I had last fall a case from such a source, where the physician who treated the case diagnosed it as what is ordinarily called typho-malarial fever. There were three cases developed in one house below that on the side of a hill, where the plumbing was known to be very bad and afterward taken out and replaced. In one or two houses between where these occurred and where the first occurred, where the plumbing had recently been entirely renovated, no cases occurred, but cases did occur about the same time in the house below. I think that the matter of disinfecting the discharges is so important that it ought to be brought to the attention of physicians, because I do not think they really appreciate it."

Dr. Hunt, Health Officer of Utica, N. Y., says that unquestionably the cause of nine-tenths of the cases of diphtheria reported in that city last season was sewer-gas. He founds his opinion upon the fact that in most of the houses inspected where diphtheria existed, the house drainage was so defective as to readily permit the return of gas from the main street sewer into the kitchen.—The Sanitarian

Condensed Milk.

A mother in Palatka, Fla., writes to the Philadelphia Record, under date of July 16th, as follows:

"I have lately read about babies nursing the bottles, and having to drink impure cows' milk, which causes so many deaths among children. Now, as I have two children, and raised them both with the bottle, I thought my experience may help some mothers.

"I feed my baby on condensed milk. Cow's milk did not agree with either of my children. Under the most favorable circumstances cow's milk is risky, the cows perhaps eating something that disagrees with them. A good brand of condensed milk is always the same, requires no ice, only clean bottles and nipples. I keep two bottles, three or four nipples, clean them with cooking soda and hot water in the morning, during the day and night. When the baby uses one bottle have the other one full of clean water. Buy new nipples about once a month. Boil about a quart of water morning and evening; to good half cup of water take two teaspoonfulls of milk, stir it up, and it is ready to use. Directions are on can for age of children. Barley, such as is used for soup, is very strengthening for delicate children, or those having delicate or tender stomachs. I give it to mine, and she is 16 months old and hearty. Take about two tablespoonfulls of barley to a quart of water, put a pinch of salt in it and boil steadily two or three hours. When it boils away add a little water to it so that it is a quart when done, not thick. Use it in place of water with milk. I trust these few hints will do some good. It is in the power of every mother to follow them. Condensed milk is cheaper and easier to handle than cow's milk, and if properly used will not cause the child to die from impure milk. The main thing is clean bottles, etc. I write these lines simply because I see so much about the mortality among the babies on account of impure food."

The Office Cat.

The office cat has become an historical if not a classic figure in newspaper life. Its use as a "figure" (of speech perhaps) seems, however, if the following be a fact, to have been paralleled at least, in usefulness, by the cat of fact, to one publisher.

Years ago when Henry W. Grady was struggling to bring the Rome Commercial into the front ranks, he called one day and asked the Rounsaville Brothers for an advertisement. Mr. J. W. Rounsaville replied: "Why, Grady, nobody reads your paper, it is of no use to advertise in it." A happy thought suggested itself to Mr. Grady. He went to his office and wrote the following advertisement, which appeared next morning in the Commercial; "Wanted: fifty cats; liberal price for the same. Apply to Rounsaville Brothers."

Well, the picture that presented itself at Rounsaville's corner next morning beggars description. Boys of all ages and sizes, boys of all tints from the fairhaired youth to the sable Ethiopian, bare-foot boys and ragged boys, redheaded boys, freckled-faced boys, town boys and country boys, boys from all parts of Floyd County, blocked up the sidewalk, doorways and streets with bags full of cats-cats of every description, name and order-house cats, yard cats, barn cats, church cats, fat cats, lean cats, honest cats, and thievish cats. Well, to make a long story short, the Rounsavilles told Mr. Grady to reserve a column for their advertisement as long as his paper continued, and that was just what Grady wanted.-Rome Tribune.

Bismarck's Regimen.

