The Commoner,
JULY 8, 1301.
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to a friction in the American associa
tion, the society was reorganized.
There is no nobler woman than
Clara Barton, the first president of
the American society of the Red Cross.
She was horn in Massachusetts, about
1826, and when .the civil war broke
out, she devoted lierself to the care
of the wounded soldiers on the bat
tlefield, and in 18G4, she was given
charge of the hospitals at the front
of the army of the James. During the
war between Germany and France she
volunteered in humane and hospital
service, or which she was decorated
with the Golden Cross of Baden and
the Iron Cross of Germany. In 1884
she represented our government at
the Red Cross conference in Geneva,
Switzerland. She was also delegate
to the international peace convention
at Geneva, in 1884, and a special com
missioner for foreign exhibits at the
New Orleans exhibition. She is also
the author of a History of the Red
Cross, which was published at the
government printing office, Washing
ton, D. C.
Care Of Tho Teoth. .
A good tooth powder is made of
precipitated chalk and orris root in
equal parts, flavored with winter
green, or some agreeable perfume.
This does not injure the teeth and
lessens the danger of the gums re
ceding; it should be used just before
retiring at night; during the day and
after meals the teeth should be
brushed with clear, tepid water to
which a few drops of tincture of myrrh
or listrine have been added.
Picking the teeth should not be in
dulged in, but if done-, should be done
in private, not at the table. Silk or
linen thread used by dentists should
bo passed through between the teeth
to dislodge particles of food; or the
bristles of tho tooth brush may be
forced thr6ugh the openings. A good
wash for the mouth la a solution of
salt, not so strong as to be bitter. Salt
itself is a good dentifirice, and may
be effectively used to remove the daily
deposit of tartar on either natural or
artificial teeth. A decayed tooth
should never be neglected.
In illness, where raucous accumu
lates and tho lips are parched, the
1 mouth should be kept clean and moist
by using a solution of water and bor
acic acid, listrine or lemon juice.
When the gums are soft, and inclined
to bleed easily, a few drops of myrrh
added to the water will harden them.
Small squares of old linen should be
hused instead of a brush, in cases of
illness, as the cloths can be burned as
used; the soft linen can be wound
around the tip of a whalebone and tied
with a white thread; this makes a
pliable cleaner which can be moved to
any part of the mouth; lemon juice
and water will remove fur) from a
.Jhickly-coated tongue generally, and
every part of the mouth should be
cleaned, behind the wisdom teeth, the
roof of the mouth and under the
tongue. Perfect cleanliness is neces
sary to beauty, health and awedt
breath.
One should find, and then patronize
often a good dentist, "for neglect of
the teeth means disaster to both good
health and good looks.
WRONG TRACK
Had To Switch.
Even ,the most careful person is apt
to get on the wrong track regarding
food sometimes arid has to switch oyer.
When the right food is selected the
host of ails that come from improper
food and drink disappear, even where
the trouble has been of lifelong stand
ing. "From a child I was never strong
and had a capricious appetite and I
was allowed to eat whatever I fan
ciedrich cake, highly seasoned food,
hot biscuit, etc, so it was not sur
prising that my digestion was soon
out of order and at the age of twenty
three I was on the verge of nervous
prostration. I had no appetite and as
I had been losing strength (because I
.didn't get nourishment in my daily
food to repair the wear and tear on
body and brain) I had no reserve force
to fall back on, lost flesh rapidly and
no medicine helped me.
"Then it was -a wise physician or
dered Grape-Nuts ad cream and saw
to it that I gave this food (new to
me)" a -proper trial and it shewed he
knew what he was about because I
got better by "bounds from the very
first. That was in the summer and
by winter I was in better health than
ever before in my life, had gained in
flesh and weight and felt like a new
person altogether in mind as well as
body, all due to nourishing and com
pletely digestible food, Grape-Nuts.
"This happened three years ago and
never since then have Iliad any but
perfect health for I stick to my Grape
Nuts food and cream and still think
it delicious, f eat it every day. I
never tire of this food and can enjoy
a saucer of Grape-Nuts and cream
when nothing else satisfies my appe
tite and it's surprising how sustained
an.d strong a small saucerful will
make one feel for hours." Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
True food that carries one along
and "there's a reason." Grape-Nuts
10 days proves big-things.
Get the little book; "The Road to
WellvUle," in each pkg.'
Right Living.'
All intelligent people agree that
plain, simple, natural food is most
conducive to4" the recovery and main
tenance of health, but when one
comes to the details as to what con
stitutes plain, simple, natural food, we
are a't all points of the compass at
once. So difficult is it for the ma
jority of people to reason against the
current of their appetites that they
will not recognize the privations and
self-denials so necessary to the re
storation and maintenance of their
health the wheaten grits scratch
their throats, the beefsteak is too diy
to swallow without gravy, soup Is not
relished without pepper, they cannot
work without their strong coffee, and
bread is stale and profitless wUhout
butter or sauces, etc. Women eat too
little and too much. They will tell
you they "have no appetite," and if
they do not eat what they like they
can eat nothing. So they go on, eat
ing all kinds of indigestible confec
tions, cakes, pie, pickles, etc., eating
them at all hours, because "they have
no appetite at the table," and must
eat when hungry or not at all. If
you mention whole-wheat bread to
them, they assure you that their di
gestive organs cannot, for a moment,
entertain tho idea, and if you express
a doubt of the benefit of coffee, they
stoutly defend the habit, quoting no
end of ancestors who have lived and
died by drinking coffee alone. So it is,
to the end of the chapter, until one is
tempted to give up the charitable ef
fort in despair, and resolve to let them
kill themselves in their own way. am
the old adage "Constant dropping
wijl wear away the stone," comes to
one, and the really interested philan
thropist again takes up the cudgel in
defense of the preventive, rather than
the cure of disease. " ' x
solved and strained, ready to bottle.)
