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A reconciliation is seldom effected
without some price being paid for it.
7 nh's
i with
Elizabeth, befit If t4ro 1 d
c n e called
I c
such, t is boa l t
b r at the cost of a areal
sacrifice of principle on 111s part, No
later than this morning he had laid
down es a Median rule, that he should
avoid opportunities of finding himself in
Miss Le Marehnnl's company; nod 101,
not only has he spent the major part of
the afternoon in her soctety, but, es ho
walks away from her door, .he finds that
ho has engaged himself to help Byng, on
no distant day, In doing the honors of
the Cortese Monastery, to her and her
another. On reflection, he cannot quite
explain to himself how the arrange-
ment Imo come about. The proposal
oerlatnly did not originate with him, and
still less with the two ladies so strange-
ly shy of all society. The Ihree have
somehow been swept into it by Byng,
who either with the noblest, altruism, or
because he feels justly confident shot ho
!las no cause for jealousy of his friend
(Jim's cynical reflection Is that the latter
Is the much more probable reason), has
insisted on drawing him into the pro-
ject,
Jim Burgoyne Is not a man whom, as
a rule, it is easy either to Wile or cudgel
into any course that does not recom-
mend itself to his own judgment or
taste --a feet of which the himself is per-
feetly aware, and which makes him re-
morsefully acknowledge that there must
indeed have been a traitor in the citadel
ot his own heart before he could have so
weakly yielded at the first push to what
his reason sincerely disapproves. But
yet it Is not true that remorse is the
leading feature of his thoughts, as he
walks silently beside his friend down the
\'la di Servi. It ought to be, perhaps,
but it is not, The picture that Olds the
foreground of its memory Is that of
Elizabeth silting on the floor, and send-
ing him peahe-offerings from her pathe-
tic eyes and across her sensitive lips.
It was very sweet of her to think it
necessary to make hien amends at all
for her trifling incivility, and nothing
could be sweeter than (ho manner of it.
How gladly would he buy some little
rudeness from her every day at such a
price! But yet, 118 he thinks it over, the
monn=r ot It, the ground on which she
rested lies excuse, is surely a strange
one, That she should attribute her light
lapse from canrtesy to want of know-
ledge of the world acmes strangely from
the mouth of a woman of six -and -
twenty. It It be true,—and there was a
naive veracity " in lip and eye as she
spoke—how is it to be accounted fol'?
Inas her mind, hos her experience of life
remained absolutely stationary daring
the last ten years? Her tell-tale face,
ower which, some pensive story is so
plainly written, [orbtds the inference.
It is no business of his, of course.
Amelia, thank ileaven, has no story;
but, oh I it some one would tell him
whet that history is 1 And yet, three
clays Inter, he voluntarily puts _away
from himself the opportunity of hearing
it.
During those three days he sees no
more of her. Ile does not again seek
her out, and accident does not throw
her in his way. I•Ie buys his Cantagailt
dimer -service ire company with Amelia;
chooses the soup -tureen out of which lie
is to ladle mutton broth for the inhabi-
tants of \Vos(bourne Grove; he tastes of
the wedding -cake that has cost Cecilia
so dear, and he ',volds Byng. On Um
Third day he eats -o longer avoid him,
since be Is to oscopy, as on the San
Militate occasion, the fourth seat in the
!acre, which convey3 himself and the
Misses Wilson to the garden -party at the
' villa in Bellosguardo inhabited by Mrs.
Roche, the mother of the amiable 13erUe,
The Wilsons' sequainlances in Florence
ore iew,, and, as far as Burgoyne has at
present bad the opportunity of judging,
evil.. It is, therefore, with a proportion-
ate elation that Cecilia dresses for a
party at which she .will sleet the bulk,
or at least the cream, of the English
society. Itis to By'ng's good nu lure
that she and her sister owe the intro -
(Mellon to a hostess whose acquaintance
is ah'cady too large td make her eager
for toy 0011501058 addition to it; but
whose hand lees been forced by Byng,
[n the mistaken idea that he is doing a
service to his friend Jim.
