The Portland daily press., 1894-01-15
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Simple Remedies for Rough Hands and
Chapped Lips.


Simple Remedies for Rough Hands and
Chapped Lips.
Finely powdered almond meal or rice
| powders are the most harmless face pow
| ders known. Buttermilk is good for tan
and freckles. Another receipt to be ap-
piled every night is one ounce of Jamaica
rum and one of lemon juice. To soften
coarse skin, make il linen bag large
enough to holi a quart of bran: put it
| inran earthen bowl and pour over it two
quarts of boiling water. Let it stand
all day, and at night wash the face with
the bran water, rinsing it off with
soft water in the morning Keep jar
of bran on the washstand, and rub it on
| the hands after washing them then rinse
off and thoroughly dry, and they will
! soon become soft. A mixture OF one part
/ of glycerlne and two parts OF lemon juice
is II favorite remedy for the distiguring
| tan shade spread over SO many faces IN
| the summer.
Use cold cream glycerine or citron
ointment for chapped lips. Do not bite
| your lips, as it chaps and thickens them
Beeswax and olive oil form an old RENE
dy for chapped lips. Rinse your mouth
every morning, after cleaning the teeth
with cold water and borax or myrrh to
sweeten the breath, which it will do,
unless you have decayed teeth or some
stomach trouble. The finest precipitated
chalk and borax makea good dentrifice;
also white CASTLE soap. Another one is
half an ounce of camphor and seven
ounces of precipitated--not prepared
| chalk, well mixed.
| When sweeping, wear old kid or wooden
! gloves to protect the hands. When gloves
| are worn at night have them large
enough not to bind in the slightest To
whiten the hands quickly, rub them
| with almond oil at night and then cover
with precipitated chalk. Moist hands
are relieved by bathing them n luke
warm water, with a teaspoonful of
borax or ammonia and then powdering
them. A poultice of bread and milk,
washed off in the morning with lemon
| juice, is said to Whiten the hands Sill
yer or sea sand is very cleansing, if used
| in place OF soap. A raw potato slit, or
lemon juice, will remove fruit stains
from the fingers. Dipping the hands from
cold to hot water roughens them. In
| using glycerine on the hands dilute it
with rose water, as it is too strong for
| some skins. Linseed oil is excellent for
| chapel hands, removes tan and makes
them safe.-N. E. Farmer.
New House Fashions.
| It is foolish to talk about fashions in
housefurnishing. The best bred people,
the most real, are those who never con-
sent to adopt thing ON it's merit of
fashion. They put into their homes that
they love and desire. They buy nothing
because their neighbors have done so,
and nothing for its price or vogue.
Those ladies who buy white and gold
chairs because they are all the fashion,
who are crazy this year for sixteenth
century furniture and the next year for
something else, are hardly worth consid-
ering, and their home rooms have no
character at all A woman also is in an
unhappy fix who is constantly compar-
ing her possessions with those of her
neighbors to the disparagement of her
own belongings, and who desires to cast
them aside for new things. A real
housewife grows to love her chairs and
sofas and her carpets. They are the dear
familiar face of her home.-N. E. Farmer.
Common Things Utilized.
We had supposed that the old clock
long since relegated 20 the attic, was
among the things that had "outlived
their usefulness" but when member
of the family one day expressed her
urgent need of a private medicine closet,
and another member suggested the old
clock case as a suita BILE thing for the pur-
pose, we exclaimed with one accord:
Everything comes into use once in
seven years." and the clock was brought
down stairs.
The case was plain one, twenty-six
inches long, fifteen inches wide and
four and half inches deep. The works
were, of course, removed two shelves
fitted inside and the medicine case was
all ready to be screwed to the wall. 1t
| afforded ample space for the simple rene
dies which it is often essential should
be close at hand, and also held the ink
and mucilage bottles.
AS it was fastened to the wall inside
of a closet, the case required no renova.
| tion, otherwise aa nice coat of staining
and varnish would have been needful.
Also little silk curtain inside the
door, or perhaps the door entirely re-
moved, would have had a prettier effect
We can heartily recommend it's conven-
fence in its present condition. indie
pendent.
How to Treat Cut.
Adhesive plaster ought to be the best
procurable, and instead of keeping it
in roll in the drawer, it ought to be
cut into strips of different breadths. 1t
is thus ready for immediate use, and
there is no chance of its sticking togeth-
er as it does if kept in bulk. When it is
necessary to use this plaster to keep the
edges of the wound together, we must
be careful first and foremost to see that
the wound is perfectly clean, and that
no sand, glass or grit is in it, which
would cause fostering and prevent it
from healing.
Never cover wound wholly I'D with
a piece OF paster; whatever be its size,
use long narrow strips. Warm the plaster
by holding the back of it against a can
of boiling water for few seconds. then
apply it across the wound, leaving a
small space between each strip to give
exit to the lymph. Remember that stick
ing plaster has no healing action in it.
self. and the benefits derived from it's
use are of purely Mechanical nature.
Clean cuts are better bound up with the
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