Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including ..

Mother's Cook Book. 271 well rubbed together, and smear along the edge of the eyelid. Give a grain or two of calomel with five or eight grains of rhubarb, according to the age of the child, twice a week. The old -fashioned and apparently absurd practice of rubbing the stye with a ring, is as good and speedy a cure as that by any process of medicinal application; though the number of times it is rubbed, or the quality of the ring and direction of the strokes, has nothing to do with its success. That pressure and the friction excite the vessels of the part, and Cause an absorption of the effused matter under the eyelash. The edge of the nail will answer as well as a ring. FOR CONSTIPATION. One or two figs eaten fasting is sufficient for some, and they are especially good in the case of children, as there is no trouble in getting them to take them. A spoon of wheaten bran in a glass of water is a simple remedy and quite effective. LEANNESS Is caused generally by lack of power in the digestive organs to digest and assimilate the fat-producing elements of food. First restore digestion, take plenty of sleep, drink all the water the stomach will bear in the morning on rising, take moderate exercise in the open air, eat oatmeal, cracked wheat, Graham mush, baked sweet apples, roasted and broiled beef, cultivate jolly people, and bathe daily. SUPERFLUOUS HAIRS Are best left alone. Shaving only increases the strength of the hair, and all depilatories are dangerous and sometimes disfigure the face. The only sure plan is to spread on a piece of leather equal parts of galbanum and pitch 274 Mother's Cook Book. plaster, lay it on the hair as smoothly as possible, let it remain three or four minutes, then remove it with the hairs, root and branch. This is severe, bat effective. Kerosene will also remove them. If sore after using, rub on sweet oil. THE BREATH. Nothing makes one so disagreeable to others as a bad breath. It is caused by bad teeth, diseased stomach, or disease of the nostrils. Neatness and care of the health will prevent and cure it THE QUININE CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS. Pulverize one pound of fresh quill-red Peruvian bark, and soak it in one pint of diluted alcohol. Strain and evaporate down to one-half pint. For the first and second days give a teaspoonful every three hours. If too much is taken, headache will result, and in that case the doses should be diminished. On the third day give one-half a teaspoonful; on the fourth reduce the dose to fifteen drops, then to ten, and then to five. Seven days, it is said, will cure average age oases, though some require a whole month. FOR SORE THROAT. Out slices of salt pork or fat bacon; simmer a few moments ments in hot vinegar, and apply to throat as hot as possible. When this is takenoff as the throat is relieved, put around a bandage of soft flannel. A gargle of equal parts of borax and alum, dissolved in water, is also excellent. To be used frequently. A GOOD CURE FOR COLDS. Boil two ounces of flaxseed in one quart of water; strain and add two ounces of rock candy, one-half pint Mother's Cook Book. 275 of honey, juice of three lemons; mix, and let all boil well; let cool, and bottle. Dose: One cupful on going to bed, onehalf cupful before meals. The hotter you drink it the better. TO STOP BLEEDING. A handful of flour bound on the out, A HEALTHFUL APPETIZER. How often we hear women who do their own cooking eay that by the time they have prepared a meal, and it is ready for the table, they are too tired to eat. One way to mitigate this is to take, abont half an hour before dinner, a raw egg, beat it until light, pnt in a little sugar and milk, flavor it, and "drink it down;" it will remove the faint, tired-out feeling, and will not spoil your appetite for dinner. TO REMOVE DISCOLORATION FROM BRUISES.