Show ua NATURES GREAT disinfectant let the sunlight reach every corner of the house and destroy the germs mattw nature s great disinfectant Is sun light it Is a most interesting tact that this wonderful light which pro motes the growth of useful plants and sustains animal life at the same time destroys by its very brightness all sorts of germs which are brought in contact with it it 13 this fact alone which renders the earth inhabitable germs develop with such marvelous rapidity that they would quickly over whelm us by their very numbers II 11 not constantly destroyed by the sun A little computation will readily show some germs are capable of such rapid multiplication that they double every fifteen minutes under favorable conditions of temperature and food supply estimate the num ber of germs which might be pro deuced in a day of twenty tour hours or ninety six doublings the number would be more than thirty two thousand billion billions or sut to cover eighty thousand square miles a loot deep or fill a space of more than fifteen cubic miles the increase of a minute or occupying a cubic space of not more than one twenty thousandth of an inch to such prodigious magal tude Is beyond comprehension and practically cannot occur tor while the germ may grow at this immense rapidity for a short time the poisons which it produces become destructive to itself the material upon which i feeds Is also exhausted so that its growth ceases doubtless all have noticed the fact that mold grows during the night and in dark damp cellars bright sun light quickly destroys germs mold and other parasitic organisms dif fused daylight does not act nearly so rapidly but accomplishes n the course of a few hours what bright sunlight is capable 0 doing in a few minutes it is clearly evident then that in order that our houses should be kept free germs they like our bodies should be made full of life the shutters should be opened the curtains raised and the light admit ted to every room iff the house clos ets included sor that the disinfecting power of light may be exercised in every nook and corner of the dwell ing occupation and the influence of occupation as a cause of consumption Is shown by dr J M french in the medical exam iner at least four classes of employ ments ments 1 ave a tendency to favor the development of tuberculosis the are 1 sedentary employments in apartments involving con in impure air and other un wholesome who leome conditions this class of occupations 1 typified by the so called shops for the manufacture of various articles of clothing 2 employments which necessitates the inhalation of irritating dust and noxious vapors such are those of stone cutters bleachers match mak ers file cutters grinders engravers etc 3 employments which involve the overuse or abuse of certain muscles these are athletes prize fighters gymnasts wrestlers professional bi cycle riders ball players etc a large proportion of whom die eventually of phthisis 4 employments which involve un due familiarity with intoxicants these are those connected with man and sale of wine beer and the barlous classes of alcoholics tatham tables show that taking the average mor aliby from consumption at one hundred that of publicans Is one hundred and forty of brewers one hundred and forty eight and of bar tenders two hundred and fifty seven overcoming hereditary tuberculosis much Is being said nowadays respecting spec ting the out of door treatment of tuberculosis a disease which while aarel directly transmissible by hered ity Is one the predisposition to which Is in the highest degree hereditary it has been clearly shown by ous experiments in various parts of the united states that life with regular hygienic habits irrespective spec tive of altitude or special clemat ic advantages is capable of so aiding the natural powers of the body as to effect a cure of this formidable mal ady without the we of drugs ot any sort tuberculosis Is a dibase of alon it scarcely exists among sav ages who live in the primitive state but quickly appears among sued people when the habits of civilization are adopted especially the indoor life the south american monkey and the north american indian alike fall vie tims to this disease when shut away from the sunlight and active exercise out of doors the time Is not far distant when every large city will find it necessary to provide conveniences for the ap of this simple curative meas ure not only or the purpose of resau ing the victims of pulmonary tuber from the certain fate which awaits them but as an essential measure tor protecting the public health health observations abroad one of the most pitiful sights in england Is to see young women act ing as barmaids in the public drink ing places and to see women elbow ing their way to the bar and then stand there shoulder to shoulder with a crowd of coarse halt drunken men and with them partake freely of n liquor unfortunately this painful sight Is not at all rare and it Is quite common to see drunken worn en reeling about in the streets what a sad commentary on our modern chiv in copenhagen it Is the custom to dress young schoolgirls so that their arms are almost or entirely bare even in weather when american ampre elate their overcoats this practice necessarily chills the blood and tends to produce congestion 0 the internal organs and undoubtedly lays the foundation for colds pneumonia and tuberculosis tuberculosis Is making ead havoc among the urban population of nor I 1 way it Is pitiful to note how thia plague Is decimating this once hardy race sedentary life indoor confine ment and detective ventilation are undoubtedly the most prolific cause for fifty per cent of the tubercular cases make a satisfactory recovery when they are sent to some outdoor sanitarium and what will cure a con would certainly have pre vented the onset ot the disease the liquor curse Is undermining the physical stamina of the swedish race liquor drinking among the working classes Is almost universal one third of their population die before the age of twenty one and one fourth of those who live are rejected from military service on account of phys leal disqualifications BREADS corn puffs beat together two and one halt cupfuls of milk and the yolks of two eggs until thor hughly blended add two cupfuls of best granulated corn meal beat the batter thoroughly stir in lightly the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth turn into heated irons and bake corn dodgers scald ane cupful ot best granulated corn meal into which a tablespoon of sugar has been sifted with one cup of boiling milk beat until smooth and drop on a griddle in cakes about one inch in thickness and bake slowly for an hour turn when brown it preferred the baking may be finished in the oven after the first turning hominy gems beat one egg until very light add to it one tablespoon ful of thick sweet cream a little salt it desired and two cupfuls of cooked hominy fine thin the mixture with one cupful or less of boiling water until it will form easily beat well and bake in heated irons sally lunn gems beat together the yolk 0 one egg two tablespoon fuls of sugar and one cupful of thin ice cold sweet cream add slowly beating at the same time one cup and two tablespoon tule of sifted graham flour beat vigorously until full of air bubbles add the white of the egg beaten stiffly and bake in heated irons cream corn cakes into one cup of thin cream stir one and one halt cups ot granular corn meal or enough to make a stiff batter add one third of a teaspoonful of salt beat well drop into heated irons and bake cream graham rolls to one halt cup of cold cream add one halt cup of soft ice water make into a dough with three cups of graham flour sprinkling in slowly with the hands beating at the same time so as to incorporate as much air as possible until the dough Is too stiff to be stirred then knead thoroughly form into rolls and bake hoecake scald one pint of white corn meal with which if desired a tablespoonful of sugar and one halt teaspoonful of salt have been mixed with boiling IT alk or water enough to make a batter sufficiently thick not to spread drop on a hot griddle in large or small cakes as preferred about one halt inch in thickness cook slowly and when well browned on the underside turn over the cake may be cooked slowly until well dolp throughout or as the portion underneath becomes well browned the first brown crust may be peeled off with a knife and the cake again turned As rapidly as a crust be comes formed and browned one may be removed and the cake turned un til the whole Is browned the thin wafer like crusts are excellent served with hot milk or cream |