The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.


FLEsH-woRAs.-Wash ysur face night
and morning in strong cologne water and
rub dry with coarse towel Also take a
thimbleful Of sulphur in "a glass Of milk,
twice week, before breakfast. Continue
the practice couple of weeks.
4 To REMovB MoLEs.-Oroton oil oint-
ment is used, but the application will have
to be repeated several times. 1t produces
not permanently mark the skin. Nitric
acid or aromatic vinegar is also success
fully used. Use very little of it. Lunar
caustic is certain remedy, buff not care
fully used will blacken the skin. The
nitric acid leaves yellow stain but the
vinegar scarcely discolors the skin. Warts
are also removed by the means mentioned.
BAY 'RUM.-The genuine bay rum is
made by digesting the leaves Of the bay
plant ian aromatic plant which grows in
the West Indies) in rum, and subsequent
distillatiOn. The imitation is prepared
from the essential oil obtained from the
bay plant, as follows: Ten fluid drains of
oil of bay, one fluid dram of oil of pimento,
two fluid ounces of acetic ether, three gal
Ions Of alcohol, and two and One-half gal
Ions of water. Mix, and after two weeks
repose, filter. f sr<i 4+''t y'<tt
1T is well known that leather articles,
kept in stables, soon become brittle in
consequence of ammOniacal exhalatiOns,
which affect both harness hanging up in
such localities and the shoes Of those who
frequent them. The usual applications
of grease are not always sufficient to meet
this difficulty; but it is said that by
adding to them small quantity of glyc-
crime the leather will be kept continually
in soft and pliable condition.
A REMEDY FoR DAMP sWALLs.-It is
said that solution of two-thirds of a
pound of Castile-soap to gallon of water
laid on damp wall as a wash, and next
day followed by another wash of alum
water-two ounces dissolved in a gallon
will cure the inconvenience, and prevent
any further recurrence of 1t. 1t is so sim
pie thing that housekeepers troubled
with damp places in their dwellings will
be glad to try it for themselves.
To PRESERVE CUT FLowERs.-One
who has tested it, says: "Place and ar
range the cut flowers in vase or deep
plate, filled with water; then cover the
same with glass, such as is used in apla-
ries, having small hole at the top, as the
air must not be entirely excluded, but
sufficient ventilation given to allow the
damp to escape, A dish of wild flowers
thus placed has been kept more than ten
days in perfect beauty, making fresh buds
and expanding every day. These without
fresh and without dropping than garden
or greenhouse flowers, but not less beau
tiful or worthy Of care and attention.
BIRD L1ME.-An inferior kind is made
by boiling linseed Oil for some hours, I'M
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recipe is the following: Boil the middle
water, drain it, and lay it in heaps III the
ground, covered with stones or weights,
for two or three weeks, till reduced to a
mucilage. Beat this in mortar, wash it
in rain water, and knead it till free from ex-
traneous matters. Put it in earthen pots,
and in four or five days it will be fit for
use.
PREPARATION OF FLOOR WAx.-Two
ounces of pearl ash, ten ounces of wax.
and about half pint of water are heated
to boiling in dish, which is frequently
agitated, until thick fluid mass is formed,
from which, upon removal from the fire,
no watery liquid separates out. Boiling
water is now cautiously added to the
mass, until no watery drops are distin-
guishable. The dish is again set on the
fire, but its contents are not allowed to
boil, otherwise myricin would separate
out, eight or nine pints Of water being
added, little by little, with constant stir
ring. Coloring matter may be added, if
desired.-Nessler.
WoRMs.-The seed of the pumpkin have
within few years obtained in this coun-
try considerable reputation in the treat
ment of tapewOrm. The employment Of
them, however, is not new. The flesh Of
the pumpkin was used in 1920. The dose
Of the seeds is about two ounces, which
are to be taken early in the morning, and
followed in an hour or two by a fuid
ounce of castor Oil. The mode of admin
istering is various. Sometimes the seeds
deprived of their outward covering, are
beaten into paste with sugar, and thus
taken. In either instance they are formed
into an emulsion by rubbing them up
thoroughly with water and little sugar.
The following recipe is recommended
Take Of pumpkin seeds, six hundred
grains; water. five grains; ethereal ex-
tract of male fern, sixty grains; water,
marble mortar with the sugar, and half
fluid ounce Of water, and when a homo
geneous paste has been obtained, add the
extract Of fern, and gradually mix in the
rest of the water. The emulsion should
be taken without straining, early in the
morning, in four doses, at intervals of
fifteen minutes, the bottle being well
shaken each time. In regard to the thread
worm, oysters Of lime-water will fire.
quently bring the whole nest Of them
away, and give instant relief. The follow
ing is a good recipe: Soctor,ne alors, one
ounce; licOfice, two ounces; cOrlanuer
seed, half an ounce, gin one pint. Digest
in bottle for week, shaking the bottle
frequently, then strain. Dose for child