GOOD HEALTH BY SIMPLE MEANS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 81, 5 April 1930, Page 2

GOOD HEALTH BY SIMPLE MEANS

(By H. C. Aylen) Quite recently I heard of a girl who tried to remove something from her ear with a hairpin. The result was disastrous for she had to undergo an operation! Ears are delicate things to deal with and, as a rule, should be left entirely to Nature —and the doctor!. When a doctor is not at hand, the old-fashioned salt bag remedy does wonders for simple ear-acho if the patient lies in bed and keeps quiet. Salt bags should be made of flannel and filled with common cooking salt. Place them between two fireproof plates in the oven and, when thoroughly heated through, placo one against the ear. Cover the pillow with a shawl, or some other woollen article, so that head as well as ear may be kept warm. Be Careful when you Wash. fee careful when you wash, and still more careful when you swim, to see that no water gets into your ears. A great deal of ear trouble among children in schools has been traced to swimming bath water remaining in the ears. Swimming caps are now designed to obviate this. The ears, of course, should be carefully dried with a linen towel after bathing, since salt sea water is particularly injurious to the delicate mechanism inside them. No Cotton Wool. Children and even grown-ups often go about with bits of cotton wool in their ears. This should not be. The ear was not meant to be constantly protected in this way, besides which the fluff from the wool may collect inside and give trouble. Do not use a rubber sponge with which to wash the ears, for bits of this are apt to loosen and get inside. A wash cloth is best, and a soft linen towel for drying. Noises in the ear should bc attended by a doctor at once, as they may be associated with deafness. seful Laundry “Gadget” A clothes-peg bag which hangs on the line, and can be pushed along it, as you move, saves a lot of time. Make it from striped hammock chair-canvas or of bed ticking. Suspend the bag from a thick wire, bent up at each end into a hook, or from a child’s coathanger. The front half should bc sloped down in a deep curve so that you will be able to get the pegs out easily. The well-groomed girl washes her small, delicate things herself. If you live in a town always thoroughly dust your clothes-horse, overhead airer, or outdoor clothes line before hanging wet garments to dry, else mysterious little marks may appear on your newlywashed things. Another good tip for the clothes line is to hold over it one of those small, bent-over brushes sold for cleaning dental plates, and run this vigorously along the rope. A firstrate type of laundry bag for soiled garments is the kind which fits over a coat hanger, and has a, bound centrefiont slit for slipping the contents in and out. This can be bought in printed cotton, ruberised (so that damp towels can be put in safely), or is easily made at home. Use rubber sheeting, making the bag thirty inches long and with a thirteen-inch slit. Hang it inside your cupboard door.