LEARN HOW TO REST.

Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 26, 1 October 1894, Page 25

LEARN HOW TO REST.

Nothing So Becoming to Both Flesh and Spirit as Complete Fallowness.

. The art of : good looks is a fine art indeed, ind one that deserves the encouragement It seems to be getting on every side. Even those “aids to beauty”—in the shape of lotions, lemon water and skin soaps—so enthusiastically urged upon Womankind from the back pages of every magazine and pamphlet in the land, are not to be treated With topping kcorn; they have their place and use in the general struggle for loveliness. But, continues a writer in Harper’s Bazar, why hot back up these efforts for comeliness by common sense conduct throughout each day’s wear and tear? To begin with; women sit too much, and women stand quite too.much. Nothing is so wearisome as “standing about,” even to the well trained body that has been drilled Into good poise, «nd' f sltting is not resting, tiowever cleverly women may-delude thempoint. : . .Thp young girl who desires to keep away srbwsfeet' and that jaded look we all knovv so well, and . to retain the suppleness and adorable bloom of extreme youth, should when off parade or off duty, as the case may be, and in her own room make a couch or the floor her habitual resting place.

Absolute repose comes to the tired muscles only when the body is in a reclining position, and . absolute repose comes to.the overstrung nerves only when the muscular system is perfectly at rest—relaxed. The middle aged woman could, I am posir tive, woo back much of the freshness and lithesomeness of girlhood if she would he at a little pains to learn how to rest.

Eive minutes of rest flat on one’s back on the floor or ou a hard, smooth couch are worth half an hour of so styled “rest” in an armchair or ia that ucvc-poseful tempter, the rocking ch<rir.

Some one hro -n-.rfid to the women of today, “Never stand when you can sit; never sit when you can lie down.” This exhortation, applied with some bigsfjcity, is the best recipe for beauty I kn’Sw of. While I have little sympathy with the gospel of laziness preached so consistently by some lives, I do recommend frequent daily lapses into complete fallowness.

Electricity For Lead Poisoning.

Professor Semmola of Italy has used the electric battery with splendid success in cases of chronic lead poisoning. Based upon the well known fact that electricity promotes assimilation, he used the battery and found that under the influence of the current the lead residue was thrown off and passed away with the secretions. At the end of three months nearly all his patients could be dismissed as cured.

An Original Remedy.

The idea has been suggested that in certain, well known conditions of hysteria a judiciously administered pinch of snuff might have a beneficial effect. Familiar to every one is the perverseness with which such hysterical attacks resist ordinary means of cure, and it is just possible that the queerer the remedy the more suitable jt may prove,

How the EsprcK.sii>u •’Uavy JmiH’ l.ocket-”

Originated

Jones is the sailor’s corruption of the uame Jonah, while Davy is said to come from the West India negro’s word duffy. meaning a devil or evil spirit. Davy Jones is, then, Duffy or Devil Jotmh. the evil spirit of the sea, and so when a sailor dies Davy Jones has claimed his own, and the body must be consigned to the sea. The sailor's closet on board ship is called “a locker."

How to Cure Sleep Walking.

. Put beside the bed of the sleep wullcer either a piece of wet carpet or a strip of zinc or some metal large enough so that the feet will touch it when the sleeper tries to get up. The cold shock to the feet will waken -mv one at onco.

How to Cure Sunstroke. Remove the patient to a cool and shady place where there is plc::ty of fresh, pure air. Strip the clothing to the waist and place the sufferer in a recumbent position. Pour cold water (ice water) upon the head-and chest and wrists.uniil consciousness returns. Apply ice to the head and rub the body with it, lmt if the skill is cold uo ice should be applied. When practicable, the patient should be put into a bath at 70 degrees to reduce the temperature. In heat exhaustion stimulants should ho given freely, and if the temperature is below normal, as shown by the skin being cold and clammy, the hot bath should he used. Ammonia and water may be given if necessary. The subject of sunstroke is liablo to a second attack and should do no mental work for months and keep from all excitement.

How the Two Kinds of Mineral Coal Vary.

Anthracite is mostly without bitumen, very hard, with a high luster, often iridescent, and burns With a pale blue (lame. Bituminous coal abounds with bitumen, is softer than, anthracite, with littlo lus ter and burns with a bright flame. It appears in many varieties, one of winch is the well known caunel coal.

How Earls’ Wives Are Culled Countesses.

Verstegan, in liis “Vestiges,” states: “Before we borrowed the word honour we used instead thereof our own ancient word ear. For noblo or gentle we used ethel. Ethel was sometimes in composition abridged to el. So as of earethcl, it came to be ear-el, and by abbreviation earl. It is as much as to say, honour noble or noble of honour.” Earl is the only title of nobility derived from the Anglo-Saxon, for though William the Conqueror first made hereditary earls they were to bo called counts. The arfeient title, however, holds its position to the present, and in acknowledgment of the NormanFrench the wives of earls countesses.

Dyspeptics Should Try This.

A grower of pineapple* claim* valuable medicinal properties for the juice of that fruit, confidently asserting that it will cure Indigestion, no matter how severe, and has proven itself to contain wonderful tonir and restorative qualities for a weak stomach. It relieve* and, so to speak, warms and nurses the distressed organ.

CHINA PAINTING. A Short X*Mon Illustrated With a Simple Working Design. One of the bancs of the beginner in chine pointing is that the painting may become full of littlo specks, although there is apparently no dust in the room. The hard glaze of tho china absorbs none of the paint, and each particle coarser than the others draws them to it. If fired in this way, your work is spoiled. Learn to work

cur WITH VIOI.KT DKCOMATfON. smoothly with r.ln* leost possible medium after your paints uim prepared, uud they will not “crawl.’’ Wlien they do,dry your pieceln tho oven, Mien with the needle remove tho specks and careful y fill up the whito spot with tho point of your brush very lightly and matching the color perfectly.

If your colors remain dull and are liable to rub off, it must be that on each occasion tho china was underfired, and tho colors were not fused into tho glaze. If tube colors are too thick, u littlo lavomlor oil, which partakes of the nature of spirits, ia as good as anything for thinning. Turpentine also answers the purpose, hut has tho disadvantage of drying up too quickly through rapid evaporation. Art Amateur, to which the foregoing practical advice indue, furnishes tho dainty working design here given. A pule tint of either ivory yellow, cbineso yellow, yellow brown or yellow green can be used for tho background. When dry, the spaces for the flowers can bo removed. For tinting the flowers use violets of gold, carmine and purple, with bleu riche and occasion: I touches of bleu foulc, mixing yellow ar.d black, according to tho depth of tint desired. As all violet tones appear redder after than before tho fire, make necessary provision for tho change by adding blue, \yhen two firings are proposed, this addition Is reserved for tho second firing, Pure tints of red and of bluo touched lu BOparatoly produce tbo most vivid of purples. Dull secondary tints are obtained by mixing violet of iron with blue, but care should be taken not to mix this rod with the oxides of gold, Tho inner and outer edges of thin design can cither bo filled In with fluxod gold or a more line of gold oau bo used to separate the ground tint from a deeper shade of the same,