1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
267 
More About Chilblains. 
This is a positive remedy, which my 
mother used in my childhood days, and is 
available in every household. I wish every 
one in the land suffering with chilblains 
could know of this tested remedy, which 
is as follows: One large tablespoonful of 
saleratus or soda put in a wash-bowl or 
pan, and one cpiart of boiling water poured 
over it. When cool enough (must be as 
hot as can be borne) immerse the feet in 
the solution and keep them in until the 
water becomes cool, or for an hour. In 
some cases this may have to be repeated 
the second time, but very rarely. 
MRS. M. M. ASHLEY. 
I found a cure while I was living in 
Oregon, not here in California, and others 
used it as well as myself and were cured. 
Of course we didn’t have them so badly 
we wished to die because of them, but 
they made wearing of shoes very uncom¬ 
fortable, and limping a necessity. The 
cure is sulphurous acid (not sulphuric), 
applied twice—or oftener—a day with a 
brush; 25 cents’ worth cured 14 of us, and 
then there was .some left for next year. 
I don’t think chilblains can be cured for 
all time, but, like a cold, you catch it at 
the next exposure. ' 
MRS. W. H. HANNIBAL. 
Your note on chilblains is interesting, 
and your sympathy for frosted sufferers is 
shown in the good remedies you suggest. 
Here is another which will repay a trial, 
and is ready at hand when the burning 
and irritation is greatest. Chilblain means 
“a blane, or inflamed state of the hands 
or feet, caused by cold or frost.” The 
best remedy is a thorough application of 
snow to the parts affected, and refrain 
from putting them near the fire. When 
Napoleon made his retreat from Moscow 
snow applied to the extremities of the 
soldiers gave their only relief to their 
frosted conditions. Japanese and Russian 
soldiers find in their present experience 
that snow applicati6ns enable them to 
march in spite of frosted feet. Russian 
soldiers follow a hot steam bath by plung¬ 
ing their naked bodies into a convenient 
snowbank, and wallow in it. Farmers in 
this mountain region of New Jersey know 
the wonderful good effect of snow appli¬ 
cations to feet and hands or ears where 
touched lightly or severely by Jack Frost. 
r. G. w. 
The Girl With the Hoe. 
A hoe is not a ladylike implement. It 
hardens the hands and. fosters the habit 
of stooping. Yet many women, yea, some 
men, every year feast upon vegetables and 
small fruits which feminine hands have, 
by use of the hoe, brought to flavorsome 
ripeness or succulent perfection. Where 
there are men in the household capable 
of grasping a hoe handle one might al¬ 
most advise that no female ever wield 
one outside her own flower beds. To set 
a premium upon sloth or selfishness is, 
one sometimes thinks, one of the greatest 
mistakes a woman can make. Yet as 
various as will be the different females 
wielding hoes this Summer will be also 
the motives that send each afield. I have 
heard women confess that they had never 
been so well, or enjoyed rural life so 
much as when they cared for a vege¬ 
table garden. In a certain household 
of my acquaintance where are four re¬ 
fined women) but no men, one of the 
young ladies takes it upon herself to 
supply the table with garden products, 
and it seems to me that hers is by no 
means the least attractive share in the 
day’s work. There are many things not 
half as enjoyable in the round of house¬ 
hold cares as to set forth about about 
six of a Summer morning for an hour 
with the hoe. You must wear overshoes, 
loose gloves and a short cloth skirt, for 
whose condition you care not a pin. 
Perhaps you will keep such a skirt hung 
up in the tool house beside the hoe. The 
hours between sunrise and seven in the 
morning seem to me the only time when 
it is possible absolutely to enjoy hoeing. 
After one learns how to kill weeds the 
hoe will leave them all turned out, roots 
to the sun, and the torrid heat of mid¬ 
day will shrivel them as effectually as 
if the hoer were there to be shriveled 
also. If one must build the kitchen fire, 
cook the breakfast, and do a score of 
other things before seven o’clock, I say 
that to ask such a one to care for the 
vegetable garden is rank injustice. There 
must be some one else able to take a 
share of the morning’s burdens—but no, 
there isn’t always some one else. If 
the head of the house enjoys a little 
exercise with the hoe after supper that 
may prove for him a comfortable enough 
time of day, but if a woman sees any 
scraps of leisure, then they belong to the 
veranda, the clean dress and the spirit of 
sociability. 
A season’s experience with the hoe will 
teach a girl how to plan her garden. 
For one thing, she will have the man 
who plows and harrows the land mark 
it off evenly in long straight lines, re¬ 
serving only a space at one side for such 
things as must be grown in hills—no 
little neatly-banked up square beds, if you 
please, for maybe she will be able to hire 
or coax a boy with a horse and culti¬ 
vator to go up and down between these 
long rows once a week and so save her 
hoe “many a weary nibble”, after weeds. 
Neither will she allow this plower and 
harrower to sow her bag of commercial 
fertilizer broadcast upon the land, though 
he may think that the easiest way of 
disposing of it, and urge such a course. 
She will find later that the weeds grow 
quite thriftily enough between the rows 
without such encouragements, and that 
it pays to sow the fertilizer in the drills, 
mixing and covering it with a little soil 
that it may not burn the tender seed¬ 
lings. 
It will take less than one Summer to 
teach her that the early vegetables, such 
as peas, string beans, radishes and the 
like make quick returns, which means 
less labor. These are so very much bet¬ 
ter when brought in fresh from the gar¬ 
den that one may almost say that any 
one possessed of a square rod of land 
ought to raise a home supply. But if 
our girl gardener decides to let others 
raise her carrots, parsnips and salsify, 
which must be hoed nearly all Summer, 
discretion may prove the better part of 
valor. 
Of course in a garden lined off as ad¬ 
vised in even spaces one plants double 
rows, one line each side the mark, of all 
the smaller vegetables, such as peas, 
string beans, beets, chard and lettuce. 
The first time the girl with the hoe 
plants her garden she will not plant it 
thickly enough perhaps. Certainly not, if 
she sows her seeds about as she wants 
the plants to stand. Not every seed will 
germinate, and it is far easier to weed 
out the less promising seedlings than to 
fill in gaps on the rows. Where, from 
any cause, such breaks occur, she may 
drop in a few seeds of Michigan or Ford- 
hook squash, and so not long have empty 
ground to hoe. In just this haphazard 
way a friend of mine raised last season 
an astonishing number of fine Michigan 
squashes, which, in spite of her doubts 
on the subject, had plenty of time to come 
to maturity. 
By pulling out early peas and beans as 
soon as past usefulness space will be left 
for a few turnips or late cabbages, for 
idle land invites weeds just as promptly 
as Satan invents mischief for idle hands. 
In arranging a garden a look ahead does 
not come amiss. For instance, if the 
tomato plants have, say lettuce, in the 
next row on the east and earliest sweet 
corn on the west, later in the season, 
when ready to spread about and cover¬ 
ing a good deal of space and demanding 
much in the way of sunshine, the to¬ 
matoes can have it all their own way. 
prudence primrose. 
AS TO COLDS 
Feed a cold—yes, but 
feed it with Scott’s Emul¬ 
sion. Feeding a cold in this 
way kills it. You cannot 
afford to have a cough or 
cold at this season or any 
other. Scott’s Emulsion 
will drive it out quickly 
and keep it out. Weak 
lungs are strengthened 
and all wasting diseases 
are checked by Scott’s 
Emulsion. It’s a great 
flesh producer. 
We’ll send you a sample free. . 
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