To Strengthen the Eyes. — Fill your wash-basin
with cold water, and add a tablespoonful of salt, then
put your eyes into the w^ate'r, keeping them open as
long as possible, and repeat this several times. This
also brightens the eyes very much.
To Keep Lace a Good Colour, w^rap it up in a
piece of blue tissue paper; this prevents it turning
yellow.
Dry Lips.— When the lips, gums and tongue are dry
in acute diseases, they should be washed several times
daily with glycerine, diluted with an equal quantity
of water. A little lemon juice or a few drops of rose¬
water can be added to make it more pleasant to the
patient.
Bruises. — Rest, and bathe in cold water. If the
skin is unbroken, apply half a teaspoonful of arnica
lotion to a tumblerful of water; soft linen rags wet with
this lotion to be applied, and changed as often as
they become w'arm and dry.
GAS COOKERY BOOK.
243
Never enter a sick room in a state of perspiration,
as the moment you become cool your pores absorb.
Do not approach contagious diseases with an empty
stomach, nor sit between the sick and the fire, because
the heat attracts the thin vapour.
To Remove Stains from Hands. — Wash the hands
in tomato juice or salts of le.mon.
Castor Oil : Best Way of Taking It. — Float it on
milk, and before and after taking it, eat a piece of
lemon.
To Prevent Hair Falling Off. — Wet the head
occasionally in salt and water, and the hair will cease
falling off.
Coffee is an absolute antidote to alcohol if it be
taken in sufficient quantity. Dogs saturated with
caffeine could not be made intoxicated.
To Remove Ink Spots and Stains from White Clothes.
— Take half an ounce each of salt of tartar and sal
ammoniac, and shake them well in a pint of water.
Then fill up the bottle with water, well shake and cork
it. With this mixture wet the stained linen and con¬
tinue damping it until the stain disappears.
A Raw Egg, if swallowed in time, will effectually
detach a fish bone in the throat, and the white of two
eggs will render the deadly corrosive sublimate as
harmless as a dose of calomel.
To Stop Hiccoughs. — A few drops of glycerine in
cold water, or a spoonful of brown sugar taken dry.
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THE HOUSEHOLD
HOUSEHOLD NOTES,
Housekeeping, which the foolish deride, means
vigilance, thought, and much self-sacrifice, which is
well repaid when they consider how they make “ the
wheels run smoothly,” and can truly be termed the
“ angels of the house.”
How to Clean Plate-Glass Mirrors or Window
Panes. — After having washed the glass with water
containing vinegar, rub the glass with a cloth that
has been dipped into methylated spirit and polish with
a soft chamois. This will give a brilliant polish to
the mirror.
To Clean Looking-Glasses and Plate Glass.—
Wash with warm water and sponge ; then wash with
spirits, and dust the glass with powdered blue in a
rag, and rub it with pieces of soft calico, and after¬
wards with an old silk handkerchief.
To Prevent Fly-Marks on Pictures or Pier-Glasses.
—Wash the frames, etc., with the water in which
leeks have been steeped for several hours.
Frost and Moisture can be kept off plate-glass
windows only by keeping the inside air dry, or by
an inner sash made tight so that the air in the window
enclosure will be cold and ventilated from the out¬
side. A partial remedy is to have ventilating open¬
ings in the top of the window casing.
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Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
To Strengthen the Eyes. — Fill your wash-basin with cold water, and add a tablespoonful of salt, then put your eyes into the water, keeping them open as long as possible, and repeat this several times. This also brightens the eyes very much.
To Keep Lace a Good Colour, wrap it up in a piece of blue tissue paper; this prevents it turning yellow.
Dry Lips.— When the lips, gums and tongue are dry in acute diseases, they should be washed several times daily with glycerine, diluted with an equal quantity of water. A little lemon juice or a few drops of rose¬ water can be added to make it more pleasant to the patient.
Bruises. — Rest, and bathe in cold water. If the skin is unbroken, apply half a teaspoonful of arnica lotion to a tumblerful of water; soft linen rags wet with this lotion to be applied, and changed as often as they become warm and dry.
Never enter a sick room in a state of perspiration, as the moment you become cool your pores absorb. Do not approach contagious diseases with an empty stomach, nor sit between the sick and the fire, because the heat attracts the thin vapour.
To Remove Stains from Hands. — Wash the hands in tomato juice or salts of lemon.
Castor Oil : Best Way of Taking It. — Float it on milk, and before and after taking it, eat a piece of lemon.
To Prevent Hair Falling Off. — Wet the head occasionally in salt and water, and the hair will cease falling off.
Coffee is an absolute antidote to alcohol if it be taken in sufficient quantity. Dogs saturated with caffeine could not be made intoxicated.
To Remove Ink Spots and Stains from White Clothes.
— Take half an ounce each of salt of tartar and sal ammoniac, and shake them well in a pint of water. Then fill up the bottle with water, well shake and cork it. With this mixture wet the stained linen and con¬ tinue damping it until the stain disappears.
A Raw Egg, if swallowed in time, will effectually detach a fish bone in the throat, and the white of two eggs will render the deadly corrosive sublimate as harmless as a dose of calomel.
To Stop Hiccoughs. — A few drops of glycerine in cold water, or a spoonful of brown sugar taken dry.
HOUSEHOLD NOTES,
Housekeeping, which the foolish deride, means vigilance, thought, and much self-sacrifice, which is well repaid when they consider how they make “ the wheels run smoothly,” and can truly be termed the “ angels of the house.”
How to Clean Plate-Glass Mirrors or Window
Panes. — After having washed the glass with water containing vinegar, rub the glass with a cloth that has been dipped into methylated spirit and polish with a soft chamois. This will give a brilliant polish to the mirror.
To Clean Looking-Glasses and Plate Glass.—
Wash with warm water and sponge ; then wash with spirits, and dust the glass with powdered blue in a rag, and rub it with pieces of soft calico, and after¬ wards with an old silk handkerchief.
To Prevent Fly-Marks on Pictures or Pier-Glasses.
—Wash the frames, etc., with the water in which leeks have been steeped for several hours.
Frost and Moisture can be kept off plate-glass windows only by keeping the inside air dry, or by an inner sash made tight so that the air in the window enclosure will be cold and ventilated from the out¬ side. A partial remedy is to have ventilating open¬ ings in the top of the window casing.