The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-08-11
WORTH KNOWING.
Some Things t%ar Housewives to Put in
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4 poultice of tea-leayes moistenet
with water, will cure stye on the eye
lid.
For earache, dissolve assafefida il
water; warm few drops and drop IL
the ear, then cork the ear with wool.
The true physiological way of treat
inc burns and scalds il to at once eX
clude the air with cotton batting, flour
scraped potato, or anything that Is
handiest.
Use fresh water Water which has
stood in an open dish over night should
not be used for cooking or drinking, as
it will have absorbed many foul gases.
Mix a little carbonate of soda with the
water in which flowers are immersed,
and it will preserve them for fortnight.
Common saltpeter Ii also Il very good
preservative.
Take a new flower pot, wash it clean,
wrap IN a wet cloth, and set over butter,
will keep it rs hard as if set on ice.
Milk, if put into an earthen can, or
even a tin one, viii keep sweet for a
long time, if well wrapped in wet
cloth.
Common soda is excellent for scour-
ing tin, as it will not scratch the tin,
and will make it look like new. Apply
with a piece Of moistened newspaper and
polish with dry piece. Wood ashes
are good substitute.
To cure bunions, use pulverized salt
peter and sweet oil. Obtain al a drug
gist's five or six cents worth of saltpe
ter; put into bottle with sufficient olive
oil to dissolve it, shake up well, and rub
the inHamed joints night and morning,
and more frequently if painful.
Flies may he effectualIy disposed of
without the use of poison. Take half a
teaspoonful of black pepper in powder,
one teaspoonful Of brown sugar. and one
teaspoonful of cream. Mix them well
together. and place them in room
where the flies are troublesome, and
they will soon disappear.
Red ants may be banished from a pan
try or store-room by StfsYing the shelves
with a small quantity of cloves, either
whole or ground. We use the former,
rs not being so likely TO get into food
placed upon the shelves. The cloves
should be renewed occasionally. as, af
ter time, they lose their strength and
efficacy.
The following drink for relieving sick
ness of the stomach is said to be very
palatable and agreeable: Beat up one
egg very well. say for twenty minutes,
then add fresh milk one pint, water one
pint, sugar to make it palatable; boil,
and get it cool drink when cold, If 1t
becomes curds and whey it is useless.
According to La France Medicale bo-
rax has been employed with advantage
in cases Of hoarseness and aphonia oc-
curing suddenly from the action of
cold The remedy is recommended to
singers aud orators whose voices sudden
" become lost, but which by these
means can be recovered instantly. a
little piece of borax the size of a pea is
to be slowly dissolved in the mouth ten
minutes before singing or speaking. The
remedy provokes an abundant secretion
of saliva, which moistens the mouth and
throat This local action of the borax
should be aided by an equal dose of nj
trate of potassium, taken in warm solu-
ton before going to bed
a thorough qualified medical man has
recently, in the course of his practice,
came upon what he believes and uses as
a specific remedy for smallpox. The
remedy is the bi-tartrate of potash, the
common cream of tartar of the drug
store; two ounces dissolved in boiling
water, with the juice of lemon and
sugar added. Let the patient drink as
much as he likes, but not less than a
wineglassful every hour. In some of his
cases this medicine has exhibited the
most wonderful curative effects. 1t viii
purge, but as it is perfectly harmless
this will not matter, and it does not APP
pear to be the cause of cure, the remedy
acting specifically on the virus, the pus-
tules collapsing. leaving no pits, and
perfect cure following in q short time.