'l'hey are late In setting of(, as Amelia
Is delayed by the necessity of soothing
Sybilla, who has been reduced to biller
hem's by a tele -ft -tete with .her father, in
which that wall -intentioned but incau-
tious bei
llenan has been
betrayed into
o
her that she may possibly
suggesting1D y p Y
be suffering h•om biliousness. The ud-
ministeeing of bromide, to calm her
nerves under such a shock ; the reiter-
ated assurances that every member of
the family except its head realizes the
monstrosity of the suggestion, take up
se- Hutch time that Amelia herself has to
reduce to a minimum the moments al-
lotted to her own toilette. She has cried
a little with Sybilla, for company parr-
ly,•and partly out of weariness of spirit.,
That and hurry have swollen her eye-
lids and painted her cheeks with a hard,
tired red, so that it Is an even more
homespun figure, and a homelier face
111011 usual, that seat themselves 'Moe -
site Burgoyne, when. at length they get
under weigh.
Ile, Burgoyne, has been impatient of
the delay, impatient to set off and to
arrive; yet he would.li0 puzzled to say
wily. Ho knows, on no less authority
than her own word, that he shall not
meet Elizabeth; and yet the mere feel-
ing that the mistress of the house to
which he is going is of the same blood
es sho; that he shall see the rude,
spoilt child whose ill-tempered pinch
made her utter that low cry of paid,
suffice to give a tartness to his .Lone, as
he inquires tate cause of her lagging, of
the panting, flushed, apologetic Amelia.
Byng and Cecilia have been sitting
waiting for some time In the salon,
from which Sybllia has removed her
Prostrate figure and tear -stained face;
but they have been entertaining each
other , so well—she in paying him a
series of marked etlentions, and he in
civilly and pleasantly accepting them—
that the halt -hour has not seemed long
to either. But tiie party, in motion at
last, has passed the Boman Gate, and is
climbing up and up between the high
walls, each step giving it a greater
vantage ground over the Flower City,
before Burgoyne recovers his equani-
mity.
The spring comes on apace. In the
gardens above their !reads laurestinus
bushes, with all their flowers out (as
they are never seen in England, where
always the east wind nips half the Mlle
round buds before they can expand into
blossom), stand in white and green;
rosemary trees, covered with grey
bloom, hang down; and dgahtst lhto
azure of the high heaven purple [rises
stand up arow, it Is one of those days
on which one can with bodily eyes see
the Great Another at her quickening
work; tan see her flushing the apple
boughs, unfolding the fig -leaves, and
delving the lusty green blood througll
the sappy vines. And in the slow creep-
ing of the (!acre up the lwvlsting white
road, each turn lays the divine Tuscan
city bo(ore them in some new aspect of
arresting loveliness.
At Florence. one is like Balaam with
the Israelites. One is taken to see train
one point after another, each point
seeming fairer than the last; but lila
likeness ends there, for no wish to curse
the sweet town could ever arise in even
the morosest ]heart. The hills have put
on their summer look of dreamy warmth
and distance. Before they have reached
the hill -lop, the boon Italian air has
kissed most of the creases out of Jim's
temper, and the brick -red trona Ainelia's
cheekbones. Ile looks remorsefully from
the triumphant beauty around into the
poor, fond face opposite to )tint—looks
nt iter Witt a sort. of compassion for be-
ing so unlovely, mixed with a com-
punctious adnh•auon and tenderness
for her gentle qualUles. Ile may touch.
her hand without fear of observation,
se- wholly is Byng enveloped in the
mantle of Cecilia's voluble tenderness.
"!lave you forgiven me?" he asks,
smiling; "I will make any apologies, eat
any dirt, say anything, short of allow-
ing that Sybilla is not bilious."
They have reached the villa, and
turned out of the dusty highway into a
great cool courtyard, that has a Moor-
ish look, with its high arches, over
which the Banksia 1'0805 lumblo in cas-
cades of yellow and wht(e. I1 seems
wrong that the voices which come from
the tea -tables tinder the Loggia should
be chattering English oe Yankee, in-
stead of cooing that "sweet bastard
Latin" that better suits place and da.y.
The hostess shakes hands absently
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fon't neglect your caugiv'
Statistics show that in New IPail Vii.`
alone over 200 people die every week fro u
consumption. .
And most of these consumptives might
be Hying now if they had not neglected the
warning cough.
You know hove ,'quicldy ,Scoi"s
Sp
Emulator! enables you to throw off ,a,
cough or'cold.'
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with !Burgoyne, offers lits fair eharges
iced coffee, and then, !laving di iellurged
her eousclence towards 111011) draws
Ilyng away for an intimate chat from
1101 hands he passes iota those of sev-
eral
ewer•a1 other willing matrons and maids,
and 11 seems likely '.hut the party win)
brought 11101 will sem ]rim no more.
