blister is broken. Cover them thickly with olive oil or vaseline, or
common baking soda mixed with a few drops of water. This makes a good
paste to put over them, and it will ease the pain. (This is the way to
treat a _wasp_ or _bee sting_, too, after you have pulled out the
"stinger.") If the blister of the burn is not broken, just keep
putting vaseline or sweet oil on it every half hour or so, and the
blister won't break; for the oil will make it limber and prevent it
from bursting.

If ever your clothes should catch fire, _do not run_; the wind you
make will only fan the flames, so that they burn faster. _Lie down and
roll over and over_, as fast as you can. If there is a rug or a quilt
handy, wrap yourself up tight in it. My youngest brother once saved a
little child's life this way. He was not very old, but he remembered
to put the child on the floor and roll him up in a rug.

However, the best way to prevent accidents with fire is to let fire
and lamps and matches and kerosene and sparklers and firecrackers
alone.

I am so glad that people are becoming sensible about keeping our
nation's birthday, the Fourth of July, and are doing away with the
firecrackers that have killed so many thousands of children. The burns
you get from firecrackers are much more dangerous than other burns. A
dirt-germ often gets into them that may cause _lockjaw_. The name
tells what it is: it locks the jaws together so that its victim cannot
eat; and, of course, if he cannot eat, he cannot live very long. Next
Fourth of July try getting flags and bunting and drums and horns, if
you like, instead of these dangerous fireworks.