Volatile Salts For Pungents

Liquor ammon., fort., 1 pint, oil lavender flowers, 1 dram, oil rosemary, fine, 1 dram, oil bergamot, 1/2 dram, oil peppermint, 10 minims. Mix thoroughly and fill pungents or r keep in well stoppered bottle. Another formula is, sesqui-carbonate of ammonia, small pieces, 10 ounces; concentrated liq. ammonia, 5 ounces. Put the sesqui-carb. in a wide mouth jar with air-tight stopper, perfume the liquor ammonia to suit and pour over the carbonate, close tightly the lid and place in a cool place, stir with a stiff spatula every other day for a week, and then keep it closed for two weeks, or until it becomes hard, when it is ready for use.

Paste For Papering Boxes

Boil water and stir in batter of wheat or rye flour. Let it boil one minute, take off and strain through a colander. Add, while boiling, a little glue or powdered alum. Do plenty of stirring while the paste is cooking, and make of consistency that will spread nicely.

Aromatic Spirit Of Vinegar

Acetic acid, No. 8, pure, 8 ounces; camphor, l/2 ounce. Dissolve and add oil lemon, oil lavender flowers, each 2 drams; oil cassia, oil cloves, 1/2 dram each. Thoroughly mix and keep in well stoppered bottle.

Rose-Water

Preferable to the distilled for a perfume, or for culinary purposes: Attar of rose, 12 drops; rub it up with a half ounce of white sugar and 2 drams carbonate magnesia, then add gradually 1 quart of water and 2 ounces of proof spirit, and filter through paper.

Bay Rum

French proof spirit, 1 gallon; extract bay, 6 ounces. Mix and color with caramel; needs no filtering.

Fine Lavender Water

Mix together, in a clean bottle, a pint of inodorous spirit of wine, an ounce of oil of lavender, a teaspoonful of oil of bergamot, and a tablespoonful of oil of ambergris.

The Virtues Of Turpentine

After a housekeeper fully realizes the worth of turpentine in the household, she is never willing to be without a supply of it. It gives quick relief to burns, it is an excellent application for corns, it is good for rheumatism and sore throats, and it is the quickest remedy for convulsions or fits. Then it is a sure preventive against moths; by just dropping a trifle in the bottom of drawers, chests and cupboards, it will keep the garments from injury during the summer. It will keep ants and bugs from closets and store-rooms by putting a few drops in the corners and upon the shelves; it is sure destruction to bedbugs, and will effectually drive them away from their haunts if thoroughly applied to all the joints of the bedstead in the spring cleaning time, and injures neither furniture nor clothing. A spoonful of it added to a pail of warm water is excellent for cleaning paint. A little in suds washing days lightens laundry labor.

Paste For Scrap Books

Take half a teaspoonful of starch, same of flour, pour on a little boiling water, let it stand a minute, add more water, stir and cook it until it is thick enough to starch a shirt bosom. It spreads smooth, sticks well and will not mold nor discolor paper. Starch alone will make a very good paste.