1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
439 
NO FIELD FOR WOMEN.— Like Fig. 174 
Plain Profes sional Talk . 
WAX IN THE EARS. 
don’t poke it out. 
“ Your hearing' is not quite up to the 
mark to day,” said Dr. Dayton, as he 
looked into my ear. “ What have you 
been doing to that ear ?” 
“You could, probably, tell better than 
I can, since you are looking into it.” 
He put a small tin tube into the ear, 
and flashed a strong light over the tube, 
so that he might look within. 
“ It is too dry. You have, probably, 
been trying to poke the wax out of this 
ear with a pin or the end of a match.” 
That happened to be the truth, as I 
remember that a few days before, the 
ear began to itch, and in order to relieve 
it, T had poked out a small amount of 
wax with the end of a match. 
“ That was the worst thing you could 
possibly do, and you ought to have 
known better. Those ears are too dry, 
and the chances are that there is a 
pounding and thumping noise going on 
in your head.” 
That was also true, and deaf people, 
generally, will understand how uncom¬ 
fortable it is to have this pounding and 
thumping going on, without any way of 
stopping it. 
“ What causes this noise in the ear, 
Doctor ? ” 
“ It has been very much discussed, 
but as yet we have no exact knowledge 
about it. It has been named Tinnitus 
aurium, but we gave it the name before 
we were able to tell how it was pro¬ 
duced. We do understand, however, in 
what diseases it is found as a usual 
symptom.” 
“ Well, if you do not know about it, 
you must at least have a fair guess.” 
“ Well, my own guess would be that, 
when people begin to realize that they 
do not hear well, they promptly begin to 
fool with their ears. Their first idea 
seems to be that there is some obstruc¬ 
tion in the outer ear. They poke all 
sorts of things, from tacks to knitting 
needles, into the avenue of sound. After 
they have succeeded in irritating these 
outer passages into a diseased condition, 
the noise begins.” 
“ Then you think that this noise de¬ 
pends somewhat upon a loss of ear wax ?’’ 
“ I have never yet seen a case of ring¬ 
ing in the ear, where the normal supply 
of ear wax was present. I have experi¬ 
mentally removed the wax from my own 
ear, for the purpose of proving the fact. 
You may be Bure that I shall never re¬ 
peat it, for I know that it does the busi¬ 
ness.” 
“ This ear wax, then, is a necessary 
part of the ear, is it ? ” 
“ Yes, indeed. This vital secretion in 
the ear is quite the same factor in the 
preservation of the hearing, as the tears 
are in the mechanism of vision. I think 
that is a fair comparison in the matter.” 
“You said that aurists understand 
what diseases of the ears are commonly 
found with these noises.” 
“ That is true. The disease in which 
noises of any description prevail, is a 
condition following nasal or throat 
catarrh. When left alone, and not in¬ 
terrupted by judicious treatment, this 
will result in permanent change in the 
Eustachian tubes, the drum, and finally 
the internal ear, and then no skill can 
restore the hearing. In my opinion, the 
necessity for treatment of the catarrhal 
affections in childhood cannot be too 
strongly enforced.” 
While the doctor was talking, he had 
anointed my ear. This was done by 
wrapping absorbent cotton around the. 
end of a small, blunt instrument. This 
was then smeared with anointment, and 
gently introduced into the ear so that 
the inside was thoroughly smeared. The 
best way for an amateur to do this, how¬ 
ever, is to put the little finger in vaseline, 
and apply it at the outer opening of the 
ear, then bring the flap of the ear up, 
gently pushing it in. It will make its 
way slowly into the ear, and relieve the 
uncomfortable feeling which occurs when 
the ear is too dry. Never, under any 
circumstances, should anything smaller 
than the little finger be pushed into the 
outer ear. Dr. Dayton’s remark is that 
we “should clean our ears with our 
elbows”, the elbow being about the 
smallest instrument that an unskilled 
person should put into this delicate 
organ. 
Severe and prolonged earache some¬ 
times results from the hardening or im¬ 
paction of wax in the ear, due to a 
variety of causes. Sometimes a clumsy 
attempt has been made to clean the ear, 
with bad results ; sometimes the impac¬ 
tion is due to disease. In any case, a 
doctor should be called upon to remove 
the obstruction. The same may be said 
where a child is subject to violent recur¬ 
ring earache ; while it may merely result 
from cold, there is always the possibility 
that it indicates a constitutional weak¬ 
ness or disorder. Another thing which 
should never be neglected is a “ running ” 
ear. It is the outward sign of serious 
mischief. The ears, nose and throat are 
so closely connected internally that 
danger to one threatens danger to all. 
The Aftermath. 
... .Ventilation is moral—we cannot 
have good thoughts, good will and good 
deeds in bad air.—H. A. Kendall. 
... .1 know of no preservative of romance 
in married life so sure as good house¬ 
keeping.—Helen Watterson Moody. 
... .Whoever offers not food to the poor, 
raiment to the naked, and consolation 
to the afflicted, is reborn poor, naked 
and suffering.—Oriental Adage. 
