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Manawatu Herald, 4 July 1896, Page 4

FIRST AID. What to Do With a Person In a Faint. Leave Hysterical Patients Alone. A. lecturo on tho subject of inintAng or Insensibility says thoro are two rules to be observed in dealing with persons who havo falnrcd. Tho first and the more important is never to givo anything to di'ink nuiil tho patient recovers some degree of consciousness. It is a very general idea when any one faints that the best thing to do is to try to pour brandy down their throats. This to very unsafe, as, if the patient is insensible and has no control over muscular movements, tho liquid might get into tho windpipe, thence into the lungs and cause suffocation. The second, rule i3 to make the patient comfortable, to preserve warmth and avoid drenching with cold water. If water is applied to the face at all, it is better to use a soaked handkerchief wrung out very tightly, for not a drop should be allowed to trickle down on to tho nock. The primary cause of fainting is the failuro of tho blood to reach the brain. The patient should, therefore, be stretched flat, with the head rather lower than the heart. This will cause the blood to flow back. There are many things that produce fainting, such as bad air, any sudden emotion liko fear or even joy and unpleasant eights. Half a teaspoonful of sal volatile In a little water is a gooff restorative. Insensibility is also caused by fits, which are ofton mistaken for intoxication. Tho symptoms are so similar that it is next to to seethe difference at first, and inssnsiblo person should always have W tho benefit of tho doubt. W Besides giving tho patient air, it is neoI weary to watoh the respiration and see if I tho position is such that breathing is really r possible, because if the head is too backward or tilted too forward tho breathing organs canuot havo propor play. The feet must bo kept warm with hot water bottles, and, if faintness arises from concussion of the brain, there should bo cold applications to tho head. In dealing with epileptic patients who nro quite insensiblo during tho fit, it is bettor not to restrain tho convulsive movements, except so far as to provent injury. To save tho tongue fromjaeing bitten, a cork might be placed between tho teeth or a teaspoon wrapped up in a handkorchief. A patient in a fit of hysteria never inflicts any injury on himself, and this is ono means of distinguishing hysteria. The best treatment is to leave the patient quite alone. Sunbeams In the House. A sunbeam, is a small thing, yet it has a power to fade the carpets and curtains, to xot the blinds, and for this reason some folks carefully exclude the sunshine. What is the result? The family is always ailing, the young girls have a waxen, white skin and a weary, pinched expression of countenance. Their appetites fail, they fall into such a bad state of health that the doctor is called in. In olden days he would havo shaken his head perhaps, and friends would havo whispered that dreaded word "Decline!" Nowadays ho notes the pale segums and waxen skin and says, "Anseand exercise nnd ofton a change. If he knows nothing about the darkened rooms, he will be puzzled as to why no permanent Improvement manifests itself, and possibly the patient will seek other advice, remarks a medical journal. For Rheumatic Pains. To case rheumatic pales boil a few potatoes and nse tho hot water ia which they were boiled. Dip some cloths in, wring out and apply as hot as possible. A small vegetable press Is excellent to wring out hot cloths. It saves time and 6calded hands. <-^" "\y J <^>*^ > > WEDDING PRESENTS. Announcing the Engagement — Avoid Useless Frippery When Selecting Gifts. An engagement should be announced first by the family of the bride elect. This Is done either verbally and informally to friends or by noto to those whom it is desired shall receive early information. The man may at tho saino time write to those of his friends whom he desires to have •hare in his happiness, and whom the girl's family could not so well reach. The next feature after the call or noto of congratulation following a betrothal is the wedding present, and on this subject some day, it is devoutly to be hoped, some clever person will arise and deliver a •creed that will sound in every part of our land. There is nothing more inappropriate and ill selected than the ordinary bridal gift. The young people survey their new belongings, dazzling at first view, and gradually arrive at feeling depressed rather than pleased at tho motley collection. At ono time the epidemic wedding gift was a lamp, then'piorced bonbon dishes, that make a brave showing for a little monoy, camo in and elbowed the lamps out of place. Etchings in flamboyant frames have had a run. -But what man wants another to choose his pictures for him any more than to choose his wife? And so it Is through a list of showy trifles with which the unfortunate couple are saddled apparently for life. Maybe there will one day arrive a revulsion of popular taste in favor of presenting lovely, big, soft all wool blankets, or dozens of hand sewed napkins, or perhaps— bright dream!— saucepans and kettles with indestructible bottoms that every housekeeper would be made glad by having! In sober "earnest there is no more slippery ground to work upon than the choosing of wedding presents. But, says Mrs. Burton Harrison, authority for the foregoing In The Ladles' Home Journal, it is gafe to say the average couple would rather stamp their own individuality upon the visible fittings of their homes, and a bit of old silver, an authenticated curio or a well bound set of standard volumes from a first rate publisher would be far more welcome than the rank and file of presents generally seen to glitter for a day upon tables in the bride's old home and then retire into seclusion as useless frippery in her new one. Many jeweled ornaments for the hair are attached to combs, and a Spanish comb of pearls and diamonds has a close semblanoa to a diadem.