The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-29
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Tho Care Of tho Eyes.

LiouuieS VI Une eye are very common
ana numerous, and yet for many pt them
the simplest remedies can be applied
with the tnn.t salitary results.
Wheh cinders or other foreign bodies
get into the eye, do not drop in q fax
seed or use a key, for these do more
damage than tho cinder. 1t might be
almost as we'll to got a crowbar at once
as to use u key.
The proper way to get o cinder out of
the eye is to draw the upper lid down
over the lower, utilizing the iashes OF
the lower as o broom, that it may sweep
the surface of the former, and thus get
rid of the intruder. Or, gently drawing
the lid away from the globe, pass O clean
camefs hair brush, OF fold Of a soft silk
handkerchief, two or three times be.
tween them. This procedure will in
nearly all cases suffice, when 1t does not,
the strviccs of a physician are neces-
safy. 1t is a remarkable factthat a very
minute body will give rise to intense
pain, and eve after it has been extracted
the sensation remains for an hour or
more. After the intruder Is out, gently
bathe the lids every fifteen minutes in
iced water till the feeling subsidies.
When the eyes itch, or arc a little red,
battle them with a weak solution of salt
every few hours, a %teaspoonful to a glass
of cold water.
Should an eye be greatly inflamed and
painful, bathing it in hot water will re-
lievc for the time being. The eye should
be kept perfectly clean, pus and other
discharges gently washed away with
lnkewarm water. The other eye may
be infected by the discharges, so tho
affected one should be covered by a
light bandagc, Remember that matters
from an inflamed eye are infectious, and
a person having sore eyes should have
his own towels and wash basin, which
ought not to be used by any other per-
son, lest they, too, contract the disease.
When the eyes stick together in the
morning, a little vascline applied to the
edges of the lids before going to bed is
better than all the patent c%ye-salves in
existence. Crusts forming on the edges
of the lids may be readily removed by
gentle friction withthe tips of the fingers
dipped in warm water.
Advertised nostrums are usually APP
pied without reason, and, like home
made remedies, do more harm than good.
A tea leaf poultice applied to the eye by
the advice OF a friend has often been the
cause of a child being educated in the
Blind Asylum. The eye is not a boil,
''to be drawn out" but it most assuredly
will be injured if the poultice be left OH
long enough.
OF no organ of the human system is
the maxim so true as of the eye, that
IAN ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of curc."-Lddtcs' Home Journal.
Hints to Housekeepers.
SnJJ I'm r1ntbnsc ho,lJ mt bo alJnyvad
to remain in the bedrooms. They faint
the air and make it impure.
SpRA1NED ankle has been cured in an
hour by showcring with hot water
poured from a height of a few feet.
COMMON washing soda and boiling
water should be used to rinse all the
wastc-pipcs at least once every week or
ten days.
ALL preparations for waxing floors are
heated by setting the kettle containing
tho mixture into another containing boil
ing water. By this means the bccswax
becomes incorporated with the turpen-
tine and other ingredients. No floor
will be ''sticky" if the a is properly
rubbed in. The best article foE rubbing
in oil or wax is a parquct brush, such as
are sold by manufacturers Of Parquct
floors, and at large house-furnishihg
stores.
TIE use of the tooth brush in con-
ncction with powders, washes, or other
treatment. of the teeth, should be gentle.
Bleeding of the gums is always a danger
signal. 1t shows that the skin has been
broken, inviting the absorption into tho
system OF any poisonous or foreign mat
tiers which may be present in the mouth.
If the gums are very tender, a soft brush
should be used, and used very gently, till
they have hardened sufficiently to with
stand more vigorous treatment. Even
then, the liability will be to err on the
side of harshncss.