Then give a half-teaspoon table salt twice a day for two or three days.
An old-fashioned home remedy is one-quarter teaspoonful cream of tartar in one-quarter glass of water three times a day, at morning, noon and evening, for three days.
If hives persist, see doctor.
“Did you have it all planned to give us this lesson. Miss Helpem?” asked Soami Brave, while the girls bathed their sunburned faces as directed, and treated the poison ivy rash with the Epsom salt solution.
“Do you really want to know?” asked the assistant nurse.
“Please tell us,” they begged.
“Well, to tell the truth,” replied Miss Helpem, “your needs seemed to require this lesson so much—that I didn’t have to invent a game at all—I just put you into practical practice.”
“By the way, Miss Helpem,” suggested Angie, “would you mind not telling the boys’ class about what happened?”
“I promise secrecy,” said Miss Helpem. The girls wondered why she and Shesa Brave laughed so heartily—they didn’t know that the boys had been given the same promise.