

California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



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Tired Nature's Sweet Restorer. 



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•iJyLEEP is a positive necessity. It is a 



period of recupei-atiou, during which 

 there ia a restoration of what has 

 suffered colhipse, waste, or disturb- 

 ance during the period of waking 

 activity. The tired brain and aching 

 muscles regain by rest strength and power 

 to obey the mandates of the will. The 

 demands of the material form for rest are 

 so great as to often defy the aotisn of the 

 mind. During the cholera summer of 

 ISll), while jiraoticing in the country, so 

 constant aud fatiguing were my profes- 

 sional labors that I have often ridden for 

 miles on horseback sound asleep. Al- 

 most every physician in active practice 

 during periods of epidemics, when his 

 strength was taxed to the utmost, has 

 dropped into asleep, as I have done many 

 times while walking the streets. During 

 the battle of the Nile many of the boys 

 engaged in handling ammunition fell 

 asleep, even while the roar of the battle 

 was going on around them. It is said in 

 the retreat to Oorunna whole battalions 

 of infantry slei^t while in rapid march. 

 Even the most acute bodily suflerings are 

 not always sullicieut to prevent sleep. 

 The worn-out frame of thd victim of the 

 Inquisition has yielded to its influences 

 in the pause of his tortures upon the rack, 

 and for moment he has forgotten his suf- 

 ferings. The Indian burned at the stake, 

 in the interval between the preliminary 

 torture and the lighting of the fire, has 

 sweetly slumbered, and been only aroused 

 by the flame which was to consume him 

 curling around him. — Ex. 



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Location op Houses. — The Science of 

 Health has some sensible suggestions on 

 this topic, which are appropriate here: 



Houses should be built on upland 

 ground, with exposure to sunlight on 

 every side. During epidemics, it has 

 been noted by physicians that death oc- 

 curs more frei^uently on the shaded side 

 of the street than on the sunny side; aud 

 in hospitals physicians have testilicd to 

 the readiness with which diseases have 

 yielded to treatment in sunny rooms, 

 while in shaded rooms they have proved 

 intractable. 



Let there be no bogs, no marshes, no 

 stagnant water in the neighborhood. 

 Then let the cellar be thoroughly drained. 

 Inattention to this subject has caused the 

 death of many a person. No father or 

 mother should rest a moment in peace 

 while their innocent babes are sleeping in 

 rooms over damj) and mouldy cellars. 

 Cellars should not only be drained but 

 thoroughly ventilated, otherwise the 

 house must be unwholesome. 



Let the drains also be constructed for 

 the conduction of slops and sewage of all 

 kinds to a common reservoir, at a distance 

 from the dwelling, to be used for fertiliz- 

 ing purppses. 



Door-yards 'should be kept clean and 

 dry, composed largely of green swards, 

 on which children may romp and play. 

 This should be their play ground, rather 

 than the carpeted room. They are en- 

 titled to it, that the breath of nature and 

 of nature's God, as it flitters through the 

 blue sky, may fan their rosy cheeks, and 

 fill their souls with joy and their bodies 



with health. 



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Eating. — As so much of a man's hap- 

 piness and usefulness in life depends 



upon eating correctly, and as the house- 

 keeper has so much control over this part 

 of our living, we have thought that a few 

 suggestions on the science and art of eat- 

 ing might be appropriate to this de- 

 partment. 



Every emotion of the heart, every ope- 

 ration of the mind, every motion of the 

 body, or of any member or organ thereof, 

 consumes power which must be supplied 

 by the food we eat; and while it is of the 

 utmost importance that our food shall be 

 wholesome, nutritious and digestible, it 

 is of scarcely less importance that it be 

 eaten correctly, at the right time, and 

 with our systems in the right condition. 

 As first in order we would say, never 

 eat when the body is exhausted. Under 

 judicious management, farmers and their 

 wives need never have dyspepsia, for their 

 plain fresh diet and free exercise should 

 prevent that terrible disease; but statis- 

 tics we think will prove that they are no 

 more exempt from it than other classes. 

 That they are not, we think, is attribut- 

 abla to the fact that they too often eat 

 when they ought to rest; when their pow- 

 ers are too much exhausted to jjerform 

 the functions of digestion. 



The housewife does her own work, or 

 at least assists about it, works hard to 

 hurry up dinner and have it ready on 

 time.calls the men before dinner is ready, 

 hurrying to the last moment, aud then, 

 when she ought to lie down and rest, she 

 sits down to the table and eats. She is 

 so much exhausted that hunger has 

 ceased, her organs of taste are inactive, 

 her salivary glands do not perfectly per- 

 form their functions, she does not masti- 

 cate well, and the food enters a stomach 

 not prepared to perform the work of di- 

 gestion. 



