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fiuity of finteeedent causes and a cause 

 of an iniiuity of consequences yet to 

 come. The universe is law. Themis 

 sits on the throne with Jupiter to coun- 

 sel and advise, and the Fates are her 

 daughters. 



Every one is a builder— man or woman 

 — who increases knowledge or encourages 

 virtue; who makes the world wiser, or 

 better or happier for his having lived in 

 it. Muscle-work and brain-work — the 

 farmer with his plow, the mechanic with 

 his tools, those who do useful work or 

 give to the world useful thoughts; these 

 are the builders. Increased comforts 

 and better and higher civilization are the 

 results of their combined contributions. 

 Reader, be thou a builder! 



Find ten men employed and you shall 

 find at least one as capable as the em- 

 ployer of being at the head of affairs. 

 Should the ten combine to do their own 

 work and sell their own wares, dividing 

 equitably the proceeds — this would be co- 

 operation. The increased wealth and 

 consequent comforts would vindicate the 

 system. How long must the children of 

 laborers go hungry to bed in order to 

 teach the simple lessons of mutual help 

 and mutual reliance? 



Diffused light is but darkness; but the 

 concentrated rays of even a winter's sun 

 will kindle a flame. Genius itself, scat- 

 tering its forces on all subjects, becomes 

 wise in none; while even the plodding 

 mediocre, steadily pursuing one subject, 

 becomes a master. A garden well 

 tilled is more beautiful, and profitable, 

 too, then many broad acres producing 

 only brambles and thistles. 



Why respect the good more than the 

 bad, the wise more than the foolish, the 

 just more than the uujust, since each is 

 the outgrowth of antecedent conditions ? 

 Why value the perfect fruit more than 

 the imperfect, the golden pippen more 

 than the sour crab, the gold more than 

 the dross? Answer these questions 

 and you will have answered those. 



Virtue is a quality not to be boasted 

 of, and ke who seeks to parade his own 

 excellence is, ten chances to one, only 

 publishing his own vanity. Virtue is a 

 quality existing for its own sake. He 

 ■who loves virtue loves it for its own sake, 

 and it never comes in his mind to ask 

 the effect it may have in raising or sink- 

 ing him in the estimation of another. 



In finding the value of character, be- 

 havior is the chief factor. What one is 

 is measured by what he does. Rogues, 

 it is true, may put on the semblance of 

 respectability, and hypocrites the robes of 

 sanctity; but in spite of this dissembling 

 the inward self will show outward, and 

 the man find his place. 



The mind grows through its ideas. 

 Thought is soul food, and greatness 

 comes of enlarged conceptions of truth. 

 As the barren field is profitless, so is the 

 mind which is barren of ideas. The one 

 produces no bread for the world's eating, 

 and the other no thoughtsfor the world's 

 thiniing. 



Read the greatest thoughts of the 

 gi'eatest minds, the purest emotions of 

 the best, and they are only your own 

 thoughts put into language, your own 

 emotionB given utterance —the granite of 

 your own quarry hewed into symmetry 

 and polished into smoothness. 



San Jose Institute, Oct., 187fi. 



Iiig'ht and Air vs. Drugs. 



BI Dll. B. M. TBALL. 



Mrs. Rogers lay in her bed, 



BauilaRtd and blistered from foot to head, 



Bliutcred and bandaged from head to toe, 



Mr8 Rogers lay very low. 



Bottle and saucer, spoon and cup, 



On tbe table stood bravely up; 



Physics of high and low degree — 



Calouiel. catLip, boneset tea; 



Everything; a body could bear. 



Excepting light and water and air. 



I opened tho blinds; the day was bright, 



And God gave Mrs. Itogers some light. 



I opened the window; the day was fair. 



And God gave Mrs, Rogers some air. 



Bottles and blisters, powder and pills, 



Catnip, bouset, syrup squills; 



Drugs and medicines, high and low, 



I threw them as far as I could throw. 



" What are you doing?" luy patient cried 



■' Frightening death," [ coolly replied. 



" You are crazy 1" a visitor said; 



I flung a bottle at his head. 



Deacon Rogers he came to me; 

 " Wife is a getting her health," said he. 

 *' I really think she will worry through; 

 She scolds me just as she used to do. 

 All the people have poohed and slurred. 

 All the neighbors have had their word; 

 'Twere better lo perish, some of 'em say, 

 Than to be cured in such an irregular way." 

 — [Science of Health. 



PRACTICAl. HEALTH TOPICS— 

 NO. 6. 



