1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



787 



gotten all over it, and it is largely by avoid- 

 iag any sort of closed room. Sleeping out 

 on the porch is much better than any room; 

 but out in the open air with just enough pro- 

 tection to keep oflf storms is better still. If 

 I take my afternoon nap in the cabin in the 

 woods, even with the windows open, there is 

 likely to be a bad taste in my mouth when I 

 awake. If I sleep in a hammock under the 

 little clumps of maples on the summit of the 

 hill, overlooking the bay, when I awake my 

 breath is as pure and clean as the air out- 

 doors, and my spirits are exuberant accord- 

 ingly- 



Lack of faith, not only on the part of the 

 patient, but lack of faith in the relatives and 

 attendants, has much to do with it. Open 

 air and something to occupy the mind and 

 muscles are what is needed. The relatives 

 must insist on this. There is too much dis- 

 position to give up, and say that "even the 

 doctors say there is no help." I am well 

 aware that a great deal is being done by 

 keeping the patient in a cold climate or off 

 in the open air up in the mountains, and that 

 may be all right; but with my habits and dis- 

 position I greatly prefer a location in winter 

 where I can be out in the open air from 

 morning till night, and at work at some oc- 

 cupation I love, without being cumbered with 

 an overcoat, mittens, etc. One in fair health 

 should be able to keep warm in the open air 

 at a temperature of 40 degrees, with ordi- 

 nary clothing. Where the wind is too strong 

 I would have some sort of windbreak. Cloth- 

 covered frames are coming to the front in 

 protecting poultry from storms and cold 

 winds. It is much better than glass sashes; 

 and cloth-covered cold-frames to keep off the 

 winds that are too severe, are, I am sure, just 

 what consumptive patients need. And then 

 they need to be kept busy at work— busy, 

 busy, BUSY. Just as soon as the patient gets 

 tired, let him lie down in a hammock, warm- 

 ly covered up with woollen blankets. Get 

 along without artificial heat if possible. 



As for diet, just now I do not know of any 

 thing better than bread and butter, "milk 

 and honey," and eggs. Ur. Miller has ar- 

 rived at the point where he can use raw eggs. 

 That would obviate the necessity of lighting 

 a fire to do the cooking— "uncooked food." 

 I suppose we shall have to consider the pa- 

 tient somewhat in regard to this matter of 

 dieting. Let him take that which nature- 

 calls for— no stimulants, no medicine. Let 

 milk and eggs be the "stimulant," and bread 

 and honey the diet. It has been intimated 

 that honey in the comb is more wholesome 

 than when extracted. I confess I have a 

 great liking for a little beeswax along with 

 my honey. God will certainly guide us, and 

 enable us to defy the ''giant'' afHicting our 

 loved ones, if we only let him guide. 



Qod is our strength. 



The Tustin pure-food bill has been passed 

 by the Senate of Pennsylvania, going through 

 on its final reading without a dissenting vote. 

 Next! 



Temperance. 



THE BATTLE FOR THE RIGHT. 



There are so many good things now com- 

 ing our way in the line of temperance that I 

 should like to fill my own department with 

 them. Kansas is making a tierce kick to 

 clean out the brewers, bag and baggage; and 

 if they do not get out with a I'ush their pos- 

 sessions will be speedily confiscated. Other 

 States, especially in the South, are following 

 thick and fast. Express companies — at least 

 two of them — have declaimed they will no 

 more deliver liquors in dry territory. Re- 

 spectable periodicals are refusing to adver- 

 tise for them any moi'e, and the war is on. 

 Are you helping? A printed slip was just 

 put in my hand that hails from Newcomers- 

 town, Ohio. What do you think of it? 



SERIOUS QUESTIONS FOR VOTERS. 



Do we want saloons? If so, why? 



Who of us want them, and for what? 



Is time spent in them which could be better spent 

 elsewhere? 



Is money spent in them which would do more good 

 spent otherwise? 



Is there likely to be gambling in them? 



Is any money ivorse than wasted in them? 



Do any fathers set bad examples there for their 

 boys? 



Do our boys get good habits there that will make 

 them good men, or habits that may make them good- 

 for-nothing men? 



Are our wives, mothers, and sisters made happier 

 by having loafing and drinking places to tempt their 

 husbands, sons, and brothers to waste their time and 

 spend their money in drinking and loafing instead of 

 being at home with their families? 



Is the saloon a good place to educate the young men 

 who are to be the husbands of our daughters? 



If no money were spent in saloons, would there not 

 be more good trade and fewer bad debts in business, 

 and more comfort in homes' 



Would anybody be hurt by having these places shut 

 up? If so, who? And how would they be hurt? 



Would some men be better off to-day if they had 

 never been in a saloon? 



Would some women and children be better fed and 

 better clothed? 



Would some tomes be happier? 



Would anybody who is dead be alive to-day? 



Would saloon-keepers themselves, and their fami- 

 lies, be better, happier, or more useful in some other 

 business? 



Do saloon-keepers want to do us good or to get our 

 money ? 



Do you like the dict-ation of the saloons in politics? 



Let us think of these questions, and vote as we 

 think is right, not as those who only want our money 

 wish us to vote. 



A SAMPLE OF THE "LIQUOR LIES." 



Of course the liquor-men, and especially 

 the brewers, as the following shows, are 

 putting up a big fight for their lives. It 

 makes one think of that passage, "Why do 

 the heathen rage, and the people imagine a 

 vain thing?" Just look at the following 

 string of falsehoods which I clip from the 

 Cleveland Leader of May 14: 



Official figures recently compiled in St. Louis, where 

 Sunday closing was forced by Governor Folk, show 

 th-at crime of the worst sort has increased there under 

 the Sunday-closing law. Why? Because men who 

 want to drink buy bottles of red liquor on Saturday 

 nights and spend the time on Sundays loading up for 

 trouble for themselves and others. When the city 

 was open Sunday these men went to pleasure-resorts 

 or halls with their wives and sweethearts, drank beer, 

 remained sober, and kept away from crime. It is the 

 same old story of shutting off the sale of light drinks 

 like beer, which produce practically no drunkenness, 

 and forcing drinking men to turn to the hip-pocket 



