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FEBRUARY 6, 1903.
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work; in most cases respectability of
duties is required; sometimes not so
much as that But one can win re
spect and confidence in whatever line
sha undertakes, by respecting herself,
and doing conscientiously and pains
takingly the duties required of her.
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The rule, however, in too many
cases, is "not how much, but how
little." Whether in the house or out
of it, such employes get the benefit of
frequent changes. If one tries faith
fully to discharge acceptably the du
ties given her, she may yet fail to
meet the expectations of her employ
ers, from- having mistaken her calling
or overestimated her abilities in the
line chosen; in either case, if she is
determined to succeed, she should try
to find out wherein she is lacking,
study the question in all its bearings,
Improve herself as much as possible,
and try again. But of this she may
be sure she cannot be degraded sim
. ply because soma one higher in the
social scale than her condition in life
sets her, "feels above her." A lady
is a -lady, wherever you find her.
Sitting; Down or Sitting up?
Most people when they sit down,
sit down; the proper way is to sit
up when you sit down. Sometimes
you think you have spinal complaint;
the spine is complaining, surely, but
not because there is any disease there;
it is just complaint and nothing more.
The spine complains because you
. make an acute angle of your back
and the chair back; you slide down in
stead of sitting up. You force the end
of the spine to support the weight of
the body, and this hurts the nerves.
In this position you must bend thq
head, forward in order to see your
work or book, and this curves the
back and shoulders, and strains the
muscles and nerves an unnatural and
painful position. You should sit
erect, with the back of the chair
parallel with the body, thus bring
ing the weight of the body on the
thighs, leaying the spine to do its
own proper work. -
If you are troubled with aches
across the lower part of the back or
the shoulder-blades, give attention to
your position. If you are in. the slid
ing position, you are straining your
Til IS EDITOR'S IJKAIN
Did Not Work Woll Under Coffee
back and crowding the vital organs
by bonding over to get at your work;
crowded kidneys, liver and stomach
will cause you such miserable aches
and pains that you will imagine you
have all sorts of diseases, for wrong
positions of the body hinders neces
sary action, every part of the body
must be left free to do its work;
wrong positions in sitting or standing
cramp and displace the vital organs,
and you will think you have . liver
complaint, indigestion, heart trouble,
humors, and various other disease,
when there is nothing the matter but
poor circulation caused by wrong po
sitions. To stand up and sit up, as nature
intended you should, will do more for
you than all materia medica; people
who dose themselves for years, their
condition all the time getting more
chronic, would soon get out of the
woods, if they would keep the body
free and well vitalized with pure air.
Ex.
A brain workor's health is often
injured by coffee, badly selected food
and sedentary habits. The experi
ence of the Managing Editor of one of
the most prosperous newspapers in
the Middle West, with Postum Food
Coffee illustrates the necessity "of
proper feeding for the man who de
pends on his brain for Hying.
"Up to three years ago," writes
this .gentleman, "I was a heavy cof
fee drinker. I knew it was injuring
me. It directly affected my stomach
and I was threatened with chronic
dyspepsia. It was then that my wife
persuaded me to try Postum Food
Coffee. The good results were so
marked that I cannot say too much
for it Whetx first prepared I did not
fancy it, but inquiry developed the
fact that cook had not boiled it long
enough, so next time I had it properly
madeand was charmed with it. Since
that timo coffee has had no place on
my table save for guests. Both my
self and wife are fond of this new
cup which 'cheers but does not in
ebriate' in a much truer and fitter
sense than coffee. My stomach has
resumed its normal functions and I
am now well and strong again men
tally and physically.
"I am confident that coffee is a
poison to many stomachs, and I have
recommended Postum with great suc
cess to a number of my friends who
were suffering from the use of coffee.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Single Beds.
It is now generally recognized that
no persons, even children, remain as
healthy if they sleep with others as
they do when they sleep alone. The
air immediately surrounding a sleeper
is far from wholesome, shut in as it
is by close bed-clothes. In sleep, im
pure exhalations escape through the
excretory glands of the skin, and
the air under the bed-clothing be
comes poisonous. Even though the
sleeper may be in perfect health, the
skin is always throwing off poisonous
matter.
