How To Cure A Felon

As soon as the part afflicted begins to swell, wrap it with cloth saturated with lobelia.

Excellent Lip Salve

Take one teacupful of fresh butter just churned, and half a pound beeswax. Mix well, and boil until dissolved. Strain and put it into a mould. This salve cures the worst chapped hands and lips in one night.

Poison Oak Cure

Bathe the affected parts long and well in sulphur and cream; in half an hour wash well in salt water. Repeat this twice a day. Three or four applications will cure.

Lemon For A Cough

Roast a lemon very carefully without burning it. When hot through cut it and squeeze it in a cup, and sweeten it to taste. When the cough is troublesome take a dessertspoonful. It is excellent.

A Fine Recipe For A Cough

Boil flaxseed in water till it becomes slimy, then strain, and sweeten with rock candy powdered as fine as possible. Season with the juice of fresh lemons. Take a wineglassful whenever the cough is troublesome.

Scalds Or Burns

If a scald or burn is not deeper than the outer skin make an ointment of sulphur and lard stiff enough to spread on a cloth, or scraped Irish potato is good.

Cure For A Cold

A very great relief for a cold in the head is to inhale spirits of ammonia every few minutes, or camphor. Take three tea-spoonsful of paregoric when first taken at night.

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One teaspoonful vinegar in one pint limestone water, will antagonize all its ill effects upon the bowels of those who are unaccustomed to it.

As much powdered alum as will rest on a dime, stirred in a pail of water, clears it in five minutes.

To keep oranges, lemons, and apples, wrap them close in pepper, and keep cool and dry.

Thaw frozen fruit and vegetables in cold water.

Cranberries covered with water will keep for months in a cellar.

A good remedy for a burn is dry soda rubbed on the blister.

Colors can be set in goods by dissolving one tablespoonful of lead in two gallons of water, and letting them stand all night.

Three Ways Of Cleaning Black Silk

One teaspoonful ammonia and one of turpentine in one pint of warm water.

Boil an old black kid glove in a quart of water till it is reduced to one pint.

Take a coffee-cupful of water and the grounds of coffee mixed with a little bluing.

Always sponge the silk on the right side, and iron on the wrong. It is always well to roll silk after cleaning on a broom-handle or round stick. A kid glove of any color will clean a silk of a similar color. If you have not one of the same color use a white one. After boiling in a quart reduce it, as before mentioned, to a pint, and keep it at that quantity until nothing but the threads are left of the glove.

Tricophorus For The Hair

One and a half ounces of castile soap, half ounce of fine cantharides, forty drops of lemon oil, forty drops of bergamot oil, one pint of best alcohol. Apply to the scalp once a day.