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8. Choking. 



If a child is choking place over the knee head downwards; pull the? 

 mouth open with any hard object; reach with finger just as far as possible 

 down the throat and sweep from side to side that will remove any ob- 

 struction; pull the tongue out and slap violently on the back. 



9. Poison. 



Every poison has its own antidote. 



Carbolic acid. Give alcohol or epsom salts and make patient vomit if 

 possible; stimulate the patient; do not give oil early. 



10. For snake bite. 



Tie anything tightly above the bite. If matches are obtainable, strike, 

 two or three and stick well into the bite hole. As soon as possible wash 

 out hole with Condip fluid. Keep bandage on for 24 hours on no account 

 loosen, if anything tighten. 



"The world must return some day to the word duty, and be done with- 

 the word reward." 



Robert Louis Stevenson. 



OUR BOYS. 

 (Paper read before Xakusp W. I. by Mrs. Gregory.) 



When I saw my name down to give a paper I began wondering what part 

 of the work connected with the Women's Institute I should take up, and 

 although I do not intend to talk about such topics as dairy work, poultry 

 raising, or even how to get $500 from an acre of land. I think the topic 

 I have chosen for today of equal importance with any of these I have 

 referred to, and so I intend to have a talk on "Our Boys." 



Have you ever held a wee baby boy in your arms the first day of its life 

 and seen how beautifully and wonderfully made he is; did you realize that 

 the little morsel of humanity you held would some day be a man? Do we, 

 as mothers, think or study enough about the earliest training of our boys? 

 May we ever remember that the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand 

 that rules the world. So our boys' characters are made by our earliest 

 training, whether they be good or bad. 



"What is a boy?" Some will say, the worry of my life, I never know 

 what they are doing. Now, if that is so, there must be a reason; I think 

 why we do not have the confidence of our boys is because we do not put 

 enough trust in them, and so make them feel that they are of some import- 

 ance in the world. Judge Lindsay, of the Juvenile Court of Denver, Colo- 

 rado, says that in most of the boys brought to his court there are some good 

 qualities, and they only want finding out, and the best way is to give them 

 your confidence. If he has a boy brought in for stealing, he usually has a 

 talk with him and then sends him out into the city with money to make 

 purchases for him, and very rarely does his plan of saving the boy fail. I 

 think, too, that a boy's father should be his best chum; one whom he can 

 confide in and one to whom he can go to for advice. I do not believe in the 

 plan of driving, but rather to draw them; there is an old proverb "that you 

 may take a horse to water, bat you cannot make him drink," so with 

 our boys. 



