The household (of the Detroit free press)

To Remove Moth Patches — Wash the patches with a solution of common bicarbonate of soda and water for several times during the day, for two days, or until the patches are removed, which will usually be in forty-eight hours. After the process, wash with some nice toilet soap, and the skin will be left nice, clean, and free of patches. Lemon juice is also good rubbed on the skin. Or this : Beef tallow, melted and made very hot in a spoon ; dip into it a tiny mop, made of old linen rolled up tightly ; apply to these spots as hot as it is bearable at retiring, and again after the morning's bath. In a week or ten days they usually disappear. Yellow Spots are often annoying blemishes ; Sometimes they can be removed by rubbing with flower of sulphur frequently. This is also a safe remedy : One ounce of strong sulphur water, one-quarter ounce of lemon juice, cinnamon water one drachm. Wash with this three or four times a day. Sometimes these spots indicate derangement of the stomach, and may require medical advice. To Remove Freckles — Put one ounce of alum, same of lemon juice in a pint of rose-water ; apply at night. Scrape horse-radish into a cup of sour milk (cold) ; let it stand twelve hours ; strain and apply two or three times a day. Mix lemon juice one ounce, powdered borax quarter drachm, sugar half a drachm ; keep for a few days in a glass bottle and apply occasionally. Muriate of ammonia half-drachm, lavender water two drachms, distilled water half-pint ; apply two or three times a day. Into half a pint of milk squeeze the juice of a lemon, with a spoonful of brandy, and boil, skimming well ; add a drachm of rock alum ; apply at night. The above are all good and have been used effectually, though nothing will take freckles off permanently. To Remove Wrinkles — Put pieces of court plaster on the face where the wrinkles are inclined to come, just before going to bed, and remove in the morning. The plaster contracts the skin and prevents its sinking into creases and lines. It also protects and softens the skin. Warm water should always be used to wash the face in, as it keeps off wrinkles. Tar soap is the French specific for incipient wrinkles. To Remove Moles — Moisten a stick of nitrate of silver and touch the mole ; it will turn black and sore, but will soon dry up and fall off. If not successful, try again. Or, into a pint bottle of rum put a tablespoonful of flour of sulphur ; apply once a day and the moth patches will disappear in two or three weeks. To Remove Tan — Mix magnesia in soft water to the consistency of paste, spread on the face and allow it to remain a minute or two, then wash off with castile soap-suds, and rinse in soft water. Face Eruptions — Dissolve an ounce of borax in a quart of water, and apply this with a fine sponge every evening before going to bed. Or flowers of sulphur ; rub it in well with the fingers, and then rub it off with a dry towel, or rub with a coarse towel and then apply cold cream. Refined chalk made into a thick plaster with one-third as much glycerine as water and spread on the parts will cool inflammation and reduce redness of the nose or face.