The farmer hurries from the field and 

 his severe labor, and while y et weary and 

 exhausted, sits down and swallows his 

 food, hurrying back to his labor. Is it 

 surprising that, after a few years, the di- 

 gestive organs beeome impaired and so 

 many farmers and farmers' wives have 

 wrecked their health before arriving at 

 middle age 1— Rural Home. 



Fresh Am and Pur.E Watek.— Each 

 year typhus and typhoid fevers carry off 

 thousands of victims, whose lives are 

 thus forfeited to their ignorance or ne- 

 glect of well-ascertained laws. An abun- 

 dant supply of fresh air and pure water is 

 necessary for the healthful life of both 

 men and animals, and when they are de- 

 prived of these requisites, disease and 

 death ensue. 



In our last issue an eminent physician 

 presented a statement of the principal 

 causes which produce the typhus class of 

 fevers, and this week he instances cases 

 in which a father and two daughters died 

 from the effects of drinking brook-water 

 which was impregnated with excremeu- 

 titious matter. It would not be difficult 

 to enumerate a large number of other 

 cases in which death has occurred from 

 similar causes; but enough has been said 

 to answer the purpose ©f warning our 

 readers against the danger of careless- 

 ness with regard to what they breathe 

 and drink. Let us then be advised, and 

 supply our lungs with pure air and our 

 stomachs with wholesome food. — Hearth 

 and Home. 



a suggestion may not come amiss as a 

 good j)lan when lemons are cheap in the 

 market. A person should in those times 

 purchase several dozen at once and pre- 

 pare them for use in the warm, weak days 

 of spring and summer, when acids, es- 

 pecially citric and malic, or the acids of 

 lemons and ripe fruit, are so grateful and 

 useful. Press your hand on the lemon 

 aud roll it back and forth briskly on the 

 table to make it acjueeze more easily, then 

 press the juice into a bowl or tumbler^ 

 never use a tin — strain out all the seeds, 

 as they give a bad taste. Remove all the 

 pulp from the peels and boil in water, a 

 pint for a dozen pulps, to extract the acid. 

 A few minutes' boiling is enough; then 

 strain the water with the juice of the 

 lemons; put a pound of white sugar to a 

 pint of the juice; boil ten minutes; bottle 

 it, and your lemouage is reaily. Put in 

 a tcaspoonful or two of this lemon syrup 

 into a glass of water, and you have a cool- 

 ing and healthful drink. 



Healthfulness of Lemons.— When the 

 people feel the need of an agid, if they 

 would let vinegar alone and use lemons 

 or sour apples, they would feel just as 

 well satisfied and receive no injury. And 



Remedies for Couons. — The London 

 Lancet says: "Anodynes, narcotics, cough 

 mixtures and lozenges are practically of 

 no good, and but too often increase the 

 debility and hasten the fatal end. The 

 best method of easing a cough is to resist 

 it with all the force of will possible until 

 the accumulation of phlegm becomes 

 greater; then there is something to cough 

 against, aud it comes up very much easier 

 and with half the coughing. A great 

 deal of hacking and hemming and cough- 

 ing in invalids is nervous, purely nerv- 

 ous, or from the force of habit, as shown 

 by the frequency when thinking about it, 

 and the comparative rarity when the per- 

 son is so much engaged that there is no 

 time to think about it, and the attention 

 is compelled in another direction." 



To these sensible remarks from high 

 authority, every thoughtful observer will 

 be ready to grant a considerable degree 

 of credence. That coughing is in itself 

 injurious, and promotive of inflammation 

 and irritation, is universally admitted. 

 That it is largely undeY the control of the 

 will no one can doubt who has observed 

 the phenomena of coughing in large au- 

 diences. We have heard one cougher 

 start another, until the whole congrega- 

 tion seemed to be in the irresistible grasp 

 of asthma or consumption; and we have 

 known the same congregation, at some 

 particularly interesting moment of a lec- 

 ture or music or sermon or spectacle, all 

 intent to see and hear, preserve an un- 

 broken stillness. Evidently the way to 

 stop coughing is to stop it! 



Editing needs patience, for there arc a great 

 many thinys constantly occurring iu the news- 

 paper business which have a direct tendency 

 to make a man fractious and ill at ease unless 

 be has a large stock of patience to fall back 

 upon, whereby he can bear up under his bur- 

 den. A pious editor out west says: "A man 

 needs grace to edit a paper properly at any 

 time, but especially when he has the rheuma- 

 tism." 



Here is what "Brick" Pomeroy says about 

 the qualifications of an editor: 



No man should ever attempt to be an editor 

 and publisher unless he has the pluck of a 

 bull-dog, the tenacity of death, the ugliness 

 of a devil, the mellowness of a child, the in- 

 dependence of most perfect manhood, the full 

 est faith iu his abihty to endure and a -wiUing- 

 uess to wait for years, to the very verge of 

 the grove, and even till the opening of eternity 

 for his reward. 



" Brick" is sound on the goose. 



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