We have long known that the young
should not sleep with the old, under
any circumstances. A healthy per
son should not sleep with any one in
ill-health, as many diseases not
classed as contagious, may be com
municated through these exhalations.
Persons of a highly nervous tempera
ment should sleep alone, as insomnia
readily becomes habitual with aiinh
through the" disturbance occasioned 'by
any restless turning on the part of a
bed-fellow.
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Persons who are moderately intelli
gent on other topics seem to have
perverted Ideas on this subject, ow
ing to custom and habits of genera
tions now gone. What their ancestry
did, they also will do, even with evi
dence so markedly against them. On
the score of health, if for no other
reason the custom were not repre
hensible, the double bed should be
abolished. The single bed has much
to recommend it, and the cost of two
single beds is but little more than
that of the old double one, while but
little more space is occupied.
4.
Bed-clothing should be frequently
hung out in the sunshine In order to
thoroughly purify them. The thor
ough ventilation of the sleeping rooms
cannot be overdone; every day is not
too often to "sun the bedding' The
morning air and sunshine should bo
let in as soon as possible after the
bed is vacated, the clothing having
been thrown back or tossed over con
venient chairs. If the sunshine could
He across the bed, it would improve
matters. Let the beds He unmade as
long as your conscience will allow
you to. The old-fashioned straw
tick" had its virtues, as it could of
ten be emptied, the "tick" washed and
the straw filling renewed; sweet
scented hay-filled pillows were far
heathier than the feather abomina
tions which, in most families, are made
to serve a generation or more.
Query Box.
M. W. When the oven is too hot
for the proper bakin'g of its contents,
try setting a basin of cold water in
side; if it heats the water and is still
too hot, repeat
R. E. S. To remove the onion flavor
from the knifo after cutting onion,
rub with dry salt as for scouring. To
cut bread while yet hot, dip the knife
blade into boiling water befovo us
ing. Fresh, hot bread should not bo
cut or eaten.
Lizzie M.To make common glass
ware present a shining surface, like
cut-glass, wash in hot soap suds, dry
with a soft towol and, while still
warm, polish with tissue, or other soft
paper. If milk has been used in tho
glass-ware, rinse in cold water before
washing.
Hattie S. Tho best duster Is a piece
of cheese cloth, as it is soft, and takes
up dust and is easily shaken clean or
washed. A soft silk duster should
be used for polished surfaces,, piano,
or furniture, and a soft, thick paint
brush, which will clean out tho cor
ners and carving, is necessary for best
results. A feather duster merely dis
turbs the dust without removing it.
Graphic A great many remedies
are recommended for insomnia, but
none of them are always effectual. In
this, as in other matters, "so many
things make a difference," that no
one is capable of advising specifical
ly. Inability to sleep is often a mat
ter of temperament, or the montal
state, and a disturbed mental condi
tion may bo duo to many causes other
than physical.
Bath-room. To clean a sponge,
make a strong suds with good soap
and soft water, in which dissolve a
little washing soda; tho suds must be
hot: put tho sponge to soak in this
for an hour, then rub and squeeze it
until perfectly soft and clean; rinse
in hot water, then in tepid water un
til every particle of the soap is out
of it; then dry In tho sunshine.
Economy. There are various ar
rangements for sifting coal cinders.
One of tho best is a cinder box fitted
with rockers, like a cradle; it has a
wire tray inside and a lid which cov
ers the top; the cinders are placed in
the tray, the covcrJ put on and the
box is rocked for a'Tew minutes, and
then left to stand, fbr a quarter of
an hour, when the d?st will have sub
sided, tho ashes fallen throtigYt'f,Jlrtto
tho box beneath, and the cinders' are
left in the tray, ready for use. If
water Is poured ovor the cinders they
will make better fuel when mixed
with fresh coals.
Marlon. To clean your hair brush
es, dip the bristles (not the wood) in
to quite warm water In which a small
piece of soda has been dissolved; move
the brush up and down until the
bristles are quite clean, being very
careful not to put the wood or metal
back in the water; wet only the brls
tljs; hold under a faucet, or other
running cold water, rinse well and
shake as free as possible from moist
ure, and stand In an upright position
to dry in the' shade. A comb can bo
cleaned with a small nail brush
dipped in hot, soapy water in which
a bit of soda has .been dissolved,
scrubbing thoroughly; rinse in cold
water.
