The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-10-25
HER DOMINION.
W0man's DOings in Her Own Cir
Gle and in the Big World.
STEADILY ADVANCING.
Rapidly Forging to the Front in
Many Fields Of Industry.
WARNING TO DRUG USERS.

Information for the Nurse-Handsomely
Decorated Luncheon Rooms.-Cirls Who
Are Daring Swimmefs-A Sermon ON
Dressing for Church-Whicl Is the Best
Education?-'The Girl and Her Camera.
ers?''-Somethins About Women Who
Have Been Heard Of
There is no doctor so expensive as the do
nestle DOCTOR and none more frequently and
fatally employed. It very often seems to the
mother of family too trivial an affair to
send for the real doctor every time that the
child ails slightly. She is trained to small
economies and fears the expense, and she
thinks the doctor may laugh at her, or be
vexed at being called from more important
cases to SO trifing: and then to have the
doctor-why, the child must be so ill that the
thought OF it frightens her. Thus she takes
the chances, and applies the remedies herself:
and perhaps there was nothing the matter
that her little dose could not remedy: and
perhaps there was some great evil at work,
and her dose was no better than deadly poi-
son. .
For it is not she, the totally ignorant prac-
titioner, who can detect the first symptoms
of scarlet fever or diphtheria or peritonitis;
but, for all that, she unhesitatingly gives for
the fever and malaise that she does detect
dose of physic that destroys all the little pa
TENTS chances, and then she calls in the doc
tor only when hope may perhaps be over
There are really few remedies that it is safe
to administer without skilled advice, and
those are the simplest, and might all be in
cluded in list comprising only hot water,
castor oil and very little tincture of rhu-
barb. When a child has been indulging in
illicit food, swallowing cherry stones or eat
Ing unripe raspberries, whose hard seeds lodge
in the little sac that seems to be in the bowels
for the express purpose of making trouble,
the poor mothers first idea is to give it at
once relieving and discharging potion, and
she puts the child under immediate sentence
of death in doing so, the physic having an in
hammatory influence, which is the very thing
to be avoided.
And, on the other hand, when child gives
evidence of diarrheal disorder Of the bow
els, the poor mother flies to her medicine
closet, takes down the phial of chalk mixture
and admires herself for stopping the imme-
date symptoms, not knowing that the fever
and distress and worse ensuing symptoms are
due to the effect of the chalk mixture, which
prevents the system from relieving itself, and
that she should have given instead an unload
ing and clearing dose of castor oil That she
is deferred from giving the oil by the diff
Guilty of making child swallow the nauseous
draught is not to be allowed in her excuse:
for the child need not know what is given.
and there are many ways of making it taste
less besides that of administering it in cap
sules; for, when given in wine, beaten up
with the white of an egg, as if for what is
called ''egg nog," with some sugar and dash
of lemon juice added, or drop of essence of
peppermint, the child will think it is having
some unusual indulgence granted because it
does not feel well, remembering to its advan.
tage the old nursery lines:
Oh, yes, not well; you're very sick.
Idon't believe it's true.
You only want to coax mamma
To make nice things for you.
Of course in the wilderness, on remote
farms and suburbs, the mother of family
must, in spite of any danger from ignorance,
keep many remedies on hand and administer
them as best she can, because a physician is
unattainable there at short notice. But, in
that case, as much her duty as it is to have
the medicines, it is to know how and when
to administer them; and so she must make
her own a sufficient knowledge of the simpler
and more common ailments to be able to
treat them properly in their preliminary
stages; and this ought to be as much part
of every girls education as bread making,
sewing, reading and the multiplication table
But when doctor is in the next street or
within easy call, and drugs are at hand
f1,o &c <o1>C
no more upon herself in this regard than she
cannot help, and contents herself until edu-
Gated help can be had with making use of
copious draughts of hot water and of sooth-
ing sweats.-Harper's Bazaar.