It is very important that the food be taken with regularity at the accustomed time.  Be careful not to take too much drink during any meal, but, if thirsty, drink water before meal time so that you will not care for it until some time after eating, as it is a bad plan to drink much either during or for a little time after the meal is taken.  It is a very bad plan to hurry in eating, because by so doing the food is not properly masticated; it is better to be a long time in eating and chew the food well.

Dr. B. I. Kendall, Enosburg Falls, Vt.

HOW TO USE HOT WATER.

One of the simplest and most effectual means of relieving pain is by the use of hot water, externally and internally, the temperature varying according to the feelings of the patient.  For bruises, sprains, and similar accidental hurts, it should be applied immediately, as hot as can be borne, by means of a cloth dipped in the water and laid on the wounded part, or by immersion, if convenient, and the treatment kept up until relief is obtained.  If applied at once, the use of hot water will generally prevent, nearly, if not entirely, the bruised flesh from turning black.  For pains resulting from indigestion, and known as wind colic, etc., a cupful of hot water, taken in sips, will often relieve at once.  When that is insufficient, a flannel folded in several thicknesses, large enough to fully cover the painful place should be wrung out of hot water and laid over the seat of the pain.  It should be as hot as the skin can bear without injury, and be renewed every ten minutes or oftener, if it feels cool, until the pain is gone.  The remedy is simple, efficient, harmless, and within the reach of every one; and should be more generally used than it is.  If used along with common sense, it might save many a doctor’s bill, and many a course of drug treatment as well.

GROWING PAINS CURED.

Following in our mother’s footsteps, we have been routed night after night from our warm quarters, in the dead of winter, to kindle fires and fill frosty kettles from water-pails thickly crusted with ice, that we might get the writhing pedal extremities of our little heir into a tub of water as quickly as possible.  But lately we have learned that all this work and exposure is needless.  We simply wring a towel from salted water—­a bowl of it standing in our sleeping room, ready for such an emergency—­wrap the limb in it from the ankle to knee, without taking the child from his bed, and then swathe with dry flannels, thick and warm, tucking the blankets about him a little closer, and relief is sure.

Good Housekeeping.

HOW TO KEEP WELL.

Don’t sleep in a draught.

Don’t go to bed with cold feet.

Don’t stand over hot-air registers.