1896 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



869 



perhaps, the moJ^t important of all. Willi our 

 modt-ru water closets you will find in the 

 earthen bowl, just underneath the upper edge, 

 a veulilating-iube made in ihe piece of earih- 

 enware. This ventilating tube is about two 

 inches in diameter. A tube of tin or galvaniz- 

 ed iron is to be attached to this, and carried 

 gradually upward until it can enter the ciiim- 

 ney of your cook-stove, or any chimney where 

 there is pretty sure to be tire most of the time. 

 This will make draft or " pull " enough on this 

 ventilating tube to take evi-ry bit of foul air 

 directly to the chimney before it can r\<e into 

 the bath room or whatever room your water- 

 closet is located in. With the assi^tance of my 

 young friend Harold, whom I have before men- 

 tioned. I have just (inished putting twoof these 

 water-closets in our own home. One is in the 

 bath-room, the other in the basement. You 

 can tell when your ventilating pipes work all 

 right by throwing a pi' ce of burning paper into 

 the closet. If the sni'ike from the paper rushes 

 up through the ventilating tube, the clo-^et is 

 all right. Ouis works so well thiit we have 

 nevi>r noticed even tiie faintest, smell, even 

 while the apparatus is heir g us' d. Our bath- 

 room is warmed by a coil of hot-waier pipes 

 so that, when any of the family h-ive to get up 

 in the nieht. they need not ru<h outdoors half- 

 dre«-seH. and stav out till thev take cold; and 

 when I am reading mv evenins papers in a 

 warm room I do not ne d to hunt up fur cap, 

 overcoat and overshoes because it is rai?iy, 

 snowy, or sleety ont.inors. In fact. I can take 

 my hook or paper wiih me into the closet, and 

 read there if I choneo. 



One tiling more: Quite a few pennle, as T hap- 

 pen to know, are very much benefited in health 

 by the use of hot-water injections. With the 

 water closet it is a very ea-v matter to make 

 the bowels move thoroushlv before you go to 

 bed. P.'rmit me to say that I used to he very 

 much troubled with niehtrnare. If I did not 

 have that I was often more or less disturbed in 

 my «lei'p t)v a certain sort of uneasy feeling that 

 is bani-hed entirely if [ usp the hot-water 

 enema ihorouehly ju*t before going to bed. I 

 know some of you mav say that, with these 

 warm dwellings, water closets, bith room, etc , 

 wo get to he feeble a nd efTerninate. etc. I think 

 thi< is a mistake. I have not had even a slight 

 cold for almost a year. T keep from taking 

 cold bv being well clothed when outdoors dur- 

 ing severe weather: and f take my outdoor 

 exerci-e riding the wheel or bv being eneased 

 in some profitable outdoor hiiS'ne«s. Now, is 

 not thi'^ very much better t ha n sroinor outdoors 

 without wrapping hecau'-e of !)eine in a hurrv '? 

 Pi'rmif me to say that Mr*. Riot and 1 pref. r a 

 cold eleeping-rnom. In fact, four windows are 

 rai'-ed more or less almost every ni<jht in the 

 year. The«e four windows and one door, which 

 opens in'o another room, furnish us ventilation 

 for our sleeping-room. 



A DOCTOK ADVISKS AlioUT EATING, ETC.'"'"! 



Frienrl ^oe/;— As T nm'ahdut .yonr own age. .W 

 years pii-^t. iinfl li;iviiijr l)ei n a dv spe|)i ic. F n-ill ven- 

 ture H I tile advice in reyard t>diet. eie. Fat slow- 

 ly :v d tna'J'irate t Imrontrlilv. Ne^'er liolt your food. 

 Do not co'itine yoirself too !on{2' to one or two 

 ai'iiejis iif fiiet. Eit snbstnntial to id. tliorona-lily 

 COdked. and nlway-; enotiL'd to I'urnisli strensrth for 

 six hours. Tlif stcim leli neefls rest a," well :8 Hr.iiri 

 a'lft muscle. Ni'ver drinU after me;ils --linrt of fonr 

 or fl\e lion IS. if possilile to avoid it. Itctti r sult( r a 

 little for wat.r t lian to spew. L't .your diinkimibe 

 a sliort lime before and verv litt le dnrinfr meals, 

 never after a ou ate Iln-oiiyli. .as dllineil aaslric 

 juiee flni s not read 'l.y rlisolye tlie iiiyt 6ta; and if 

 ditr<S'ioM is miieh d' I :i,ved. ferment ition issiiieto 

 SPti'i. Uemem' er yniir milk toast. Tliorouph mas- 

 ticatiua and insalivation is very imporluut to a 



dyspeptic. The saliva, being alkaline, prevents fer- 

 meiitalii n until lU'Uiralizefl by llie a'asttic acid. 

