The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1901, Page 7

THE SUNDAY CALL. Copyright 1900. A REMEDY. and ¢ the n the , a cleansing g good punch of comy al as much borax 7 a 155 of wwarm water Nothing can dis- thick and adherent nose better Some of the this so- the re- mto Id condilion ramined by should be order to re- sent, m IN PAIN—Heat is also useful internal pain, buz never be applied to relieve a 3 rozvever, give only partial re- he hot application shoutd be ie right over the Jocation of the embering that the degree ust be as high as can be le warmth would pro- For this purposz the ter bag is very convenient. citect. a pain in the stomach, bel- t and even throat may be 15 of joints and muscles where illy relieved, as well as the) R the skin is not involved. Similarly pain of sciatica may be rel.cved itire afflicted h a blanket wwrung out of rapping up the lie hot application not only re- also e trouble. CK—In n a hot application, d is very cf- ng relief and Heat in this case pain, but promotes wryneck nged and repeat cacious toward gi promoting cure. best applied in the form of a flan- ncl or woolen cloth wrung out of hot rencwed as soon as it has lost its heat, or a hot poultice. COLD AS A REMEDY. Vhat a water, great stride in common sense and wisdom will have been accomplished when the people can realize that breathing cold air can not hurt our respiratory, passages unless the latter be alréady dis- cased; that exposure to cold is bene- ficial if one keeps physically active, and that the danger from cold arises only from prolonged expos- ure in a standstill attitude. At the same time we cannot lay too much stress upon the very fact that it is chicfly through breathing cold air that our nervous system be- contes toned up to the winter stand- ard. A moderately cold air in the sleeping room 1is, like the outside air, invigorating and purer than hot air; it induces a good, refresh- ing sleep, and once rises in the morn- ing with a stomach calling for food and a brain and nerves ready for No better cvidence of the beneficial influence of cold air could be found than in the case of farm-~ ers, who rarely, if cver, heat their sleeping-rooms. This class of peo- work. ple are never predisposed to taking cold, and when this happéns to them it is only the result of sheer reckless exposure. It is unfortunate that our civil- ised peoples should know so much about their pleasures and comfort and so little about the foundations of their health; that they shouid be so partial to heat and so fearful of cold that they should fail to know or comprchend that the energy of our bedy, the activity of our mind, digestion, nutrition, easy slecp, in short, all the functions of the body of day and night, are promoted or improved by breathing cold air, and impaired by breathing warm air. Cold air 1is exhilarating and arouses every encrgy of the budy; if to this we add that it is richer in oxygen than warm air, we will have a full explanation of our in~ creased activity during the cold (Copyright, 1901, by Walter B. Guild.) = HAVE a deal of sympathy for the \ woman who is tied to a life mad up of distasteful household tasks, Lut much, much more for those who ! ere forced to live with her. I have | cbserved that those who declare their = j Latred of housswork are invariably { without system, and no home was | ever run successfully without system Such H! —no business has ever flourished on No enterprisa | of one-tenth part of the importance | of home-making will ever be success- | fully carried through by any but | business methode. | The unwilling housekeeper makes everything difficult for herself be- | cause she will not bother to test the | Laphazard methods. In severe pains it | merits of new ways. She is too in- | @ifferent to care for aught but the time that awaits her at the close of her work. What is the use of telling Ler that there is a right and a wrong way to accomplish tasks? She does not care a straw about methods. There is a class of housekeepers, however, whom I may be able to as- sist with a few suggestions—ths willing but inexperienced women who are striving to make an attrac- tive home and having rather hard work of it, too, considering the many helpers in the way of labor-saving .devices. A housekeeeper ought to be | provided with all these assistants, | | Watches Plat. watch has been worn next to a an open window. The cold is likely to g, for no apparent reason, one's y magnetized by static electricity exert fluence over their watches. this sort can never hope to carry the cor- Never lay your watch down for the ing the day. If the pivot of the bal- } QF JATCHES often suffer from i\ ) changes of temperature. After a W U warm body all day it should not be left over night on cold marble or near contract the wetal pivots, and, howeyer tighten up the works. The next h will be found to be losing time. + frequently happens that watches are « gl by the human body. It has been found that dark people are more likely to this infl This influence is, besides, more common among women than with men. Persons of rect time unless they carry their watches in rubber or steel cases. night in