....Why are there so many reputedly 
shrewd capitalists who are careless and 
spendthrift in the management of their 
largest single asset—their health ? 
... .Life’s supreme battle is for holiness, 
godlikeness , not for bread. “To keep 
oneself unspotted from the world ” in¬ 
volves a struggle in comparison with 
which the battle for bread is child’s 
play.—The Evangelist. 
....An example of a highly organized 
animal with eyes all over its back, is 
found in the sea slug Onchidium. What 
these animals see and how many images 
are reflected, it would be difficult to 
tell. The eyes of these starfish are upon 
the tip of each arm, represented by dark 
red spots, and by them the animal un¬ 
doubtedly can see more or less. 
... .A mother lion in the Zoological Gar¬ 
dens in Aix la Chappelle deserted her 
cub, so it was brought up on the bottle. 
Princess, which is the baby lion’s name, 
is allowed the freedom of the grounds, 
and roams around as harmlessly as a 
kitten. Princess is now a strong and 
powerful animal, and public opinion is 
that she should be deprived of her liberty. 
... .We mourn over what is called “ the 
decline of piety,” and we ascribe it to 
the Sunday newspapers, to cheap, worth¬ 
less literature, to the Sunday bicycle, to 
the theatre, to dancing, to the rage for 
excessive amusement—it never occurs 
to some to trace the effectiveness of 
these agenc'.es of deterioration to their 
one efficient cause—the decadence of the 
family and the home life. Yes, we need 
to reform all this ; we must reform it if 
we are to see religion planted in the 
hearts of future generations, and spires 
of Christian churches increase in the 
direct ratio of the increase of popula¬ 
tion.—Christian Work. 
... .A curiosity exists near the Red Bluff 
Primitive Baptist church in Ware County, 
Georgia. It is a mammoth mulberry 
tree, and the heart has long since rotted. 
Out of the heart of the mulberry grow a 
cherry and a peach tree, both of which 
are eight inches in diameter. They grow 
at a point 10 feet above the ground. All 
three of the trees are alive, and bear 
fruit every year. 
... .The naturalist Pallas first described 
the brown rat, and says that it appeared 
in Europe in 1727, coming from southern 
Asia in immense hordes just after an 
earthquake. It rapidly spread west¬ 
ward, appearing in England in 1732. In 
1755, it was brought to America, where 
it has invaded every part of the civil¬ 
ized portions of the Union, and is esti¬ 
mated to destroy about $4,500,000 worth 
of property yearly. 
- 1 go —to what I don’t know—but to 
God’s next world, which is His, and He 
made it. One paces up and down the 
shore yet awhile, and looks toward the 
unknown ocean, and thinks of the trav¬ 
eler whose boat sailed yesterday. Those 
we love can but walk down to the pier 
with us—the voyage we must make 
alone. Except for the young or very 
happy, I can’t say I am sorry for any one 
who dies.—Thackeray. 
....Certainly in our own little sphere 
it is not the most active people to whom 
we owe the most. Among the common 
people whom we know, it is not neces¬ 
sarily tho3e who are busiest, not those 
who, meteor-like, are ever on the rush 
after some visible chase and work. It is 
the lives, like the stars, which simply 
pour down on us the calm light of their 
bright and faithful being, up to which 
we look, and out of which we gather the 
deepest calm and courage. — Phillips 
Brooks. 
_Prof. Huxley asserted that the Bible 
includes many errors of science and his¬ 
tory, and falls with these errors, to 
which Mr. Gladstone makes answer that 
hundreds of years after Moses made his 
mistakes as to the sun moving round the 
earth, scientists were teaching that the 
world rested on an elephant's back, the 
elephant on four turtles, the turtles on 
midair, and that the history of the 
blunders of scientists through the cen¬ 
turies would be a volume 10 times as 
thick as the history of the exploded 
theories in the realm of ethics and 
morals.—Dr. Uillis. 
... .Everything that the great God does 
seemingly works immediately for the 
diffusion of happiness The very honey 
bees know more about happiness than 
men and women do. They know where 
the sweetest flowers are ; they don't go 
to the most beautiful. But a man will 
come home at night with all the un¬ 
pleasant things that ever happened. 
The knife isn’t sharp, and he declaims 
against that as if his wife had put the 
knife on the stove to dull it. In five 
minutes he will depress the whole house¬ 
hold. There are other men who lay out 
their lives on a different basis, who turn 
their dinner tables into universities, and 
whose talk is an education for their 
children —N. D. Hillis. 
... .Our readers all know that President 
McKinley’s health of late has been awry, 
and that he was at the Hot Springs for a 
betterment. The New York Journal 
ascribes it to the excessive use of to¬ 
bacco. Dr. Shrady was asked questions 
to which the following is, in part, his 
reply: “He may boil himself to hh 
heart’s content, and while some of tht 
poison might be drawn out, he can’i 
cure himself in that manner, and con¬ 
tinue smoking. The only sure cure for 
seasickness, you know, is to get on land 
and the only way to cure nicotine poi 
soning, is to quit smoking.” 
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