The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

1 sawed my thumb through the
nail last fall, took cold in it and
suffered so much that / could not
sleep. A poultice of tobacco re-
lieved the pain, and the second APP
plication cured it entirely.
1 am subject to pains in the back
and have been so for several years.
l have tried liniments and porous
plasters with no good results. 1
took piece off tobacco plug and
wore it on my back, and l am all
right. l have been using it off and
on for years. 1t acts well on the
Kidneys. A. Baxter, Texas.
can tell you: what will keep
your cake from getting hard after
it becomes cold. When cake s ia
ken up, before it gets cold, dampen
clean white cloth with water, and
then wrap dry cloth around the
damp one, and then pack in a tight
trunk; your cake will be moist for
a month or over.
If you will take half an ounce of
resub iodine and mix it with big
spoonful of fresh butteA with no
salt) and apply to the hands it will
cure the letter. had the letter in
my hands for two years and tried
everything that was told me, but
nothing but the above and two bot
ties of Ayers Sarsaparilla did me
any good. 1t made a perfect cure
on me. Try it.-C. H. Kincade.
This is a valuable receipt for the
cure of the dreadful diseast rheu-
matism: Take one pint of James
town weed seed, commonly called
Jimson weed, and dry we'll and
pound in a mortar perfectly fine,
and after they are ground, add one
quarts of spirits turpentine and let
stand two or three days and bath
the parts affected well, and in three
or four applications a cure will be
effected.
AS you request to hear from
those who have tried the tobacco
remedy, last summer my wife
sprained her ankle very badly-so
much so she could bear no weight
upon-it was swollen badly and
very black. She put a tobacco
poultice on it, and to my surprise
the next morning she could walk
on it. Tho swelling had subsidized
and the black blood had disap-
peared. tried the remedy at an
other time on sore eye with like
results. think there Is nothing
like it.-Thomas.
would say to the ladies when
washing and cleaning the windows,
If they will wet a piece Of newspa-
per with spirits of turpentine and
rub the panes, it will make them
have a beautiful, clear polish.
China leaves put in dried fruit OF
seeds of any kind will keep out all
insects. l read recently in your pa
per of the curative properties of to-
bacco and had occasion to try it
Nj father was suffering greatly
with an ulcer on his foot and al
remedies failed; and we tried the
tobacco two nights and it made q
complete cure.-Vivian.
TETTER:-HavIng just got rid Of
a very obstinate case on the back Of
my hand, 1 think know whereof ]
speak. 1 tried many remedies, in.
Guiding glycerine, and they not on
~ failed to effect a cure, but my
letter seemed to flourish at every
application. l finally cured it by
applying tincture iodine. A dimes
worth will cure an epidemic of the
disease, and it is to be put. on every
few hours for couple of days. 1
simply turned the bottle up over
the cork and dotted it about over
the affected part with the latter
Tincture of iodine will also cure a
soft corn if applied night and morn
ing for a week. At first it will
make the corn very tender, but it
will soon heal and toe will become
all right.