BY "JEWELL." 

 CjS DKESS. 



g?S,ERHAPS in no one way can house- 

 i J) keepers simplify their work more 

 jK effectively than in the direction of 

 ^riJ tlress. I sjjeak more esjiecially of 

 t^ underwear and working clothes. 

 It is a singular fact that in clothing 

 the body but few regard comfort or 

 health as of any importance, unless it be 

 elderly ladies, who, haidng outlived the 

 warm blood of their youth, see the folly 

 of not dressing warmly; and to be con't- 

 fortahle wear a covering of flannel, with- 

 out, perhaps, in any other way changing 

 their mode of underclothing. 



There are three good reasons why a 

 radical change is needed in this direc- 

 tion: 



First— The present stylo is the most 

 irnhealthful manner of covering the bodv 

 imaginable, which I hold to bo the most 

 important reason of all others. 



Second — It is the most expensive, tak- 

 ing the most material; and 



Third — More time is required in the 

 making and putting on than is neces- 

 sary. 



Especially is this true in regard to the 

 dressing of our chilch-en. They are 

 simjjly victims to the fashions of the 

 day, and our daughters are made sickly 

 women for life from the efJ'ects of the 

 half clothed condition of their bodies 

 during childhood. Why our little girl 

 should be only half as warmly clothed 

 as her brother, and made to wear tighter 

 clothes and shoes, is an open question. 

 Or why mothers should strive to keep 

 their girls clean — putting on white un- 

 derclothing and keeping them in the 

 house — while the boys are allowed full 

 freedom, in thick boots, dark, heavy 

 suits, and are expected to get dirty as a 

 natural consequence of boyhood, is one 

 of the problems for the "coming woman" 

 to solve. In dressing for health, we 

 should strive to have the clothing equal- 

 ly distributed over the entire body. If 

 anything the extremities should be the 

 warmest. This may be done eftectually 

 by having an entire undersuit of flannel, 

 or cotton flannel, over which but few- 

 skirts are needed: and for work, a short 

 dress, not reaching the ankle, with gym- 



nastic pants like the dress, or of red 

 flannel, would, if tried, be found a most 

 convenient and comfortable change from 

 the present long calico ilress, which is 

 dragging into everything and never quite 

 clean about tho bottom of the skirt. 



Those who have adopted this style of 

 dress can vouch for its usefulness and 

 comfort, and it is far less expensive than 

 tho old style. As for looks — we are 

 creatures of habit, and have only to get 

 accustomed to anything to like it, espe- 

 cially if it is convenient and everybody 

 wears it. That is perhaps the greatest 

 Inigbear in the putting on of anything 

 different from what custom allows. 

 Most women are sensitive and do not 

 like to be odd. But in the country, as a 

 work dress, it would not meet with many 

 critics, and if a whole neighborhood 

 would adopt it there would be but little 

 to contend with in this direction. In 

 the clothing of children this manner of 

 substituting one suit of flannel, reaching 

 to the ankle, (under the stocking,) and 

 to the waist, with dress and full gym- 

 nastic pants either like the dress or of 

 red flannel, would do away with more 

 than hidf of the present sewing and 

 washing of the family, where there are 

 many children, thus giving the weary 

 mother rest and time for reading, or 

 many pleasures she is now deprived of. 

 The new stjles of underclothing, the 

 patterns of which are advertised in the 

 Agriculturist, will prove a blessing to 

 every one who will adopt them. Make 

 the undergarments of warm material, 

 especially for the children. 



Remedy for Insomnia. — If much 

 pressed with work, and feeling an ina- 

 bility to sleep, eat two or three small 

 onions, the effect of which is magical in 

 producing the desired repose. Such a 

 remedy has a great advantage over the 

 stupefying drugs commonly resorted to 

 for this purpose, and is ever preferable 

 to the U<iaor opii sedal and chlorodine of 

 medical practice. 



How TO Deal With Little Accidents. 

 In every home, says the Prairie Farmer, 

 there ought to be a place known to all 

 the members of the household, buj out 

 of reach of the children, set apart for 

 things which are likely to be wanted in 

 case of accident. These should include 

 a good pair of scissors, three or four 

 largo needles, ready threaded, some 

 broad tape, a little lint, a roll of old 

 linen, flannel and calico, part of each 

 should be torn into strips, some sticking 

 plaster, gold-beater's skin; turpentine, 

 lunar caustic (nitrate of silver), tinc- 

 ture of arnica and tincture of 

 calendula. The possession of these 

 articles will enable any one who can act 

 with self possession and nerve to deal 

 promptly and wisely with most of the 

 overyday accidents to which flesh is lia- 

 ble. These are included in tho following 

 list. 



