Buckeye cookery

For Chapped Hands, Face and Lips.—Ten drops carbolic acid in one ounce glycerine; apply freely at night. Pure mutton tallow is also ex: © cellent. Cologne Water.—One quart alcohol, three drachms oil lavender, one drachm oil rosemary, three drachms oil bergamot, three drachms essence lemon, three drops oil cinnamon. Corpulency.—An excess of fat is a disease. To reduce the excess, eat little or no butter, fat meat, gravies, sugar, vegetables, or other articles ‘containing large amounts of starch or sugar. Dandruff in the Hair. —There is no simpler nor better remedy for this vexatious appearance (caused by a dryness of the skin) than a wash of cam, © phor and borax—an ounce of each put into a pint and a half of cold water, and afterwards rub a little pure oil into the scalp. Moth Patches—may be removed from the face by the following remedy: Into a pint bottle of rum put a tablespoon of flour of sulphur. Apply this to the patches once a day, and they will disappear in two or three weeks. Boston Burnett Powder for the Face—Five cents worth of bay rum, five cents worth of magnesia snow-flake, five cents worth of bergamot, five cents worth of oil of lemon; mix in a pint bottle and fill up with rain-water. To Clean Jewelry.—Any gold jewelry that an immersion in water will not injure, can be beautifully cleaned by shaking it well in a bottle nearly full of warm soap-suds to which a little prepared chalk has been added, and afterwards rinsing it in clear, cold water, and wiping it on a towel. Moles.—To remove, moisten a stick of nitrate of silver, touch the moles, and they will turn black and sore, and soon they will dry up and fall off of themselves. If they do not entirely go, repeat. It is better, however, never to attempt their removal without consulting a physician. Warts.— Wash with water saturated with common washing soda, and let dry without wiping; repeat frequently until they disappear. Or pass a pin through the wart, and hold one end of it over the flame of a candle or lamp until the wart fires by the heat, and it will disappear. Stains on the Hands—from nitrate of silver, may be removed by a solution of chloride of lime. Fruit stains are removed by washing the hands are soap, and holding them over the smoke of burning matches or sulphur. To Remove Sunburn.—Scrape a cake of brown Windsor soap to a powder,add one ounce each of eau de Cologne and lemon-juice; mix well and form into cakes. This removes tan, prevents hands from chopping, and makes the skin soft and white. 486 THE ARTS OF THE TOILET, Cold Cream for Chapped Lips.—One-half ounce spermaceti, twenty grains white wax, two ounces pure oil of sweet almonds, one ounce pure glycerine, six drops oil of rose; melt first three. ingredients together, and, when cooling, add the glycerine and oil of rose, stirring until cold. Bad Breath.—Bad breath, from catarrh, foul stomach, or bad teeth, may be temporarily relieved by diluting a little bromo chloralum with eight or ten ounces of water, and using it as a gargle, and swallowing a few drops just before going out. A pint of bromo chloralum costs fifty cents, but a smal! vial full will last a long time. Fruit Stains— maybe removed from the fingers in the following manner; Mix together half an ounce of cream tartar and half an ounce of powdered salt of sorrel; apply a solution of this to the fingers, and the stains will disappear. Diluted sulphuric acid may be used, but care should be taken that none of it touches any fabric, as the acid will destroy it. Flesh Worms.—Black specks on the nose disfigure the face. Remove by washing thoroughly in tepid water, rubbing with a towel, and applying with a soft flannel a lotion made of three ounces of cologne and half an ounce of liquor of potash. Or press out by putting the hollow end of a watch-key - over it.