The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-24
HOUSEHOLD HELPS,
From the Detroit Free Pres. "HOusehold. NJ

From the Detroit Free Press " Household.
TOOTH POWDER. Prepared chalk. four
ounces; orris root (powdered). two.
ounces green myrrh (powdered), one
fourth of an ounce oil of cinnamon,
twenty drops.
REMEDY FOR Badness. --Glycerine,
four ounces; tannin, one drachm /; tine
ture of cantLarides, two drachms; oil OF
capsieum, ten drops. Apply to the bald
spot night and morning.
FoB. CoUeH.-For a tight, hoarse
cough, where phlegm is not raised, or
with difficulty, take hot water often, as
hot as can be slipped. This viii be found
to give immediate and permanent relief
BAD BREATH. = Bad breath, from
catarrah. foul stomach, or bad teeth
may be temporarily relieved by diluting
little bromo chloralum with eight or
ten parts of water, and using it as q
gargle, and swallowing few drops just
before going out.
+ DANDRUFF. - The annoyance from
dandruf can be prevented by dampen-
ing the scalp three or four times week
with sulphur water, made by putting q
half ounce of -four of sulphur into
pint of water, shaking occasionally for
few days; @len pour off into clean
bottle.
FLESH WORMS. snecks on thG
skin disfgure the face. Remove by
thoroughly washing in tepiG water, rub
bing with towel and applying with 81
soft flannal a lotion made OF three
ounces of cologne and half an ounce of
liquor of potash. Or press out by put
ting the hollow end of a watch key overit.
How TO TREAT DIPHTHERIA. - For
young children give two-grain quinine
pills, adult, four grains every night;
this viii keep down fever. Take chlor-
ate of potash one part, sulphur one part,
and sugar (white) two parts, mix
thoroughly; take this mixture pinch
at time, letting it dissolve slowly In
the mouth. Apply warm poultlce OK
fax seed to the throat, wrapping piece
of dry flannel ON the outside. Mild
aperients should be given.
SUPERFLUoUs HAIR.-These are best
let alone Shaving only increases the
growth and depiatories are dangerous
and sometimes disdgure the face. The
only sure plan is to spread on piece Of
leather equal parts of golbarium and
pitch plaster, lay it on the hair as
smoothly lis possible; let it remain there
three or four minutes, then remove it
with the hairs, root and branch. This
is severe but effective. Kerosene Will
also remove them. If sore after using
rub on sweet oil.
BRooMs. is not economy to have
too few brooms; one for the sleeping
room upstairs, one for parlnr and sitting
room, and one for the kitchen are not too
many. As they are worn they may be
passed down a grade at time, the new
one always going to the parlor. If the
new broom is allowed to stand In cold
water for twelve hours, afterward thor
oughly drying it, it will last much
longer. A broom should never be al
lowed to stand on its brush, as ii makes
it permanently one-sided and ill-stapen.
Hang it up by a loop in the handle.
YELvET.-How to brush velvet is g
thing, easy as it seems, not known to
everybody. The whole secret lies In the
management of the brush. Take hat
brush that is not too soft, but has the
bristles elastic, and that will return at
once to their original state after being
pressed aside. Hold this firmly under
the palm of the hand, in the direction of
the arm, and with the bristles down.
ward; and pressing them, first, gently
into the substance of the velvet, then
twist around the arm, hand and brush,
all together, as on an axis, without NOV
ing them forward or backward. The
foreign matters will thus be drawn up,
and fiirted out of the flock, without in
Jury to the substance of the velvet; and
the brush must be lifted up and placed
in a similar manner over every part, re-
CURED to be brushed. By this means
velvet will be improved, instead OF de-
Perforated, and will last for years.