 If you dilute the g-iigiric juice by aftei--drinkin>f, 

 the inycsied siibstiince will tlo;it (so to speak) in the 

 superabundant licpiiil. thus readil.v tirlusjing' the 

 pastrii" acid in contact wjih the salivary alkali, 

 thereby premaluiely iieutr.'lizinff it The gastric 

 juice acts only on the outs'de of the m;iss of food, 

 dissohing' the exieiaial poriions. nentializing the 

 alkali as it slowly i)eneiraies and dissoUes awny 

 the portion next to the -walls of the siomacli. The 

 silivary fluid, l)eins" uniformly mixed ihrough the 

 mass, prevents fermentation until digestion is com- 

 liletcit. The acids of diirestion are not the ficid of 

 (lysi ei'tic feimentation; and. althouirh tuere may 

 be an abund.-ince of gastric juice seci eted lo peifect 

 digestion, if it is too mueh diluted wii h oi hi-r liquid 

 it will not fultlll its purpose; then woe beiide the 

 dysp(>pi Ic ! 



When p.yrosis follows eatina-, and the eructated 

 or vomited fluid is acid, a browned s^da craeker or 

 two should he e iteti without any fluid, which will 

 usuallj allay the vomit inj,-- and buridng- sensation 

 ill the stomach. Sometimes tie slomarh rejects 

 the superal)nndant fluid with more or less oi tlie 

 more solid inge-ia before fermentation has time to 

 superveue, causing little or no pain or sickisli fetl- 

 iiig. 



K'»capiluIaiion: Eat slowly plain substantial food, 

 chewing it tlioroughly. If a person eatss'owly, and 

 chews his fond i lioroughly, he will not often eat 

 more than his stomach will dige-t, unless he eats 

 to please his e.\es or f'ncyand not his aipetite. 

 Avoid much liquid during meals, and none .alter 

 eaiiiig. for fonr or flve hours. Avoid luin-h pas- 

 tries. Pruive <i<id; forget yourself, and be h:ippy. 

 iLUove. Cal.. Nov. 7. lE. S. Arwine. 



dT quite agree with you. friend A , unless it is 

 in tlie matter of waiting so long after meals be- 

 fore taking any liquid. Dr. Salisbury (and my 

 own experience) scems to indicate thai hot 

 water or other liquid should he taken about an 

 hour and a half before ?k meal as well as two 

 and a half and three hours after. If you put it 

 four or five hours, you would force us on to the 

 two- meal a day regimen as recommended and 

 practiced by the IJattle Creek people: and if I 

 could have constant outdoor exercise I think I 

 could do pretty well on two meals a day. 



APPLE-TREE? BORRKS: WHAT SHALL WE DO 

 WITH TUKM? '-i 



Many remedies have been proposed in place 

 of digging out the culprits with a wire, as I 

 Iiave recoinmeiided: and quite a few have felt 

 sure that coal ashes, or ashes from wood heaped 

 up around the base of the trunk, will keep the 

 borers away. I hardly think this can be true, 

 for we have taken coal ashes from our boilers 

 ever since our on-hard was planted, and put 

 them around our fruit-trees, all the way from a 

 shovelful to a wheelbarrow-load about each 

 tree. As our coal ashes contain more or le-s 

 wood ashes also, we have received some benefit 

 from the. potash in the latter; but so far as 

 borers are concerned. I could not see that the 

 ashes were any hindrance. So many have felt 

 sure, however, that the aslu s were of benefit. I 

 thought best to submit llie matter to Prof. 

 Green, of our experiment station. Here is his 

 reply: 



Mr. ^<><lt:—^ have not tried the remedy named in 

 the leiter which you setit me, but have known of 

 its leinfr triKi. It is not a sure n metiy. ai d si'me 

 think it isof no value wh itever. The e^ys oi' the 

 borers are laid just at the Surface of the {ifound, 

 and there is noihirifr about ashes of an.y kind to 

 prevent tlie deposit of the eggs nor their hatching. 