Arueta,-unused to, and unexpectant of
attention, is peefeclly content to sit
silent, sipping her cold coffee; but Ce-
cilia is clumping lrnr hit in a way which
frightens her future brother.in-law so
much !het he cowardly takes the oppor-
tunity of her looking in another direc-
tion to lure his docile flame on to the
broad terrace, whence all the young
green glory of the Arno's plaid, and
the enlpur711nd slopes and drernntul
breast of Morello, are to be seen by the
looker's bonuly-drunk eye. Upon this
terrace many people are walking and
silting in twos and threes, and In one of
the ]!tile groups Amelia presently a dis-
covers female a
v em e c u ain
hence who at
S ,
once fastens ns a on her, and hal colo
p iP 6
to be inflicted with a relative visited by
a disorder of sohlething the same na-
ture as Sybitn's, subjects her to a
searching and exhaustive catechism as
t) the nature of her sister's symptoms.
Sybilla's symptoms, whether at first or
second hand, have invariably the pr0-
perty'ef driving Jim lido desert &eces;
and, In the present instance, seeing no
likelihood of an end to. the relation of
them, l)0 turns impatiently sway, and,
without much thought of where he is
tDing, .follows a steep downward path
hat ends in a descent of old stone steps,
between whose crevices green penile
and little hawkweed blow -bulls flourish
undisturbed, to a large square wall,
framed by' a low broad parapet, with
'ower beds sot around 1t, and the whole
closed in by rugged stone walls, No
ono apparently has had the seine im-
pulse as he, for, at first, he has the cool
solitude to himself. Ile sits clown on
the parapet of the still well, and drops
In pebbles to sce.how deep the water Is;
and anon lifts his idle look to the empty
niches 111 the crumbling wall niches
where once wood -god, or water -nymph,
or rural Pan stood in stone, now empty
and forsaken. Out of the wall two
ilexes grow, and lift themselves against
the sapphire arch, which yet is no sap-
phire, nor of any name that belongs to
cold stone; a blue by which all other
blues are but feeble colorless ghosts of
that divines'. tint.
He is roused from the vague reverie
into which the cool silence and the
brooding beauty around have lulled him
by the sound of approaching voices. ile
Is not to have his well any longer, to
himself. He looiks up with that scarcely
latent hostility in iris eye with which
ono regards the sudden intruder into a
railway carriage, when—counting . on
keeping it to oneself for a long dight
journey -one has diffused limbs and
parcels over its whole area. The owners
of the voices having descended, as he
had done, the age -worn steps, come Into
sight. They .are both men, and one of
them he recognizes at once as a Mr.
Greenocik, a well-known stock figure in
Florentine society, a mature bachelor
diner ot11, a not ill-natured retailer of
news, collector of bons -mots, and harm-
less appendage of pretty women. Of
the other, at whom he scarcely ,glances,
all he grasps Is the fact that he is dress-
ed in clerical attire, and that the first
wards audible of his speech, as he Genies
within hearing, is the name of an Eng-
lish county Davonshtrc. The answer
conies in a tone of keen interest:
"Ah, 1 thought there must be a screw
loose 1"
As the now arrivals become aware of
the presence of a third person, they
pause In their talk; bul, presently Air,
Greenock having recognized Jim and
greeted him with a friendly nod and a
trivial remark upon the splendor of the
day, they resume their interrupted
theme; standing together a few yards
distant from ilial on the walk, resume it
in a raider lower but still perfectly
audible key,
"I thought there must be some reason
for their shutting themselves up so re-
solutely," continuos Air. Greenock in the
graded tone of one who has at length
solved a long -puzzling riddle. "I
thought that there must be a. aal'ew
loose, In fact; but are you quite sure of
it ?"
Tho other gives a sigh and a shrug.
"Unfortunately there ma be no doubt
on that (lead; 1110 whole lamentable
occurrence took place under myaown
eyes; the bloat is in my parish."
"Devonshire!" "A screw looses" "The
Moat!" Burgoyne is still silting qn (119
well -brim; but 41e no longer sees the
lapis vault above, nor the placid dark
water below. A sort of horrible mist is
swimming before his eyes; it is of Eliza-
beth le Merchant that they are speak-
ing. Through 11n11 mist he snatches a
scared loolk at the 81)0111k01`; 01 him whom
but two nd11utee ego he had glanced at
with such curenry carelessness. Does he
reeognUO hint? Alas 1 yes, 'Though
changed by the nt•quisition of n bald
head and a grizzled beard, he sees him
at once to be the elan who, at the thee
of his own acquaintance with the Le
Marchant family, had filled the olllce of
vicar of their perish; under whom he
had sat 011 several drowsy summer Soli-
dity
unday mornings, trembling at the boys'
perilous antics iu the greet culnined
pew} and iaughing inwardly et Eliza-
bellis mirth -struggling efforts to con-
trol them.
