similar to fish, but are not so easily digested. Oysters are the most easily digested of this class of food. Next come lobsters and crabs, and lastly mussels.

For invalids and dyspeptics, this class of food should be excluded from the diet, with the exception of oysters, and these for a person of weak digestion should be eaten raw, or merely warmed through, as cooking renders the oyster tough and more difficult of digestion.

The raw oyster agrees with almost every one, although a few find themselves obliged to discard the hard part, eating only the soft portion. The hard part is muscle, which binds the two half-shells together, and the soft is the liver.

EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENT.

Children are peculiarly susceptible to the beauty or otherwise of their surroundings. They may not be able to voice it—may not be conscious of it, even, but it has none the less a potent influence on their behavior. "I used to notice," said an observing person once, "in a family which I visited quite frequently that when my call was confined to a chat in the library, a lovely ennobling room, full of books and sunshine, if the children were visible at all they were exceedingly mannerly and charming, while on the occasions when I would go down informally to the home luncheon or dinner, their behavior was quite different. The room was dark and sunless, and the belongings good, but all freshness worn off. I finally attributed the change in the children's conduct to their different environment."

MEAT HARMFUL IN SUMMER.

Considering the excessive meat eating habit of our people diarrhea will doubtless be as usual prevalent during the present summer. Meat spoils very quickly in this climate in hot weather, and poisons are then developed in it which cause vomiting and purging. Some people are more susceptible to these poisons than others. Probably the most susceptible are the young and those adults who suffer from digestive disturbances in which the liver is involved and unable to do its work properly -in other words, those who are termed bilious. One office of the liver is to protect the system from poisoning. It destroys certain noxious agents, and particularly those of a putrid character. Of course there is a limit to this power in a healthy liver, and it must be materi

ally lessened in one deranged. Those who cannot afford to keep their ice chests well filled should buy fresh meats only in small quantities, to be eaten at once. A more economical and safer plan is to forego meats entirely during the very hot weather, and depend upon fruits and vegetables. The vegetarian invariably suffers less discomfort and enjoys infinitely better health during the heated term than does the

meat eater.

SUMMER CLOTHING.

Evidently flannel is rapidly displacing linen and cotton for summer underwear here in the north. The most comfortable garments for hot weather are not, as many assume, those which are the lightest. The first essential is the power to absorb moisture. Linen and cotton are notoriously poor absorbents, while wool stands high in this respect. Flannel garments absorb the perspiration readily and keep the surface of the body comparatively dry. Another thing, when wearing linen or cotton, the clothing soon becomes wet and clammy by contact with the perspiring skin, and if one enters a current of air there is rapid evaporation of moisture and the body becomes cooled much too suddenly, in consequence of which disease often results. Of course, the same condition of things follows if the temperature falls and it comes on colder. In our climate, where such changes are extremely common, woolen garments are the only safe ones.

FOR THE COMPLEXION.

Wash your own dishes, polish your own brass and silver, sweep and dust, and make up your own bed, water and tend your own flowers; in fact, keep yourself busy and in good spirits, or take a brisk walk or ride in the afternoon of each day in pretty weather. Eat eggs, milk, rare steaks, wild meats, and other digestible food, leaving off everything fried, rich in condiments and fats. Sleep seven or eight hours in the twenty-four, in a well ventilated room, in which the sun has been permitted to shine two hours each day. Let the light fall on you; you are like a plant, you need it. And in less than a year your complexion will be better than any lotion or pomade could make it.—Ex.

EDITOR'S OUTLOOK.

SUMMER RECREATIONS.

In order to derive the highest advantages as to health, from summer recreations, several considerations ought to be kept in view.

Children who are teething should be taken without an hour's delay to the sea shore. The effect is, in multitudes of cases, instantaneous, radical and almost miraculous. Physicians of observation in large cities will testify that children in their second summer, in an almost dying condition begin to improve in their journey to the coast, and within three hours after leaving the heated and sultry atmosphere of the city in midsummer.

There is something in the salt air of the sea which has a renovating and life giving power to all whose brains have been overtaxed; and to many whose nervous symptoms have been impaired by intense excitements, whether arising from business anxieties, or domestic calamities.

There is also a moral effect for good in the roar of the ocean and in the sense of vastness which comes over the mind as the eye gazes upon it, bottomless and without a shore beyond, thus causing heart troubles to be swept away in their significance. To merchants, clerks, lawyers, to all who follow sedentary occupations, who are kept within four walls for a large portion of every twenty-four hours, no better advice can be given than to go off among the mountains, climb to their tops, descend into their valleys, penetrate their recesses, on foot, on horse, in every conceivable mode of locomotion, and they should consider every hour of daylight lost which does not find them in interested motion in the open air. The general rule is to effect a change of air.

Any change is more or less beneficial. There is no locality in any dozen miles apart whose atmosphere has not ingredients differing in some respects from that of other localities, and the human system readily drinks in those new or strange ingredients, just as one takes in, with unwonted delight and benefit, the food of a table a few miles from his own home. Both mind and body the world over yearn for variety, for change. So that a man living for years in the purest atmosphere on earth will be benefited by a change to one which although relatively less pure, has either different ingredients or the same in different proportions. To all who can, we say go somewhere, go anywhere rather than remain at home all the time. Go with as light a heart as possible; go determined to get good and do good, and you will seldom fail of both.

