Buckeye cookery

rotting—that is a nauseating word but it expresses the absolute fact in the case—and it means that some of the rules above given have been violated. Eat in pure air and in pleasant company ; light conversation and gentle ‘exercise promote digestion, but hard work of any kind retardsit. Avoid severe bodily or mental labor just before and for two hours after a full meal. - Most people drink too much and too fast. A smal] quantity of water ‘sipped slowly satisfies thirst as well as a pailful swallowed at a draught. Drinks at meals should be taken at the close, and not too strong or hot. Dyspeptics especially should drink sparingly. Infants need more than adults, but too much is injurious. ; * Adults need to eat at regular intervals two or three times a day, allowing ® the air-cells become diseased. HINTS FOR THE WELL. ~ time for each meal to be fully digested before another is taken. It would spoil a loaf of bread, half baked, to poke a lump of cold dough into the middle of it. _ Use good palatable food, not highly seasoned; vary in quantity and quality according to age, climate, weather and occupation. Unbolted or partially bolted grains are good and sufficient food for men; but nature craves variety, As arule, the flesh of meat-eating animals is not wholesome food. Hot soft bread digests slowly. Don’t eat too fast; the digestive organs are something like a stove, which | if choked up and out of order, burns slowly, and if you keep piling in fuel, grows more and more choked. The wiser course is to let it burn down and put in fuel only when needed. It is a foolish notion that food always keeps up the strength. Only what we digest helps us; all beyond that is a tax upon the system, and exhausts the strength instead of increasing it. Masticate well; five minutes more at dinner may give you better use of an hour afterward. At meals never drink a full glass of very hot or very cold : liquid. Never wash down a mouthful. Avoid waste of saliva. Avoid tobacco, alcohol in all forms, and all stimulants. Every healthy — man is better, stronger, has a clearer head, more endurance, and better chances for a long life, if free from the habitual use of stimulants. The boy who begins the use of tobacco or liquors early is physically ruined. Avoid colds and break up as soon as possible when taken. as soon as one conscious that the pores are closed, keep warm within doors, drink warm ginger tea, relax the bowels, and take a vapor bath. Breaking a cold up early, often saves a severe attack of congestion, pneumonia, often even a fever. : Panaceas are prima facie humbugs; their makers and takers, their vendors and recommenders are knaves or fools, or both. Nature cures most diseases, if let alone or aided by diet and proper care. There are no miracles in . medicine; remember that to keep or to get health generally requires only a recognition of Nature’s powers, with knowledge of anatomy and physiology, — experience, and common sense. Never sleep in clothing worn during the day, and let that worn at night — be exposed to the air by day. Three pints of moisture, filled with the waste - of the body, are given off every twenty-four hours, and mostly absorbed by clothing. Exposure to air and sunlight purifies the clothing and bedding of the poisons which nature is trying to get rid of, and which would otherwise be brought again into contact with the body. The lungs should be trained to free, full, and vigorous action. “The breath is the life.' A man will exist for days without food, but when the breath is cut off life ceases. If breathing is imperfect, all the functions of the body work at a disadvantage. It is a common fault to breathe from a the surface of the lungs only, not bringing into play the abdominal muscles, og and so not filling the more remote air-cells of the lungs. By this defective