"And you soy that they never held up
their heads again afterwards' 7" pursues
Mr, Greenock l)1 a toile of good-natured
compassion,that is yet largely tinged
with gratified curiosity,
"They lett the neighborhood et once,".
'TGrrns the clergyman, "Dene me, !low
time files! it must be ten years ago now,
unci I never sew them again until I met
the unhappy girl and her mother yes•
lerclay, driving in the Via 'i'ornalO)oni;
but"—lowering his voice a little snore---
"you Will understand That this is strictly
entre nous; that it must go no further'."
'"What do you think 1 conn made or?"
erica Mr. Greenock in a burst or goner•
one indignation; "bel" --stepping tit pace.
or two nearer to his Interlocutor—"l ((111
1101 quite sure that I have got the detets
of the story right; would you mind feat
stunting it aver to 1110 agafrl?"
Jln1 has been s?Ung 11 411011 a shunned
stilleess (hal it is perhaps no weeder
that they hsvo •'forgotten, his nelghborr
hood, At ell events the clergyman is
evidently about to comply with his coin•
p0n1011'8 request and veehpilllralo the
tale, if TIM preserves his lnotio111eSe
attitud0 but ilve tnitlulos lodger, he Will
be put into possession of that story
whose existence he Lars [MTV," Heavily
conjectured, and the lntagintng of
wbiclr has made him often, wi(hln the
lest week or two, turn with nausea trent
his food, and toss restlessly upon his
bed, Without any trouble 00 Ills part,
without any possible blame attaching to
Mins be will learn the poor soul's Se-
cret. Never! II the devil wish to tempt
111ni with a prospect of 51(0(1081, !t roust
bit will) O. less unhandsome 11a1t,, Ale
mast hefure 1110 two Startled seandul-
monger:s have recalled the fact of his
existence by the abrupt noise of his de-
parture, he I half -tray book to Me ler-
race, lint mist still before Ms eyes, and
n singingIn bis ears,
('l'0 be continued).
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IMPOli'l'ANCIi OF PURL AI[t,
Regardi lg the beat system of ventila-
tion for stables "Ilaard's Dairyman"
says:
Over and over again does the dairy-
man recur to the question of proper
veutilution of stables, Why? Because
It is to -clay the most important, of all
matters• connected with the winter stab-
ling of cattle. Men do not realize, its
importance. Not one farmer in a hun-
dred ever thought Hard and well an
hoar at a time nn the question.
Look at It from 11118 standpoint: We
cent live without food thirty days, or
more. We can live without water sev-
en days, but we cannot live five minutes
without air. Moreover, WO C811 as read -
BY !poison ourselves with foul air as
with
foul food or water. Gel these three
things into our heads in their true pro-
portion and we will do something at
once to supply our stables with pure
ale. Again, we say the K(11g system is
t(10 only one we have ever seen that
will properly ventilate a stable. It costs
but little, try It.
"i'11e icing system of ventilation pro-
vides for laking in fresh, pure air from
the outside, and removing the cold, foul
air. For its successful working it se -
quires, first, a stable or r0om'compara-
lively air proof. There must be no di -
reef openings to the outside or through
the ceiling to the space above, such as
hay -chutes or other openings for put-
ting down hay and bedding, unless pro-
vided with doors or covers so that they
may be closed.
The fresh air is admitted through
several small air ducts, '.veli distributed
on all sides of the building, opening to
the interior at o1.' near the ceiling and
Cal the outside three or more feet lower
down. If the opnings are directly
through the wall at the ceiling the warns
air will escape, and if tower down the
fresh air will come in and he drawn
cut by 111e large ventilating shaft, and
the air above will not be changed.
This vonliloting shaft Is in effect a
large chimney, and should be construct -
Every Leaf is Fffl of Virtue
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Every fu slEll is Derides HEALITI
CEYLON GREEN TCA.
Has such a fine flavor that you will ease it
always after a tiriatl,
Lead paokets only. 400, 500 unci 000
po
1b.
At an groaars.
ed on precisely the same principles Lhnt
apply In building a successful chimney
—open at the ba.se, air proof, free from.
obstruction or sharp bends, and extend-
ing above the highest part of 1110 hued -
1, .
