customer I think I is so unpalatable to many people can be removed with the thin skin covering. ' never saw. This moat should never be fried. Sia Have you anything to may why sen - cessfal broiling and roasting require heat tone of death should not be pronouno- � ed upon you,' said the Judge, after all much the same treatment; high at first to sear the outside and retain the reliminariea were over. I to the juices, then less heat. For roosting, have, your Honor, it you are pronounce that sentence,' ;replied the gylace the meat on a rack to prevent burning Spprinkle with ■alt and pep- prisoner with an air oP almost amper- finance. 'At least,' added, half per, and byy holding the box almost per- pendicularly, dredge 1aghtl with flour, frothy ,he apologetically, 'possibly under the cir- eumstances you might not care to pro - This will make a 1aght, crust. ployment as a diver. Dredge the bottom of the pan also: and when this is dark brown, pour in a nounce it.' "This was entirely out of the ordi- little boiling water. Every fifteen min- nary, and f touched my client on the - arm and was about to remind him of rates take the pan out of the oven, baste the customs of the court when the thoroughly, dredge aeggain 1' htly and add little more bo111ng After Judge requested me to leave the prin- water. the drat half-hour reduce the Beat."'Will This process will produce juicy and per- ,M,r to ham. you be kind enough to ex - fectly digestible meat, plaint' he said in a strangely excited tone. Bred, and is now free front disease as " Well, your Honor.' responded, the OME GOOD RECIPES. prieonar, without a quaver of voice, 'as I'm which are allied to cancer, and are al - your cosy son--' Pickled Eggs. -Empty pickle jars "But the Judge heard no more. It can be refilled with pickled eggs. Boil was evident that he knew the prisoner was telling the truth, for with a groan one doyen ■Fifteen minutes, than e4a he threwup his hands and feel forward thtow into cold water and shell them. across the peak in front of him, dead, Boil mayoral red beets, slice them and and a little stream of blood trickling put them In the jar with the eggs. Heat from his lige. The excitement was ter - enough vinegar to cover the eggs, add rifio, and in the midst of it the prix salt, pepper and all kinds of spaces, and oner dashed through a window and pour over the oggs. Keep them tightly would have escaped, but a timely shot covered. from a rifle in the hands of a man Donghnute-Ope large cup of anger, on the outaidd'settled him forever. And, beat of all, his mother never knew. She 1 egg, 11-2 e nP p buttermilk, 1 small lingered a few months after her bus - teaspoon mods, 1 large tablespoon lard, band's death, and the entire pop and flour enough to prevent It from of the town considered it to be .= sticking to theboard. Roil about a obi�'gation to lie to her about the whole affair." quarter of an inch thick, out in desired _ a shapes and cock until a light brown in Plass Nightingale. boiling lard. When they are two or Strange to say, every effort in thin three days old put them in the oven a few The beat them. ` Florence Nightingale was TO Wears minutaa softens Before pputtfaog them on the table for told on May 15. Born in Florence, she was named after her birthplaocA Her nae, eprinkIs them well with sugar and they are as nice as If just made. father was fathWilliam E. Nightingale of Corn Meal 1lritterm--southern cooks famous for their fritters. Embly Park, Hampshire and Lea Hurst, Derbyshire; and Florence, the younger are corn meal daughter, was, with her mister, Fran - To make them, beat very light the yolks ces Parthanhope, who married Sir Har - Verney died in 1890, his of 4 eggs and add to them 1 table. spoon of sugar the same of melted but- ry and eo-heir can. Besides the historic part Florence ter, I spoonful of salt and 1-2 teaspoon Nightingale played In the Crimean, soda dissolved in a little water. Stir war, she will always be known as the in 2 cups of Indian meal amd beat vig- friend and supporter of the Governes- orougly 5 minutes, and add the whites sea' Institution in Harley Street, Lon - of the eggs beaten stiff and 1-2 cup don, and as the writer of many vala- flour in which 1 teaspoon of cream able books on nursingi The testimon- tartar has been sifted, and stir very hard. The batter should be just thick sal fund of AC50,000 contributed by a grateful country after the (Crimean enough to drop readily from he spoon. campaign to honor of the "Lady witb Drain on paper and serve very hot, with the Lamp," Miss Nightingale ,mhended for powdeYtld,iqlulg sprinkled over them, to which a ,illsa;gat and ginger b ave over the foundation of a nurses' training and employment lnsUtution. been added. Delicate health has made Mies Ni ht - Orange ice Cream. --Allow 1 quart of ingale live quietly for many yeard, at she has ever been work for the good ersatn,, julob 9f 8 oranges and rind of at of others, ` 11.r,i d ', , .