Fifty years ago tho term preventive
medicine was unknown. Today it rep?
resents a groat body of well attested
and accepted principles. It has denned
our streets, lt has helped build our
model tenements, lt has purified our
food and our drinking water, lt lins en?
tered our homes and kept away disease,
lt has prolonged our lives mid it hns
made the world n sweeter place in
which to live. -Medical News
Anstrnllnn Tea.
In the Interior of Australia all the
men drink tea. They drink lt all dny
long and in quantities find at n strength
thnt would seem to be poisonous. Ou
Sunday morning tho tea maker starts
with a clean pot and a denn record.
The pot ls hung over tho fire with a
Sufficiency of water in lt for tho day's
brew, and when this has boiled ho
pours into It enough of the fragrnnt
herb to produce ti deep, coffee colored
liquid,
On Monday, without removing yes?
terday's tea leaves, he repeats tho proc?
ess; on Tuesday tia eai>o anti on Wed?
needa? da capo, and so on through the
week. Toward the close of lt the great
pot ls filled with an acrid mash of tea
leaves, out of which the liquor ls
squeezed by the pressure of a tin cup.
By this time thc tea ls of the color of
rusty Iron, Incredibly bitter and disa?
greeable to the uneducated palate. The
native calls it "real good old post and
rails," the simile being obviously drawn
from a stiff and dangerous Jump, anti
regards lt as having boen brought to
perfection.
Story of a Top Hat.
