quite white--the
sugar yellow. Place the sugar in a big earthernware pan or jar, and add
three pints of _cold_ water. Then cover it up and let it stand two days,
stirring it occasionally to help the melting. Now take two ounces of
citric acid, dissolved in a little boiling water, and add it to the
syrup, stirring the whole. Then strain the whole through a fine sieve,
covered with muslin, so that it becomes perfectly clear. In well-corked
bottles it will keep for more than a year. Mix one-third of the lemonade
with two-thirds water. [Instead of the oranges five or six lemons may be
used.]

BEVERAGES FOR THE SICK:--Unfermented Grapejuice. Hot milk. Egg cream,
made as follows: Beat the white and yolk separately, add milk and sugar,
and stir well, flavor to suit taste. Egg lemonade--beat yolk and sugar
thoroughly, add lemon and water, shake well, then add white, beaten
stiff. Barley water, made by boiling pearl barley five or six hours, and
straining the water from it; add milk or cream if wished. These are used
in the National Temperance Hospital of Chicago.

BATHS:--"If all people understood the value of water to cool,
cleanse, invigorate and sustain life, and how to use it, _and
would use it_, one-half of all the afflictions from disease
would be removed; and the other half might be banished if all
the people understood how and what to eat, how to breathe, and
the necessity of daily vigorous exercise. A daily towel bath
will do more to counteract disease, and restore the body to its
normal health condition, than any other method or remedy yet
discovered. After the bath, the body should be thoroughly rubbed
with a crash or Turkish towel. Rub until a warm glow is
produced. This bath is a fine tonic if taken upon rising in the
morning."

HOT WATER AS A MEDICINE:--"One is never," says a physician, "far
from a pretty good medicine chest with hot water at hand. It is
a most useful assistant to the mother of a family of small
children, who is frightened often to find herself confronted by
a sudden illness of one of her flock, without her usual
dependence--the family doctor. If the baby has croup, fold a
strip of flannel or a soft napkin lengthwise, dip into very hot
water, and apply to the child's throat. Repeat and continue the
application till relief is had, which will be almost at once.
For toothache, or colic, or a threatened lung congestio