HEALTH HINTS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 27

HEALTH HINTS.

To Stop Hiccoughing.—When the attack comes on press the pulse as hard as possible, and the hiccoughing will immediately cease. To Remove Tartar from the Teeth.— Take a little flowers of sulphur and moisten with a little water. Rub gently every day until the teeth are quite clear of all tartar.

Good Cure for Corns. —Take a fresh root of dandelion, break it in two, when a white juice or pith will be seen. Rub this juice on the corn, and before long the corn will disappear.

To Stop Nose Bleeding.—You may stop nose bleeding by open 1- \ and shutting the jaws widely, as if biting at a. largo apple. This must bo kept up for some minutes, and the bleeding will oea.se.

Cure for Catarrh. —Mix a tea-spoonful

of mustard in a cup with boiling water sand inlialo through the •jicstriis for about twenty minutes. Inhale gently at first. This lias proved suec-esKul where doctors’ solutions have failed. Value cf Sunshine. —Very v-./:n t children should never bo out after sunset, cr whenever the weather is damp. Neither should they he put to sleep in a cold room. lint let them have plenty of fresh air and sunshine. Let them play in a room bathed in. sunlight. Never mind the curtains fading; your child’s health is of far more importance.