SCREAMED AT NIGHT
Baby Scratched Until Face Was Raw and Bleeding.
ECZEMA CURED BY CUTICURA
" For over two years my little baby t girl suffered with a raw, itching, and c painful eczema on her head and face, \ the paia causing her to scream day j and night, and my wife could get no v rest. We tried several doctors, but l without success. Unless we kept her <: hands tied she would scratch until her f face was like raw beef. After using 1 one cake of Cuticura Soap and two i boxes of Cuticura Ointment herface ; was without mark or blemis.h. |i (signed) W.J. Morgan, Orchard Town, I New Lambton, N. S. W."
small shelllish, birds' eggs from the numerous nests about the rocks, and occasionally a bird knocked down with a stone. Our drink was rain water, whict collected in the hollows of the rocks Our clothing was made of dried sea weed, *ied togcthu' with our tarthimj drawers torn in slips. Oyster shells rubbed to an edgi were our knives, and egg shells wei'i our cups. Pieces of wi-cckuge wer. our seats ; a good deal of such ha< accumulated during bygone years though none came in in our timeWe also made winter cloaks out o birds' wings tied together with hal rotten yarn which we found amoni the sea-drift. In this short Ust.i have, I think, mentioned every sma: comfort which alleviated the hart hips of our lot. As soon as I had overcome tli first horror of the situation m. thoughts turned to projects of es cape; but my brother pronounce them all impracticable. '.•Why -not swim out with the cm
' rent when it turns ? " I suggested. "It never turns. It always flows in-" ■ "It must flow out somewhere." "Yes. lit escapes through a numr ber of small fissures upon the other side. Do you see these marks 1" He showed me a number of deep scars. " They are the result of trying to find a way through' a year ago." "Could we not make a tunnel through the rock. itself ? " 'fThrough twenty yards of solid rock ! Even if we found the place where it is narrowest." , "Is there no way of scaling, the cliff ? " He laughed bitterly. (To be continued.)
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7847, 13 June 1905, Page 4
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