a horizontal position. It should always be hung vertically, as it is carried be the least worn this change tends to loosen the *‘cap y one has had a watch suddenly stop for no apparent reason and go on 2 when slizhtly shaken. This may not appen once a year, but all watches are able to such an accident. This is due v y to the catching of the delicate It is caused by some sudden , such as jumping on or off a The jolt must come at the exact car fraction of a second when the spring is in position to catch, so that the chances of such an eccident are rare. A watch should be olled every eighteen months. The o4 dries up in this time as a rule, and if tue mechanism be run with the ofl dry it quickly wears out. In examining a watch all jewelers fol- low the same plan. They first look to see if the hands are caught. If the fauilt lies deeper they mnext take out the balance + By Mrs. most of which are inexpensive. She will be if she is wise. The best household friend, in my humble opinion, is a liberal supply of pure borax. I hope you realize the full significance of that word “pure”; for few articles of commerce are more generally aduiterated than this sam= innocent-looking white powder. Very L:ttle of the really pure article finds its way into the home because borax is not a proprictary article and the demand has sometimes exceeded the supply. So it is mixed with various ingredients which destroy its virtues in a measure, generally Soda, which works havoe, with the skin and deli- cate textures like it. It is always wise to test borax be- fore relying upon it. Put a little in the bowl of a spoon, pour on a littie vinegar, and if it foams the least bit return it to the dealer of whom it was purchased, with a request for ths pure article or the money you paid fcr the stuff. It has a liberal per- centage of soda in its make-up and will not do the work of pure borax. In an unadulterated state borax softens the water and becomes a won- derful cleansing agent. In the home- ly task of dish-washing there are no terrors when hot water and borax are liberally used. Few women seem to realize that there may be two ways of washing dishes, one of which must be superior. When plates are care- wheel and examine the pin and pivots. Next they let down tue mainspring and examine the wheels. It sometimes hap- pems that a jeweler will not find the cause of the trouble for days. The most difficult disorder to locate is a sught burr on one of the wheels. Many jewelers have collected fees for repairing watches when the watches re- fuse to go merely because they have run down. Women are said to be the best customers of the watch doctor, since they seldom wind their watches regularly. A watch should be wound early in the day, and not, as is the common practice, at bedtime. The reason for this is that the spring is tightest during the day while the watch s being carried, and is less sensitive. Danger in Rating Unwazashed Fruit. LL kinds of diseases may be traced A to the eating of unwashed frult,” sald a well-known authority on bacteriology, in commenting upon the spread of disease through unknown sources. The result of a careful exam- ination has clearly shown the danger of eating fruit of any kind with- out washing it. Grapes kept for some time in a basket on a fruit stand were. so0 covered with dust that the water in which they were washed was black. The man of science, thinking that perhaps the water contained tubercle bacilll, injected into three guinea pigs a small quantity of it. One animal dled in two days; the others dicd in less than six weeks, both the latter presenting marked signs of tu- berculous lesions. The water and vessel that contained it had been sterilized be- fore the experiment was made, so that without doubt the disease germs were on the grapes. ———————— “And she is recorded as one of the aris- tccracy in Keatucky?” “Oh, decidedly! Her family feuds with the very best people there!”—Detroit Journal. seasons. Whenever slceping - rooms are heated their temperature should not be raised higher than 50 degrees F. We should also remember that heat increases and cold decreuses the permanent sensibility of the skin, and that an increased scnsi- bility always means an increased predisposition to taking cold. For this reason it is plain that living in overheated rooms, keeping o un- reasonably warm clothing in niod- erately cold weather, sleeping on feather-beds, using warm water in the daily morning ablution, muf- fling the head and neck and taking hot baths in summer, are as many predisposing causes of catarrh. Muffling the neck does not protect the throat; it weakens it. It is safe to say, and experience clearly shows, that washing the face, neck hands, and even the chest with cold The Wnwilling Housekeepetr + Martha Jaft &eniworih. fully scraped with a palette knifs whose pliable blade makes it particu- larly suited to such purposes the task is rightfully begun. A pan of hot ‘water, a tablespoonful of borax, pure castile soap, a dish mop, hot rinsing water and plenty of clean, dry towels will make bright china, silver and glass and do away with greasy dish water and red, parboiled hands. Only novices