ns of a cloth dipped in the
water and laid on the wounded part, or by immersion, if convenient,
and the treatment kept up until relief is obtained. If applied at
once, the use of hot water will generally prevent, nearly, if not
entirely, the bruised flesh from turning black. For pains resulting
from indigestion, and known as wind colic, etc., a cupful of hot
water, taken in sips, will often relieve at once. When that is
insufficient, a flannel folded in several thicknesses, large enough to
fully cover the painful place should be wrung out of hot water and
laid over the seat of the pain. It should be as hot as the skin can
bear without injury, and be renewed every ten minutes or oftener, if
it feels cool, until the pain is gone. The remedy is simple,
efficient, harmless, and within the reach of every one; and should be
more generally used than it is. If used along with common sense, it
might save many a doctor's bill, and many a course of drug treatment
as well.

GROWING PAINS CURED.

Following in our mother's footsteps, we have been routed night after
night from our warm quarters, in the dead of winter, to kindle fires
and fill frosty kettles from water-pails thickly crusted with ice,
that we might get the writhing pedal extremities of our little heir
into a tub of water as quickly as possible. But lately we have learned
that all this work and exposure is needless. We simply wring a towel
from salted water--a bowl of it standing in our sleeping room, ready
for such an emergency--wrap the limb in it from the ankle to knee,
without taking the child from his bed, and then swathe with dry
flannels, thick and warm, tucking the blankets about him a little
closer, and relief is sure.

_Good Housekeeping._

HOW TO KEEP WELL.

Don't sleep in a draught.

Don't go to bed with cold feet.

Don't stand over hot-air registers.

Don't eat what you do not need, just to save it.

Don't try to get cool too quickly after exercising.

Don't sleep in a room without ventilation of some kind.

Don't stuff a cold lest you should be next obliged to starve a fever.

Don't sit in a damp or chilly room without a fire.

Don't try to get along without flannel underclothing in winter.

DIPHTHERIA.

A gargle of sulphur and water has been used with much success in cases
of diphtheria. Let the patient swallow a little of the mixture. Or,
when you discover that your throat is a little sore, bind a strip of
flannel around the thr