The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-07
HOUSEHOLDS Hints.

A handful of hay in paiiul of waite
neutralizes smell of paint.
To make a carpet look fresh, wipe Will
damp cloth after sweeping.
To remove warts, apply bullock's gal
two or three times day.
Remove irk stains ON silk, wooden o
cotton by saturating with spirits of tur
pentine.
Cover plants with newspapers befor,
sweeping Also put a little ammuni.
upon them once a week
Washing pine floor in solution of on,
pound OF copperas dissolved in one gal
Ion strong ye gives oak color.
Mixture of two parts of glycerine, on,
part ammonia and little rose water
whlteDs and softens the hands.
To cure hoarseness Bake lemou OF
sour orange for twenty minutes in a
moderate oven, open at one end, dig out
and eat sweetened.
To make codliver oil less disagreeable
take 1t IN tomato catsup. or eat bit oi
fresh orange peel before and after the
dose.
Cabbage is made digestible by first
sllcing and then putting in boiling water
with pinch of soda and some salt and
boiling just fifteen minutes.
In night sweats Cf consumption spong-
ing the chest with salt and water at bed
time, in many cases arrested the sweat
ing completely.
Hoarseness may be relieved by using
the beaten white of an egg mixed with
lemon juice and sugar. A tablespoonful
is dose.
A troublesome, hacking cough OF
bronchial irritation is often relieved by
gargling the throat with salt and water,
or by swallowing little salt
A simple and safe means for the re
lief of cracked nipple is to powder it re-
peatcdy with pulverized gum arabic.
Immediately after the child has sucked
the powder should be busted over the
surface and the nipple protected from
the air.
To relieve a severe cold, nothing is
better than molasses, butter and vinegar
in equal parts. Boil together. and take
tablespoonful as hot as possible when,
ever the cough is troublesome. Tar and
honey in equal parts is also considered
excellent.
The juice of the red onion is a perfect
antidote for the sting of bees, wasps
hornets, etc. If applied freely soon af
ter being stung, it gives al most instant
relief. The sting of the honey bee il
always LETT in the wound. and should b,
extracted before applying the oniol
juice.
In nervous headache, when the pail
Is frontal, and the blood-vessels are full
and throbbing, relief may often be OBJ
tanned by the constant application o
cold to the head. The head should b,
elevated on a hard pillow. and hot ap
plications made to the feet SO as to draw
the blood toward the lower extremities
Should the pulse be small and contrac
ted, and the vessels of the head full an(
throbbing, while the hands and feet ar,
cold, it is good plan to put the patien
into warm bath at 81 degrees for tel
minutes, and then to bed. 1t is astonish
ing the relief this simple remedy some
times brings.
A Baltimore druggist Of experience
has ample opportunity for observation
and advanced the idea that Bright's dis
ease is attributable to the immoderat,
use of ice water and cold drinks H,
cites the fact that the people of thi
country use 90 per cent. more ice in thei
drinks than the people of any other coun
try, Greenlanders not excepted. w,
have IS per cent. more Of Bright's dis
ease. He cites the fact that the wine
drinking countries of Europe compare
lively free from the malady.