and careless women wash dishes in the old-fashioned way of plunging thes nends, wrist deep, into ‘water which grimes and crackles the skin and makes the hands hopelessly ugly. Experience has told nice wo- men that the task of cleaning the store of tableware may be made dain- ty without more than wetting the tips of the fingers. Dishtowels can only be kept sweet and clean by constant care. They will be ell you wish them if, after being used, they are put into a pan of water with a tablespoonful of borax and boiled for fifteen minutes. They come forth white and clean-smelling without injury to the fiber and the work of washing out the stains. There is somethingobjectionable in the very word ‘“sink” when applied to an important part of the kitchen furnishing. It suggests odors and cther unpleasant things which can only be driven away by the sight of some housekeeper’s pride, a kitchen sink shining with cleanliness. The cleansing after each meal is not suilicient to bring about such results: there must be extra care bestowed upen it. Many a sore throat or head- aciie in the family might be traced, with reason, to the sink, where mi- crobes breed happily and in abun- dance. Borax is an antiseptic and _puts-an end to these little family gatherings when used twice a week cr so with hot water and soap and & rinsing with clear borax water after it. \ The teakettle, coffee and tea pots, the milk cans or jars, in fact, all kitchen utensils are cleaner from con- tact with the simple little housshold blessing—borax. I know homes ‘where it is used for everything which can be introduced to soap and water. The family linen is renowned for its whiteness, the homes are pointed out as models of cleanliness, and "this 1s secured without any show of undue labor and with very little expense. I know that there is not a bug of any description in those homes, al- though they are located in apart- ments in large buildings which offer the strongest attractions to water- bugs and cockroaches. There used tc be plenty of both kinds in one of the homes, as I remember it, before the mistress armed herself with her box of borax and tiny bellows. She sprin- kled borax powder about the sink and pipes, both in the kitchen and bath- THE SUN 1S RARNESSED AT LAST. (Continued from Page Six.) tation is “run off,” which is carried into the streams. A portion is lost in evapora- tion, some is absorbed by the ground and remains to molsten vegetation, but a con- slderable part finds its way through porous sofl, and the seams in the earth far below the reach of all growing things to subterranean reservoirs. A portion of these underground waters burst forth in springs or artesian outpourings, but we know that enormous underground rivers and lakes exist beneath the crust of the earth and that they are regularly rein- forced by falling rains and melting snows. Then there are numerous Western streams that may be said to flow upside down—the ground on top and the moving current underneath. A notable instance is the Platte, which Bill Nye has de- scribed as “onc mile wide and one Inch thick,” and to which he ascribed “a wide circulation but very little influence.” The utility of sun power will be strik- ingly illustrated on the Great Plains. Here the Government has made exten- sive investigations of the underground supplies. It was found that water could be had in narrow strips along the rivers —notably along the Platte and Arkansas, at an average depth of ten feet. Outside of this belt is another and wider one, where water is found at a depth of ten to fifty feet. Still further out is anoth- er district, enormously greater than those already mentioned, where water may be had at a depth of 50 to 100 feet. These three divisions cover the larger proportion of the areas which will be ir- rigated, but there are smaver districts within this area where the underground reservoirs lie at various depths from 100 0 350 feet. Now, thousands of windmills have been set up on the plains, largely for irriga- tion purposes during the past ten years, but their efficlency is practically limited to the watering of ten-acre plots in the narrow strips along the rivers where ‘water may be had at ten feet. The com- ing of the new power, far more potent than that which is galned by harnessing the wind, though .at no more cost of op- eration means the extension of irriga- tion to the wider belts of upland, where water is deeper. This means in turn more intense cultivation, smaller farms, denser population. Therefore the influences which are sure to follow the introduction of solar power upon the plains must be great and far-reaching. This remark ap- plies not merely to Kansas and Nebraska, but to the two Dakotas and to the im- perfal domain of Texas. Potentially one of the most fertile, yet actually one of the most barren tracts on the continent, is that known as the Staked Plains of West- ern Texas. It is barren because its two most valuable resources ‘have not been utilized. These are the sun which shines above them and the sheet of water which lies beneath. ‘What is truei of these wide-stretching plains is practically true of all the arid regions of