The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-05
Such is the tax ignorance pays

81 bottle. Such is the tax Ignorance pays
to craft.
My little recipe book holds dozen
things. For instance this: To remedy
scurf, itching or such like deformities of
the skin, an easy and cheap way:
'sTake birch leaves and the inside bark
that grows next the WOOD, an ounce Of
each, bruise them grossly, i.e., 'coarselys
and boil them in half pint OF white wine
and a pint of spring water till the liquor
is very strong of them, then strain it out
and wash the places often with 1t, as
warm as may be. This is likewise excel
lently good to dry up the little ulcers left
by smallpox, which often last long with
out a remedy to prevent it, proving very
sore and troublesome. leaving behind
them deep pits or scars. Alter you nave
washed them with this, anoint them with
pomatum.
For pomatum, read cerate, which an
swers to the rather stiff salve once used
for the complexion, but now relegated to
the hair entirely.
The above recipe is very fresh solu-
ton of salicyiic acid, which is obtained
from the bark and leaves of the black
birch in our own forests. The chemist
who wrote this did not know the acid, but
ne knew its effects, and the pharmacist OF
today cannot improve on this simple for
mula. Observe the direction to use IL
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efficacy Of nearly all toilet applications.
For excavations or fretting of this skin:
The kidney suet OF a young sheep, two
ounces melted, TO which add twelve drops
OF oil of turpentine and dram of oil OF
sweet almonds. Make these into an ONT
ment, and anoint the part where such ac-
cidentaI deformity happens to eclipse the
lustre OF a beauteous face, hand, neck or
breast.
To take away warts and such other ex-
crescences that may happen to disfgure
the head or face-t'Take green figs when
they have milky white juice in them,
an ounce, bruise them very small with
three drains of turpentine and dram of
he inward bark OF the elder; make a
plaster of these and lay on the warts or
unsightly moles, having first anointed
them with little oil of tartar. Often
doing this will sink the warts, etc., and
make them peel off, then, to take out the
marks, if they leave any, often anoint the
place with oil of spikenard and the meal
of lupins made into thick ointment"
OF course the northern women who read
this will protest against a recipe calling
for such unattainable ingredients as green
figs. But this article is read by thousands
OF southern and Pacific coast women for
whom figs will soon be in milk, and
wish to remind them that this juice is
celebrated as a depilatory and face bleach.
1t will blister If not used with care, tax
ing the skin and hair off together. AS
substitute for the genuine oil of tartar,
keep a quarter of q pound of refined pot
ash in an open broad mcuthed bottle sew
eral weeks, until it liquefes. The fluid
W IL be found useful for bleaching pur-
poses and as dressing for corns.
Mind do not vouch for this next recipe
but give the title as the old book has it.
1t is plain that the recipe is a good one,
thought the cure may not be permanent.
TO take away freckles that they shall
return no more-''These yellow spots
that deform curious skin are found to
be the produce of fuliginous vapOrs, and,
like smoke, modest those most that have
the fairest skins, as if beauty, jealous of
being outvied by too clear complexion,
did bestow that yellow livery on others
which she rather deserved to wear herself.
The best means to remove such dishgur
ing spots, take as followeth: Honey of
roses two drains, oil OF tartar one dram;
mix these with the gall of a cock and a
little rye meal, spread them on fine
cloth and place on your lace, neck,
breasts or hands where the spots are,
plasterwise, and when rising in the
morning you come to take it off, wash
the place with juice of lemon and balm
water and the spots will disappear.
am sure many readers will be glad to
ton seldom mentioned in books of the
toilet:
''To remedy swollen hands or such as
| look red, blue or any other unsightly
color, and cause small azure veins to
appear and beautify them: Take quart
of white wine and boil it in ROSEMARY and
lavender flowers of each an ounce, penny
royal and rue of each maniple, dill and
coriander seeds grossly bruised OF each
quarter of an ounce, strain out the liquid
part and wash your hands and arms as
hot as you can endure it. -
There is sense in this fragrant arm
bath, which, with its aromatics, will
soothe the nerves and restore an even cir
culation. A footbath is a great beauti-
fer, taken regularly, and an. armbath is
even more useful at times.
Lavender flowers are sold in profuslOn
in the streets of our eastern towns. and it
only needs demand to bring the produce
of acres of rosemary fields to our doors.
These two Towering herbs deserve to be
better understood than they are. Girls
who appeal for some remedy for untimely
fushings and blushingS and unseemly
bashfulness or nervousness will find their
best friends in the old-fashioned tlncture
of red lavender, which has no superior as
mild. effective nervine 1t is rather out
of fashion, but by no means out OF re-
pute, for the best physicians hold 1t In
great respect, and would often prefer to
order it for patients who, however, are
not satisfied with anything less than the
destroying choral.
If nervous woman of any age wishes
to be sure of herself and at her best in
company, let her after being fully dressed
rest fifteen minutes or more in her room
and sip cup of hot water with few tea
spoonfuls OF red lavender and lemon peel
infused Her heart will beat calmly, her
eyes brighten and be steady, her mind
clear, and excitable feelings will lie under
safe control. 1t is a lovely toilet medi-
cine. SHIRLEY DARE.
STYLES IN SLIPPERS.