The Bulletin. 39 



The young woman who wishes a briplit, clear complexion nniat have ((ood, red 

 blood. The l)Otter to obtain that, she siio\ild take vif,'oroiis exercise to make the 

 heart send the blood coursing through her body, and great, deep breaths to put 

 plenty of oxygen in it. If she does tliis there will be an indirect good aecom- 

 plished, that is, her lungs will contain so few unused air cells that tuberculosis 

 can not easily fasten its dreaded grip upon her. 



In the blood is a substance that coagulates, as we all know, when it touches 

 the air. That is the body's method of cliecking bleeding. When a man has little 

 of this substance in the blood he is called a '"bleeder" and sometimes loses large 

 quantities of blood from very simple wounds. The thing to do, then, when a 

 child comes in with a small cut, is to cleanse well the wound and let the blood 

 form a hard surface and check its own flow. Above all things, do not use cob- 

 webs or soot. They have clinging to them hundreds of germs, many of which 

 may be harmful. These might be taken into the blood from the open wound, to 

 appear again, perhaps weeks later, in the form of some unexpected disease. 



Malaria is a blood disease in that its evil effects are because of the destruction 

 of the red corpuscles. Diphtheria owes a large proportion of its victories not 

 to suffocation, but to the toxins which are produced by the germs and carried 

 to the heart, kidneys or nervous system. Anti-toxin does not kill the germs, it 

 destroys the poison and gives the defenders of the body time to work. 



Pneumonia seldom kills by the air sacks of the lungs becoming so filled that 

 the patient can not breathe; nearly always it is because the heart is overburdened 

 by the toxins that have been carried from the germ-laden lungs by the blood. 



Just as soon as boils appear many people will say: "Oh, my blood is out of 

 order." Pimples, boils, carbuncles, and erysipelas are essentially skin diseases 

 and caused by pus-forming bacteria lodging there. It is aflected by the blood 

 only in that an impoverished condition of the blood means few white corpuscles 

 and other auxiliary substances to fight the germs. 



Vaccination accomplishes its splendid results by leaving in the blood a sub- 

 stance that will kill any stray smallpox germs that might get into the body. 



Hookworm, that disease wliose ravages are felt in every county of North Caro- 

 line, is a blood, or rather, bloodless malady because the thousands of parasites 

 living on the blood of the victim so deplete the blood that a scanty supply is left. 



Many more of our human ailments might be cited, -but enough has been said to 

 convince you of the importance of keeping in the veins a good supply of rich 

 blood. The three main ways of accomplishing this purpose are: Eat enough 

 good, well-prepared food, protect the body from too sudden changes of temj)era- 

 ture, and at all times breathe in plenty of fresh air— fill the lungs with it— take 

 deep breaths of it and at night let its cooling breezes blow where they will 

 through the sleeping chamber. There is a saying that blood is thicker than water, 

 and it certainly is, for it not only binds relative to relative, but it adds childhood 

 on to the years of babyhood, womanhood to girlhood, and to womanhood an old 

 age ripe with the memory of a well-rounded life. 



HINTS OIV BREADS AND BREAD-MAKING. 



MISS LILLIE II. JAMI.SON. 



QUICK BREADS. 



In the making of breads I shall include the quick breads, built from the 

 popover foundation, as well as the yeast breads. 



Bread is almost, yet not a perfect, food, as it is too low in proteid for the 

 amount of carbo-hydrate, and it is almost lacking in fat. A normal appetite 

 calls for butter to supply this deficiency. , , , , x,. x i, *. k 



To make breads wholesome and at the same time palatable, the starch must De 

 thoroughly cooked (we have no digestion for raw starch) and we must avoid a 

 heavy paste, because the digestive ferments can not break up a heavy mass and 

 change it into the different stages of sugars. We use various methods for doing 