the world. Cheap motive power is the indispensable condition of the ex- istence of civilization. And power de- mands either falling water or abundant fuel. Relatively to the needs of a dense population, there is little of either water PoOW or fuel, but upon every four square feet of the surface of these reglons there falls a =g + Belgian Cows Wear Earrings. Cows In Belglum wear earrings, This is in accordance with the law, which de- crees that every animal of the bovine species when it has attained the age of three months must have in its ear a ring, to which is attached a metal tag bearing a number. The object is to preserve the exact record of the number of animals raised each year, degree of solar heat, acording to the best scientific information, to produce one horsepower if it can only be utilized. The solar motor solves the problem of its util- ization. Its far-reaching influence may be left to the imagination of the reader until future events shall have written the great story iIn their own indelible charac- ters upon the face of the earth. It may be well to remark upon one economic result that Is plainly foreshad- owed. This is the fact that the use of solar power in the Industrial life of arid regions must make for the Independence of individuals and communities. It is conceivably possible for some one to make a monopoly of. flowing streams and nat- ural water powers. But the sunshine may no more be ‘““cornered” than the surface of the earth itself. This great source of power belongs to all alike. Fortunately the cost of the mechanical plants required for its utilization is within the reach of average people. The cost of large plants is not beyond the means of small co- cperative companies. Thus sun power seems likely to prove an influence of enormous moment in shaping the future civilization. Professor 8. P. Langley of the Smith- sonian Institution placed the following prediction on record as long as fourteen years ago: “Future ages may see the seat of em- pire transferred to regions of the earth now barren and desolated under intense solar heat—countries which for that very cause will not improbably become the seat of mechanical and thence political power. ‘Whoever finds the way to make indus- trially useful the vast sun power now ‘wasted on the deserts of North Africa or the shores of the Red Sea will effect a greater change in men's affairs than any conqueror in history has done; for he will once more people those waste places with the life that swarmed there in the best days of Carthage and of old Egypt, but under another clvilization, where man water every morning, wearing clothing which permits a slight sen- sation of cold, and going out bare- necked, are all measures which tend to decrcase and cure the pre- disposition to “colds.” IN INSOMNIA—In insomnia due to mental overwork or mental depression . caused by anxiety, anger, worry, grief, fright, etc., the application of cold water to the entire face, especially the forehead, is one of the best procedures to hasten the advent of slecp. IN HEADACHE—The head- ache following mental overwork or due to summer heat, f’m'cr, eye- strain, digestive disorders, con pation, congestion of the brain, ner- vous exhaustion, etc., is always re- licved by cold water. This is best applied by placing the head under the faucet and allowing the cold water to run over the face, espe- V02002000000 @ — S0P ee000 @ | room, and made a line of it around the rooms where she had found bugs, puffing it into cracks and corners ‘with the little bellows. She sprinkled behind the furniture, inside bureau and table drawers, on shelves, and even on the backs of framed pictures. | There was no abiding place for-bugs in that house after she had gone her rounds. She said that she did not mind the powder a bit, because she knew that it was both harmless and ‘clean. I do not believe that one woman -in fifty knows the value of borax as e tollet article. The water used in city homes and at many country places is hard and incapable of per- forming its duties as a cleansing agent. Softened with borax it will| not only clean the skin, but whiten and keep it smooth. It is better and | easier to keep toilet borax in liquid form, an ounce of powder in a quart bottle of warm water, and more borax added when that has been dissolved until the water refuses to take more, and there is a sediment at the bottom of the bottle. Only emough to soften the water is used ,and when accus- tomed to it a woman is hardly will- ing to return to the half-way meth- ods which formerly distinguished her toilet. ‘We live in an age of improvement, so why should we not make the most of them? shall no longer worship the sun as a god, but shall have learned to make it his servant.” ———— ““Yes, we are recelving and answering messages from Mars every day,” said the Eminent Scientist. “But, If you cannot understand the messages how can you answer them?” asked the Obtuse Person. “Huh!” replied the Eminent Scientist, “they can’t urnderstand the answers, either.”—Baltimore American. —_———— She—Can you tell me a good name for the new lady’s magazine I intend to bring out? He—Oh, call it The Last Word, for ev- ery woman thinks she must have it. + L3 . Qhicken-Bicking Qyclongs. 