patiently do the following:

1. Rub the well eye until the tears flow plentifully in both eyes.

2. Blow the nose on the injured eye side, closing the other side. This
often encourages the tears to wash the foreign speck down through the
tear duct, into the nose and out into the handkerchief (in case the
child is old enough to follow such instruction). If the foreign body
be sharp, as a piece of steel or flint is likely to be, it may be
driven right into the eyeball. Seek a physician who will drop
medicine into the eye to deaden the pain and then if it cannot be
gently rubbed off the eyeball, a magnet will promptly remove it.

An eye bath of warm boracic acid is always comforting and never does
harm, so that may be given while waiting for the doctor to come, if
the object seems to be beyond the reach of family help.

If an alkaline, such as lime, be blown into the eye it is very
painful, but much relief may be obtained by gently pouring into the
eye, by means of a medicine dropper or eye cup, warm water to which
has been added a little vinegar or lemon juice. Likewise, acid in the
eye produces much pain. In this instance, an eye bath of a weak soda
solution is indicated.

FOREIGN BODIES IN EAR AND NOSE

Insects that have crawled into the ear may be suffocated by dropping
sweet oil or castor oil into the ear, which, after twenty minutes,
should be washed out by gentle syringing with warm water from a
fountain syringe, hung one foot above the child's head.

Peas, beans, shoe buttons, or beads are sometimes put into the ear and
nose by adventurous or experimenting children.

The shoe button or bead will not swell as does the pea or the bean,
and may often be safely washed out. If it is causing no pain and will
not drop out in case of the ear, or will not be easily blown out in
case of the nose, see your physician at once. He has in his possession
just the necessary instruments for its immediate removal.

Peas and beans swell, and consequently cause greater discomfort the
longer they are in; do not poke at any foreign body lodged either in
the nose or the ear, for the ear drum may thus be injured, while in
the former case it may be pushed into one of the accessory sinuses.

EARACHE

One of the most comforting and highly effectual forms of heat for an
aching ear is a four-candle-power carbon electric light on an
extension cord that permits the light to come in close contact with
the ear. A shade is made fro