Put tho lime, sal soda, borax and
lump ammonia (if that is used) in A
copper vessel or small tub; pour over
tho ingredients ten quarts of boiling
water and cover closely with an old
blanket or othor thick covering, to
rctalntho steam as much as possible.
Stir occasionally with your clothes
stick to mako sure that the articles
aro well dissolved, then let stand a
half-hour; add ten quarts more of
water, allow to settlo and nour off in
to jugs, glass Cans, bottles, or any
receptacle which can he made prac
tically air-tight. The settlings may
be put into old pails or tin cans and
used In placo of soap for scrubbing
floors and woodshed, closets or other
woodwork. It Is claimed that it docs
not injure paint or harm colored
fabrics.
To use, fill boiler as for boiling
clothes, and to this boil water add,
when scalding hot, one common tea
cupful of fluid, stir well and put in
your clothes which you have ready
to boil, let boil half an hour, take out,
rub lightly through ono suds, rinse
well In one or two waters and hang
out. For each additional boiler of
clothes, add half a cup only of the
fluid, boiling in tho same water
throughout the washing. Do not let
lie in the water, but wash, rinse and
hang out rapidly.
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The following treatment will re
move blood stains from fabrics, no
matter how old the stainf Fill a pall
full of water, blood warm, and dis
solve in it two large tablespoonfuls
of baking soda. Let the stains re
main in this all night, If very bad and
of long standing; if fresh, put them
to soak a half-hour before you begin
tho washing. The stains will be much
removed, and when washed and dried
as usual will not appear.
A Plant Box.
We cannot all have a conservatory,
and very few can indulge in a plant
room, but, at a comparatively small
price, one may have a glass plant box
in which to grow many coveted things
In the way of' green house plants.
Have a zinc pan, shallow, made by
your tinner. Let It be about 25 inches
wide by forty inches long, and about
six inches in depth. The zinc pan
should be set on a frame of the same
dimensions as the shallow pan, but
deeper by afew inches. A number of
holes as" large as a dollar should be
cut in the bottom of this frame, to ad
mit fresh air into the box-like apart
ment, and a door cut through the side
through which you could put the heat
ing apparatus, which may consist sim
ply of a night lamp. On the top of
the zinc frame rests the frame which
holds the glass for your "glass-box,"
and the whole thing, frame, zinc bed
and glass frame, neea not be higher
than sixty or seventy inches. Fill the
zinc bed with earth, or sand, and sink
the pots in this; only a little water
will evaporate, and the plants should
be sprayed daily to keep the air moist,
and some of tho glass paneri removed
for a short time to give them air. The
plants in this box will not be subject
to so much change in temperature, will
be sheltered from any draft, and the
air will be kept warm and moist.
Recipe for Washing Fluid.
Two pounds of unslaked lime, four
pounds of sal soda, half pound of bor
ax, and one ounce of lump ammonia.
(Liquid ammonia may be used in
stead of the lump, but In that case
must not be added to the fluid until
the dry ingredients have been dis-
One Summer Day.
We can scarcely have too many out
ings, these hot July days, and there
is nothing that appeals so strongly to
the tired worker as tho thought of
a day spent in the woods, or on the
banks of some fine stream. In order
to enjoy such resting spells to the
full, one must dress as simply as pos
sible, and carry as little as may be of
the world's worry with him or her.
The Only
Modern
Separator
Bowl
Why buy & separator
filled with bottomless enko
pans, punched and bent
sections of otovo pipe, or
other complicated parts?
The only modern
bowl 1ir ne contrap
tion is an simple, light
and easily bandied as any
woman could wish. The
illustration shows It.
Write for catalog K-228
and learn about tho best
and most attractive
separator ever built tho
Tubular.
Ths Sharpies Co.
Chlcuo, III,
P. M. Shirplt-i
Witt Cheslir, r.
It matters little where one goes, so
long as the weather is. fine, the com
pany congenial and the luncheon pal
atable and not burdensome. Unap
petizing and Jumbled together eat
ables do not appeal to tho appetite,
however sharp it may bo, and espe
cially is this truo of the picnic lun
cheon, to be eaten under green trees
and In hearing of lapping waters, with
the dainty green grasses for our car
pets and the swaying wild blossoms
lining the air with fragrance. It Is
worth the while to lay aside all caro
and go out as a little child, into tho
sweet woodlands, even though It bo
but a few steps from your own door,
and lot the outer life Into your heart
and simply not do just rest, and, for
tho moment, "get acquainted with
your own soul."
The trouble with most of peoplo
Is 'that, when they make up their mind
to take an outing, they wear them
selves out "getting ready to go,' and
by the time they are gone they are
cross and irritablp and wish they bad
stayed at home. They carry the
world's work with them, and fret and
chafe all day, expecting and, indeed,
looking for "something to happen,"
which will justify them for their ill
temper. And It is not always tho
nerve-racked mother that does tho
worrying, either.
When ono goes for an outing, tho
preparation should not be so elaborate
as to wear the nerves out. Common
sense people try to carry as little aa
possible with them in the way of lug
gage; they select the lightest weight
trunks, and carry as few bags and
bundles in their hands as possible.
And these are they who come homo
cheered and brightened by the change..
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Female Troubles, to. all sending address. To
mothers of suffering daughters 1 wibl explain a.
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