'OU no doubt have heard of cyclones blowing feathers off chickens, or possibly you may have witnessed the operation, but whether you have or not, it is a fact that cyclones are sometimes chieken pickers, as well as the pickers of other things. Well, an ingenious German, with a de- vastating cvclone for his model, has in- vented a machine that creates cyclones to order, while you walt, for chicken picking purposes. His cyclones are inconsiderable in size, but very intense in their fleld of action, which is large enough to embrace a Shanghal rooster. You take the rooster or other fowl to him, he touches a button and before you can wink twice every feather is off the bird. Several cross currents of alr from electric fans, turning at the rate of 5000 revolutions a minute, do the work. —_——— “That walter is either a dunce or a hu- morist, I'm not sure which.” “What's the matter?” “I asked him for some extract of beef and he brought me milk."—Philadeiphia T e L cially the forchead; or in summer by taking a cold sponging or bath. IN NOSE BLEED—Pressing a piece of ice or snow on the bleed- ing side of the nose for about two minutes is @ very effective means to check the hemorrhage. If in ad- dition to this we place a piece of ice at the nape of the neck, any nose- bleed, except those of the severest nature, will rapidly stop. IN SPRAIN—During the two first days after an accident result- mng in a sprained ankle the applica- tion of cold compresses is a ren:edy which cannot be excelled by any other. The patient should sit with the foot elevated, and a cloth dipped in ice-water every five minutes, or an ice-bag, be kept constantly om the affected part. IN ITCHING—A friction with cold water is as efficacious as any remedy in relieving any form of itching on the skin generally. The same may be said of the so common and troublesome itching at the anus, where, however, the cold application should be more prolonged. IN FEVER—In fever of any kind, especially when it is high, whatever may be the discase which produces it, the nurse should, as an essential part of her task, fre- quently bathe the entire face of the patient with ice-cold water while he is awake. This procedure, be- sides reducing the fever somewhat, tones up the nervous system, di- minishes the apathy, prevents deli- rium from setting in, stimulates the appetite, heart and respiration, and tends to prevent complications in the lungs and brain. The treat- ment of typhoid by cold baths is founded on the same reasons. The cold climate is essentially the climate of the white races, for the latter do not flourish as well where the snow mever lies. The biting kiss of the frost king is indispens- able for their development of body and mind. They invariably degen- erate when, after being born in a cold climate, they migrate to a permanently warm one. It is especially the tonic effect of the cold weather upon the Zrain which gives the northern people the energy, stamina and vitality which contrast so plainly with the apathy of the southerners, and results in the former developing an advant- age over the latter in all industrial and commercial pursuits. +* Biggest Salvage on Regeord. HEN the big American line W steamship St. Paul ran aground in a dense fog on the Jersey beach, near the lower end of Long Branch, before daylight on January 25, 159, in the cargo was $1,250,000 in gold consigned to a firm in New York. It was essential that this should be landed. Ar- rangements were made with the Merriti- Chapman Wrecking Company to have the stranded liner hauled off. She and her cargo, including the gold, were heavily insured. After it was found that it was going to be very difficult to float the big ship the consignees of the gold, who need- ed it in their business, appealed to Cap- tain Clark as Lloyd's New York agent to have it landed. It remained aboard the vessel three days: the fact of it being there rendered the underwriters liable for a heavier tax in the event of the vessel being floated. Naturally the American line did not make any strenuous efforts to have the bullion discharged, and just as naturally Lloyd'’s were anxious to get it off as quickly as possible, for in the event of a storm arising and causing the destruction of the ship the gold would have added so much more to the loss of the underwrit- ers. Captain Clark chartered a steamer and offered to take charge of the gold and land it. Thereupon the captain obtained a promise that the gold wquld be landed immediately. Thus the underwriters were relieved of the further risk and expense of floating the stranded ship. The goid was transferred to the lighter Haggerty down a sagging chute-suggestive stretch of canvas in bags, kegs and boxes. Twelve men armed with revolvers guarded the treasure as it was transferred from a to a truck and taken to a vault in Wall street. The award of $166,000 for salvage service in the case of the St. Paul was the largest ever obtained In an admiralty court. The St. Paul was aground ten days. It was said that she had not a plate bent or a rivet stagted.—Alnslee’s Magasine.