Suggestions On A Timely Topic

Shirley Dare in the Golden Agc. There is an art in this as in most tliings, wb ose disoovery would make three months of the year tolerable which are now nearly as good as wasted. Many people find the suinmer lost tima, in which they carry on a struggle for mere existence 1 with heat, lassitude, and incipient diseaae. Children are fractious, though it would 1 never do to say that grown folks are so too, when the glass marks 85 degrees in ' the shadd. Servants are cross, and fail to 1 get on witli their work, men find it hard 1 to fix thoir minds on business, and niothers ' What pen shall teil what thev endure through the time of tribulation be1 tween July aud September. Their trials 1 are only exceoded by those of the babies. ' Grown folks first, sinco their tronbles are more tangible than those of children, and the remody Hos wholly in their own hands to make short work of. Nobody can be oool with froinfaur to six or tweuty ounces of morbid matter in the veins, raging in heart-beats, irritating the nerves, and weakening the framo. And nobody can cali himself in a healthy state when the mouth is not as taintless in the morning as when ho went to sleep, or when the breatli is not as sweet as a rose, nnd tho skin perfeotly clear. One may be ablo to do a day's work without positiva diecomfort, walk 2 or 3 miles, and study to suit himself. yet by these slight iudications named tho bodily economy is out of order. Aooompanying these are other slight signs, more marked in their annoyance, headache when one goes into the suu, an irritable feeling of the ekin without any " breaking out," beyond a raro pimple, together with a fullness in the veins of the head after oxertion. I believo in the oíd fashioned cure for purifying the blood in tho spring as much as I do in spring housekoeping. Thoso symptoms which togother make up the sum of discomfort, rise from impure blood, whose removal would leavc the body cool, and strong enough to resist tho lassitude of hot days. This one test, the breath, is enough to determine the state of the syatem. In its highest state of health, the human body, delicately cared for yields an odor liko that of a flower, subtle yet attractive. ■WHAT TO EAT. It is worso than useless to dose oneself constantly. Nature will soon drive all morbid inatlers out if none but pure ones are put in. Tho best remedy for headaches, stupid feelings, want of sweetness in the mouth, weak eyes, and irritable ekin is to eat fruit. From the time of lemons and pie plant, to cherries and curran ts, and sharp frost grapes, it should form not only a part, but the principal part, of every meal for persons with these symptoms. People don't know how to eat fruit. They put it on their tables like a condiment, when it should take as much place as bread, or meat, not to say moro than either. One does not want much hearty food in hot weather; the store of flesh laid up in cool weather is enough to snpply strength ; but light maats, fish and chicken, with unlimited salada and fruits should furnish the fare. Pies ï No thank you, nor cake, save of the spongy order, and only the best of bread. But for breakfast a pint of berries after they are picked over, for dinner a píate heaped with cherries, for tea a doublé portion of berries again. You will not want much besides very likely, but you will wonder why your head feels so much brighter, and your body so light, while the weather seems to have changed, and a breezo sprung up from the northwest, of your own fancy. Only one caution need be observed, not to eat two kinds of fruit at the same meai, or soon after each other. ABOUT BATHINO. ïhere is an art in bathing, too. The sponge bath of cool water, suffered to partly dry before wiping, leaves the skin cold, and if linen is worn as it should be, next the body by those who suffer with heat, the dolicious coolness will last four hours. When the blood is heated, cold baths are dangerous, and a sponge bath hot as can be borne leaves one cooler than if dipped in icewater. Try this when you step from a railway journey, covered with dust, and feeling as if the blood boiled in the top of your head. Tre moment after a plunge into cold water one is warm with the reaction. After a hot bath a gentle, restful coolness takes possession and does not change for two or three hours. If you want a cool temperatura quickly, all you have to do is to lay a wot sponge on the back of the neck. This is the great nerve-center from which the sense of coolness nies over the body, and in a moment, no matter how gasping warui one is, a delightful shiver runs over one like that feit at the first fall of rain. People who work in hot rooms should keep a sponge and basin of water at hand, applying cold frequently to the back of the neck. Cooks will find this little prescription of advantage. The sponge should be laid on the wrists aud behind the ear to cool the blood which courses through the arteries there, and spread the coolness over the body. I hope evorybody knows : enough by this time not to venture into the hot sun without a wet sponge in ' their hats, on the top of their heads. A grape leaf is not as good a protection, for it does not send off evaporation as a wet cloth or sponge does, and cannot keep this sensitivo portion of the brain cool The sponge may be suspended by cords run through it, and sewed to the rim of the hat so that it will not fall out anv time when the hat is carelessly removed. THIJÏGS T0 TAKE. Simple prescriptions aid in cooling the blood. Lemonade, ico cold, made by adding a cup of lemon juice to twice as much water, sweetened to taste, is a good corrective of the blood. A drink made by pouring boiliug water on cream of tartar, allowing it to stand till cool, is an excellent febrifuge. The simplest and most effective purifier of the blood is charcoal in impalpable powder. A teaspoonful, mixed either with water or honey, should be taken on rising, followed at night by any inild catharic. The charcoal absorbs morbid matter from the stomach, just as it does trom water or air, but, if allowed to remain in the 8ystem, is no better than a ball of poison. Charcoal is now a favorite remedy with eminent physicians on the Continent, and there is a form of it in lozenges mixod with sugar and gum, that is essily taken, for acidity of the stomach, or for blood. This is sold by the name of "pastilles du Belloc," and is worth the whole race of blood puriflers and pills. I don't believe in continually dosing, but the knowledge ot' a common remedy like this often saves one from complicated disorders. To strengthen feeble systoms, there is no tonic like the cold bath with a spoonful of ammonia added to every gallon of water. It is the next thing to a sea bath, hardening the flesh, stimulating, strengthening, and soothing at the same time. That frightful scourge, prickly heat, and all " rashes " and irritation of the skin are instantly soothed by a wash of a quarter of an ounce of glycerine to two ounces of rose water, to which fifteen drops of good carbolic acid is added. This heals mosquito bites also. This mixture is well shaken, and applied with a sponge or cloth, letting it dry on. I have known patients to sleep after this lotion was used, when nothing else would soothe the raging of prickly heat. This may be used on babies, diluted with half an ounce more of rose water. 1 hope women all know onough to leave thick corsets off this warm weather, and substituto a Unen waist or a ventilating corset. The present fashion of loóse redingotes fa vors the utmost comfort in the way of dress. In short, wear linen next the skin, live chiefly on fruit, protect the head from the sun, use frequent and searching baths, and see if there is not a marked change in the Reasons, or at least in your manner of bearing them. The paper which has the largest circulation in Franco is Le Kappel, Víctor Hugo's paper, which has a regular issue of eighty thousand copies.