The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-10
USEFUL HINTS.

DANDRUFF.- annoyance from
dandruff can be prevented by dampen.
ing the scalp three OF four times week
with sulphur water, made by putting
one-half of an ounce of flour of sulphur
into pint Of water, shaking occasionally
for two days; then pour off into clean
bottle.
REMEDY FOR Badness. -Glycerine,
four ounces tannin, one drachm tinct.
ure of cantharides, two draehms; oil OF
capsicum, ten drops. Apply to the bald
spots night and morning.
ToorH POWDER. Prepared chalk,
four ounces orris root (powdered), two
ounces green myrrh (powdered), one
quarter of an ounce oil Of cinnamon,
twenty drops.
SUPERFLUoUs HAIR. -These are best
let alone. Shaving only increases the
growth and depilatories are dangerous
and sometimes disfgure 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 as possible; let it remain
there three or four minutes, then re-
move it with the hair, root and branch.
This is severe but effective. Kerosene
will also remove them. If sore after
using rub on sweet oil.
New EGG PREsERvATIvE. On taking
the eggs from the nest they are covered
over, by means of bit of wool, with
butter in which has been dissolved 2 to
8 per cent. of salicylic acid. Each egg,
after receiving this coat, is placed in d
box, filed with very fine and absolutely
dry sawdust. If care be taken that the
eggs do not touch each other. and that
they be perfectly covered with the saw
dust, they will keep fresh for several
neutrality-suspicious. year.
HOUSE PAINTING. This should be
done early in winter or spring, when it
is cold and no dust flying. To mix
paints for different coats Outside-1st,
I'd and Sd coats, mix the lead to proper
consistency with boiled oil, allowing
time between to dry hard. Inside-1st
coat, mix lead and paint in mixture one
halt boiled oil, one-half turpentine I'd.
one-fourth oil, three-fourths turpentine:
3D.. mostly ttlrpentine with little oil to
hold color. No dryer required. Inside
paint must have Light,
BRooMs.--It is not economy to have
too few brooms; one for the sleeping
room upstairs, one for parlor and sitting
room and one for the kitchen are not
too many. As they are worn they may
be passed down grade at time, the
new one always going to the parlor. If
the new broom is allowed to stand in
cold water for twelve ours, afterward
thoroughly drying it, it will last much
longer. A broom should never be al
lowed to stand on its brush, as it makes
it permanently one-sided and ill-shapen.
Hang it up by loop in the handle.
A New WRINKLE IN VENTILATION
A practical educator, writing to the
NeW England Journal Of Education,
says I" / know of no better mode of
ventilating old buildings than the eim-
pie, Inexpensive one OF fitting a board
tightly across tt Q window, some eight
OF ten inches wide and two or three
inches from the sash, on the inside. The
lower sash is then raised without causing
draught of air upon thescholars while
the pure air is entering at the bottom
and middle OF the window. Ihave seen
this tried successfully with every window
OF school-room-eight in all-thus
raised, to a greater or less extent,
through every session, and during the
entire winter season, without single
sc olar taking cold therefrom The room
was 28x32x15 and the best Ventilated I
ever entered while school was in ses-
sion"