| Show What Can Be Donp With EBBS I Here are some of the emergency I uses of eggs They can be used as a substitute for paste or mucilage to seal a letter or a jar of jelly The white will allay the smart of a burn if bound upon it excluding the air Half a dozen eggs given immediately after an emetic will rendercorrosive sublimate harmless The white beaten beat-en and swallowed will dislodge a fishbone fish-bone from the throat And if a mustard mus-tard plaster be mixed with the white of egg instead of water no blister will follow the application of the plaster Speaking of eggs it is a fresh egg that will sink and a bad one that will swim Everybody knows that a good egg will do one and a bad egg the other but for some reason it seems difficult to remember which does which The reason a fresh egg sinks in water is because of the water in its own composition Another test of a thoroughly fresh egg is the distinctness distinct-ness with which the yolk may be seen when the egg is held up to the light New York World |
