I sincerely hope that Mrs. Filmer has aban: doned that custom of. keeping an oil burning in her room of nights, She do say what the necessity was, but T tras longer exists. If possible to avoid it, no light should burn in a room wherein people are sleeping. The reasons ought to be plain enough, yet.we all need lessons in common caution, Thislady had hers, and was fortunate in coming out of the affair as well as she did.
Writing about it she Te was in the summer of 1886, not long after the death of my husband. I'had been used to keeping an oil lamp burning in my room for convenience during the night. One night I accidentally overturned the lamp, and a blaze kindled in fan instant, Terrified half out of my wits sprang from bed, seized the burning arti and ran downstairs with them, just in time to prevent farther disaster. Happily for me T escaped with slight burns, but not from consequences of another kind.
"The fright and shock quite prostrated me, Do what I would, after the danger was all over, I-was unable to banish the subject from my thoughts: My nerves seemed completely uobinged, and I rapidly grew feeble, excitable. and debilitated. My appetite failed, {and I bad no relish for my ordinary food. Where was bad taste in my mouth, headache, distress after eating, loss of flesh and ambi-over things which, when I was well, had no tion, with 9 disposition to worry and fret influence with me whatever. 1 sought to build up my strength with beef tea and other nutritious and digestible forms of diet, without success,
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