To secure a good ventilation in living and sleeping rooms, open the
window top and bottom, and leave it that way until the air is pure and
sweet. With good fires the windows can always be kept open an inch
or two. This is especially needful in the sleeping room, but the bed
must be removed out of the draft.
LIVING UP STAIRS.
A very noted health physician says if you want to be healthy and live
to a good old age, you must climb up stairs and live at the top. The
stairs consist of but seven steps, and you must make a pause on each
step and follow his directions :
First Step— Eat wheat, oats, corn, fruits, beef and mutton, plainly
cooked, in moderate quantity, and but two meals a day.
Second Step — Breathe good air day and night.
Third Step — Exercise freely in the open air.
Fourth Step — Retire early and rise early.
Fifth Step — Wear flannel next your skin every day in the year, and
so dispose your dress that your limbs shall be kept warm. Bathe fre-
quently.
Sixth Step — Live in the sunshine. Let your bed-room be one which
receives a flood of light, and spend your days either out in the sunlight
or in a room which is well lighted.
Seventh Step — Cultivate a cheerful temper. Seek the society of jolly
folks. Dont be afraid to laugh.
Go up this flight of stairs. Live above. Catarrh cannot crawl up
there. Catarrh and other maladies are prowling about in the basement
and cannot reach the floor above.
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PURIFYING THE YARDS.
Wherever about your yards there is anything needing a disinfectant
see to it before you and yours have its infections breathed into your sys-
tems. To do this dissolve common copperas at the proportion of a
tablespoonful to a pint of water and sprinkle plentifully upon the earth
where needed. Burn up all that will burn, bury or remove what will
not, if they have any disease-breeding qualities. Plant rapid growing
climbers or tall plants like sunflower or hemp in your back yards to
purify the air the season through. Sprinkle ashes over the ground
where manure heaps have been removed, and better still, have the earth
plowed and turned over, ashes and all. What you can not do yourself,
attend to having done, and watch that health measures are continually
enforced.
FATNESS AND LEANNESS.
Corn meal is fattening, also hominy, rye and unbolted wheat flour.
Oat meal contains much more flesh-forming material than fine flour,
This well boiled, without much stirring, and eaten with cream and baked
sweet apples and brown bread, makes a good breakfast. Sweet apples,
boiled whole, unpared, adding sugar, are nice. Nuts are rich in vege-
table oil, and eaten as a dessert for dinner, instead of pastry, are whole-
some, but should not be eaten between meals. Eggs are rich in fat.
but boiled hard or fried in grease are worse than nothing.
Some people are constitutionally predisposed to spareness and
nothing can make them fat. But, in addition to the right kind of food
and a happy, cheerful state of mind, the surest way to increase in flesh
is to exercise but moderately. Lie down a great deal. No posture is
so favorable to the gaining of flesh as the recumbent. Sleep as much
as you can ; one gains flesh when he sleeps. Lying on a stretcher or in
a hammock out of doors in the shade (the world forgetting), is better
than activity. Keep the air of your room pure at night. •
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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
To secure a good ventilation in living and sleeping rooms, open the window top and bottom, and leave it that way until the air is pure and sweet. With good fires the windows can always be kept open an inch or two. This is especially needful in the sleeping room, but the bed must be removed out of the draft.
LIVING UP STAIRS.
A very noted health physician says if you want to be healthy and live to a good old age, you must climb up stairs and live at the top. The stairs consist of but seven steps, and you must make a pause on each step and follow his directions :
First Step— Eat wheat, oats, corn, fruits, beef and mutton, plainly cooked, in moderate quantity, and but two meals a day.
Second Step — Breathe good air day and night.
Third Step — Exercise freely in the open air.
Fourth Step — Retire early and rise early.
Fifth Step — Wear flannel next your skin every day in the year, and so dispose your dress that your limbs shall be kept warm. Bathe frequently.
Sixth Step — Live in the sunshine. Let your bed-room be one which receives a flood of light, and spend your days either out in the sunlight or in a room which is well lighted.
Seventh Step — Cultivate a cheerful temper. Seek the society of jolly folks. Dont be afraid to laugh.
Go up this flight of stairs. Live above. Catarrh cannot crawl up there. Catarrh and other maladies are prowling about in the basement and cannot reach the floor above.
PRE VENTI VE A GAINS T SEA-SICKNESS. 249
PURIFYING THE YARDS.
Wherever about your yards there is anything needing a disinfectant see to it before you and yours have its infections breathed into your systems. To do this dissolve common copperas at the proportion of a tablespoonful to a pint of water and sprinkle plentifully upon the earth where needed. Burn up all that will burn, bury or remove what will not, if they have any disease-breeding qualities. Plant rapid growing climbers or tall plants like sunflower or hemp in your back yards to purify the air the season through. Sprinkle ashes over the ground where manure heaps have been removed, and better still, have the earth plowed and turned over, ashes and all. What you can not do yourself, attend to having done, and watch that health measures are continually enforced.
FATNESS AND LEANNESS.
Corn meal is fattening, also hominy, rye and unbolted wheat flour. Oat meal contains much more flesh-forming material than fine flour, This well boiled, without much stirring, and eaten with cream and baked sweet apples and brown bread, makes a good breakfast. Sweet apples, boiled whole, unpared, adding sugar, are nice. Nuts are rich in vegetable oil, and eaten as a dessert for dinner, instead of pastry, are wholesome, but should not be eaten between meals. Eggs are rich in fat. but boiled hard or fried in grease are worse than nothing.
Some people are constitutionally predisposed to spareness and nothing can make them fat. But, in addition to the right kind of food and a happy, cheerful state of mind, the surest way to increase in flesh is to exercise but moderately. Lie down a great deal. No posture is so favorable to the gaining of flesh as the recumbent. Sleep as much as you can ; one gains flesh when he sleeps. Lying on a stretcher or in a hammock out of doors in the shade (the world forgetting), is better than activity. Keep the air of your room pure at night. •