To draw out a splinter, try placing honey or sticky pine resin over it, cover with a bandage, and wait from one hour to two days.  You may be surprised how quickly these ingredients work to pull splinters out.

The pine-resin technique comes in particularly handy if you're out in the wilds without your first-aid kit.  Just find a pine tre eand scrape up some of the sticky stuff that oozes from various spots on the trunk.  Alcohol - rubbing alcohol, drinking alcohol, or a tincture -- will remove the sticky resin oncce the splinter is out.

Here's another way to draw splinters out if you're not out in the wilds, but at home.  Cut a slice of raw potato or steam a cabbage leaf until it's limp, and apply a small section to the splinter area, bandaging it if necessary.  Before bedtime, replace this with another piece, bandage, and leave on overnight.  By morning, the splinter probably will be gone.