Half*a-dozen onions planted in the cellar, where they can get a little light, will do much towards absorbing and correcting the atmos- pheric impurities that are so apt to lurk in such places. Preventive Against Sea-Sickness. — Let your last day on shore be a day of perfect rest; no shopping or farewell calls ; let your body, which is likely to be pretty well tired by previous fatigue, get thoroughly rested. At least twenty-four hours before you sail, take as strong a dose, or doses if necessary, of cathartic medicine as you can bear. Eat lighter meals than usual for two or three days before sailing and abstain from beer. Then, if the malady assail you on your first day out, take twenty or thirty grains of bromide of sodium, and repeat if necessary. So shall you find the ocean voyage the pleasantest part of your foreign tour, so shall you make your trip an expensive one to the steamship in the way of board. 200 THE hearthstone; OR, LIFE AT HOME. Asthma has been cured by sleeping on a pillow made of " wild balsam," or, as many people call it, " life everlasting." It grows wild in most places in the country, and is very sweet, and considered by some an excellent thing for colds — made into a tea, of course. The remedy is so simple that it deserves a ti-ial. A FEW hints in case of drowning may at some time prove of assistance to all my readers. When bodies are taken out of the water after remaining in it for fifteen or twenty minutes life is not always extinct, as is oftentimes thought ; but from want of proper and im- mediate treatment the persons do not recover consciousness. When the body is taken from the water, do not wait to carry it to a house, if the house is at a distance ; lay the person on the ground face down- ward, and with the centre of the body elevated a little, so as to allow the water taken into the system free egress through the mouth. Open the mouth of the patient, and press the tongue down with the finger, as it may have become swollen, so that it will not stop the action of the throat. To remove the wet garments is the next step, and if blankets or other wraps are not at hand, take your own wraps to cover the patient. If he shows no signs of life, pat and. rub the limbs, and roll the body backwards and forwards, slowly and gently; see that the mouth is kept open, and that the head is turned, so that the water that is in the ears may come out. After working at the patient in this way for twenty minutes or a half hour, taking care to slap and rub the body, especially the palms of the hands and feet, and perceiving no symptoms of a return to consciousness, put the ear down to the heart and listen for the least perceptible flutter. The patient may now be removed to the nearest house or shelter, and haste should be made to obtain blankets, and a warm bath prepared. As soon as the patient shows signs of conscious- ness, a few teaspoonfuls of whiskey should be carefully poured down the throat, and the limbs and chest rubbed freely with the same. A warm bath, doctors and proper nourishment will effect the rest. THE PHYSICIAN IN THE HOME. 20I An excellent and palatable way to take cod-liver oil, which some- times produces nausea, is to take it in tomato catsup.

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Half*a-dozen onions planted in the cellar, where they can get a little light, will do much towards absorbing and correcting the atmospheric impurities that are so apt to lurk in such places. Preventive Against Sea-Sickness. — Let your last day on shore be a day of perfect rest; no shopping or farewell calls ; let your body, which is likely to be pretty well tired by previous fatigue, get thoroughly rested. At least twenty-four hours before you sail, take as strong a dose, or doses if necessary, of cathartic medicine as you can bear. Eat lighter meals than usual for two or three days before sailing and abstain from beer. Then, if the malady assail you on your first day out, take twenty or thirty grains of bromide of sodium, and repeat if necessary. So shall you find the ocean voyage the pleasantest part of your foreign tour, so shall you make your trip an expensive one to the steamship in the way of board. 200 THE hearthstone; OR, LIFE AT HOME. Asthma has been cured by sleeping on a pillow made of " wild balsam," or, as many people call it, " life everlasting." It grows wild in most places in the country, and is very sweet, and considered by some an excellent thing for colds — made into a tea, of course. The remedy is so simple that it deserves a trial. A FEW hints in case of drowning may at some time prove of assistance to all my readers. When bodies are taken out of the water after remaining in it for fifteen or twenty minutes life is not always extinct, as is oftentimes thought ; but from want of proper and immediate treatment the persons do not recover consciousness. When the body is taken from the water, do not wait to carry it to a house, if the house is at a distance ; lay the person on the ground face downward, and with the centre of the body elevated a little, so as to allow the water taken into the system free egress through the mouth. Open the mouth of the patient, and press the tongue down with the finger, as it may have become swollen, so that it will not stop the action of the throat. To remove the wet garments is the next step, and if blankets or other wraps are not at hand, take your own wraps to cover the patient. If he shows no signs of life, pat and. rub the limbs, and roll the body backwards and forwards, slowly and gently; see that the mouth is kept open, and that the head is turned, so that the water that is in the ears may come out. After working at the patient in this way for twenty minutes or a half hour, taking care to slap and rub the body, especially the palms of the hands and feet, and perceiving no symptoms of a return to consciousness, put the ear down to the heart and listen for the least perceptible flutter. The patient may now be removed to the nearest house or shelter, and haste should be made to obtain blankets, and a warm bath prepared. As soon as the patient shows signs of consciousness, a few teaspoonfuls of whiskey should be carefully poured down the throat, and the limbs and chest rubbed freely with the same. A warm bath, doctors and proper nourishment will effect the rest. An excellent and palatable way to take cod-liver oil, which sometimes produces nausea, is to take it in tomato catsup.

The hearthstone; or, Life at home