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ing vegetables, and score down the center of cneh 

 row of corn, and the tender corn will slip out of 

 that tough hull, which, as you say, is very indiges- 

 tible. In fact, it xised to give me a very uncomfor- 

 table feeling like a chunk in the stomach until I 

 adopted the method I enclose. You will find the 

 cob simply covered with the hulls when the corn is 

 of proper age for eating. 



I very much enjoy reading all articles in the Home 

 Department, and trust you and Mrs. R. may live 

 many years yet in peace. 



Mrs. Maey 0. Higgins. 



Southern Pines, N. C, Jan. 18. 



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A GREEN-CORX SCORER. 



According to Gleanings of December 1 you wish 

 to know where to get those green-corn scorers. They 

 can be had at John Wananiaker's, in Philadelphi.i. 

 They cost 15 cts. They certainly are a very fine 

 arrangement to score green corn. If the scorer is 

 drawn lengthwise over the ear of corn before eating, 

 when you go to eating the pressure of one's teeth 

 will cause the kernels to come out nicely and leave 

 the hull on the cob, providing the corn is not too ol.l 

 and hard. It is fine. I do not care to eat corn 

 without the scorer, 



Doylestown, Pa., Dee. 18. A. C. Geoss. 



HEALTH NOTEi 



SOME MORE GOOD HARD " COMMON SENSE " 

 FROM DR. "WILEY. 



As you read it, imagine where you hear 

 my " amens !" 



TWO KINDS OF CODDLING. 



Dr. Harvey W. "Wiley, pure-food advocate, has a 

 notion or two outside the field of drug poisoning 

 well wort'n recording. " To cure a cold," he says, 

 " take a bottie of cough medicine, set it on a table m 

 the patient's room, open all the windows, and throw 

 the bottle through one of them." 



" Three-quarters of the children who die," he says 

 further, " are killed by love. Love is the greatest 

 assassin of childhood." Coddling he deprecates as 

 a practice hurtful to the development of boys and 

 girls into healthy, useful manhood and womanhood. 



The doctor, doubtless, is speaking primarily of 

 foods and the use of drugs and medicines. But the 

 subject goes much further. Coddling does not nec- 

 essarily involve the use of either. 



There is needed on every hand a better apprecia- 

 tion of the value of hard knocks. A child whose 

 pathway is smoothed through early life has missed 

 a valuable source of training; he has been deprived 

 of the privilege of a discipline which, in all prob- 

 ability, his parents had in full measure, though they 

 may have forgotten it. 



It is mistaken kindness to play Montessori to every 

 childish complaint. Call it love, if you will; it is 

 not real love, but an erroneous application of gentle- 

 ness. In all directions are evidences of the need of 

 a sterner discipline — not an unkind, Spartan-like 

 insistence on the forms of obedience. b\it a pateriinl 

 and maternal demand that regulations established 

 for the control of us all shall not be broken down 

 by default of effort to see them maintained. 



Coddling is at the bottom of school " strikes." A 

 pupil who knows that the discipline of his teachers 

 will be upheld at home is not likely to lead a "strike" 

 nor follow one far. The boy who makes it unpleas- 

 ant for his teacher seldom is called to account for 

 making it unpleasant for his mother. In the train- 

 ing of childhood to meet the obligations of a life 

 which knows no Montessori systems, the home and 

 the school must stand together or 1 o'h will fall. 



There are two kinds of coddling. To one impure 

 drugs have no relation. Dr. Wiley is right whether 

 he meant one or both of them. — Cleveland Plain 

 Dealer. 



INTERNAL BATHING, ETC. 

 Mr. A. I. Root: — I have become somewhat inter- 

 ested in the claims of Dr. Chas. A. Tjrrell, of New 

 York, in regard to internal bathing. I recall that, 

 several years ago, when I read Gleanings regularly, 

 you were an enthusiastic advocate of this system of 

 treatment. Do you find it a good system to tie to, 

 or did it develop bad features after longer trial? 

 Perhaps you have answered these questions in 



Gli^anings; but not having kept bees in recent 

 years, and having many other interests, I have not 

 followed your writings as I once did. 



Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 2. C. B. Thwing. 



In my absence Ernest replied as below : 



Mr. C. B. Thwing: — My father is in Florida; but 

 I can speak for him on the question you ask — 

 namely, the matter of internal bathing. He does not 

 use it now as much as he formerly did — only in 

 case of an emergency. Both he and myself have 

 found that it is very much better to eat apples or 

 oranges or grapefruit for the evening meal than to 

 depend on the bath to free the colon. I used to 

 depend on it entirely; but my health was not nearly 

 as good as it is now when I depend on nature's way, 

 the eating of acid fruits. Sometimes, when I do not 

 get sutticient flushing of the bowels I eat half a 

 grapefruit or an orange just before going to bed. 

 This will usually produce the desired result without 

 any bad effect — effects such as one gets from the 

 use of a cathartic. During late years A. I. Root 

 has been a great advocate of eating only fruit for 

 the evening meal. 



Medina, 0., .Jan. 11. E. R. Root. 



I entirely agree with the above, and would 

 add tliat, years ago, when 1 tried assisting 

 nature daily in that way, I found my food 

 was not giving me the strength and endur- 

 ance it should, for the bowels were emptied 

 before nature had finished her work. I have 

 reasons to believe those who at the present 

 time are advertising apparatus for this 

 purpose are not in accord with the advice 

 of our best doctors. 



UP-TO-DATE surgery; IS IT A BLESSING TO 

 HUMANITY f 



As there has been some discussion in re- 

 gard to the above, in our pages, T liave 

 thought best to give the clipping below 

 from such excellent authority as our good 

 and able friend " Ridg\vay," of the Sunday 

 ScJwol Times: 



Your Doctor. — He saved others; himself he can 

 not save (v. 31). "Which was exactly true, even 

 though hate said it. This is the law of life for all 

 good men. As I write a splendid physician of great 

 fame and large practice has just died in Phila- 

 delphia. He has saved thousands by his skill, but 

 he wore himself out in the doing of it. He could 

 not save himself. He said to me one day, " I per 

 formed nineteen operations last week, most of them 

 great ones. I shall get paid for but two." They 



