The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-17
HOUSEHOLD HIPS.

From the Detroit Free Press Householder
TOOTH PowDER.-Prepced chalk, fou3
ounces = orris root (Iwdered), twC
ounces green myrrh (pwdered), one.
fourth of an ounce oilof cinnamon,
twenty drops.
| REMEDY FOR BALDNES- Glycerine.
| four ounces; tannin, one dachn1; tine
ture of canttarides, two drehms oil OF
capsicum, ten drops. App to the bald
I spot night and morning.
FoR CouGH.-For q light. hoarse
cough, where phlegm is Mt raised, or
with difficulty, take hot vter often, as
hot rs can be slipped. This i'll be found
% give immediate and permanent relief.
BAD BREATH. = Bad heath, from
ratarrah, foul stomach, bad teeth.
nay be temporarily relieve by diluting
little bromo chloralum WITH eight or
BEN parts of water, and ung it as a
gargle, and swallowing fe' drops Just
before going out.
DANDBUFF. - The announce from
dandruff can be prevented " dampen-
ing the scalp three or four ties a week
with sulphur water, made b putting a
half ounce OF flour of sulhur into
pint of water, shaking occasonally for a
few days; then pour off ITO a clean
bottle.
FLESH Worms. -Black speks on the
skin disfgure tine face. Remove by
thoroughly washing in tepid water, rub
bling with towel and applying with
soft fannal a lotion made of three
ounces of cologne and half On ounce of
liquor of potash. Or press ont by put
ting the hollow end of a watchkey overit.
How TO TREAT DPHTHERIA. - For
young children give two grain quinine
pills, admit, 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 apinch
at time, letting it dissolve 81 -,
the mouth. Apply warm pa
tax seed to the throat, 49,
aperie7ts Should be givsll
SuPERFLUoUs HAIR.-TheseI
let alone. Shaving only increaA .
growth and depilatories are dangerous
and sometimes disfigure the face. The
only sure plan is to spreadon piece of
leather equal parts OF gDlbarium and
pitch plaster, lay it on the hair as
smoothly as possible; let il 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.
BBooMs. is not economy to have
too few brooms; one forthe sleeping
room upstairs, one for pahnr and sitting
room, and one for the kitchen are not too
many. AS they are worn they may be
passed down grade at a lime, the new
one always going to the prior. If the
new broom is allowed to stand in cold
water for twelve hours, aAerward thor
oughly drying it, it vii last much
longer. A broom should never be al
lowed to stand on its brusA, as it makes
it permanently one-sided md ill-shapen.
Hang it up by a loop in tie handle.
vEnvET.-How to .bruih velvet is a
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 soh, but has the
bristles elastic. and that viii return al
once to their original state after being
pressed aside. Hold this firmly under
the palm of the hand, Introduction Of
the arm, and with the bristIes down.
ward; and pressing then, Rrst, gently
into the substance of the velvet, then
twist around the arm, hand and brush,
altogether, as on an axis without NOV
ing them forward or backward. The
foreign matters will thus be drawn up,
and f1irted out of the hod, without in
jury to the substance of tie velvet; and
the brush must be lifted ID and placed
in q similar manner over very part, re-
quired TO be brushed. b this means
velvet will be improved, instead of de-
teriorsted. and viii last 70 years.