WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11282, 9 January 1915, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

THE CURE CORNER. I WHAT AN" JOOC WILT/ DO. j Tbo white of an cj/g mixed with either olive, or eaMnr oil makes on* 1 of tbo most soothing and healing applications lor a burn. A raw swallowed immediately afterwards will carry down a fishbone that cannot be got up from the throat. A mustard plaster, if mixed with tbo white of an egg. will act, qui to as well, and will not leave a blistor. The white of an f<gg beaten up with a little sugar and a. dash of lemon-juice will relieve hoarseness. A USEFUL EYE WASH. One's eyes often feel hot and irritable in dry wea.tber, chiefly on account of tlio dust; and they should be bathed, frequently with this lotion, says the "Globe.'' Dissolve a small toaspoonful of bora.ric powder in half a pint of rose wator. Nearly fill an eye bath or an egg-cup will serve with this and add hot wator to make it just tepid. Hold the cup up to the eyo. and open and shut the eye several times in the lotion, which will not only wash and f.ootbe tbo eye. but will penetrate through the toardnets to iha nasal canal, and prevent, the so-called " summer influenza cold " which is really caused by dust. After washing the eyes in this way at night dry tbem, and smear the smallest possible amount of pure white vaseline on the ladies.

A cup of cold water before retiring and a cup' of hot water in the morning before breakfast work like magic as a cure for indigestion.

Nails that are inclined to brittleshould be treated daily with a little pure white vaseline. The vaseline should bo well rubbed over and into the nails, and also worked into the under-pa.rt of the nail, just above the finger-tip.

fatal summer months scarcely a deilh IVom dis»rrho?a occurred among tli« babies whose mothers were ;)\aiji/;.?, I.'notii:so]yes of rational fid viae, t-'n-loi<.l at tho four creches then established in Paris on modern linos .About half of these more fortunate, babies were suckled, and the rest wore bottlefed with milk supplied at tha special "Babies llilk Depot.'-' Tn the provinces a similar result has been achieved. Thus IV Dufonr, tln>. pioneer in Normandy of iho rational carry of baln'os, including the use, of Immunised milk, shows that while the death rate among infants averaged 55 for the four principal towns, tin*, k-d.h rst.fr- nmon» babies whose mothers niUmdod the, depots and got proper advice and food was less than '\ per cent—in other words, only ono-twontio f h of the mortality which took place inio; , r_the briliies whoso mothers persisted in /atoinp: their own way, in spite of warnings and advice.