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MOORE’S RURAL MEW-YORKER. 
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ON HEALTHFUL FOOD. AGAIN. 
[In tho last, Rural we f»ave some selec¬ 
tions, by Charlotte Soullaud, on the sub¬ 
ject of Healthful Food, and now give the fol¬ 
lowing continuation (and conclusion) of the 
topic from the same source :] 
Some writer mentions the advantages 
which followed tho daily use of Graham 
bread and oat meal in his family. A child 
whose first teeth came through in a starved 
condition, and began to decay at once, is 
now blessed with as fine a sot of second teeth 
as any one could ask, and the health of all 
has improved. The growing food, as I said 
before, is milk ; this, with vegetables, fruit, 
brown bread and mush of the various grains, 
should constitute the. principal part of a 
child’s diet. We. think it unwise to allow 
children an abundance, of meat, • it makes 
them restless and impatient of control— has 
in fact tho same effect, upon thorn that corn 
has upon some animals. Regular meals are 
of great, importance. A child may form the 
habit of eating five or six times a day, or it 
may learn to satisfy its hunger with three 
regular meals. If these are more than five 
hours apart there should be a slight, lunch 
taken long enough from the succeeding meal 
not to take the edge from the appetite. 
One reason children clamor for cake and 
pie is because t he bread in many families is 
so poor. We may profit by tho example of 
royalty. Tho little prinoes and princesses of 
England and Germany, according to report, 
do not have cake or pie or sweet,moats or 
confectionery, except, now and thou, and in 
very small quantities. They have plain, sub¬ 
stantial food, not much meat, plenty of fruit 
and vegetables, and it is a notable fact that 
riot, a young child has died in either of these 
royal families, nor has there over boon a 
severe illness in the royal nurseries. Cako, 
pie, candy and sweetmeats are not food for 
children, any more than pickles, pepper, 
horseradish and tobacco are food for grown 
people. Fed on unwholesome stuff, of course 
the appetite fails, the child grows thin and 
pale and the doctor is called in ; a tonic is 
prescribed—iron or something ; dose follows 
dose, until the interior organs are deranged, 
the teeth destroyed, and tho child becomes 
permanently delicate, for all which it is in¬ 
debted to a want of information, common 
sense or firmness on t he part of the mother. 
We shall need in the next generation, even 
more than now, men and women of physical 
might and muscle, and we shall have them ; 
but they will not coma from luxurious nurs¬ 
eries, from groaning tables, from pampered 
households. They are running around out- 
of-doors iti calicos and jeans ; they are not 
afraid of sunshine or shower, for their parents 
protect their bodies from the inclemencies 
of the weather. With the birds they goto 
rest and with the birds awake. Thus living 
in accordance with natural laws, they are 
laying up ti fund of health and vitality. 
Animal diet in warm weather heats tho 
blood, causes headache, and is generally un¬ 
wholesome, unless sparingly used. We find 
that while bread has thirty per cent, of car 
bon, and we never tire of it. winter or slim¬ 
mer, meats have fifty-three per cent., [iota- 
toes eleven, turnips three, berries one, mid 
of the delicious berries of early summer 
who could ever tire. Nature causes us to 
turn away from fats and meats as spring ap¬ 
proaches, and implants a craving for salads, 
fruits and melons. If people would pay 
more attention to their diet as warm weather 
comes on, there would not be such a demand 
for blood purifiers or so many doctors' bills 
to pay. Those, nations who eat fish with one 
meal each day, are undoubtedly the most ac¬ 
tive iu intellect and the most capable of brain 
labor without exhaustion. And this phos- 
pliatic food also Increases tho ability to en¬ 
dure cold and fatigue. Scotch oatmeal has 
stood the test of centuries. It is a mild 
aperient and is said to be unequaled in 
muscle-producing qualities, and in restoring 
the waste of the brain by its phosphoric ele¬ 
ments. Possibly corn, or a mixture of corn 
and rye was suited to the condition of our 
people fifty years ago, but now that we have 
thinner skulls, liner bones and tissues, and a 
more highly organized nervous system, corn 
bread is more and more rejected, as if by in¬ 
stinct, and tho rapidity with which oat meal 
has come into use indicates that it is a need 
for the race in its ad vs neing stage of < levelop- 
ment. 
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KEEPING MEALS WAITING. 
