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It is a lamentable fact that the world is full of ingrates. It seems 

 only too true what one aged grief -stricken parent said: "It seems to be 

 the rule that the more parents do for and sacrifice for their children the 

 less gratitude they receive for it. After a whole life of labor and sacri- 

 fice, their last days are made infinitely worse than the first days of 

 struggle by the sad ingratitude of their children. 



How Parents Teach Their Children to Lie. I wonder if 

 parents ever stop to consider that if even -only once they threaten 

 a child with punishment and ask for a promise "not to do so 

 again" they are teaching that child to lie. It may sound harsh yet if 

 they will stop to think, they can hardly expect any other result. 



The young are impressionable, and easily led into right ways and 

 still easier driven into wrong ways, and it is the most natural thing in 

 the world for the child to deny the truth if thereby it thinks to escape 

 punishment. Scolding and whipping are both relics of barbarism. 

 You can lead your child infinitely farther and much easier by love than 

 with a whip or with sharp words and cloudsd brow. 



APPENDICITIS. 



The popular notion that this, so often fatal disease, is caused by a 

 seed or some other foreign substance becoming lodged in the vermiform 

 appendix, or blind intestine, is no longer to be accepted as true, accord- 

 ing to the expressed opinions of many leading physicians. The records 

 of Bellevue hospital, New York, show that in 140 operations performed 

 for appendicitis not more than 5 actually had a seed or other foreign 

 substance lodged in the appendix. Recent investigations lead to the 

 discovery that this disease occurs chiefly among men, rarely among 

 women. It was also found that it very rarely occurs in men whose 

 occupation requires them to stand upright or walk. It is held by some 

 physicians that the disease is caused wholly by undue pressure on the 

 vermiform appendix, and that this pressure is induced mainly by the 

 habit of sitting cross-legged, with the right leg thrown over the left. 

 (The appendix, being oa the right side, is subjected to pressure by 

 this position, which in time causes inflammation and appendicitis. The 

 remedy is obvious.) 



Another quite frequent cause is stated by a Chicago surgeon to be 

 the habit of using excessive warm water injections to produce a move- 

 ment of the bowels or to "flush the colon." Some of the fecal matter, 

 or water carrying it, is thus forced up into the intestines and this fecal 

 deposit, lodging in the appendix, produces inflammation and serious 

 trouble. Great care should be taken in using rectal injections. Do 

 not use water in excess or force it up too far. 



