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afternoon toward night. In many
persons hunger accompanies the
attacks, and it is thought that these
epells may be due to exhaustion from
lack of food, combined with auto
intoxication from food still in the
digestive tract in a more or less un
digested condition. The attacks can
bo cured by having the patient eat
something, and can bq prevented by
small frequent meals of easily di
gested food. Medical Magazine.
Getting Ready for Spring Work
If the housewife has systematized
her work, and has the picking up and
planning well in hand, and as much
as possible of the spring sewing
done, she can turn her thoughts to
the annual house-cleaning without
undue worry or uneasiness. One of
the earliest things to attend to is
the clearing of the house-furnishings
of any possible insect pests
which may have crept in during the
late fall, been overlooked and are
now ready to start the new colony.
If the first one is killed, the second
will not come so quickly, and if the
whole colony is extirpated, there
need be no second, March is the
best time, though it may be a little
earlv for the regular cleaning: but
for the insect pest, it is well to stop
the first invasion. A good fumigant
is best, where there is a suspicion
of such things. Ask your health
officer, or member of your board of
health, to tell you how to use for
maldehyde, and formalin.
Many complaints come of insect
pests in the hair of school children.
Several mothers should complain to
the school officers, and the on who
Is the "common carrier" of these
vile things -shpuld be looked after.
Such things are not,, and should not
be allowed in the school, and would
not be, if the school board did its
duty. For tho home treatment, get
GOOD NA'XTOED AGAIN
ten cents worth of whole fish ber
ries and pound so as to break them
up roughly, then put into a pint
bottle, which will bo about two
thirds full; then pour whisky over
the berries until tho bottle is full;
let stand a day or two, then wot the
scalp and hair thoroughly with tho
whisky, letting it dry on, using it
twice a day. After a few days
(combing the hair regularly to re
move the dead), wash tho head in
warm vinegar, which will dissolve
tho nits, and they can be easily
bo combed ofT the hair. One of tho
safest and cleanest remedies is a
decoction of staveacro (delphinium
staphisagria), or with a lotion made
by bruising the seed and steeping in
vinegar, or with tho tincture; a
tablespoon ful of tho tincture to a
teacupful of water; or by rubbing in
a salve made with the bruised seeds
and four times their weight in lard
carefully beaten together. The vine
gar solution and tho tincture are tho
cleanest, and all will destroy the in
sects and their eggs. It Is poison
ous, and should be kept from the
careless hands. Used on hair and
scalp, it is not harmful.
Good Humor Returns with Change
to Proper Food.
"For many years I was a constant
sufferer from indigestion and ner
vousness, amounting almost to pros
tration," writes a Montana man.
"My blood was impoverished, the
vision was blurred and weak, with
moving spots before my eyes. This
was a steady daily condition. I
grew ill-tempered, and eventually
got so nervous I could not keep my
books posted, nor handle accounts
satisfactorily. I can't describe my
sufferings.
"Nothing I ate agreed with me,
till one day I happened to notice
Grape-Nuts in grocery tore, and
bought a package out of curiosity
to know what it was.
"I liked- the food from the very
first, eating it with cream, and now
I buy it by the case and use it daily.
I soon found that Grape-Nuts food
was supplying brain and nerve force
as nothing in the drug line ever had
don or could do.
"It wasn't" long before I was re
stored to healthy comfort and hap
piness. "Through the use of Grape-Nuts
food my digestion has heen restored,
my nerves are steady once more, my
oye-sight is good again, my mental
faculties are clear and acute, and I
have become so good-natured that
my friends are truly astonished at
the change. I feel younger and bet
ter than I have for 20 years. No
amount of money would induce me
to 'surrender what I have gained
through the UBe of Grape-Nuts
fnnd." Name eiven by Postum Co..
Rnttlo Creek. Mich. "There's a
reason." Read the little book, "The
Road to Wellville," In pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A
mew one appears from time to time.
They aro genuine, true, and full of
human interest.
"Gathering Up tho Fragments"
Using Stale Bread Cut tho scraps
of bread into thin slices and spread
with butter, then cut tho slices into
small cubes and pile lightly in a
baking dish; pour over them a cus
tard made Of three eggs beaten in a
quart of milk, reserving the white o
one; bake three quarters of an hour,
let cool and make of the reserved
white a meringue and spread over
the top.
Codfish Balls Loft over mashed
potatoes may be used in this dish.
