Earache. First, drop warmed sweet oil into the ear. Test your own ear first to insure its not being too hot.

Second, rest the affected side on a hot water bag.

Colic. An attack of colic is best relieved, by giving sips or teaspoonful doses of quite hot water. A soda mint tablet dissolved in. one ounce hot water, and given in teaspoonful doses every five minutes will relieve many cases. Discontinue food temporarily and give water only.

Convulsions. While awaiting the doctor, place the baby in a warm bath, and rub the body vigor-ously while in the bath. If mustard is at hand, add two teaspoonfuls to the water. Give the baby an enema as soon as possible, and as soon as he can swallow give two teaspoonfuls of castor oil. For a few days a greatly reduced diet should be given.

Buttons, etc., swallowed by children are rarely of great harm. Do not give a laxative, but feed the child on oatmeal, potato, cornmeal, mush, sub-stances which will coat the object swallowed, so that it cannot perforate the walls of the intestines.

Hiccoughs. Can be cured by taking a mouthful of water, pressing inward the tragus (the little protection in front of the ear) and then swallowing the water. This has never been known to fail.

Prickly heat. Give sponge baths of bicar-bonate of soda, (common cooking soda) one table-spoonful to two quarts of water. Do not rub if the skin is dry. With a powder composed of equal parts of starch and oxide of zinc obtained at the drug store, dust the skin thoroughly several times a day.

Croup. Call a doctor at once, but while wait-ing for him, give the child a teaspoonful of syrup of Ipecac; and if vomiting does not occur, repeat the dose in fifteen minutes.

Dont's

Do not give the baby a pacifier.

Do not give soothing syrups or paregoric.

Do not give patent cough medicines.

Do not allow flys to rest on a feeding bottle.

Do not neglect the cleaning of bottle and nipple.

Do not feed baby at irregular intervals.

Do not fail to protect baby from flies and mos-quitoes. Mosquito netting is quite inexpensive.

Do not kiss the baby or allow others to do so.

Children with poor appetites should not be allowed to eat between meals, nor should they be given sweets.

Never prepare the baby's food before thoroughly cleansing the hands.

Babies, like plants, cannot thrive without air and sunshine.