THE WI SCONSIN FARMER



  HOME COMFORTS.-Wealth is not essential to
neatness. We have visited a large, showy
house, in disorder from cellar to garret-noth-
ing homelike. nothing inviting, and on the
other hand we have seen a low log cottage,
whitewashed outside, and embewered with
roses, a model of neatness and comfort inside,
with its white window curtains, and every
article of furniture handsomely arranged.
This was owing to the excellent housewife.
But while skill and labor within are so im-
portant in this great element of high civiliza-
tion, namely, HOME COMFORT,, the surroundings
of the house, under the care of the owner,
should never, for a day, be forgotten.
  Remember-the highest mark of civilization
is attention to domestic comforts, domestic
happiness and to elevating the condition and
character of the female members of the fami-
ly.-Country Gent.

  COURTESY AT HoME.-Almost any one can
be courteous in a neighbor's house. If any-
thing goes wrong, or is out of time, or is dis-
agreeable there, it is made the best of, not the
worst; even efforts are made to excuse it, and
to show it is not felt; it is attributed to acci-
dent, not to design; and this is not only easy
but natural in the house of a friend. I will
not, therefore, believe that what is so natural
in the house of another is impossible at home,
but maintain without fear that all the courte-
sies of social life may be upheld in domestic
society. A husband as willing to be pleased
at home as he is anxious to be pleased in a
neighbor's house, and a wife as intent on mak-
ing things comfortalle everi day to her fami-
ly as on set days to her guests, could not fail
to make home happy.

  N Always punish your children for wil-
fully disobeying you, but never punish in an-
ger.
  Never let them perceive that they can vex
you or make you lose your self-command.
  If they give way to petulance and temper,
wait till they are calm, and then gently rea-
son with them on the impropriety of their
conduct.

          HEALTH AND DISEASE.

              Utility of the Bath.

  How many-that is what proportion-of the
whole people of this or any other country fail
'of even one thorough bath per annum ? Prob-
ably not less than one-fifth, while there are
multitudes in city and country who never en-
joy this great luxury-this essential, for it is
essential to the health of the body-any more
than as though they had a chronic hydropho-
bia!



  On this subject of the use of water the
learned Dr. Smith discourses as follows:
" The are in the human body 2,700,000
glands, and 7,000,0110 pores, from 2,000 to
3,000 to the square inch, and one-eighth of an
inch in depth, making twenty-eight miles of
human drainage.
  "Five-eighths of all that is eaten passes off
through these pores, and but one per cent. of
all perspirable matter consists of solid sub-
stances.  The change in the muscle, tissue,
and bones occurs in fromi one to two years,
and in the entire body in from six to seven
years. If this old matter be retained, it caus-
es disease-it is a real virus.
  "1 Some diseases are relieved almost instant-
ly by opening the pores.  Diarrhoea is fre-
quently cured, matter from the mucous mem-
brane is expelled through the skin; tobacco,
opium and mercury have been thus exuded.
Whatever through the skin the body can
expel, it can absorb.  Hold the end of your
finger in spirits of turpentine; it is absorbed,
goes through the system and may be detected
by its odor.  Constant handling of arsenic
has produced death by absorption.
  " Perspiration is eliminated from all parts
of the body. and the excretions cutaneously
forced may from some parts of the surface be
re-admitted to the circulation, and if poison-
ous or injurious, whenever the blooi visits it,
it mnst carry disease. Nature keeps her side
of the interior clean and soft, and demands
an unobstructed exterior, and exudes to the
surface the refuse matter for removal by bath-
ing and evaporation. A light, dry powder,
mixed with sweat and oil from the glands,
and dust, clogs up the pores.  As all parts of
the cuticle has pores. as well as the face and
arms, all the body ihould be bathed at. least
one-third as many times as those are.
  : On board a slave ship the small pox sud-
denly broke out. Medical aid was powerless.
Every morning the dead iii great numbers
were thrown overboard  In the midst of ter-
ror and anguish the negroes cried out, 'Let
us do as we used to do in our own country
with the sick." Permission being given, they
gently lowered their sick companions into the
sea, letting them remain a few minutes. and
then raised them and placed them in the sun-
light on deck until dried, and repeated the
process several times, when the disease left
them and they were cured.
  "- Cold water is used and prescribed much
more than formerly, though many would think
a physician not worth sending for who should
prescribe so simple a remedy. Abernethy's
advice to one of his wealthy patients was:-
' Let your servant bring to you three or four
pailsful of water and put it into a washtub;
take off your clothes, get into it, and from
head to foot rub yourself with it, and you'll
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