It may be located where wit
Ix least in the way. I1 should have a
capacity 01' cross-section of 30 square
bmites for each '1,(1(01 or live weight c f
the animals; or say, two.feclsquare flour
square feel) for twenty cows of average
sire,
The aggregate capacity of the intake
flues should be about the same, Apply
these principles to the specific eases and
olio may be reasonably sure of good
ventilation.
IIOW TO GET EGOS IN WINTER.
Duplicate summer conditions as far as
possible.
Green fond is necessary, and a lot of
It. Clover and alfalfa head the list,
with beets and cabbage a close second.
!lens that do not get exercise will not
111 the egg basket in winter. Scatter
chopped clover and dry grain in the lit-
ter, so they will have to scratch for it,
and hong cabbage just out of standing
0011011, so (11ey will have to jump for it.
Give them warm water—water with
the chill taken off it—ntleast twice a
cloy, and supply enough anima! food to
take 1110 place of the worms and insects
they catch in the ileitis in the summer,_
Cut green bone Is also a requisite. They
take to it greedily.
Oyster shells and grit ((lens' teeth)
must of C011080 be provided, and a box
at pulverized charcoal will help to keep
them in good health. Kerosene, careful-
ly used, vermin powder and dust boxes
will keep theist free of all insect life.
Have roosting closets light for com-
fortable sleeping. Even in zero weather
fowl will Iceep warm scratching for food
scattered in the liner during the day.
Pullets for winter layers should be
hatched about ice latter part of April.
When hatched,
•' n
t keep them growing.
Give them plenty of room to run about
during 1110 summer and curly autumn,
and they will be laying during cold
weather,
Watch their work as closely as- pos-
sible, weed out the drones and fill their
places with fresh stock each year.
Do not overfeed. Muttony produces
beefy, non -laying hens.
a e perfect A11 known cereals are e1fe.L [nod for
1
tette. 00051, when properly used, le sup-
posed 10 be one al the best. Mixed
grain foods should bo cooked in order
to gel best results.
Corn mal wheat middlings, Ane
ground oats, [Inc
animal meal, all mix-
ed in skimmed milk, has been found
to be a quick fattening toad for chick-
ens intended for the market.
Beginners 10 the business should
start moderately, with good stook, study
their birds and learn thoroughly all
about breeding, feeding, housing and
the characteristics of their fowls before
laying out too much money in stock.
Failures result from lack of experi-
ence. Much depends upon the man
01' the womap behind the hen,
CHINESE GORDON.
Once in the Sudan, having inadvert-
ently injured a hz❑rd's tail by .switch -
lug his riding whip, ho was rendered
misa00bla for days by the remembrance
of it, says the Westminster [Review, At
Woolwich lie spent much time and care
in trying to cure a ennory belonging to
a lady friend of his which had broken
its leg.No man has written more
n e
feelingly of the herror.s of liar or has
more strongly denounced those who
enter upon it wills a light heart To
111111 it wss a dreadful necessity, and
nothing could justify its employment
but the trope of putting an end to some
evil greater still. \\'hen he wilted China
he wrote to his mother: "1 know 1 shall
leave China as poor as when 1 enter-
ed it, but with the knowledge that
through my weak Instrumentality up-
ward of 80,1.00 to 100,000 lives have been
spared. I need no further satisfaction
than this." His sole object in undertak-
ing the administration of the Sudan
was to put down the slave trade. "1
declare solemnly," ho says, "tial. 1
would, give my life tit illirtgly to save the
sufferings of these people, end if I could
do (itis, how niu011 more docs Ile care
for diem than suc11 imperfcetton as 1
am?"
It's not the engine with loudest ex-
haust that is hauling the longer tram.
if you would Hear the joy of heaven
you must`go into the saddest places of
earth.
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Oillo anti littoris:e.
WATER AS A REMEDIAL AGI1NT.
Comparatively few persons rccognlae
the value of water as a relnedy. (orf
many' ailments, and perfecularly to tllosti
in01d0n1 to eblldhood, writes a carrot).
pendent. An ordinary cough Wilt
usually .succumb to a water tz+eabnent,
'and the modus operand'. practiced in, Mal
own family is as follows : At night;'
when the child Is pz'epvirod for bed, its
feet are put into water as hot '05 can be
borne, and the temperature is kept up;
by adding more hot water as necessary}
This foot bath Is continued for ten min -
Wes, hih a nlel cloth
l e meantime a fl z
■
foldedar
to four tlriclknesses and o 1 g
enough to completely cover the lungs
and throat, Is 1ig11ily wrung from tepid
water and put over the chest and:
tlu'oat, with a larger, heavier cloth oven
it, to prevent any chill and to keep the
clothes from becoming damp.