Little things often interfere with our 
comfort very much, and one small annoyance 
is for men to delay coming to dinner when 
called. Sometimes they have an hour or 
more of work which they will do before 
quitting, and then they go to the house to 
find the dinner cold and t he eonk discouraged. 
Nothing is more disheartening to a tired 
woman than a table full of dirty dishes orna 
mooting the table an hour and a half later in 
the day than usual. Punctuality is a virtue 
that men should learn it they are in the 
habit of being uncertain about coming to 
meals. Any woman worthy the name of 
housekeeper will be regular with her meals 
if it lies within her to have them so. 
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Graham Gems (Delicious).— Take one pint 
of new milk ; stir in Graham flour to make a 
batter m thick as for griddle-cakes ; add one 
egg well beaten. Have gem pans hot, and 
bake in a quick oven. No soda or baking 
powder. Corn meal gems are made Hie 
same way, only scaUl and cool the meal be¬ 
fore adding to the other ingredients.—o. s. 
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SELECTED RECIPES. 
Corn Drop Cakes. —Mix com meal with 
boiling new milk until you have a thick bat¬ 
ter ; put in tha patent pans at once and bake 
for twenty or thirty minutes. 
A ppte Puddlnif. Eight apples grated, 
about the same quantity of stale bread, three 
eggs, om*. and a half pints of milk, sugar and 
cinnamon to taste. Rake in a slow oven one 
hour. To be eaten with cream. 
French Cream. —One and one-half pints of 
milk boiled ; add the sweetened yolks of 
three eggs beaten in a little cold milk. Let 
all boil once ; place it in a dish and throw 
gradually in the stiffly beaten whites. 
Lemon I’uddinfi. —Half a pound apples 
grated, half a pound fine sugar, six ounces 
butter, eight eggs, omitting the whites of 
four ; rind and juice of three lemons, with 
or without pastry ; bake three-quarters of 
an hour. To bo eaten cold. 
('hill, Sauce.- Chop 4 peppers, 2 onions, 12 
large ripe tomatoos skinned ; add 1 cups 
white vinegar, 2 tablespoon fills sugar and 
1 of salt; boil hard one hour and bottle in 
wide-mouthed bottles when cool. This will 
keep all the year. 
Tomato Custard. —This is made by strain¬ 
ing finely stewed tomatoes through a coarse 
sieve, nml adding two [>ints of milk and one 
[lint of tomatoes to four eggs and one tea¬ 
spoonful of sugar ; bake in small cups quick¬ 
ly. It is a wholesome and nutritious diet for 
invalids and feeble persons. 
u’icntifiii and Useful. 
CORROSION OF TIN AND TIN-LINED 
WATER-PIPES, 
Messrs. A. M. KNIGHT & Son have com¬ 
municated to the Boston Journal of Chemis¬ 
try, their practical experience upon the 
above-named subject, extending through a 
period of more than twenty-five years. We 
quote the following : 
“ We have during this time put into and 
taken out from wells, springs, and aqueducts 
thousands of feet of tin and tin-lined pipes, 
and in no instance within our recollection, 
where we have seen the interior surface of 
any of these pipes after a year’s use, have 
wo failed to discover more or less corrosion. 
“ Spring and well water seem to act upon 
the tin quicker than pond or river water. 
“ Hundreds of feet of block-tin pipe which 
we have put Into wells we have been called 
upon to replace with new after ten or twelve 
years’ use, the old pipes being so corroded 
as to be. useless. Portions of some of them 
we have found to bo so completely oxidized 
as to crumble at the touch, wlfilo other por¬ 
tions of the same pipe would be compara¬ 
tively smooth and froe from any corrosion. 
“ Called upon recently to make some 
repairs upon an ordinary house-pump, we 
had occasion, in taking it down, to cut off 
the pipe leading to the well, and an examl 
nation of this showed it to be tin-lined lead 
pipe considerably corroded, the tin being 
completely eaten through, in many places of 
the size of small shot. Pursuing the investi¬ 
gation still furthur, wo found a short piece 
of lead pipe (unlined) connected between the 
tin-lined pipe and the pump, which was per¬ 
fectly smooth and free from the action of 
water. The solder joining the two—a mix¬ 
ture of probably nearly equal parts of lead 
and tin—was also bright and smooth. 