The details of Prince Bismarck's present dietetic regimen, says the British Medical Journal, may be interesting to those interested in the treatment of obesity. He says: "I am only allowed to drink thrice a day-a quarter of an hour after each meal, and each time not more than half a bottle of red sparkling Moselle, of a very light and dry character. Burgundy and beer of both of which I am extremely fond, are strictly forbidden to me; so are all the strong Rhenish and Spanish wines, and even claret. For some years past I have been a total abstainer from all these generous liquors, much to the advantage of my health and my "condition," in the sporting sense of the word. Formerly I used to weigh over seventeen stone. By observing this regimen I brought myself down to under fourteen, and without any loss of strength-indeed, with gain. My normal weight now is 185 pounds. I am weighed once a day, by my doctor's orders, and any excess of that figure I at once set to work to get rid of, by exercise and special regimen. I ride a good deal as well as walk. Cigarsmoking I have given up altogether; it is debilitating and bad for the nerves. I am restricted to a long pipe, happily with a deep bowl, one after each meal, and I smoke nothing in it but Dutch knaster tobacco, which is light, mild and soothing. Water makes me fat, so I must not drink it. However, the present arrangements suit me very well."

Two Ways of Living.

The old proverb says that every burden we have to carry offers two handles the one smooth and easy to grasp, the other rough and hard to hold. One man goes through life taking things by the rough handle, and he has a hard time all the way. He draws a tight harness and it chafes wherever it touches him. He carries a heavy load, and he finds it not worth keeping when he gets it home. He spends more strength upon the fret and wear of work than upon the work itself. He is like a disorganized old mill that makes a great noise over a small grist because it grinds itself more than it grinds the grain. Another man carries the same weight, does the same work, and finds it easy, because he takes everything by the smooth handle. And so it comes to pass that one man sighs and weeps, and another man whistles and sings, on the same road.

Sanitary Administration.

"Sanitary administration, like all other governmental intervention in a free country, can be legitimately exercised alone for the welfare of the community, interfering with the individual only when his actions imperil his ⚫ neighbor.

Bearing always in mind the limitations of our present knowledge, our sanitary regulations should be cautiously based upon established truths, and executed with scrupulous discretion.

"The position of health officer should everywhere be a career, not an episode; and for this he should be specially trained, and his tenure of office should depend solely upon his efficiency.

"For the real advancement of hygiene the people themselves must be trained to cooperate with us for their own good; every avoidable attempt at coercion arouses opposition and retards the ends we have in view."—Dr. A. L. Carroll.

Do You Rizzle?

Do you rizzle every day? Do you know how to rizzle? One of the swell doctors in town says that it is the most wonderful aid to perfect health. "I masticate my food very thoroughly at dinner," he says, Iand make sure to have my family or friends entertain me with bright talk and plenty of fun. After dinner it is understood that I am going to rizzle. How do I do it? I retire to my study, and having darkened the room I light a cigar, sit down, and perform the operation. How to describe it I don't know, but it is a condition as nearly like sleep as sleep is like death. It consists in doing absolutely nothing. I close my eyes, and try to stop all action of the brain. I think of nothing. only takes a little practice to be able to absolutely stifle the brain. In that delightful condition I remain at least ten minutes, sometimes twenty. That is the condition most healthful to digestion, and it is that which accounts for the habit animals have of sleeping after eating. I would rather miss a fat fee than that ten minutes rizzle every day.-Chatter.

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Laundry Recipe.

To take oil stains out of linen.-Immerse the goods in a soap bath, which should be kept at nearly a boiling temperature. If the stains are fresh, smear them with tallow or lard, and afterwards rub the goods with soap in cold water. Benzine or turpentine is also sometimes successfully used in removing oil stains. How to remove stains caused by acids, vinegar, etc.-For white cottons and linens Wash with pure warm water or warm chlorine water. Colored goods or silks Ammonia diluted according to the fineness of the tissue and delicacy of the color. Coffee and milk stains may be removed from silk, woolen or other fabrics, by painting over with glycerine, and then washing with a linen. rag dipped in lukewarm rain water. It is afterwards pressed on the wrong side with a moderately warm iron as long as it seems damp. The most delicate are unaffected by this treatment. For removing grease spots from white linen or cotton goods use soap or weak lyes; for colored calicoes, warm soapsuds; for woolens, soapsuds or ammonia; for silks, benzine, ether, magnesia, chalk, yolk of egg with water.

