The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-04-17
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.

CoLD MADE SoAP.-Have lye strong
enough to bear up an egg. Then stir in
any soap grease until the lye is pretty
well filled, and in week or ten days the
soap will be fit for use. In the meantime
stir occasionally.
To CURE FELoN.-As soon as it
makes its appearance apply poultice, OF
equal parts of saltpeter and birthstone,
mixed with sufficient lard to make a
paste, and renew as soon as it gets dry.
A few applications will effect cure.
ROWLAND s.MAoAssAR OL.-This noted
English dressing for the hair is said to
almonds (reddened by alkanet root), one
pint; oil of rosemary, one drachm; oil OF
origanum (white), one drachm; oil of nut
meg, otto of rose, of each fifteen drops /;
neroli, six drops essence of musk, three
or four drops.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Scientific
american commends onions as specific
against epidemics as an esculent, but
sliced and kept in sick-room, where they
will absorb any atmospheric poison. They
should be replaced by fresh ones every
hour. 1t is noticed that in the room of a
smallpox patient they will blister and de-
the spread of the disease. Their applica-
ton has also proved effectivein the case OF
snake bites.
AN INK THAT WILLNoT FREEzE.-Take
about one handful of maple bark-the in
side bark. Scrape or shave off the outside
bark. Put it in three pints of water anC
boil till the strength is all out of the bark
then strain all the bark out of the ooZe
Next put in the ooze half a tablespoonful
of copperas, and boil five or ten minutes
till the copperas is all dissolved. Keel
stirring. This will make near one gil
of good ink that will not be injured b!
freezing.
To MAKE OLD BLACK SILK LOOK LIKl
NEw.-Unpick the garment and wash the
pieces in hot soapsuds; rinse by dipping
: up and down in hot water, then dip in sc
cond water prepared as follows Boil tw,
ounces of logwood chips in five quarts o
water; add quarter of an ounce of cop
peras strain through an old bit of calico
and dip your silk into this dye. Let tn
|, , silk be pinned on to line by the corners
and hang until it is nearly dry. The
, take it down and iron it between ty
pieces Of old black silk. 1t will look lik
new.
MELON WINE.-How true it is that
takes everybody to know everything
Pumpkins and a variety of delicious wa
termelons grow spontaneously in Arabia
Perhaps they develop more richly ther
than in Persia, where they are extremel.
good. In the great plenty, immensel
beyond the demands OF consumers wher
e they most abound, the prudent locker
! ahead cut hole through the rind, Will
4 on the vine, down into the pulp. 1t
then closed tightly with wax. Under
genial sun the cone soon begins TO mel
Q away till it all disappears, leaving tn
5 shell nearly full of delicious fluid whic
. is called melon wine. Like the drink c
the gods, it is not to be compared wit
u any other beverage on earth. say the cor
y sumers. A hint here for an experimen
4 the coming season.
:. ROASTED CoFFEE.-Roasted coffee
, one of the most powerful means, nc
. only of rendering animal and vegetabl
=. etlluvia innocuous, but of actually de
= stroying them. A room in which mea
y in an advanced degree of decompositio
q had been kept for some time, was il
q q stantly deprived of all smell by an ope
q coffee roaster being carried through
# containing a pound of coffee newl
~ roasted. In another room the etfluvi
eccasioned by the cleaning out Of a ces
pool, so that sulphureted hydrogen an
ammonia could be clearly detected, wa
completely removed within half minut
. on the employment of three ounces
. fresh coffee. The best mode of using
- as disinfectant is 10 dry the raw bear
:. pound it in a mortar, and then roast tn
h powder on a moderately heated iron plat,
!. until it assumes dark brown hue, whe
= it is ready for use. 1t must, however, /
- remembered that the coffee, to be effect
3 ual, should be perfectly pure. Adulte
!. ated rubbish will only make matter
| worse.