“The facta ascertained upon inquiry were 
these : 
“Twelve years ago the pump was put in 
with lead pipe leading to tho well, and After 
a lapse of eight years tho loud pipe was re¬ 
placed by the tin-lined, with the exception 
of the short piece before mentioned, which 
for some reason was left untouched. Here, 
then, wo have tin mid load under precisely 
the same conditions of exposure, the former 
practically useless after four years’ use, 
while the lat ter was absolutely perfect and 
uninjured after twelve years’ contact with 
water. 
“ This case, as regards the. durability of tho 
lead, we should call exceptional, as most 
pipes of that metal, exposed to the same 
test, would show the action of the water in 
ten or twelve years. 
“ We never had any reason for supposing 
that the tin furnished by any manufacturer 
w r as anything but commercially pure tin, but 
it is well known among plumbers that occa¬ 
sionally a pig of tin is found which will not 
make good plumber's solder by reason of tho 
natural impurities contained in it; and our 
theory of the matter is that it is those natu¬ 
ral impurities existing in both lead and Lin 
pipes which arc corroded away by tlic water 
from the purer surrounding portions. In no 
other way can we account, for the smooth 
and sound appearance often found in the 
same pipe in close proximity to badly cor¬ 
roded portion?.” 
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POLLUTION OF STREAMS BY FACTORIES. 
(n nearly all branches of text ile industries, 
are quantities of oily and soapy liquors 
allowed to run to waste which poison or 
injure the waters of the canals or streams 
into which they are allowed to flow, or which 
gradually filter through tho soil to neighbor¬ 
ing wells, or run into sinks or cesspools in 
closely-populated neighborhoods. There are 
two important reasons for attempting to 
utilize these liquors—tho one sanitary, the 
other pecuniary. Experiments made in 
Cologne, prove that neither fish nor frogs 
can live in streams thus polluted. The fatty 
acids combine wit h earthy salts in the water 
to form insoluble soaps and slimy scum, 
which give off unpleasant odors and injuri 
ous gases. To prevent these evil consequen¬ 
ces, Dr. Wold suggests the treatment of those 
liquors with slaked lime, whereby all the 
fatty acids are precipitated as lime soaps. 
These soaps will find a ready sale at such 
establish;.mots as prepare the fatty acids, or 
reconvert them into other soups. Instead of 
lime, magnesia might be employed, which 
can be decomposed by sulphuric acid with 
out forming an insoluble precipitate, as is 
the case with lime. Either the lime or mag¬ 
nesia soap may be employed for the manu¬ 
facture o illuminating gas, of which they 
will be found to yield a large quantity of 
excel lent qual i ty.— Iron. 
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A NEW THEORY OF ELECTRICITY. 
I’roe. EDI.UNT), a Swedish physicist, ex¬ 
pounds in a recent, work a new theory of 
electricity, tho substance of which is as fol¬ 
low's :—He supposes the existence of a highly 
subtle and elastic ether, everywhere present 
both in vacuo and in ponderable matter. 
Two molecules of this other arc mutually 
repelled along the line of their connection 
and in inverse ratio to the squares of tho 
distances. Tn good conductors, the molecules 
are displaced easily from point to point, it 
being presumed that they can bo moved 
with little force. If the body be a non-cou- 
duotor, this mobility is arrested and depends 
ou the molecules of the material body, A 
molecule is at rest from the moment when 
it is equally repelled on all sides. If the re¬ 
pulsion be less at one side than at the other, 
the body will move if it be free in the direc¬ 
tion of the resulting forces. 
NEW VIEWS OF THE RESPIRATION OF 
PLANTS. 
The Popular Science Monthly says :—“The 
researches recently explained to the Lille 
Society of Sciences, by M. Coren winder, who 
has for twenty years pursued in one direc¬ 
tion his studies of vegetal physiology, has 
proved that the nocturnal respiration of 
plant*, though supposed to bo exceptional, is 
in fact perfectly continuous, and constitutes 
their only true respiration. What hitherto 
lias been called diurnal respiration, viz., the 
absorption of carbonic acid, the scat of which 
is tiie chlorophyll, instead of being the true 
respiratory phenomenon, is a phenomenon of 
assimilation and digestion, as pointed out by 
Claude Bernard. Plants and animals respire 
both in the same way. This is the grand 
fact, tho proofs of which are given by 
Coren winder.” 
