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Mataura Ensign, 22 August 1910, Page 3

"To straighten their hats is the first impulse of feminine humanity after an accident. If a women could be raised from the dead she wonjd straighten her hat before doing anything else."—"The Undesirable Governess," by Marion Crawford. Superstitious beliefs in charms to ward off diseases—common enough in some rural districts—are still to be met with, it seems, around London. Dr E. Lowry, reporting on the medical inspection of children attending the elementary schools in Wimbledon, remarks that among the younger children it is very common to find concealed a string of beads around the neck, usually consisting of pale blue coral. These are not removed day or nig2t, and are sometimes stated to keep away colds, and especially quinsy. One person attributed measles to a child having removed the beads. The custom appears to be a prehistoric one, and in some parts of England practically every baby brought to hospital is wearing such beads. The fact that other children do not wear them points to a spirit of modernism or scepticism developing in them with age. Many curious domestic remedies are also seen, adds Dr Lowry, of which two may be mentioned. A child liable to colds is usually kept plastered over the cliost with melted tallow, and many have to be examined in this condition at school. As a rule, only the front of the chest is so treated owing to the popular idea that the lungs are all in front. Chronic ear disease is sometimes treated by the insertion in the affected ear of chewing tobacco in the form of a plug. Children's Hacking Cough at night J Woods' Great Pepeprmint Cure. Is 6d, 2s 6d. I