Liquid Shampoo

Take bay rum, 2 1/2. pints; water, 1/2 pint; glycerine, 1 ounce; tincture cantharides, 2 drams; carbonate of ammonia, 2 drams; borax, 1/2 ounce; or take of New England rum, 1 1/2 pints; bay rum, 1 pint; water, 1/2 pint; glycerine, 1 ounce; tincture cantharides, 2 drams; ammon. carbonate, 2 drams; borax, 1/2 ounce; the salts to be dissolved in water, and the other ingredients to be added gradually.

Cleaning Hair Brushes

Put teaspoonful or dessertspoonful of aqua ammonia into a basin half full of water, comb the loose hairs out of the brush, then agitate the water briskly with the brush, and rinse it well with clear water.

Hair Invigorator

Bay rum, 2 pints; alcohol, 1 pint; castor oil, 1 ounce; carbonate ammonia, half an ounce; tincture of cantharides, 1 ounce. Mix them well. This compound will promote the growth of the hair and prevent it from falling out.

For Dandruff

Take glycerine, 4 ounces; tincture of cantharides, 5 ounces; bay rum, 4 ounces; water,. 2 ounces. Mix, and apply once a day, and rub well down the scalp.

Razor-Strop Paste

Wet the strop with a little sweet oil, and apply a little flour of emery evenly over the surface.

Shaving Compound

Half a pound of plain white soap, dissolved in a small quantity of alcohol, as little as can be used; add a tablespoon-ful of pulverized borax. Shave the soap and put it in a small tin basin or cup; place it on the fire in a dish of boiling water; when melted, add the alcohol, and remove from the fire; stir in oil of bergamot sufflcient to perfume it.

Cure For Prickly Heat

Mix a large portion of wheat bran with either cold or lukewarm water, and use it as a bath twice or thrice a day. Children who are covered with prickly heat in warm weather will be thus effectually relieved from that tormenting eruption. As soon as it begins to appear on the neck, face, or arms, commence using the bran water on these parts repeatedly through the day, and it may probably spread no farther. If it does, the bran water bath will certainly cure it, if persisted in To Remove Corns from Between the Toes. - These corns are generally more painful than any others, and are frequently so situated as to be almost inaccessible to usual remedies Wetting them several times a day with hartshorn will in most cases cure them. Try it.

Superior Cologne Water

Oil of lavender, 2 drams; oil of rosemary, 1 dram and a half; orange, lemon and bergamot, 1 dram each of the oil; also 2 drams of the essence of musk, attar of rose 10 drops, and a pint of proof spirit. Shake all together thoroughly three times a day for a week.

Inexhaustible Smeeeing Salts

Sal tartar, 3 drams; muriate ammonia, granulated, 6 drams; oil neroli, 5 minims; oil lavender flowers, 5 minims; oil rose, 3 minims; spirits ammonia, 15 minims. Put into the pungent a small piece of sponge filling about one-fourth the space, and pour on it a due proportion of the oils, then put in the mixed salts until the bottle is three-fourths full, and pour on the spirits of ammonia in proper proportion and close the bottle.