M. W. In a great many parts of
the country, even in the United States,
it is a common thing to see women
and children doing "linrd, drudging
work" in the fields. The turning of
tho women and children into bpasts
of burdpn is, as vou say, "unsightly,"
but there are times in which it can
not be avoided, owing to scarcity of
help, etc, In busy times, when, with
out their help, the living of the fam
ily would be greatly endangered.
Habitual overburdeninn: and demand
ing of women and children work un
suited to them, keeps the people ig
norant and the country backward.
Whatever tends to degrade the women
derades the nation, and fosters il
literacy and poverty, but many re
fined, intelligent, educated women in
the farming districts, are at times
called upon to lend a hand in tho
management of farm affairs without
feeling at all degraded thereby.
Consumptives
All Amazed.
Success of the Copper Cure Start
les the Old TheoristsScience
Carries All Before It The Scoff
ers are Now Its Fastest Friends.
Consumptives Healed, Uplifted and Grateful,
Astonish Their Friends.
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DR. FREEMAN HALL,
Medical Director Kalamazoo TuborculoilsHem.
euy Co.. Ltd., whoso Chnirmnn is n Mom- v
bor of tho ilriilsh Tuhorculosis Con-
gross and Member National As
sociation for tho Prevention
of Tuberculosis.
Nothing liko the carcor of th Copper Cure
lias over been known in the history or medicino.
It bus swept into public favor with tho force of
nn immense tidal wave. It ruccqss as n reinody
is liko the march of n victorious general. A
great many pcoplo am puzzled to know tho rea
son why. a hey don't scorn to undo'htand it.
Tho Und that wo call "old folios" aro startled
almost out of their senses. AH their notions
about Consumption havo neon entirely upsot.
In spite of their ancient theories they find that
Consumption CAN bo cured, cured like any othor
disease, and they bate to think they were wrong
all their lives. The doctors are no less puzzled
urumazcu.
Now, why is this sol What is tho myBtery and
secrot of this prompt, overwhelming success"!
Thoansworis plain and simple and wo wlhLtbat
ovorybody in tho land could know it. In tho
nrt plpco, tho i oppor Cure (Antidotum Tubor
culose) really JS n euro. It cures consumption
whero it is faithfully used. Wo givo the evi
dence Wo sot forth the facts, so that people
can read them und verify them at pleasure.
That's the kind of candor that people like, and
henco tho Coppor Curo is sought for and is in
favor every wherd that a victim of Conuraption
hears of it. That is wbat our free booklet is for ;
to lay ull the facts truly und honestly beforo tho
world.
There is still another reason for the phenome
nal success of the Copper Curo. It is Btrictly
fccientlfic and we lay baro in our book the prin
ciples that uudorlio it. We prefer plain speech
to mjstifying the public, and wo use it right
along in describing the Coppor Curo and its
action on tho disease. The people really havo
faith in tho best modern science. They know
tho many wonders it has wrought for them.
True sclenco Is never cloudy or unintelligible.
Tho laws and operations of nature are Kimple.
Whoever reads our frco booklet can see atonce
HOW tho Copper Curo acts, WHY tho Coppor
Curo has such and such effects, und therefor
why the Coppor Curo CURES. Instead of bo
fuddling our patients, we instruct and enlighten
them, and henco they turn to the Copper Cure
as a rem.edy they can understand and believe
and trust.
Now, don't be amazed any longer. Writo for
our booklet yourselves and yon may loarn noro
than you ever knew of Consumption and its
cure.
t'ersons who suffer from chills, daily fever,
lots of appotite, weak voice, lots of weight, pain
in the back, pain in the breast-bone, night
sweats, pallor or flushing, lassitude, painful
breathing, pains in tho lung and chest, a gener
ally disordered system, colds, coughs, or the
thousand and one symptoms of a liko nature,
have only too much reason to fear that the tu
borclo germ will Boon get a lodgment in their
system. All who aro interested should write
forour iutaluablo freo booklet to the Kalatrasoo
Tuberculosis Hemcdy Co., Ltd., 1055 Bau.iian
liloek, Kalamazoo, Mich. It will corao to you
by mail without cost or delay whatever.
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