The Russellville Democrat., 1881-04-07

White sugar, powdered, pound l ounce are quart
 Best brown sugar, pound 2 ounces are one quart.
 Ten eggs are pound.
 X common tumbler holds one-half pint
 A teacup is one gill.
 A large wineglass is one gill
 Forty drops are equal to l teaspoon ft1l.
 CONCERNING BEDROOMS.
 A physician was lately called 10 pre- scribe for young lady who lives in one of the most charming villas in Learned vile
 Nothing the matter with her" she declared, nothing but a terrible head ache.' Every morning she walked with a headache and it lasted nearly half the day It had been going on for months ever since they moved into their new house. The doctor tried all the old remedies and they all failed. Riding and archery were faithfully tested, study and practice were cheeriully given up. Nothing did any good.
 Will you let me see your bedroom2' asked the doctor one day, and he was shown up into the prettiest little nest imaginable.
 Nothing wrong about the ventilation. The windows were high and broad, and were left open every night, the patient said. The bed stood in one corner against the wall.
 How do you sleep?7 says the doctor
 "On my right side, at the back of the bed, with my face to the wall Lou likes the front best"
 "The dickens she does!" says the doctor. "So do I. Will do me the favor to wheel that bed into the middle of the room and sleep so for week? Then let me know about the headache"
 Doctors are so absurdl The middle of the room, indeedl And there were the windows on one side, and the two doors on the other side, and the mantle with it's Macrame lambrequin on the fourth side. There was no place for the bed but just where it stood. in the corner
 "Never mind! Sacrifice your lambre- quin," urged the doctor-"just for week you know"
 The lambrequin was sacrificed, the bed moved where it had free air on both sides, the headaches disappeared.
 It may be only an exceptionally deli. cate system that would be induced to actual headache by breathing all night the reflected air from a wall. Yet pos sibly some of the morning dullness we know of may be traceable to like cause. At any rate. plenty of breathing space around a bed can only be an advan- tage to everybody. = Christian Union
 PufPLEs, BLACK STICKS, ETC.
 Several have written to inquire what tliey shall do to get rid of the small black specks which appear in the face and are so unsightly. These "comedones," as they are called, are little particles of lymph, which have congulated in the pores. They are not worms" as many people imagine from the form in which they are excluded, ii pressed out by the finger nailsy as can often be done. If not removed they harden into long bristles or bOny substances which are extremely difficult to get rid of.
 The best mode of treatment is to wash the part affected frequently with soft, tepid water, following it by gentle but continual friction with q towel. This will usually restore the skin to healthy state and banish the "comedones" But if local applications are needed or de- sired, take one ounce of oil of sweet and one drachm of fluid potash. Shake them well together and then add one ounce of rose water, and six ounces of pure rain water. Rub the part affected for a few minutes briskly and then apply the lotion.
 All of these outside applications should 1 be used with caution for what is per fectly harmless or even healthful in ! some states of the system will irritate in l others. Watch the effect from day to l day and you can soon decide whether | the remedy will prove effectual.
 To those afflicted ones that ask for a | remedy to take those pimples off I will | tell them one l have seen tried in four | different cases. Get of each five cents i worth of saltpetre, sulphur and cream of | tartar. Mix the sulphur and cream of l tartar, and take a teaspoonful morning and evening and piece of saltpetre at noon, say wheat grain. If your sul- phur and ''sich" don't last as long as the saltpetre, and you are not perfectly white and smooth, renew. never wash my face in hard water I use sweet milk, pr sour either; will soon be 25, and have never vet had any one guess my age past 25; only a few weeks ago was taken .O be only Is or 20. l bathe my face ~fN4 7 AAASA iAA4AS AAA gum RtiAoAu uAsSOiNtN in alcohol. Put few drops in your wash water. OPAL
 The lady whose face is rough and red should not undertake to remedy it by external applications. It is probably similar in character to chronic erysipe- as, salt rheum and kindred diseases of Inc skin, and should be treated by in- ernal remedies. If she has a first-class physician near better apply to him. -T0le30 Blade
 USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
 THR luster of morocco leather is re- stored by vanishing with white of an agg
 To select nutmegs, pick them with a pin. If they are good, the oil will in 'tantly spread around the puncture.
 WHEN you drive a nail into a wall, 'hothes press or closet, to hang things 1n, drive it through a spool to the head.
 TuE skin of a boiled egg is the most ailicacious remedy that can be applied to boil, Peal it carefully, wet and apply { Co the part affected. Ii will draw off he matter and relieve the soreness in a lew hours
 RUBBER-HEADED Jacks are handy to nave in the house in many ways They may be placed on the backs of chairs to prevent injury 10 the walls, and in the ahbets of rattling windows to stop the noise, or in the jamhs of doors for similar urpose.
 SAY to those afflicted with acute or sA. -.n Al q