Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-01-14

The free use of lemon JUICE and
sugar will always relieve a cough.
Follow the example Of trees-keep
some things in the shade.
In making a crust of any kind do
not melt the lard in flour. Melting
will iniure the crust.
Camphor placed IN drawers or
trunks will prevent mice from doing
them any injury.
A simple remedy for neuralgia is
to apply grated horseradish to the
part affected.
To keep the breath sweet, take a
small piece OF liquorice root in your
mouth occasionally and chew it un-
til the virtue is extracted.
Half a cup Of vinegar in the water
will make an old fowl cook nearly as
quick as a young one, and does not
ipjure the flavor in the least.
Some housekeepers think that tai
low is not fit to use for hotel pur-
poses; but when it is properly rend-
cred it is as good for some things as
lard. 1t is far preferable for frying
doughnuts and the only shortening
fit for mince pie crust.
All kinds of burns, including
scalds and sunburns, are almost i'm
mediately relieved by the applica-
ton of a solution of soda to the sur
face. 1t must be remembered that
dry soda will not do unless surround
ed with a cloth moist enough to dis
solve it. This method of sprinkling
it ON and covering it with a wet
cloth is often the best.
Frothed Chocolate Put on to
boil three pints of new milk. Wet
three large tablespoonful of choco-
late in a cup of hot water and pour
into the boiling milk. Simmer ten
minutes, stirring frequently. Then
take from the fire sweeten and stir
in the whites of two eggs beaten to
a stiff froth. Put into a pitcher two
or three whites of eggs beaten stiff
and sWeeten, and pour over the top
OF each cup of chocolate before serv-
ing.
Remedy for Sore Throat.-When
afflicted with sore throat, or symp-
toms of t,buy one ounce of cam
phorated oil and five cents worth of
chlorate of potash. AS soon as any
soreness appears IN the throat, put
the potash in half a tumbler of wat
er, and with it gargle the throat
thoroughly; with The camphorated
oil at night before going to bed, rub
the neck, and also pin around the
throat a small strip Of wooden fan
mel. This is a simple, cheap and
sure remedy.
Cough Remedy.-A recent cough
will almost always yield to the fol-
towing treatment within two or
three days: Mix in "a bottle four
ounces of alcohol, two ounces of
water, two ounces OF morphine.
Shake well. Dose for an adult, one
or two teaspoonsful, every two or
three hours. Half this quantity to
children from ten to fifteen years.
1t is not safe to give it to infants or
children under ten years of age.
The newspaper is just as necessa-
ny to fit a man for his true position
in life as food or Iaiment. Show us
a ragged bare-fOoted boy rather than
an ignorant one. His head will COW
or his feet in after life if he is well
supplied with newspapers. Show us
the child that is eager for newspa-
pers. He will make the man of
mark in after life if you crafty that
desire for knowledge. Other things
being equal it is d rule that never
fails. Give the children newspapers.
If person swallows any poison
whatever, OF has fallen into convul-
si0ns from having overloaded the
stomach, an instantaneous remedy.
most efficient and applicable in IA
large number of cases, is a heaping
teaspoonful Of common salt, and as
much ground mustard, stirred rap
idly in a teacupful of water, warm
or cold, and swallow instantly. 1t
Is scarcely down before it begins to
come up, bringing with it the re-
naming contents Of the stomach,
and lest there be any remnant of the
poison, however small, let the white
of an egg or a teaspoonful of strong
coffee be swallowed as soon as the
stomach is quiet, because these very
common articles nullify a large mum.