Surgical Suggestions.

If the extremities of the stocking, drawer-leg, stockinette or flannel bandage put next to the skin when a plaster cast is to be applied, are turned down over the cast and then a few turns of the plaster bandage are made over them, near but not at the edge of the cast, a neat and comfortable cuff or margin will be thus provided.

An X-Ray Result.

"This X-ray machine is a marvel," Said a medical man to his friend; "it is showing up many a wonder. And serving a mighty good end.

"Last week I examined a puppy- You know how they hang out their tongues- Just a plain every-day kind of doggie; I took a good look at his lungs.

"And when I developed the picture- Now don't tell your sisters and aunts, For it sounds just a little bit shocking- I discovered the seat of his pants!" -Charles Edwin Julian, in Munsey's.