��:..`.�s. ....s.. _ car — �:al," Jig; ­ a, .. .' K. - _.. .. ',� r , ..i r';lM 4 k- 14 4AIfI �►� *.. t► 7 u..gopt� ' !_ j' (: I. tape„ ata ,. a- a as ar11" I o „„ ; . it fiend, fife 50 01t ox ad ode ilio " WI as • . t i►t Is. Anlin1� s. ' r 9' r. t mark °crit} been 4010 ,t .,s�tri�t tliaaa- �p - HOW SOME ENGLISHMEN SECURED walyd. - THEIR WEALTH. 'He would have made otic of bhe tin• One mat hindrance to the speedy eat barristers of the day had he Uv- +-'-'-' A Diver Who Robbed, a Drowned Man Of ed," deolared his friend: 'and you, sir if our face does not deceive me, will Diamonds Worth Aloe -A Physician Laid the Foundation of isle Fortune by mars your way, too;" and taking Young barri■ter'a name ant!? address Selling Quack Medieine-Won tte,Wo on a Horse Dace and From That Day assured hire that he would not for him, and went his way. In a A net No Here. days the first fruit of this fortunate meeting was a brief -Mr. --'s first A strange history might be written brief -with a fee of five gulneasl The Of the queer way in which people have barrister waa no tool, and he at:quit- ted himself well in the and from arrived at riches, a history which would case; that day forward by steady work and surpass fiction itself in -remarkable in- cident. ability, with his strange patron's aBaist- ante he Within the last few years there died steadily made his way to the front rank of his profession. In one of the largest northern towns, a .- gentleman who possessed considerable WONDERS OF SURGERY. property, the gross value of the person- Especially the one that flows 90ty alone being sworn under £90,000. The Operalor Steady to Try Anything With He was an old gentleman at the time lite knife, Needle and Thread. when his last illness attacked him, had Practically no Hart of the human been an hotel proprietor, and was one body is exempt from the Incursions of of the most highly -respected townsfolk. the modern surgeon. The use of anti - He was not a native of the place, but septic subatances and anaesthetics have had settled there very many years pre- made it possible for the operator to viously, Where he had come from, or venture into fields which abashed the what had been the course of his early most skillful of his predecessors. The life, he never breathed to even his removal of one kidney is a common most intimate friends and as he was Practice. Nerves are frequently sewed well-to-do, and a "good fellow," perhaps together A broken spine is patched none cared to bother about his ante- up by means of silver wire, whereas for- cedents. merly such cases were hopeless. Tu - As he lay dying he stated that he calors of the brain are removed with had something upon his mind, awrong good results. Moreover, by the aec:ur- he desired to set right if it could be. ate location in the brain of centers He had, it seemed been a sailor in his which preside over various functions youth, and in consequence of his love the operator is able to remove tum - of the seawater and his skill in swim,- ore which manifest their presence by ming, had subsequently obtained em- various disturbances to sight,'speech, ployment as a diver. hearing and locomotion. On one occasion be was directed to Dr. .Wenger, the eminent surgeon of explore the wreck of a large passenger Chicago, was first to remove a part of vessel which had been Bunk on the a diseased lung. Recently Tuffier, of western coast, and had gone to the Paris. cut away the top part of a con - bottom, carrying with her the captain Bumptive lung, and the patient rwov- several of the sailors and some of the Bred, and is now free front disease as passengers, far as auscultation shows. Sarcomas, Diving down into the hold, he had which are allied to cancer, and are al - come across the body of an old man, most, if not quite, as malignant, have in one of whose hands was tightly lately been cared by injection of pat - clutched a small canvas bag. He had ients with the toxin of erysipelas. The removed the bag, and opening it,found entire treatment of cancer has under - that it contained some gone a radical change. The disease is VALUABLE DIAMONDS. operated on at an earlier atage, and in - He smuggled the jewels artfully stead of confining his cutting to,. the away, and they subsequently realized cancerous tissue the modern surgeon £700. remorselessly attacks the apparently With this money he entered upon healthy tissue in the vicinity. Of late business, and things prosperingwith years cancer of the larynx has been him, he discovered that he had literal- successfully assailed. Doubtless the ly wrestled his fortune from that dead late Emperor of Germany might have man's olutch. Time, however, did not bring forgetfulness of the evil deed, been eared if the diaguosia of Virchow and on hia death -bed, conscience stricken had been accepted- After the rempv- P he desired that every effort might be al of the cancer larnyx, made to discover the dead man's rola- tions