Many a time our own little ones have,
along toward bed time, coughed with al-
most every breath; but within ten min-
utes after the foot .bath and application
of the compress the cough would begin
4) subside, and in twenty minutes they;,
would be perfectly easy and cough nit
more during the night. If the cough re-
turned the following day, the same
treatment was repeated at night, and
usually but one or two repetitions were
necessary. This, of course, where the
Trouble was in the bronchial tubes ofrt
upper part of the lungs. After a cough
becomes leap-zealed, some internal
remedy is usually necessary, as well as,
an outside application, and we- will
treat of such in a subsequent article.
In the -first stages of sore throat, a
compress is often effective, and mans
severe cases of such Lrom11) might be
averted, and much suffering saved, 11
mothers only knew of and used the sine
,lo remedy in time. But so often we
T Y t
forget about the stitch in tine," and
let a cough or simple sore throat go ort
until It is hard to check, and much suf-
fering is entailed, all of which might
have been avoided by a timely apptcar
tion of water,
None of our three children ever had
an attack of the croup, although often
having symptoms of it, and the are
confident that a timely use of the com.
press has been Me preventive,
For a cold in the head itis often benck
Mal to inhale through the nostrils,
steam from boiling water, holding the
head and face as near the water as pos-
sible, so as to get the steam es hot as
can be borne, After a thorough steam-
ing, if the pet[eut lies down with 010111s
wrung tram water as hot as can be.
borne on the forehead, and kept hot,
using the 1101 applications for half an
hour or so, great relief will usually be
experienced:
1n 0080 ct a bruise or similar injury,
an application of cloths wrung from very
hot water, and changed es soon as they
begin le cool, will prevent swelling or
diseolo aUon, and remove all soreness
from the parts.
WHOOPING -COUGH.
It is strange how little is thought bit
whooping -cough and how little care is
taken to prevent it, for it is in truth a
dangerous disease. The mortality 'stay
tistics show that more children die from
whooping -cough than from -measles.
Scarlet fever alone among what aro
called the diseases of childhood causes
a greater number of deaths.
A child with whooping -cough should
be as strictly isolated as it he had scar-
latina, and it Is very wrong for a ma-
uler to lake her infant with this disease
on boats or in cars, where el is likely to
carry infection to others. An older child,
should be kept away from school and.'
not allowed to play with other children,,
except such as have already had the
malady.
It is usually easy to recognize whoop.
Mg -cough after the disease is fully es-
tablished; for the paroxysmal cough,
going on and on and on until the child's
breath is all but gone, and then suc-
ceeded by the long, noisy inspiration, is
unmistakable,
The disease varies so greatly in severs
Hy in different cases and in different
years that it has boon suggested that it
would 110 wise to, expose children to the
Infection in a year when its course was
mild. But it is a very serious Clung to
expose a child deliberately to the .dan-
gees of any disease of 11118 nature, for
even in a year of 1110 mildest epidemic
an individual case here and there tvi11
be severe and even fatal.
When it is said that over seventy
drugs have been recommended in the
treatment of whooping -cough, it may be
assumed that none of them has been
found very elleo0ious. 'Tits is not to
say That much good may not be ob-
tained from certain medicines, such as
quinin and belladonna, for example, yet
the main reliance in the management or
a ease of this disease is on hygienic
meastu'es.
Although the potion must be ,kept
away from school and ol.her children, it
must on no account be kept in the
house. Fresh 'air and sunshine aro the
best agents in the hygienic treatment.
'City air is better than none, but it is
best, 'hen, possible, to send the child to
the country, where it can be outdoors
aril
clay.,, end -not be forced to inhale dust_
and smoke. In stormy weather, Wlla16
one, must : perforce" stay indoors, ,1111
play -room .windows should be-all wide
open, and Um bed -room windows should
also bo 01)011.,
1110 - hood should be plerrli1111 11111
nourishing; and whenevee lite stomach
rejects a meal 111e patient should have
another at once—at least a glass of nolle
and 801110 broad and butter.
WITCH HAZEL OINTMENT,
A very vah1ab10 olnlnient can be 11asily;
made at home by talking One .teaspoon,
„ tel hextract \Mhaao;
and of thorougio hly'utd mixing it et tvtth 0110elo 0% 0li01 ' ,
' of vaseline, 11 is useful \her0V0 at.l healing ointment is indicated,
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live 1ourty a blot, and (ho 0ldo 111
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