DECEMBER 27, 1906
The Nebraska Independent
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To keep thee hlldren at home lock
up all their clothes.
To keep hubby at home hide his
toupee. .
In order to prevent accidents in the
kitchen fill the kerosene can with
water.
To stop leaks In pipes send for
the nearest plumber.-
To economize on coal get a "gas
range.
To test the freshness of eggs drop
them on some hard surface.
To propitiate the cook it can't be
done. Smart Set.
Winter Miseries
The furnace fire's started now
And trouble has begun,
For It is difficult to suit
The whims of everyone.
Elvira thinks' it is too hot '
You know, shel rather stout
While Eunice says, "I'm freezing cold!
Don't let the fire go out."
Maria wants the damper up
And Mildred wants it down.
Whichever way I fix the thing
I'm greeted with a frown.
Oh, I shall welcome with a whoop
The advent of the spring.
And when the winter is all gone
I'll cheer like everything!
Somerville Journal.
Medicinal Value of Salt
We see salt so frequently several
times a day in common use in the
kitchen, etc., that many do not sufil-
ciently appreciate it as being of a
high medicinal value: but ther eal
remedial uses go a long way toward
the preservation of health in homes
Its judicious use as a dentrifice is
reliable gums are kept hard and one's
breath purely sweet. Warm , salted
water held in the mouth often ban
ishes toothache; anyhow, it makes the
sore affliction easier to bear. When
other domestic remedies fail, make a
solution of alum and salt, saturate a
bit of cotton in it and insert in the
cavity of an "old archer," and instant
relief will most likely be afforded.
Neuralgic pains are fought with
small flannel bags filled with salt,
thoroughly heated and applied to the
afflicted part. Salt bags placed, quite
hot, at the feet are exceptionally good,
some think better than hot vater
bags. Salt used in case of bleeding
following the extraction of a tooth
will prevent further trouble that way;
and for a throat gargle, warm water
and diluted salt is simple and excel
lent every time. If taken in due
season, many serious throat ailments
may be cured if the gargling Is kept
up every hour or half hour, as the need
requires. Simple sore throat Is reme
died by wrapping about the neck a
flannel cloth wrung out of salted wa
ter. Salt and tepid water makes a
right handy emetic.
A an antidote for poison silver
nitrate or lunar caustic give salt and
water freely. For alcohol oiaotjlng,
an emetic of warm salt and water
given frequently U recommended. For
those who cannot eat appla often It
might be well to try eating them with
Httlo salt uprlukled on there; alao
on almond and oihr nut, butternuts,
rupt clally. Karat he In relieved by ap-
of the face. For catarrh, a solution
of tepid water and salt snuffed every
night,-allowing it ito pass over into
the throat, is worthy of a trial.. In
sect bites, stings, etc.; are favorably
treated by a salt application.1 , Finally
were it not for salt, our food would
far from satisfy, and - the craving for
something "salty" would be unbear
able. : ... .
Hot Water-for Baby
The Medical Magazine (ells us that,
In cases where there Is non-asslmlla
tion of food, accompanied, by vomiting
purging and even convulsions, physi
clans recommend giving a child al
the hot (not so hot as to burn) water
it will take through a nursing bottle,
In one case, "where no kind of nour
ishment could be retained and medi
cino had apparently no effect, the hot
water treatment was tried. The first
bottlcful was immediately vomited up;
but the second was retained, and a
peaceful sleep followed, tho condition
of the bowels greatly improved and
the vomiting . gradually ceased. At
tho end of twenty-four hours a teas-
spoonful each of sweet cream, lime
water and boiled water was given
every hour; then a preparation of egg
and water, and finally the usual con
densed milk. For colic in young chil
dren, a bottle of hot water is often
a quick cure. Care must be taken
not to have the water too hot, but It
must be quite warm.
A Foolish Superstition
The world is full of superstition,
and one of the worst is that. the opal
is "unlucky." This superstition arose
when the "black death" swept Eur
ope. At that time the opal was very
unpopular, and some noticed that
when a victim of the disease was
dying the opal on the finger bright
ened and when he was dead it became
dull. Of course, this took the popular
fancy, and at once opals became "un
lucky," and have remained so ever
since. Very likely they do not change
at all on the fingers of a dying person,
and the whole matter is like that ques
tion which once caused so much dis
cussion in the scientific world, I. e.,
Why is.it that when you put a fish
in a bowl of water the weight of the
bowl is not increased. Many learned
answers were given, but finally one
duffer weighed a bowl of water with
and without the fish in It, and thus
settled the matter. Kansas City
Journal.
Great American Fortunes
In "The Square and Compass' (Ma
sonic) of Denver, Colo., we find a com
putation of the enormous wealth which
some of our American rich men are
acquiring. Ten of them are now esti
mated as holding property to the
amount of over two hundred thousand
millions of dollars. Twenty men In
directly control a large part of the
wealth of tr. country and these rich
men are constantly prowlng richer. It
Is estimated that the time Is coming
when one man may own from two
thousand millions to three thousand
millions of dollars, as a rcBiilt of which
he may be able to make the luws, own
the newHpupers, suhnMNe the churches
and college, mould public opinion, dl
rft tin machinery of JuHiien, control
the banks, Insurance companies and
condition of labor, fix prices, abtoru
the profits and control almost every
pljrinf a heated alt bag to tho aide ug. our American Human Kdu
cation Society as our readers know
has offered three prizes of $300 each
for the best essays on each of the fol
lowing questions.
First What is the cause of and the
best plan for stopping the increased
growth, of crime in our country?
Second What is the bi'st plan to
stop the poisonous and dangerous adul
teration of or foods, drinks and med
icines? .
Third What is the best plan for
carrying human education into our
colleges and schools for the protection
both of our own race and of all the
other races called dumb which depend
ori our mercy?
It is a tremendous question' whether
the controversies between enormous
capital and labor in our country are
to be settled by a terrible civil war
or peaceably at the ballot box. Geo.
T. Angell, in Our Dumb Animals.
Against Sarah's Rules
That Philadelphia conservatism is
not confined to the "upper classes" is
Instanced by the experience of a wo
man - from an western city, who re
cently came to live In Philadelphia.
She hired for a cook a middle-aged
negress.
One afternoon Mrs: D. went into ber
kitchen and said: "Sarah, I neglect
ed to provide anything in the way of
meat for tea tonight, but we will have
some waffles. We are all'so fond of
them." The cook said nothing.
When the bell rang for tea the fam-
Lily assembled, but there w as no indi
cation of any waffles. Mrs. H. sent for
the cook.
"Sarah, where are our waffles-?'
Sarah drew herself up. In a voice
that trembled with outraged Sienlty
she replied: ' '
"Mis' 13., I'se done cooked In tho
flrstest fam'lies of Philadelphia for
mo' dan thirty yeahs, an I neber
knowed any of 'era to have waffles for
tea Sunday night. You caln't hab no
waffles!" ,
And they did not. Philadelphia
Times.
A Rare Complaint "
"Isn't it strange," asks the first
man, "that so many men, after years
of ruthless commercial practices, pir
acies, one might almost say, after they
have climbed to the very pinnacle
of success, should have softening of
the brain?"
"It would be stranger yet, infinitely
stranger," replies the man with the
corrugated brow, "if any of them ever
had softening of the heart." Puck.
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