in order that reparation might be A SILVER TUBE made to them. 1■ le.oed in the throat, and not loo P B Strange to say, every effort in thin ago M. Guggenhein, an ingenious sur - direction prove unavailing, as no one found to goon of Paris, was reported to have do- could .Sae establish a satisfso- tory title to the stones; Indeed, the id- vim a tube which permitted the at - Pe P entity of the drowned man was never ient to talk - proved, and at last the £700 was divid- In I per cent of cases of typhoid fev- ed (as the ex -diver had directed in case e oowners could be found for it), amongg OT the intestines are perforated by al- three charities of the town in whioh ears, and 8 per cent, of the deaths from the testator had resided. typhoid are occasioned by these ulcers. A certain physician in the Midlands Not long ago the perilous operation of laid the Foundation of his fortune fn a very extraordinary manner.. When he cutting down and sewingthe ulcers was attempted. Dr. Van Hoak has re - was a acting man studying medicine in ported three cases of this nature. It London, be found himself fn cones- can not be said that the operation is quence of the death of a relation and a a great success, but it gives promise subsequent lawsuit, without any means few he had by him. of advantageous development. save ust a pounds Not satisfied with invading the less In his awkward situation he ohano- awful re$'ions of the neighborhood, the ed to remember that he had , seen quacks in the marketplace of his ns.•- surgeon is to-dos standing with knife and needle and thread at the thresh- tive town make considerable acme of old, so to speak, of the sacrosanot re - money be retailing all manner of mir- treat o1 life, the human heart. The aoulous remedies to the country people bat- perieardltun has been tapped for drop - who thronged into the place on a eical effusion. Recently a stab wound urday and the idea occurred to him he, too, try his hand of the pericardium was sewed up. The that might at the work. He accordingly got about a picture of the surgeon plying his deft needle with the heart of 'y the patient dozen varieties of medicine made up, beating against his hand, when the such as he thought would best suit the least unsteadiness would mean certain most popular complaints, fixed upon a town, a Friday night trans- death, is sufficiently thrilling to place and on himself there in company with surgery beyond the precincts of the ported etappW sciatices. Prof, Roswell Park, of HIS INFALLIBLE CURES. Buffalo, recently suggested that in cases of bullet wounds, which with our The place was one where he was not modern conical bullets are inevitably likely to be discovered by anyone who fatal, the surgeon, if called soon en - knew him, but to make certainty doub- ough, could out down on the heart and ly sure he disguised himself so that it sew up the wound, meanwhile main- wae doubtful of even his beat friend taining artifica.l respiration. The oper- might not have passed him by with- ation still remains conjectural, but no out recofnition. He did a "roaring doubt it will soon or late be attempted business, ' by some coura ecus a irit. write Years after he used to joke One might for days an omit about it to those who knew him beat. One might write for dose and omit "I did no harm," he used to say: "on surgeon. Operation on the intestines the contrary, f did good, for each bot- I are familiar. The Murphy button tle was a real medicine, and although' makes them comparatively safe. The I don't suppose the effects were exactly I them to I Wells telephonic probe permits the sur - all had to describe as get the stuff off, yet the mixture was suit- aeon to poke into the brain and locate I toreign substance there imbedded. In ed to the complaints, so I had nothing diseases of the stomach the patient on my conscience." Not only did be, living vary careful- swallows a small electric light, and by I means of the illumination the surgeon ly, make enough to keep him by thews discovers what the trouble is, weekend excursions, but at the conclu- In short, this part of the eentnry Bion of his studies in London he found marks the reign of the man with the himself possessed of a little capital,witb knife. He has appropriated old diseases which he bought and entered on a prae- and invented new once for his skill. He Lice, which ultimately, (for he was a gcea fearlessly into regions that were olever doctor)., became one of the larg- terra incognita to the best of his pre - est in the idlands. decessors, and his cunning, his pluck, his By the side of one of the chief ap- bold imagination are blessings unreck- proachee to a certain northern race- oned to suffering humanity. course, one might some years ago --- _ - when the races were on, see a small knot of folk gathered around a vener- Ing almost to face certain death than to leave him to his fate. The men in able -looking gentleman, who was with IN THE FRENCH