Soak the fish overnight, laying with
tho skin side up; in the morning
pick to pieces, removing all bits of
bone, and put on to cook in a little
water; let it boil up, 'drain off the
water and add fresh; boil again,
drain and mash, taking out every
particle of bone; add the potatoes
and salt to taste, with butter and hot
milk to mak.e tho whole smooth and
soft; flour the hands and mold the
.mixture into cones or balls; have a
skillet with very hot deep fat, drop
the balls in and cook to a nice
brown; lay on pieces of brown paper
In a warm place to drain. Equal
quantities of fish and potatoes is the
right proportion.
As lettuce is now on the market,
we give a cream dressing. Let the
cream bo cold; add a level teaspoon
f ul of salt to half a, cupful of cream
in a small bowl; stir well, adding
gradually two tablespoonfuls of best
vinegar.
Graham Bread Sift together two
cups of white flour, three cupfuls
and a half of graham, or whole
wheat flour, and a teaspoonful of
salt. Put into a mixing bowl three
cupfuls of sour milk, half a cupful
of molasses and two teaspoonfuls of
soda dissolved in two tablespoonfuls
of water. Stir well, then beat In the
flour mixture; beat tho batter vigor
ously; pour Into well greased tins,
and bake for one hour in a moderate
oven; this should make two loaves.
Ribbon Cake
Mrs. L. F. asks for a recipe for
ribbon cake; this recipe makes three
layers, the middle one having fruit in
it. Take one cupful of butter and
two of sugar, and cream together;
add to this the well-beaten yolks of
four eggs; stir well, and put In the
milk (one cupful), and then beat In
three and one-half cupfuls of pastry
flour having two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder stirred into it; lastly,
fold in the stiffly beaten whites of
four eggs. Have ready greased
three long, shallow tins of equal
size; divide the dough Into three
parts and bake two of them plain.
To the third part, add one cupful of
raisins, one cupful of currants, and
one-fourth pound of citron, two tea
spoonfuls of molasses, two tea
spoonfuls of grapo juice, half a tea
spoonful each of mace and cinnamon.
Soed and chop the raisins, wash and
dry the currnnts and slice tho citron
vory thin, flour well and stir the
fruit and spices ir.to tho third por
tion of batter and bake in the third
tin. When the layers are all done,
spread a filling as desired over the
first cake, lay the fruit layer on top
of this, cover with filling, then add
tho second plain cake. Press each
cake lightly as it is laid on, so the
layers will stick closely together.
Trim tho edges oven and cover with
a plain boiled frosting.
It. Wo aro never sure that tho
family that proccded us had not an
unrecognized or suppressed con
tagious dlsoase, and wo aro learning
that disinfection after contagious
diseases is of tho utmost Importance.
Thero aro also insect pesls In many
houses that aro not recognized until
wo arc brought into close contact
with (hem, and theso disinfectants
should be such as will exterminate
them. This precaution should b
demanded of every landlord before
the new family moves In.
For Marking Garden Labels
A- reader sends the following, 1
which may be of service to others:
In making indelible pencils for
marking wood labels for garden and
other outdoor uses, 1 buy a genuine
Faber No. 1, which usually costs
ten cents; then I prepare my labels
(cedar, if I can got it), and where
I wish to write I rub a little com
mon linseed oil and write before it
gets dry. This writing will remain
indelible for years at a very small
cost. If a little japan dryer is
added to tho oil, it is better. A
soft black pencil is best, but a blue
one is good, too.
Tho New Abode
It is becoming a matter of course
to disinfect a house before a new
family moves in, and as this is near
ing the time for the moving mania to
develop, it will be well to consider
The Value of Egg Shells
Professor Emmerich, of Munich,
and his colleague, Professor Lowe,
have discovered a new vitalizer.
They say that egg-shells, taken in
proper form (which is a liquid which
they prepare and call chlorldo of
egg-pholls) will lengthen human vi
tality, Increase tho power, of resis
tance against the withering blight of
time, add weight to the body, acti
vity to the brain, strength to the
heart, destroy injurious bacilli, pre
vent inflammation and disease, and
lend courage and energy to the
human race. Thus wo aro all ad
vised to "eat eggshells" in the form
of their preparation, which Is, of
course, to bo found on the market.
Kor Keeping Butter
A "Wisconsin Reader" tells us to
"Pack butler tightly in earthen jars
to within two or three inches of tho
top; pack the butter tightly and
closely. Cover with a layer of
cheese cloth, then pack salt over the
top an inch or two thick, and keep a
little water on top of the salt.
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