es; or to put it into a bowl of hot water. Then tie
it up in a bandage of soft cotton cloth or gauze and pour over it a
lotion containing a little alcohol--about one sixth or one fourth.
This, by evaporating, cools off the bruise and relieves the pain.

If your ear, or nose, or a finger should happen to be frozen or frost
bitten, the best thing to do is to rub it hard with snow until it
thaws out and becomes pink again. Above all, don't go too near the
fire, and don't go into a very warm room too soon.

If you get one of those uncomfortable itchy swellings on your feet
called _chilblains_, which come from cold floors in your houses, or
from wet feet, or from wearing too thin shoes and stockings, don't put
your feet too near the fire, but rub them well with turpentine just
before going to bed at night. This will often take all the pain and
itching out of them.

Sometimes people make the mistake of drinking something that is
poisonous. Of course, one good way to prevent this is to have _every
bottle in the house carefully marked_ and never to take anything from
a bottle without reading the mark, or label. Another good way is _not
to have poisons about_ any more than we actually need to.

Still, even so, sometimes a mistake is made. If you ever make such a
mistake, the best thing to do is to drink as much warm water as you
can, and into the second cupful to put a tablespoonful of dry mustard
or two heaping tablespoonfuls of salt. This will make you vomit, and
up will come the poison. The water makes the poison weaker. If this
doesn't make you throw up the poison, have some one tickle the back of
your throat with a feather. There are a great many kinds of poison and
as many things to take to cure them; but this is the only remedy I
shall tell you about, because, by the time you have tried this, some
older person will probably have come to help you.

All the medicines that you see advertised as "Headache Cures" are
dangerous poisons if taken in too large doses; and most of them in
small doses weaken the heart. They are what we call narcotics; they
just deaden the nerves to pain without doing anything whatever to
relieve or remove the cause.

If you have a headache, the best thing to do is to go and lie down
quietly and rest or sleep, until it goes away. A headache always means
that something is wrong; it is one of Nature's most valuable danger
signals. When your head aches, Nature is telling you that you have
been ove