CENSUS. might and main denouncingg the wick- — edness of betting and_ Fxilnting out the evils attaTbed to aove off sport." Queen victoria and Other Foreign Digul- tarles Are Enumerated. This gentleman had a bistorq He was by means an ordinary street Preach- The French law which compels the no er; he was a wealthy merchant, and census enumeration of all persons resf- many yearn previously he had, on that very racecourse, laid the foundation of dent in the country except "transients" his fortune by backing a horse (upon the strength of some extra reliable in- at hotels puts Queen Victoria and many other high and mighty foreigners am - t,ell{�once he had received) to win no ong the citizens of France. less than £5,000.. It won and from that At Cimfez, near Nice, where the Queen day the fortunate backer. spends the winter, she was a000eted by BET NO MORE, a census taker and compelled to fill out Not did be himself turn his back the regular blank. The Empress Dow - ager of Russia, the Cesareviteh, and the only upon the turf but he was ever doing his best to induce other folk to follow two , young members of the Im- Aerial family, the Grank Duke, and his example. Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Sch- "My face is my fortune," Is true not werin, the Dowager Duchess of Saxe - only of matey women, but of some men Coburg-Gotba, the Grand Duke Michel also, as a certain prominebt member of Miohaelovitch of Russia, Princess Bea - the bar discovered, He had long at. trice, Princess Christian and her son tended one of the courts as one of the and daughter, Princess Louis of Batton. Lad throng of impecunious and briefless bar- berg, and Lord and Salisbury are Haters which used to haunt and still others who will swell tlaa total of the haunt, these scenes of legal strife,wben he day by strang- French population. was one surprised a er addressing him, and requesting the others, may be expected to become ex- favour of a few moments talk with W' RDLESS. ham. The stranger turned out to be a celebrated but somewhat ecoentrio law- Pnshpen-I am glad you tike MY story. But don't you think I ought ser, who had attbppdad the court in the hope of a case which he was concerned to write soma sort of an introduction to it? Slydig-My dear fellow that coming on, and he explained that the story needs no introduction. It la an barrister reminded him most forcibly of ol,t friend. Vl?ataof}'e-'Haifa: thlcowit on. "4.l} , yen; it txlI started a bicycle repair sUwp TiigAITMUT Q,V . �'RA TNO. last week." r We often bear it Bald that "a sp�#U I dears noenot lnlike �heale ollatwhy."Ob ir H worse than n break;' and as far a* - pain and the time which Haus ooul�d stand uta straight with no per- fly elapses , ry oeptibla effort.' before the trouble is remedied aro eons Whey, it begins to get real summery earned, the statement may be cop , phot, can't we mana0e to have the t reot, , weather man arrested for scorching One mat hindrance to the speedy Briggs -Does your wife laugh when L�%u tell her a tunny story I" Braggy oil- of aprainu lien in the tact that not sufficient impQgtauce I, yes, I always tell her beforehand is attached that it is funny." to the injury at the time, Under the She -"Do you know anything worse Impression that It Is "only a sprain," than a man taking a klas without ask- ing for it s" He -"I do." "What, forad a course of active treatment is enter- natanceP" "Asking for it without tak- n which is calculated to increase Ing ft." the mischief and retard the recovery. Mrs. Winks -"I don't see how you What happens in a sprain is briefly! • could afford to pay $100 for a wheel." Mrs. Winks this: the ligamenta which bind the -"1 couldn't, That's why I have got to pay $lob for it." job for It is about joint-oprains that Sweet Is the summer breeze that goes we are writing, become greatly stretch - To gladden toiling man- ed, especially on the side where the Especially the one that flows force of the blow comas. rom an electric fan. "i,,00k here, $awl Barings, I've a The result of this condition of things is obvious An unnatural degree of freedom 1 proposition to make." -What is it i permitted to the working, Noopopss" "You stop talking about of the joint, and the part at once be - ' your bicycle and I'll not say another comes inflamed and swollen. The ac- word about my smart baby." tive use to which the joint is put, under Justice -"You are charged withetsal- the impression that theroby the fin- flu will be kept down, only ing Colonel Julep's chickens. Have you any witnessea P " Uncle Moses-"[ es to serves to aggravate the ayara toms. With the increase of inflammation hob note I don't steal chickens Wfo' witnesses." . the tissues of the joint may become , directly attacked, "Ss. Dobbs, all your Ifamil are Y. Y y and a predisposition to a chronic trouble be established. away; what do you keep your alarm When the joint itself becomes involved, , clock going for I" I want tq wake