BACON AND SPLINTERS.

BACON AND SPLINTERS. Splinters in our house were dealt with by the careful use of a sterilized needle. The report on nosebleeds brought back the memory that that were a couple times when the needle could not extract my splinter. My mother then announced that she would use the method that her father had endorsed of wrapping bacon around the finger with a bandaid and leaving it overnight. It worked each time and seemed like magic. I just mentioned this to Mary Jane, and she said that the use of bacon on splinters was well-established. Sure enough, Googling “bacon” and “splinters” leads to a lot of hits.