Sanitary Teaching.

The greatest obstacle to the correct application of sanitary principles is either the ignorance or carelessness of those likely to be benefited. Men of general intelligence will allow their farm yards, their cellars, their ponds and drains to be breeders of disease, which may endanger not only their lives but that of the neighborhood, simply through carelessness, or fear of temporary expense. It is true the health boards have been of inestimable benefit to the community where they are located, but if every physician would constitute himself a health officer in the neighborhood where he resides, pointing out the breeding places of disease, not alone in pond and ditch and swamp, but in the houses and the out-door premises of his patients, he would have a much more satisfactory, if not a lucrative, practice. If the masses of the people possessed that education in sanitary matters which every physician should be prepared to give, the death rate in the rural districts especially would be very much lessened. A striking illustration of the danger to an entire community by the ignorance and obstinacy of a few individuals is seen in the rapid spread of the cholera in Spain; so great is the opposition of the peasants to any change in those conditions upon which the very existence of the cholera depends that the government physicians will no longer visit them unless protected by a strong military escort. If the lives of those in the immediate district was only endangered through their own obstinacy they might be left to their fate, but the seeds of disease ripening among them are scattered broadcast and spread from nation to nation. Of course, in our own country we seldom meet such ignorance and obstinacy, but every physician will find an abundant use for all his information upon sanitary matters, which information should be volunteered whenever it will be productive of good.-N. Y. Med. Times.

Observations on the Movements of Young Children.

M. Alfred Binet has recently published some interesting observations which he has made with regard to the movements of infants. The first question to which he directed his attention was the way in which they learn to walk. He maintains that the attempts to walk are instinctive, and not the result of education (The Lancet). Among other grounds he draws attention to the more or less co-ordinated treading movements that even an infant of only three weeks will keep up if the soles of its feet are allowed to touch lightly a suitable surface. He believes that the time at which a child learns to walk depends not merely on bodily conditions, such as firmness of the bones, good muscular power, etc., but also on the mental characteristics of each child. Thus he thinks he has established the fact that a child who can give its attention to placing its steps, and whose attention is not easily distracted, learns to walk at an earlier age and in a shorter time than more restless children. He maintains further, that the boy makes the man, and that such children are characterized in later life by the important faculty of close application to work.

Rest a Little.

Good mother, maker of numerous pies, mender of manifold hose, overseer of a province-rest a little. Have a chair by the stove, and when you peep into the oven, sit while you look, yea, even a moment after. You will work all the faster for the short change of posture. While mending, have your chair in the coziest corner, where good light will come in, if possible, over your left shoulder. Drop your hands occasionally and let your eyes rest, by looking at something interesting out of doors; thus many a holy thought will enter the chamber of your mind and abide with you. Don't rule all the time. Drop the reins of government for only a little while and be a child with your children. These moments of sympathy with their delights will be remembered gratefully longer than your severe disciplinings, and when commands are necessary, as they often are, they will be the more potential because occasional.

Rest a little, and gather restful things about you, that you may rest. Every woman should have a cot and an easy chair in her working room; if this is every room in the house, then every room should have these resting appurtenances. I have known houses where there were several unmade dress patterns, folded away in the drawers, bought because they were bargains, regardless of need or fitness. Yet these same houses had not an easy chair to rest the body, a book to entertain the mind, nor a convenience to lighten labor. Nor had the inmates a kindly thought or word for each other, let alone the world outside. Can God bless such homes with children? He does do it. Yet such surroundings transform the holiest blessings sometimes into what seem curses of unspeakable bitterness. These parents reap but what they have sown. Let home bring rest to each member of the family, and let it be the care of each that mother rests a little.