Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-05-16
QUEER THINGS IN EARS
What some Folks FnOIishly DO. Who
OIEht to Know Better
New Eolk Times. !

New folk limeS
"lou would be astonished,". said a
skilled aurist in one OF the public eve
and ear lntirmaries, at the large num-
Der OF children who are brought to us
III the course OF week to have some
thing removed from their ears that thev
have foolishly stack in them and have
been unable to get ont again. | have
sometimes disposed of ten such cases in
an afternoon, and have pulled almost
everything out of tie human ear that is
possible to get III there ere-shoe-buttons,
pieces of slate pencil, candies, and wads
OF paper. four times out of five the
younSster is o.d enough to know better ;
but it is habit they tall into, the same
as bit ng their nails or scratching their
heads. One hoy not yet II yea, old is
almost a weekly visitor here. Well.
l said, as | saw him como in as usual
yesterday afternoon, what have You
got in there this time?' 'Nawthin' but
bean, he drawled. Oh, yes, l took it
out.
But l recently met with the most re-
markable case of that kind in twenty
years practice. A young woman of %
came i'll so deaf that | could hardly
make her hear by shouting through a
trumpet. After removing great
quantity of wax from her ears [ found
something metallic.
What's this l said, have YOU been
putting something in your ear?
ION, dear, no, she said, Il am not 80
foolish as that
alma uipo q bar ourpr;oa ,ybon ,,,llo 4
out smooth, round brass button, with
quite large shank to it. This seems
to have been i'll there great many
years. said. TO my surprise the
young woman crouched in the corner in
undisguised terror.
"'Oh, DOCTOR she said, what is that
awful noise?'
1T was nothing but wagon rumbling
by, but | instantly saw what the troable
was. Her hearing had become normal
when had removed that button. and
she was frightened and bewildered ut
the iumbie of confusing solnds. The
ticking of the clock, chirping of the
canary, or dripping of water distressed
her, and the ruste of her own silk
dress made her start with fear. sent
one Of the assistants nome with her in
a carriage, and he said that the clatter
In the street SO distracted her that he
was compelled to hold her in her seat.
About week afterward she clme in
again"
And wanted the button put back,
suppose" interrupted the reporter.
oh, no, she was brimmlng over with
happiness, though for a day or two sne
was afraid to leave tie house But she
told me all abO 1t that baton. When
| was about y years old, she said, i
was sent to n llage churca in New
England with my grandmother. The
sermon Was always long and tiresome.
and used to amuse myself by pulling
at the bras buttons on my cloak One
of them came off one SUNDAY, and
occupied myself for time with putting
it in my ear AMI shaking it out again
Suddenly l lett it sink away in there
and could not get it out. was afraid
to tell my grandmother at the time,
and soon afterward forgot it. At 10
years Of age began to grow deaf and
have been getting worse ever since, but
never once thought Of that button
until you removed it,"
DO grown people," asked the re-
po.ter. ever come to you with things
in tle ears?"
"Fe uently, but in most cases it is
through no fault of their own. know
one IL an, butcher, who comes here
regularly in the summer time to have
flies removed fom his ears. have
taken out six at one time for him. How
evef they get there l don't know. He
says they iiy in; but they doa fly out,
I'm sure of that. A man called me ont
of bel one nigh. to get Croton bug
out of his ear. Now, water bug W II
ne'ef back. He must either turn
arou d or go straight ahead. THIS fell
low had crawled INTO the mans ear,
and, not finding room enough to turn
around, went ahead. He was paw ing
away with his feelers On the drum,
causing the poo; man fearful agony.
Men employ,d d tanneries often get a
peculiar looking worm in their ears,
which is no "'""lI trnnble to remove"