stiffness is the almost inevitable re, up every hour and realize that I don't suit, have to walk the baby." Although it is thus seen that a "We cannot find a place to go this sprain may become a very serious af- summer." "What's the troubles" "We fair, the remedy is equally simple, and , want a summer resort from which we if applied immediately and thoroughly ' won't have to write home that we sleep will prove efficient. under blankets." The first thing to be, done In to im• "Mamma, were those stories Uncle mares the part in hot water. The wom ' George was telling us about the bigg ter should W as hot as can be borne. fishes he caught fairy storiesit" ..1 and should be kept up to a constant temperature by frequent additions. It don't know, my child; I wasn't listen- ing, but I imagine they were." will be necessary to continue this treaty Edith and Mabel had cast cat their j k dollies in their little Said Edith, went for a long time, it may be for hours, or until every trace of soreness crib. "There, is practically dispelled. with a sigh of relief, I'm thank- The part is then to be slightly strap - fill we've got the children to bed. We have little pod in a bandage in a position just shall a peace now." short of absolute fixity. The beat Rugby -"Our landlady Is one of the article to use in such a case is what most expert calculators in town." i is called in medical parlance a "Mar - Wilkins -"Is she?" Rugby -"Yep. tin's Bandage," This to along nar- We had beans for dinner to -day and she row strip of sheet rubber, of sufficient asked me how many I would have." strength to withstand considerable George -"How do you like it, Coral" strain and fitted at one end with tapers Cora -"It's perfectly lovely. But what for tying, It is easily seen that by do they have all these policemen at the t the Use of this bandage the desired ggama fort Oh, I know; it's to keep pressure can be obtained without com- immovability. men from stealing bases." mon plote "How is Jenny See getting along with her bicycle lessonss" "Oh, nicely,' WHOOPING -COUGH. replied the young enthusiast. " She A description of the symptoms of has ones taken six now, and do you know Lever saw any one fall off a this disease cannot be necessary. No one wheat so gracefully!" who has once seen a child In a par- , Jilson-"Is Jubbs sick or traveling?" orsam of the cough ever forgets the Jabson-"Neither,, What makes you sight, nor, in its typical form, is the think sot" Jilson-"I've been looking out of the window the last ten min- disease ever to be mistaken for any - utes and I haven't seen him playing thing else. a hose on his lawn," It is chiefly of importance on account Clear Case -"Do you ride awheel?" of the many complications Which are asked the eldest of the doctors,on the liable to arise from it, and it is to thq Insanity Commissions "Yep," answeredprevention of these that the efforts o , the sub eoL "What maket" "I never the nurse and the physician are chiefly', noticed.'4 The verdict was unanimous -dementia. toAseadirected. younger the child the be felt, Professor in English (to young man) more severely will the attack so that very young children especially s "How would you punctuate the fol- 'The for should be guarded against infection. lowing: beautiful girl, such she One of the worst features of the dia- was, was passing down the street."' Student-"I think, I would ease is the violent straining efforts dur- I professor, make a dash after the beautiful girl." ing the roxysms of coughing, which die to hemorrhage and to rupture. Kate -"Mame Gerson is terribly Many easels of consumption in chil- + mashed on Charley Sweetser," Edith- dren date from an attack of whoop- f "What makes you think sot" Kate- 'Why he been three trying ing-cough, and children so suffering }iy be kept from inti has weeks to teach her to ride a wheel, and she should all means - mate contact with consumptives, while , doesn't make the least progress.s The ' every attention should be given to their , very instant be lets go of her she falls proper nourishment and their hygienic off. ' Reginald -"Time brings about some surroundings. Those whose experience with the dis- ' odd changes do&n't it s" Harold -"I i ease has been largest are the readiest should say it dad. Look at the matter to acknowledge that medicines by them. o fcostames. Why, when we played selves are of little value. It is all the tennis, we turned our trousers up at , more important, therefore, that the the bottom, and now that we play golf ' we turn our stockings down from the patient should have good nursing, and i all that good nursing implies. , tOp' Everyy day in which the weather per- mita the child should be taken out -of- 1 doors, and in any event he should have a constant supply of fresh air. DESERVED A DECORATION. Woollen undergarments should be ' day daily bath — worn and night, while - be A Se. Captain Who Would Not Leave a ing should carefully practised. Coun- ter -irritation of a mild character over Wounded seaman. e the region of the stomach is of great The Queen has conferred the decors- t value, and the diet should be of the tion of the Albert medal of the first simplest and most nourishing kind. Vapors inhalants do doss on Mr. William John Nutman, and rarely good, but frequently the patient improves late master of the steamer Aidar, of after their discontinuance. Liverpool.. The following is an account The salt air of the seashore has been) of the services in respect of which the many times warmly recommended, and (where possible this should be tried; but decoration has been offered: At 2 a.m. the principal benefit derived from it - an January 19, while the steamerStaf- is doubtless due to the greater amount fordshfre, of Liverpool, was on a voyage of time spent out -of -doom. from Marseilles to Port Said, signals .__-_4 of distress were observed to be pro- DIGESTION AND TUBERCULOSIS. ceeding from the steamer Aidar, also of Liverpool, and the Staffordshire im- The condition of the stomach is of mediately proceeded -to her assistance. the first importance in consumption, As the Aidar was found to be sinking and this foot, which is well known to fast, three of the Staffordshire's life- I all by eople be more widely boats were at once launched, and, with I recognpb,ysicized recognized by people in general, egen great difficulty, owing to the darkness ally because consumption is so often a a and the heavy sea, succeeded in rescu- self -treated or home -treated disease. ing her passengers and crew, twenty- I Medicine itself is of value chiefly in nine in number. At 6:10 a.m. the only so far as It aids in building up the vital pp©mons left on the Aidar were Mr. (force Nutman (the master) and an injured of the patient; and it is evident evident and helpless fireman whom he was en- that to that anti nothing can contri- but, more than a good appetite and a deaooring to save, and whom ba abso- lutely refused to abandon. The steam- mound digestion. er was now rapidly settling; down, and Recent laboratory experiment has shown that the tory blood is Dna of near as it was ff lender safe to rof aimthe her the officer in charge of the res the most powerful destructive agents) at the bacillus of tuberculosis; and that cuing boat asked Mr. Nutman for a final answer. He still peraiated in re th, more highly vitalized the blood meining with the injured man, choos- the more potent is it in rwi9ting the attacks of disease germs. This vitality xk Ing almost to face certain death than to leave him to his fate. The men in of blood must depend upon the po P the boat were obliged to pull away, and immediately afterwards, at 6:17x. surc:essfui digestion and assimilation of food. In other words, nutritious food in., the Aidar gave one or two lurches thoroughly digested is by Itself a di - rect attack upon the very origin of the and foundered. After she disappeared dsease' Mr. Nutman was seen on the bottom of an upturned boat still holding the A metbod of treating consumption, fireman. Half an hour elapsed before hag indeed been devised called forced the rescuing boat could approach, but feeding," which consists in giving to patients willing and able to eat, sin eventually Mr. Nutman anti the fire- man were picked up and taken on board or more meals of easily digested, pala- the Staffordshire, where the injured table food every day. Unfortunately this method is not applicable in cam man wae with difficulty restored by the ship's surgeon. where much fever is present, or where there is gastric trout,ie. The influence of the digestion upon - - -_ tubercular diseas,.9 is so pronounred ANIMALS BECOMING EXTINCT. that the physician is often more soliri- Elaphants, which are killed off in At- tons regarding the condition of the stomach than about the actual pro - co at the -rate of 65000 a year, cannot rim Y grass of the disease itself. long survived this wholesale butchery. It may indeed be stated as a general The American bison has been almost fact relating to consumptives, that anything, even medicine, it it effects exterminated, and with it the Euro- the stomach handy, must be discon- pean bison and Cape buffalo. The gir- tinned and a substitute found. affe,too is now so rare as to be worth To promote digestion, Patipnt,9 should th®open from $9000 to $7,500 each. In a com- live as much' am Possible In air, diversion parativefy few years these, among while a masona>Re amount of others, may be expected to become ex- should be. furnished thorn. AD who tint, and all that will be loft to fu- bave to do with tbpm should remember ture generations will be photographs, that cheerfnlnem not only provokes the skeletons and stuffed specimens. appetite but assists the digestion, . �- -:�' v 4, Qt. ,n i.a:`i1:F --::�:.�.tf.n, �;';,_.,rc' :, , ,,,.,,^yr-•----�'t.�::;tit=_i,l.�'•:i..7:.y .��:�_ - - L�� k.,_k-:,,:.r..�..__.:.. . :..,ei..,._.,_.- ..'`<. A ii"