1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
655 
Health Suggestions for Mid¬ 
summer. 
Dog days are here and with them the 
work of ingathering an abundant har¬ 
vest. Indoors, Mother is just as busy 
with her own problems to solve. The 
welfare of the family is her chief care. 
How to ward off the ill effects of sharp 
extremes of temperature when days are 
sultry and nights cool, what diet to give 
the teething baby, these and many other 
questions she is called upon to answer. 
Much depends upon the care that has 
been given the children in preceding 
months. If baby is well nourished, if his 
food digests properly, and he is gaining 
steadily in weight, the ailments of the 
heated term need not be greatly dreaded. 
The digestive powers of children vary as 
much as those of adults and a food that 
is perfectly suited to the wants of one 
infant may fail utterly with the next. 
However, a few general rules may be 
followed, for their working does not vary 
in any marked degree. It is never safe 
to give much starchy food to a child 
under a year old, for the juices that as¬ 
sist in the digestion of starch do not 
develop until that age is reached. Com¬ 
plete cleanliness must be the watchword. 
Use a fresh bottle at every feeding if 
the child must be bottle-fed, and cleanse 
the mouth afterward with a solution of 
boracic acid. When milk is sterilized 
or boiled the lime salts that assist the 
ferment in the stomach are precipitated, 
and the milk rendered more difficult to 
digest. Barley water or strained oat¬ 
meal added to milk simply dilute it, and 
prevent its coagulation into a solid curd. 
The diet for older children should be 
varied, choosing that which will not 
cause fermentation. For children under 
seven milk, eggs, the white meat of 
chicken, and fish should be substituted 
for red meat, which is too stimulating. 
The fats should be in the form of cream, 
butter, and olive oil. Avoid cheese, saus¬ 
age, rich cakes and fried dishes. Fresh 
fruit may be eaten in abundance if the 
skins are rejected. There is too much 
raw starch in bananas to be easily di¬ 
gested by small children, but if the outer 
layer is scraped off they are said to be 
more digestible. 
Have an eye on the boy who loves to 
go swimming. There are youngsters 
who can spend half their waking hours 
in the water and take no more harm 
from it than a spaniel, but if Johnny is 
growing up slender, with his cheeks pale 
instead of rosy, better restrict his bath¬ 
ing to an occasional 10 minutes’ dip. If 
the boy knows when to come out, no 
harm will result, but there is a risk of 
his emulating his more robust compan¬ 
ions and remaining in until his lips are 
blue and his teeth chattering'. Instruct 
him to swim or paddle about vigorously 
and leave the water at the least feeling 
of chilliness. Otherwise, colds and of¬ 
ten muscular weakness, rheumatism and 
ear trouble may result. 
When harvest work and berrying take 
the boys and girls afield, it is well for 
older heads to know where the young 
people obtain their drinking water. The 
supply drawn from the house well soon 
grows stale in the jug, and then the 
youth remembers the little brook that 
trickles through the meadow. The water 
is clear and cool, and he drinks freely, 
returning several times to quench his 
thirst in the course of the day. The 
rivulet may have its source in a stag¬ 
nant swamp and receive drainage of the 
most offensive kind for aught he knows 
or cares. He has a dim mistaken idea 
that because the water looks and tastes 
good it must be pure and that, in some 
way, it is cleansed of its impurities by 
flowing over the ground. A large pro¬ 
portion of the sporadic cases of typhoid 
fever originate in just this way. The 
germs of the disease, when eliminated 
from the body, retain their activity for 
a long time in favorable situations. They 
thrive in drains, cesspools and damp, 
b°ggy soils. If they find their way into 
streams persons at a distance are not 
unfrequently s infected by drinking the 
water. Young people are particularly 
susceptible to this fever. In infancy and 
beyond middle age, it is rare. Two or 
three weeks may elapse' after infection 
before the symptoms appear. For a 
week before the fever shows itself, the 
patient complains of feeling languid, of 
t 6426 Loose Fitting Coat, 
32 to 42 bust. 
lost appetite and pains in head and limbs. 
Common malaria may resemble typhoid 
at its onset. A free use of quinine will 
usually reduce a fever of the malarial 
type and will do no harm in a case of 
incipient typhoid. If the fever continues 
to rise after the administration of quin¬ 
ine, the evening temperature registering 
two or three degrees higher than in the 
morning, typhoid is to be feared. Every 
country household should be supplied 
with a clinical thermometer. Its use is 
easily learned and valuable time may be 
saved at the onset by watching the rise 
and fall of the temperature; not the 
least dangerous cases are those of walk- 
ing typhoid in which the patient con¬ 
tinues to fight off the disease until total 
collapse overwhelms him. Much depends 
upon keeping the stomach and blood in 
good condition. The physician in charge 
of the typhoid wards of a certain hospital 
used to advise the nurses to drink freely 
6425 Five Gored Petticoat, 
22 to 32 waist. 
of lemonade. He declared that the juices 
of the stomach, if kept at their normal 
acidity, would act as an antiseptic and 
prevent the dangerous germs from gain¬ 
ing a foothold in the body. Of course, 
when the water supply is polluted the 
only real safeguard lies in boiling the 
drinking water. m. e. colegrove. 
Soapsuds for Roses. 
I suppose it’s too late to help Charity 
Sweetheart with her roses this year, but 
forewarned is forearmed, so if she will 
make a strong suds of soft soap next 
year and spray those roses faithfully 
every day she will see those Rose bugs 
disappear from view, and the leaves will 
be bright and glossy. reader. 
R. N.-Y.—Nothing better can be ad¬ 
vised than the soapsuds for controlling 
green fly, Rose slugs and leaf hoppers. 
But the real Rose bug or beetle, which 
devours our roses, our cherries, our 
Spiraeas, and any other light-colored 
flower during June and early July does 
not mind anything so innocuous as 
soapsuds; hand picking into a kerosene 
bath is our only remedy. This year dur¬ 
ing the beetle season it was a slack 
evening when we couldn’t pick a solid 
pint of beetles without any extra exer¬ 
tion ! 
The Rural Patterns. 
The useful coat figured may be made 
with a skirt to match, or as a separate 
garment. It is an excellent style for 
tan covert cloth. The coat is made with 
fronts, backs and under-arm gores. The 
fronts are fitted by means of darts at 
the shoulders and are supplied with three 
patch pockets. A regulation collar and 
lapels finish the neck. The sleeves are 
in coat style, made with upper and un¬ 
der portions and gathered at their upper 
edges. The quantity of material re¬ 
quired for the medium size is 4*4 yards 
27, 334 yards 44 or 2 yards 52 inches 
wide. The pattern 5426 is cut in sizes 
for a 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42-inch bust 
measure; price 10 cents. 
The well-fitting petticoat shown is cut 
in five gores and either can be gathered 
at the back or laid in inverted plaits. 
The dust ruffle is sewed to' the lower 
edge and the straight gathered flounces 
are joined one to the other, then ar¬ 
ranged over the skirt on indicated lines. 
The quantity of material required for 
the medium size is 4 yards 36 inches 
wide with 4% yards of embroidery 10 
inches wide; or, 9 yards 21, 5 yards 36 
or 434 yards 44 inches wide if plain 
material is used throughout. The pattern 
5425 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28, 
30 and 32-inch waist measure; price 10 
cents. 
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