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Show GOOD RECIPES. An Infallible Remedy for Sore Throat Make a poultice of wormwood, boiled in sweet milk, and apply it to the throat. This has been known to give relief re-lief in the worst cases in eight hours. For Insomnia. A very simple method of inducing sleep in cases of persistent insomnia, and one that has succeeded where many drugs have failed, is simply administer ad-minister a moderate amount of liquid food before the patient goes to bed. This diverts the blood from the brain to the abdominal organs, and takes away the cerbral excitement that precludes pre-cludes sleep. Food Effects. Butter used in excess renders its J users phelgmatic and lazy. Apples are excellent for brain workers, and everybody every-body who has much intellectual work to do should eat them freely. Potatoes, Pota-toes, on the contrary make a person fat and lazy. Kow to Reduce Flesh. The gospel of longevity is temperance temper-ance ineating and drinking, physical culture, do not worry, and seek sunshine. sun-shine. We can no more live to be healthy without sunshine than can flowers. The more outdoor life we have, the better for us. To continue In the enjoyment en-joyment of good health, moderation in diet is absolutely necessary. The majority ma-jority of us eat too much and drink at the wrong time. Do not drink while eating; drink between meals, not with the meals. Then, as a rule, women do not exercise enough. If my lady wants to retain her health and beauty, too much stress cannot be laid on the word exercise, for it is by regularly practicing practic-ing simple exercises of physical culture that my lady retains her grace of figure, fig-ure, wards off obesity, that dread of middle age, or If inclined to leanness, rounds out attractive curves where before be-fore were but bones and hollows. On rising in the morning, throw open the window, drink a glass of cold or hot water, then go through some physical culture exercises. After this, take a bath, and follow by a brisk rub down, which puts the whole body in a glow and tones up the nerves and muscles. This method persisted in will work wonders in improving one's general health, and if you are possessed of too much flesh, it will be wise to avoid certain foods, such as potatoes, rice, sweets, sugar, beans, peas, farinaceous foods, creams, etc. AlwayB eat toast or special bread and biscuits for the obese. Drink between meals say, a glass of water on rising, another at 11, at 3 and last thing at night. Do not eat more than will appease the appetite. Do not take much meat, and certainly do not take spirits, wine, or beer. ' Lemonade-is Lemonade-is the best possible drfnk. A Few Words About Apples. The reason why apples are so mtch more wholesome and digestible when they are roasted, boiled or baked is because be-cause the heat thus applied breaks down the cells of the apple, and thus the acid and the sugar contained In them are more generally diffused through the apples, and the moisture is also dispersed. A French way of cooking apples which we have seldom come across, excepting ex-cepting in the homes of those who have lived in that country, Is as follows: Core and pare your apples and place them In a baking tin, having filled the space left by the removal of the core with butter and brown sugar. Sprinkle brown sugar and bits of butter about between the apples in the tin, and then bake. These pommes au beurre are most delicious. An apple and orange salad is also a very nice and little known way of using apples. Slice the oranges, after removing re-moving skin and scraping off the pulp, into a bowl, mix with the slices of some apples cut into squares or eighths. Put plenty of sugar in between each layer and mix well. Let this be made about an hour before you need to use it. It is a nice dish, for the oranges give a very delicate flavor to the apples, and both go very well together. Apples are considered wholesome even when eaten raw. One taken before breakfast every morning is supposed to be good for the complexion, and those who suffer from liver trouble or gout would do well to use them. Apples Ap-ples are considered to be of high value .is brain food, owing to the amount of phospherous they contain. Dyspeptics are often ordered apples, and, curiously curious-ly enough, they are preventive of jaundice. jaun-dice. When a tickling sensation in your throat warns you of the coming of a cough, you would find a tablespoonful of the