FLORIDA [FOR INVALIDS. 
If a perfectly equable climate, wnere a 
soothing warmth and moisture combined 
prevail, be desirable for consumptives, it can 
be found nowhere in the Southern States 
save in South-eastern Florida. The member 
of persons whom I saw during my journey, 
who had migrated to the eastern or southern 
sections of the State many years before, 
“more than half dead with consumption,” 
and who are now robust and vigorous, was 
sufficient to convince me of the great bene¬ 
fits derived from a residence there. Physi¬ 
cians all agree that the conditions necessary 
to insure life to the consumptive are admira¬ 
bly provided in the climatic resources of the 
peninsula. That great numbers of invalids 
find the localities along the St. John’s River, 
and even on the coast, distressing to them, 
is said bv some physicians to be due to the 
fact that those invalids go there after disease 
has become too deeply son Inal. The Euro¬ 
pean medical men are beginning to send 
many patients to Florida, cautioning them 
where to go. lb would seem impossible for 
the most delicate invalid to be injured by a 
residence anywhere oil the eastern or south¬ 
eastern coast from St. Augustine down. For 
those who fr »m various causes find that each 
successive Northern winter—with its con¬ 
stantly-shifting temperature nml its trying 
winds, which oven the healthy characterize 
as "deadly’’—saps their vitality more and 
more, Florida may bo safely recommended 
as a homo, winter and summer. For the 
healthy, and those seeking pleasure, it will 
become a winter paradise ; for tho ailing it 
is a refuge and strength ; for those severely 
invalided its results depend entirely upon 
choice of locution and tho progress which 
the disease lias already made. The perfec¬ 
tion of the Florida winter climate is said to 
lie obtained ai Miami, near Key Biscayne 
Bay, on tho Miami River. There, among 
the oocoamitH and the mangroves, invalids 
may certainly count on laying a new hold 
upon 1 i f e.— Sc r itiner' s. 
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ORIGIN OF TYPHOID FEVER. 
An English professor claims to have dis¬ 
covered a new cause of typhoid fever. A 
family in his neighborhood was attacked 
with a severe type of l.lie disease, and, on a 
careful search of the premises, a spout in the 
pump was found to bo covered with a sort 
of gelatinous matter. Submitting this to 
microscopic investigation, it was seen to be 
a fungoid growth, from which spores were 
constantly washed away by the flowing 
water. Following up this discovery by a 
minute examination of the outlet of the 
sewer through which the drainage of t.he 
town flowed, there were found fungoid 
growths of a similar nature to those Mi the 
pump spout. In the vicinity of this outlet 
the fever had also prevailed. Having cases 
of the fever in his own family, the professor 
followed up liis inquiry by a chemical analy¬ 
sis of the water drank, and found in it min¬ 
ute spores of the same fungus. His conclu¬ 
sion is that the fever had its origin iu the 
fungus matter taken into the system, where 
it ferments as yeast in beer and poisons tlie 
blood. 
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AN ANTI-CORSET SOCIETY. 
If there ever was a country distinguished 
for its love of moral and social revolutions, 
it is this country of ours. Some of these at¬ 
tempted revolutions are absurd enough, but 
others are not only sound but practical. 
Among these is tho effort, the organization 
started in Brooklyn by a number of ladies, 
“ to put down corsets, high-heeled boots, 
false hair, and such like auxiliaries to femi¬ 
nine attraction.” T1 is is an undertaking 
that at once commends itself to ©very man 
and woman of sense in tho land. It will be 
supported heartily by t he medical profession, 
and, we trust, both by the pulpit and the 
press. It is time that sensible people should 
put their foot upon senseless clothing. 
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SCARLET FEVER. 
Tn this disease the parent and tha school 
teacher are often concerned to know how 
long a time must elapse before it is safe to 
admit the convalescent children to mingle’ 
with other children. And the answer is that 
for a month, at least,, the body of a scarlet 
fever patient is casting off scales from the 
skin, and front the nose, throat, bowels and 
kidneys discharges which are poisonous and 
convey the disease. The. chief danger, how¬ 
ever, arises from the skin, as this is the main 
outlet for the blood poison, to escape, hence 
every scale it throws off can carry the infec¬ 
tion. 
