How To Eradicate Warts

Dissolve as much common washing soda as the water will take up; repeatedly wash with this for a minute or two, and let them dry without wiping.

Another Method

Get a little bullock's gall, keep it in a bottle, and rub a little on the warts two or three times a day.

Cold Cream

Lard, six ounces; spermaceti, one ounce and a drachm and a half; white wax, three drachms; rose-water, three ounces; carbonate of potass, fifteen grains; spirits of wine, three quarters of an ounce; essential oil of berga-mot, three drachms. Melt the three first, then add the rose-water, carbonate of potass, and spirits of wine, stirring well, and when nearly cold add the perfume. I can safely say that this is first-rate, having made many pounds of it.

How To Whiten The Nails

Diluted sulphuric acid, two drachms; tincture of myrrh, one drachm; spring water, four ounces. Mix. First cleanse with white soap, and then dip the fingers into the mixture.

How To Whiten The Hands

Take a wine-glassful of Eau de Cologne, and another of lemon-juice: then scrape two cakes of brown Windsor soap to a powder, and mix well in a mould. When hard, it will be an excellent soap for whitening the hands.

Rose Lip Salve

Eight ounces sweet almond oil, four ounces prepared mutton suet, one and a half ounces white wax, two ounces spermaceti, twenty drops otto; steep a small quantity of alkanet root in the oil, and strain before using. Melt the suet, wax, and spermaceti together, then add the coloric oil and otto.

Pommade de Beaute, for improving the complexion, and healing chaps. Melt together over a water-bath white wax, one and a half drachms; spermaceti, two drachms; oil of sweet almonds, half an ounce; oil of olives, pure, half an ounce; oil of poppy, half an ounce; balsam Peru, liquid, four drops. Add the balsam after having well beaten the mixture. This is an excellent cosmetic.

Glycerine Balsam

White wax, spermaceti, each one ounce; almond oil, half a pound; glycerine, two ounces; otto of roses, quarter of a drachm.

White Lip Salve

Almond oil, quarter of a pound; wax and spermaceti, each one ounce; otto of almonds, half a drm.; otto of geranium, quarter of a drachm.

Common Lip Salve is made simply of equal parts of lard and suet, colored with alkanet root, and perfumed with an ounce of bergamot to every pound of salve.

Pommade, by Dr. Pittschaft, Baden, for Chapped Lips. - Take sublimed oxide of zinc, one drachm; lycopodium powder, one drachm; pommade rosat, four ounces.

Mix, and make into a perfectly homogeneous pomade.

This is an excellent remedy for chapped lips, and is beneficial in cases of ulceration of the nails of the feet. Its application in such instances must be immediately after bathing the affected parts.

A toilet can be arranged and furnished according to taste, where there is more regard to convenience and comfort than expense of outlay. The necessaries, however, for a dressing-table and washstand, are two cakes of fine soap, a box of dentifrice, a pot of pomade for the hair, and a box of lip salve.

Acetic Acid And Its Use In Perfumery

The pungency of the odor of vinegar naturally brought it into the earliest use in the art of perfumery.

The modern aromatic vinegar is the concentrated acetic acid aromatized with various ottos, camphor, etc, thus:-

Aromatic Vinegar

Concentrated acetic acid, eight ounces; otto of English lavender, two drachms; otto of English rosemary, one drachm; otto of cloves, one drachm; camphor, one ounce. , First dissolve the bruised camphor in the acetic acid, then add the perfumes; after remaining together for a few days, with occasional agitation, it is to be strained, and is then ready for use.

The most popular article of this kind is -

Henry's Vinegar

Dried leaves of rosemary, rue, wormwood, sage, mint, and lavender flowers, each half an ounce; bruised nutmeg, cloves, angelica root, and camphor, each quarter of an ounce; alcohol (rectified), four ounces; concentrated acetic acid, sixteen ounces.

Macerate the materials for a day in the spirit; then add the acid, digest for a week, and filter it.

Vinaigre A La Rose

Concentrated acetic acid, one ounce; otto of roses, half a drachm. Well shaken together.

It is obvious that vinegars differently perfumed may be made in a similar manner to the above, by using other ottos in place of the otto of roses. All these concentrated vinegars are used in the same way as perfumed ammonia, that is, by pouring three or four drachms into an ornamental "smelling" bottle, previously filled with crystals of sulphate of potash, which forms the "sel de vinaigre" of the shops; or upon sponge into little silver boxes, called vinaigrettes, from their French origin. The use of these vinegars had their origin in the notion that they kept those who carried them from the effects of infectious disease.

Mint Vinegar

This is made by putting into a wide-mouthed bottle, fresh nice clean mint leaves enough to fill it loosely; then fill up the bottle with good vinegar,; and after it has been stopped close for two or three weeks, it is to be poured off clear into another bottle, and kept well corked for use. Serve with lamb when mint cannot be obtained.

Thieves' Vinegar

Take of rue, sage, mint, rosemary, wormwood, and lavender, a large handful of each; infuse in one gallon of vinegar, in a stone jar closely covered, and keep warm by the fire for four days, then strain, and add one ounce of camphor, pounded; bottle, and keep well corked. There is a legend connected with this preparation (called in French Vinaigre a quatre Voleurs), that during the plague at Marseilles certain robbers plundered the infected houses with impunity, and being apprehended and condemned to death, were pardoned on condition of disclosing the secret of their preventive - as above. The mode of using is to wash the face and hands with it previous to exposure to any infection.