plup of a roasted apple taken at night a great relief. Stewed apples placed in the center of a rice pudding make a variety 'n that every-day dish. When the rice has been cooked on the fire pour it into a pie dish and make a space for the ap-. Pies in the middle. Small pieces of butter but-ter scattered over the top and some brown sugar are a great improvement. Bake in a slow oven. Time to Forgive and Forget. , Amidst the general cali to happiness, the bustle of the spirits, and air of the affections, which prevail at this period, what bosom can remain insensible? insen-sible? It is, indeed, the season of regenerated re-generated feeling the season for kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality hospi-tality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart. Do Society Women Drink? "Do society women drink?" asks an exchange, and "Rambler," in the Catholic Cath-olic Union and Times, says: "One scarce likes to answer with a brutal yes; but, judging from the dldos the dames cut up at times and which leak out, there certainly must be something stronger than Niagara river water on tap at sundry society functions." Papa and the Boy. Charming as is the prattle of childhood, child-hood, it Is not agreeable at 1 o'clock in the morning, when you are about dead for sleep," and wouldn't give a copper cop-per to hear even Gladstone himself talk. There are young and talkative children, who have no more regard for your feelings or for the proprieties of life than to open their peepers with a snap at 1 or 2 a. m., and seek to en- ! gage you in enlivening dialogues of thi-i sort: "Papa!" You think you will pay no heed to the imperative little voice, hoping that siience on your part will keep the youngster quiet, but again the boy of 3 pipes out sharply: "Papa!" "Well?" you say. "You 'wake, papa?" "Yues." "So's me." "Yes, I hear that ynu are." you say with cold sarcasm. "What do you want?" "Oh, nuffin'." "Well, lie still and go to sleep, then." "I isn't s'eepy, papa." "Well, I am, young man." "Is you? I isn't not a bit. Say, papa, papa!" "Well?" "If you was rich, what would you buy me?" "I don't know go to sleep." "Wouldn't you buy me nuffin'?" "I guess so: now you" "What, papa?" "Well, a steam engine, maybe; now, you go right to sleep." "With a bell that would ring, papa?" , "Yes, yes; now you-' "And would the wheels go wound, papa?" "Oh( yes (yawning). Shut your eyes now. and" "And would it go choo, choo, choo, papa?" "Yes, yes; now go to sleep!" "Say, papa." No answer. "Papa.'" "Well, what now?" "Is you 'f'aid of thp dark?" "No" (drowsily). "I isn't, either. Papa!" "Well?" . "If I was wich, I'd buy you some-fin." some-fin." "Would you?" "Yes; I'd buy you some ice cweam and some chocolum drops, and a toof brush, and panties wiv bwaid on like mine, and a candy wooster, and" "That will do. You must go to sleep new." Silence for half a second; then "Papa papa!" "Well, what now?" "I want a jink." "No, you don't." "I do, papa." Experience has taught you that there will be no peace until you have brought the "jink," and you scurry out to the bathroom in the dark for it, knocking your shins against everything in the room as you go. "Now, I don't want to hear another word from you tonight," you say, as he gulps down a mouthful of the water wa-ter he didn't want. Two minutes later he says: "Papa!" "See here, laddie, papa will have to punish you if" "I can spell 'dog,' papa." "Well, nobody wants to hear you spell it at 2 o'clock in the morning." "B-o-g dog; is that right?" "No, it is not; but nobody cares if" "Then it's 'd-o-g,' Isn't it?" "Yes, yes; now you lie right down and go to sleep instantly!" "Then I'll be a good boy, won't I?" "Yes, you'll be the best boy on earth. Good night, dearie." "Papa!" "Well, well! What now?" "Is I your little boy?" ' Yes. y;--tf ewrEe." " " " " ' "Some man's haven't got any little boys; but you have, haven't you?" "Yes." "Don't you wish you had two, free, nine, 'leben, twenty-six. ninety-ten, free hundred little boys?" The mere possibility of such a remote re-mote and contingent calamity so paralyzes par-alyzes you that you lie speechless for ten minutes, during which you hear a yawn or two in the little bed by your side, a little figure rolls over three or four times, a pair of heels fly into the air once or twice, a warm, moist little hand reaches out and touches your face to make sure that you are there, and the boy is1 asleep, with his heels where his head ought to be Puck. |