The Osceola times., 1881-04-02
HOME TOPICS.
The Housewives Tabie-Concerning bed
rooms rimpics, Black speclgs, ctc..
Useful aud suggestive.
THE HOUSEWIVES Table.

/ the article WEIGHED or measured:
Wheat flour, | pound is quart
i Indian meal, ! pound ounces is
quart
Butter when soft, pound is | quart.
Loaf sugar broken, ] pound is
| quart.
White sugar powdered, / pound
ounce are quart.
Best brown sugar, ] pound ounces
are one quart.
Ten eggs Gre | pound.
\ common tumbler holds one-half
pint.
A tcacup is one gill
a large wineglass is one gill.
Forty drops are equal to | teaspoon
full.
CoScERSING BEDROOMS.
\ physician was lately called to 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 terrible head
ache" Every morning she walked with
headache and il lasted nearly half the
day. II had been going OH 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 cheerfully given up.
Nothing did any good.
will you let me see your bedroom"
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
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. $50 do |. viii do me the favor
to wheel that bed into the middle of the
room and sleep so for u week? Then let
me know about the headache"
Doctors are so absurd The middle of
the room, indeed And there were the
windows on one side, and the two doors
ON the other side, and the mantle with |
ITS 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.
1t may be only an exceptionally deli |
cate system that would be induced TO
actual headache by breathing all night
the reelected air from a wall. Yet pos
slbiy some OF the morning dullness we
know OF may be traceable to a like cause.
At any rate, plenty of breathing space
around bed can only be an adyan-
tage to everybody. - Christian Union,
PlMPLEs, BLACK sPEcKs, ETC.
Several have written t. inquire what
they 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, il pressed out by the
| iinger nails, 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 n towel. This
will usually restore the skin TO a healthy
state and Danish the "comedones" But
| II local applications are needed or de-
/ sired, take one ounce of oil of sweet
| almonds, 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 few minutes briskly and
then apply the lotion.
Allof these outside applications should
/ be used with caution for what is per-
fectly harmless or even healthful in
some states Of the system will irrtate in
| others. Watch the effect from day to
day and you can soon decide whether
the remedy will prove effectual.
/ To those afflicted ones that ask for
remedy to take those pimples off | will
| tell them one | have seen tried in four
/ different cases. Get of each five cents
worth OF saltpetre, sulphur and cream of
tartar. Mix the sulphur and cream of
tartar, and take teaspoonful morning
/ ana evening and piece of saltpetre at
/ noon, say wheat grain. If your sui
/ plur and "slch" don't last as long as the
| slltpeFe, and you are not perfectly
/ whlte and smooth, renew. | never wash
my lace IN hard water | use sweet milk,
| or sour either; will soon be %, and have
/ never yet had any one guess my ace
/ past -; only few weeks ago was taken
! 10 be only Is or 20. | bathe my face
every morning in gum benzoin dissolved
in alcohol. Put few drops in your
wash water. OrsI
The lady whose face is rough and red
should not undertake to remedy il by
external applications. II is probably
| similar in character to chronic erysipe.
las, salt rheum and kindred diseases of
the skin, and should be treated by in
| ternal remedies. Ii she has first.class
physician near better apply to him.
| Toledo BLADE
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
The luster of morocco leather is re.
stored by vanishing with white of an
/ egg.
10 select nutmegs, pick them with a
/ pun. II they are good, the oil will in
stantly spread around the puncture.
WHEN you drive nail into wall,
chothes press or closet, TO hang things
on, drive it through a spool to the
| head.
The skin Of boiled egg is the most
efl1caclous remedy that can be applied TO
a boil. Peal it carefully, wet and apply
/ It to the part affected. 1t will draw oil
the matter and relieve the soreness in A
few hours.