Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-17
WHAT WOMEN WANT TO KNOW.

Suggestions as to Bad Breath. Precipitation
and Enlarged Finger Joints.
Among the queries sent to Shirley Dare
by readers Of The DISPATCH, she has
found time to answer the following:
Mrs C.-K.-(D wish you would tell
me what to take for an offensive breath.
think, perhaps, it is from my teeth.
Very likely. The cheapest and readiest
antiseptio is borsx, which figures in standard
tooth washes A half.pound box, which
costs 20 cents, will last year. Dissolve
one-eighth of teaspoonful, i. e. a good
pinch, in half glass Of warm water, and
brush the teeth and rinse the mouth with 1t
several times day. 1t will prevent decay
of the teeth. A very little may be swallowed
with good effect. Apinch of borax dissolved
in the mouth slowly. but not swallowed,
heals canker speedily.
(2l My daughter is troubled with per-
spiration under the arms since she was q
child, and it ruins her dresses. What is to
be done?
Wash under the arms night and morning
with strong, hot solution Of common salt,
tablespoonful in Is Of water This is said
to keep all parts of the body which secrete
freely in the sweetest and healthiest condi-
tion. Cold sage tea drank at night on 60
ing to bed prevents night sweats, and may
be Of use in this case. Where one set Of
glands do overwork, as In excessive sweat
ing, it is plain that others don't do enough.
M. E. F.-What would you prescribe for
something like pimples on the forehead and
breast-not exactly pimples, AZ they form
no head, but are little hard substances under
the skin?
These are sort of blind acne which re-
solves and are absorbed at the base, instead
of the surface, and are so noticed in medi-
cal books. Try cream of tartar, which is .
valued remedy in infammatory skin dis
eases, even to smallpox and erysipelas
Pour pint Of water on two tablespoonfuls
OF cream of tartar from the druggists, and
drink it, sweetened with some essence of
lemon or the zest oflemon rind. It is pleasant
drink, and should be taken as agreeable, one
glass before breakfast if possible Take
this three days every month. when per.
fectly well, and use pleasant weaker solu-
tion between times. The first doses are
best taken hot to obtain full effect, but they
may be taken cold Or hot as desired. The
cream Of tartar taken Of the strength pre-
scribed has great repute as cure for small
pox, and is good in erysipelas. 1t is barely
possible that these kernels under q very
fair skin may be of scrofulous nature,
when lemons and acid grape juice, with the
best diet and sea air possible, are preven-
tives of more serious consequences. If we
only learn to meet trifing initial symptoms,
we can afford to laugh at grave disorders.
IF people would take the care to preserve
health that they do to cure disease, it would
be but a name. Really there is no occasion
for disease now, for railroads and electric
accidents keep up the mortality without it.
KITTY M-My hands are roughened and
out of shape from hard work, particularly
my right hand, the knuckles of which are
stiff and large. Can you suggest any means
of making them presentable.
It is so notable and fine to hear Of
woman who can own to being capable of
hard work that one feels like bowling over
that misshapen right hand with more re-
spect than goes to q queens salute. To put
ones muscles to practical, strenuous use
knits the mental fiber as no art can without
it; muscle reacts upon brain in way which
puts the latter very much under obligation.
However, one may do good deal of work
without gaining "knuckles." The change
from very hot water to cold air has more to
do with thick, stiff joints than work. Once
it would have been thought impossible to
tors think very little of refining q clumsy
joint and work away at a coarse bone with
pentrating absorbents and bandages till it is
nodded into form. Given sufficient vigor,
and one can grow bones and teeth to order.
To improve hands, buy quart of salad oil
that is cotton or peanut oil-to use for
hest it in tin saucepan, have
the hands delicately clean and dry, and
soak them in the warm oil 10 or Is min
utes, keeping it hot as comfort will allow,
and working the joints gently to supple
them. If they are at all sore, rub them
many times day with a cut lemon, letting
the juice dry in. Paint them at night with
warm Canada balsam or warm extract of
witch hazel. One word to all the admirable
women who do their own housekeeping
Spare, save in good many things if need
fsl, but among the 'smust-haves," first of
all write good washing machine, one of
the old simple rocking washers, if you have
to buy it second hand. 1t is worth all the
new inventions have been able to find in
ten years. TIE cradle-wasbers can be
worked with less strain than the circular
ones; they cleanse the clothes safely and
and spare the hands this drudg-
cry of rubbing out" on the washboard,
which hands were never made for. Rub
bing and hot water distort hands worse than
all other use. am told that these easy
rocking washers are not made now, but
mention them in hope some man will have
sense to bring them out again. He will, If
women have the wit to ask for them and
take no others, for freely say that among
The modern washers I do not know one
which would take as gift.