CUTS. 



Cuts require to be treated suitably 

 according to their position and 

 character. .^ cut finger is best tied up 

 in a rag with the blood; for blood is 

 very healing. If a cut has any foreign 

 substance such as glass, gravel, or dirt 

 in it this should be removed by being 

 bathed in luliewarm water before the 

 rag is put on. If a cut is severe the 

 blood should be examined. If it is dark, 

 and oozes slowly from the wound, it 

 comes from a vein, and is not serious; 

 if it is a bright scarlet, and spurts out of 

 the cut like water from a fountain, it 

 comes from an artery, and a doctor 

 ought at once be sent for. Until medi- 

 cal aid can be procurred the wound 

 should be tightly bound, and the artery 



should be tightly pressed above the 

 wound and nearer the heart. If the 

 skin gaps from the cut, the edges should 

 be at once brought to their proper posi- 

 tion with calendula plaster. If in a 

 little time it begins to throb, the plaster 

 should be removed, and a rag moistened 

 with calenulated water applied; is use- 

 ful for wounds where the flesh is deeply 

 cut or torn. If a little lint is soaked in 

 it and put upon the wound, it will in 

 nine cases out of ten prove most bene- 

 ficial. It is made by mixing thirty drops 

 of. the pure tincture of calendula, which 

 may be bought of any chemist, with a 

 half tumblerful of water. A cut on the 

 head requires great care. The hair 

 should be cut all around the place, and 

 lint be dropped in calendulated water and 

 laid upon it. As long as the first dress- 

 ing of the cut remains firm and gives no 

 pain, it need not be touhced. 

 stings from insects. 

 After being stung by a wasp or a bee, 

 the first thing to be done is to remove 

 the sting. This may be done with a pair 

 of small tweezers, or the sides of the 

 wound be pressed with a small key, and 

 so it may be squeezed out. Then apply 

 to it immediately spirits of champhor, 

 sal volatile, or turpentine, or failing 

 these, rub it with a little common salt, 

 or a little moist tobacco or snuff. If a 

 wasp or a bee stings the throat, a little 

 turpentine should immediately be 

 swallowed. If the place swells very 

 much, aud looks inflamed, it should be 

 bathed with arnica, or have a hot white- 

 bread poultice laid upon it. The arnica 

 may be made by mixing twenty drops 

 of the pure tincture with half a tumbler- 

 ful of water. 



The Grape Cube. — The London Gar- 

 den speaks of the Grape Cure as follows : 

 "There are on the Continent numerous 

 establishments devoted to the application 

 of this remedy two in France, three or 

 more in Switzerland, and manyin Ger- 

 many, Australia and Hungary. The cure 

 is very simple. It consists in eating an 

 immense quantity of grapes. The pa- 

 tient takes but little ordinary food, and 

 is required to eat three or four pounds 

 of the fruit a day at first, the quantity 

 gradually increased to eight, ten or even 

 twelve pounds of grapes. This is, if 

 possible, to be eaten in the open air; in 

 the vineyard whence the supply is de- 

 rived — an arrangement which, no doubt, 

 greatly conduces to the eflieiency of the 

 cure." The cure is very simple, certain- 

 ly, and, we should judge, very captivat- 

 ing; it is not remarkable, therefore, that 

 it should be very popular. 



Eemedv Fob Dtspepsia. — A writer in 

 tbe Medical Journal, disconrsing on 

 dyspepsia says: — We have seen dyspep- 

 tics who suffered untold torments with 

 almost everj' kind of food. Bread be- 

 came a burning acid. Meat aud milk 

 were solid and liquid fires. We have 

 seen these same sufferers trying to avoid 

 food and drink, and even going to the 

 enema spring for sustenance. And we 

 have seen the torments pass away and 

 their hunger relieved by living upon the 

 white of eggs, which have been boiled in 

 bubbling water for thirty minutes. At 

 the end of a week, we have given the 

 half yelk of the egg with the white, and 

 upon this diet alone, without fluid of 

 any kind, we have seen them begin to 

 gain flesh and strength, and refreshing 

 sleep. After, weeks of this treatmeni; 

 they have been able, with care, to begin 

 upon other food; and all this the writer 

 adds without taking medicine. He says 

 that hard boiled eggs are not half so bid 

 as half boiled ones, and ten times as easy 

 to digest as raw eggs, even in egg-nog. 



