Show OUR SCRAP BASE TIIE THE WEEK IN HISTORY monday ity I 1 texas seceded secede bigl tuesday Y 4 2 ground bog ho day wed wednesday hasday 3 horace greeley lorn born 1811 thursday 4 confederate states organized friday 5 roger williams landed 1631 saturday 6 constitution ratified by massachusetts 1788 sunday 7 dickens born 1812 georgia settled 1733 OTHER BRAINS AND OURS worry is ia tile interest wo we pay on oil borrowed trouble the good that eliat is in you is of small use as long as it stays there the drum makes the most noise but it is the silent baton that directs the orchestra A new Y ir tango parlor lias has established a nursery so mt hu ors ers may leave their babies while tangoing tan going babies with that sort of mothers would be hotter better oft off io in the pound dr book is surely a humorist ile iio wants congress to decide whether or not lie discovered tile north pole discovering alio polo by act of congress would be the prize joke of the age MAGAZINES magazines are arc an all accumulation of advertising pages with just busl enough reading matter sandwiched between to to keep them from being catalogs the average magazine of today may be expected to contain about twelve articles one on oil finance one on oil politics and ton tell love stories high brows may edmo and baigh brows may go but so long as sex writers teina remain iii the magazine editor should worry sometimes a man mail gets the idea that lie he can call run a magazine and print neither love stories nor advertising hut but these ventures venturas never got farther than volume one USES AND application OF REMEDIES note Follow following fig are aie some of tile the many uses of tile the remedies f es e very every home should keep on oil hand ds as outlined in tho the article on A homo Mo medicine dicine chest lust last week aromatic spirits of Ani ammonia nionia useful as a stimulant 1 leoften lt often us used d of alcoholic stilli ul ants where their use ilse is objected to it is useful in cases of acid dyspepsia nervous or sick licad head ackies and simple nervousness dose fur for adult 14 1 4 teaspoonful ua in third of a tumbler of cold water for child ton tim drops in ill fourth tumbler of water this may bo be given every fifteen minutes until four or five loses doses have been taken caster oil general use is well known syrup of ginger good for diarrhoea cramping pains dose one third teaspoonful in ill 18 13 1 8 3 glass of every hour for four loses doses syrup of ipecac A good emetic if used freely adult should bo be given tablespoonful infant as near a tei teaspoonful spoonful as possible it will do no harm and too much is a safer risk than not enough it is used in cases of poisoning convulsions croup whooping whoop hig cough or achma ast lillia essence of peppermint A few drops in warm arm sweetened water is excellent for colic coic also good in cases of indigestion for adults listerine excellent for gargling of soro or sore mouth not intended to swallow but is i not harmful sweet spirits of nitra ditre teaspoonful added to tu of water dose for adults tablespoonful for child of any ally age teaspoonful of tile mixture every half balf hour good for fever promotes lic healthy althy activity of skin akin and kidneys and will often loos et ei a tight cough oil of cloves used chiefly for toothache a piece of cotton being saturated und inserted in ill tooth |