Sue Harris wrote:
> My grandmother who lived to be 102 used to tell me about how she got a lot
> of ear aches and how her father would blow pipe smoke into her ear to
> relieve the pain.  This is only the second person I have ever heard that
> from.
>
>
Sue,
Shades of the past! My grandfather, who lived to be 100, used to blow
pipe smoke in my ear to relieve earaches. I wonder if the same old wife
who discovered that remedy also found the one about putting soap under
the bedsheet to relieve leg cramps?

Sandy