A week after the last layer is gathered, turn out the salted petals on a broad platter, mix, and toss together until the mass is loosened; then incorporate them thoroughly with the formula given above, pack them in a clean permanent jar, cover lightly, and set it away to ripen. If not in its permanent jar it will be ready for permanent jars in a fortnight, and if well-covered will be good and fragrant for 25 years, if not longer. PERFUMED BEADS Old-fashioned perfumed beads are made in the following manner : Powdered red-rose petals, 4 ounces, Carmine, 20 grains. Tincture of musk, 1 dram, Gum tragacanth. Mix all the ingredients together, and add enough of the gum tragacanth to mold into spheres; pierce them before they are perfectly dry. They can be highly polished, or can be incised in various fashions. 334 AROUND-TIIE-WORLD COOK BOOK ATTAE OF ROSE Rose leaves, Salt, Olive oil✪ Attar of Rose. Pick enonp:h rose leaves to make a quart when closely pressed down. Put a layer of these in a 2-(|uart pjlass fruit-jar, and sprinkle lightly with salt, then cover with a thin layer of absorbent cotton wet with olive oil. Fill the jar with alternate layers in the same manner, and put on the rubber cover and set the jar in the sun daily for 2 weeks or longer, if the weather be cloudy. Uncover, and press the oil from the leaves and cotton, and place it in very closely corked vials. 335 SIMPLE EEMEDIES, AND FIEST AIDS USES FOR HOT WATER In case of colic — Apply to the abdomen a large square of house flannel which has been dipped into boiling water and wrung out by twisting it in a towel. After twisting or wring- ing, the flannel should be given one shake, folded into a light soft pad, and applied, and covered with waterproof, or thick flannel. Headache, or neuralgia — The same kind of application to the nape of the neck, and to the forehead, gives great relief, no matter to what specific cause the headache may be due. Lumbago — Thick flannel wrung out of boiling water will also assuage lumbago. When applied for this purpose the flannel should be changed every 10 or 15 minutes, having the fresh one wrung out and ready to go on, before the other one comes off. Constipation — This may in many cases be cured without the use of drugs, by drinking a hot tumbler of water every night before going to bed, and another tumbler, next morning, half an hour or so, before breakfast. Indigestion — A small tumbler of hot water, drank half an hour before dinner, is frequently of great service to sufferers from indigestion. The same, taken shortly after meals, is often found beneficial. Sprains and strains — The very best thing to relieve the pain of a sprain is to immediately envelope the injured part in a piece of thick flannel which has been wrung out of boiling water. 336 AROUND-THE-WORLD COOK BOOK Fomentations of this kind should be kept up until the pain lessens. Sleeplessness — Give hot spinal douches — that is, pouring hot water down the spine from a jug, or a big sponge. These douches are of more value for the cure of sleeplessness than sleeping draughts, for they cannot do harm, and in most cases soothe the nerves, draw blood from the brain, and induce sleep.

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A week after the last layer is gathered, turn out the salted petals on a broad platter, mix, and toss together until the mass is loosened; then incorporate them thoroughly with the formula given above, pack them in a clean permanent jar, cover lightly, and set it away to ripen. If not in its permanent jar it will be ready for permanent jars in a fortnight, and if well-covered will be good and fragrant for 25 years, if not longer. PERFUMED BEADS Old-fashioned perfumed beads are made in the following manner : Powdered red-rose petals, 4 ounces, Carmine, 20 grains. Tincture of musk, 1 dram, Gum tragacanth. Mix all the ingredients together, and add enough of the gum tragacanth to mold into spheres; pierce them before they are perfectly dry. They can be highly polished, or can be incised in various fashions. ATTAE OF ROSE Rose leaves, Salt, Olive oil. Pick enough rose leaves to make a quart when closely pressed down. Put a layer of these in a 2-quart glass fruit-jar, and sprinkle lightly with salt, then cover with a thin layer of absorbent cotton wet with olive oil. Fill the jar with alternate layers in the same manner, and put on the rubber cover and set the jar in the sun daily for 2 weeks or longer, if the weather be cloudy. Uncover, and press the oil from the leaves and cotton, and place it in very closely corked vials. SIMPLE REMEDIES, AND FIRST AIDS USES FOR HOT WATER In case of colic — Apply to the abdomen a large square of house flannel which has been dipped into boiling water and wrung out by twisting it in a towel. After twisting or wringing, the flannel should be given one shake, folded into a light soft pad, and applied, and covered with waterproof, or thick flannel. Headache, or neuralgia — The same kind of application to the nape of the neck, and to the forehead, gives great relief, no matter to what specific cause the headache may be due. Lumbago — Thick flannel wrung out of boiling water will also assuage lumbago. When applied for this purpose the flannel should be changed every 10 or 15 minutes, having the fresh one wrung out and ready to go on, before the other one comes off. Constipation — This may in many cases be cured without the use of drugs, by drinking a hot tumbler of water every night before going to bed, and another tumbler, next morning, half an hour or so, before breakfast. Indigestion — A small tumbler of hot water, drank half an hour before dinner, is frequently of great service to sufferers from indigestion. The same, taken shortly after meals, is often found beneficial. Sprains and strains — The very best thing to relieve the pain of a sprain is to immediately envelope the injured part in a piece of thick flannel which has been wrung out of boiling water. Fomentations of this kind should be kept up until the pain lessens. Sleeplessness — Give hot spinal douches — that is, pouring hot water down the spine from a jug, or a big sponge. These douches are of more value for the cure of sleeplessness than sleeping draughts, for they cannot do harm, and in most cases soothe the nerves, draw blood from the brain, and induce sleep.

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