But in going leave all "airs" and mocks and pretenses and shams behind. Assume nothing; exact nothing; claim nothing beyond what is spontaneously offered by those with whom you may come in contact. In all situations be courteous, and respect yourself and you will have respect and courtesy shown you. Acting thus you will return home healthier, happier, wiser and better than when you went away.

To give all our readers plenty of opportunity to secure the Chambers Encyclopedia, we have decided to hold open our offer until September first, when it will then close.

The publishers are gratified at the many expressions of satisfaction and kind words already received from our offer, and consequently we feel that our efforts are appreciated. We desire to impress upon all that by offering such a handsome premium it will not depreciate in the least the high standard that the JOURNAL has attained in its forty years of existence. On the contrary we shall make improvements from month to month, and will always be in keeping with the times.

The publishers take the liberty to publish a testimonial from one of our recent subscribers:

Publishers HALL'S JOURNAL OF HEALTH :

SALEM, Mass., April 20.

Your Encyclopedia and the JOURNAL for May, came to hand promptly, and I am delighted with them. The Encyclopedia is a valuable acquisition to our household, and must say, again that I am more than gratified and pleased. May thousands accept of your efforts to place such a treasury of knowledge before them, and with best wishes, I am yours sincerely,

10 Mason Street.

B. W. NASON.

Our issue for July will appear much earlier than usual on account of our Recreation Bureau.

We are very much gratified at the results of our attempt to make this department a special feature of the JOURNAL.

Daily inquiries are passed through the Bureau, and we again invite all who desire information about any resort in the world, knowledge of its hotels, surroundings, etc., how to reach them, the cost, etc., to address the Recreation Bureau, care of the JOURNAL, and circulars and information will be promptly sent. In the next issue we propose to publish a guide to all the prominent summer resorts, and it is especially requested that hotels who desire representation in it to forward their circulars at once.

LITERARY.

LEPROSY AND VACCINATION; by William Tebb. London, Swan, Sonnenschein & Co. Octavo, 412 pp. Price, $1.50.

The work is dedicated to the Royal Commission on Vaccination whose protracted and patient labors have elicited the valuable evidence contained in its already published reports. The book itself is valuable for its historical research into the disease of leprosy, its increase apparently in the old world, and treatment of it. Bound in handsome cloth binding.

VAGARIES OF SANITARY SCIENCE; by F. L. Dibble, M. D. 12 mo., pp. 462, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co. Price, $2.00.

This book, a valuable acquisition to the medical profession, to which it is dedicated, is a complete and exhaustive treatise on sanitary science, and not only should it be readily accepted in the medical circles, but in the many homes of the land. It is handsomely and substantially bound in cloth.

THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS, Comparatively a new magazine, is becoming one of the best of our periodicals. Every number seems to be an improvement. The May number begins with a timely article on "The Progress of the World," appropriately illustrated. The work of the women at the Columbian Exhibition is given a liberal space, and is very happily treated. For the business man the magazine is THE periodical for his limited amount of time.

If one desires to keep up with the times in everything that is practical, “LEND A HAND," published by J. Stillman Smith & Co., Boston, is the periodical that

fills in this want. "A New District," meaning upper New York, "The Singers' Alms," Harvard College,' Hall House, The North and Union," and other articles of interest grace the pages of the June number. Price, $2.00 per year. THE CENTURY, for May, as usual, is a superb number. The opening chapter, "At the Fair," by W. Lewis Fraser, is an admirable descriptive story, accompanied by illustrations. "Sweet Bells Out of Tune," is still continued. Gilbert Gaul pictures life at Nicaraugua, interestingly, and many other valuable articles grace its pages.

THE BLUE AND GRAY, a thoroughly patriotic magazine, and its name suggests everything. Soldier life is depicted, its hardships, privations and other discomforts are woven into stories and these valuable additions to our nation's history, find their way to this periodical. It is a typical magazine of soldier life. Published in Philadelphia, at $2.50 per year.

THE COSMOPOLITAN leads its interesting number for May with an illustrated paper, "In the Footsteps of Dickens." Howell's continued story, "A traveler from Altruna." 'American Society in Paris," is admirably treated by Mary B. Ford. Richly illustrated is the "Omega, the last days of the World." A rich number throughout.

Our oldest society paper, the HOME JOURNAL, comes out with its usual directory of summer resorts, and it has proven a valuable feature to the paper, and largely appreciated by people of the best homes of the metropolis and elsewhere. Always bright, interesting and valuable.

The World's Fair number of the YOUTH'S COMPANION is a pleasant surprise to all who are warmly attached to that most excellent paper. Beautifully illustrated, valuable for information. Perry, Mason & Co. are to be congratulated.

THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, of Philadelphia, is among the best periodicals that finds its way into the homes of our people. The May number opens with a poem by Edna Dean Proctor.

RECREATION BUREAU NOTES.

The complete transformation of the famous Sterlingworth Inn. Lakewood, New York, into a Sanitarium, is a notable one

Where formerly only those on pleasure bent, sought recreation at the charming resort during the heated term a new class of visitors is rapidly filling the large and elegantly furnished Sterlingworth Inn and Sanitarium, although many of those who have enjoyed its hospitality for a summer are among those who are being benefited by rest and treatment beside the shores of beautiful Chautauqua Lake.

Already open for the season is the Temigewassit House at Plymouth, N. H., and the proprietors, C. M. Morse & Son, expect a successful season.

Old Nantucket is familiarly known the world over. The Springfield conducted by Charles H. Mowry, is one of the best hostelries in the east. Beautiful Circulars of the famous hotel can be had of us if desired.