Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — WITH THEIR FINGERS! [ARTICLE]

WITH THEIR FINGERS!

Thai Is the Way the Japanese Pall Teeth The Japanese uee no instrument foi extracting teeth, but lift outwit! the thumb and forefinger, v a* the surprising sta:-I’le'it o*' u-n-traveleo man recen.ly. vvn.ie i ».ck Hubbard was Minister to «.a, ..<.. he went or to explain, I visited that country anc spent a pleasant w ek with him. Ont day I was troubled with the toothache, and Mr. Hubbard took me to a dentist aud explained to the saddle-colorec operator that I wanted the grinder extracted. I was placed in a bamboc chair and tilted slightly back. The dentist examined my teeth, talking volubiy meanwhile to Uncle Sam’s representative. Suddenly his thumb and forefinger closed on the troublesome tooth, and before I had the faintest idea ol what was going to happen he lifted it out and held it up before me, smiling a 1 the same time that vacant smile peculiar to the children of the Orient. ■“You were waiting for the forceps, were you?" said Minister Hubbard, with a laugh. “They don’t use ’em here. Look at this. Here is a young Jap taking hie lesson in dentistry. ” A 12-year-old Japanese boy sat on thf floor, having before him a board in which were a number of holes intc which pegs had been tightly driven. He was attempting to extract the pegt with his thumb and forefinger. Mr. Hubbard explained that as the strength ol this natural pair of forceps developed by practice the pegs would be driven in tighter After a couple of years at pegpulling the young dentist would graduate and be able to lift the most refractory molar in the same manner that he now lifted wooden pegs.

A Cut or Burned Finger. There are times when a simple thing In amateur surgery goes a great way toward easing pain. On New England farms the women all know what to do with a cut or burned finger. The materials for the operation are always close, at hand. Under the shell of every egg there Is a white gelatinous film that is in itself a perfect skin. If the cut is not very large a piece of this film, fresh and wet, laid over the wound will prevent soreness and in a great measure hasten the growth of the new skin. The film adheres closely, keeps out all foreign matter and draws the edges of the wound together. It will not come off easily, and another advantage that women will appreciate is that it does not show. There is another simple remedy for cuts and burns. When a member of the family has a burn or cut, take a bottle of shellac varnish and industriously paint the wound. The varnish, drying, acts in the same manner as the egg film, and at the same time is almost a* invisible. The remedy is an old one in carpenter shops, and has been proved Ly use to be an efficacious one.

Housekeeper*! Don’ts. Don’t let esetheticism overwhelm common sense to that degree that your windows are so profusely “got up” as to make ventilation or the washing of them a difficult job. Don’t dust your furniture with a feather duster; it's like cleaning an egg-cup by stirring the egg around. Use a cloth. If it is slightly oiled so much the better for the woodwork. Don’t be vague in your furnishings and get this and that and the other thing because each by itself is pretty, but take the object of a room first into consideration and live up to it, then take one color as a guide and select ail .others in harmony with it. Don’t put furnishings with big designs in a small room—it will make the room look the smaller. Keep in the rule of proportion. It’s like a little woman with a skinny face wearing a big football of a hat, which only accentuates .her sharp features the more. 4*mela Have Been Used in America. >be»t 1862 the problem of transport- £ ng .army supplies on the Western plains became’ serious that the War Depart-«-lent recommended the experiment of camels. Some time elapsed betoce the necessary animals could be mured, and their first successful em- ; oyment, so far ps can be learned, was in 1857, when a train camels convey ed the storesand baggage of a sarv -ying party locating a wagon road be- * ten Santa Fe and California. This t'rC trial was attended nith suqji good a pewits that some time after 150 camels in ported tor nae in the Southwest, as Ute as 1876 a camel train was in xipe-.a’ic® between Yuma and Tucaon. Z ta. The camels throve well and did t ....sir work satisfactorily, but the hoe.