The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-22
ideas for TWnn1en.

In hundreds Of homes there is p.acti-
cally no provision for emergencies OF any
kind, except, perhaps, unexpected COM
pany. There will be in such houses
goodly stores of preserves and sweet
pickles. sour pickles. sauces. cakes, too,
and pies. kept constantly on hand; but
for sudden Illness and accidents-noth-
ing. 1t is the duty of every homekeeper
to rave on hand certain ssimples,' medi-
cines of the well known kind. that almost
every one knows how to use.
In the country and suburbs there are
many useful herbs which should be
gathered in their proper season, and
dried for autumn and winter use. such as
boneset, h~oarhound. catnip, spearmint,
pennyroyal and kindred plants. All
these should be gathered when they first
blossom, and on a dry day before the
sun has shone long upon them They
should be dried gradually, first having
been cleansed from all dirt and dust, then
tied up in neat punches and placed in
clean paper bags, labelled with their
names. Some housewives may prefer
to pick off all the leaves and pound them
in a mortar. afterward preserving them
in large mouthed. well corked bottles also
labelled. This is the neater and better
way, as 1t preserves their individual fla
vors better and keeps them cleaner. For
storing these articles, and the various
drugs thai will be mentioned, an emer-
gency closet should be constructed, where
Il should be known that everything of
this sort is to be kept, and nowhere else
in the house. In one compartment of this
medicine closet should be kept all the
made-up prescriptions ordered by the
physician of the family. This compart-
ment should be subdivided into two-one
for the keeping of the prescriptions of
an ordinary kind, and the other for any
such as are powerful or dangerous in
their character and needing special eau
ton in handling and administering. and
there are many such containing a%rsenical
preparations, nux vomica, etc.
In another compartments there should
be kept laudanum, liniments. ointments.
camphor. hartshorn or ammonia, col
lcdion for cuts and abrasions, valerian,
essence Of peppermint sweet spirits of
nitro. ginger and turpentine.
There should be drawers also in the
emergency closet, for holding labeled
packages of 1axseed. camomile flowers.
hops, Irish moss and slippery elm bark
or powder.
B.carbonate of soda Is also useful for
acadfty of the stomach, and one may
compound ones own seidlitz powders
when necessary by keeping on hand the
three ingredients. namely: Bicarbonate of
soda and rochelle salts. usually put up
an blue papers, and ~tartarfc acid. put up
In write papers. To make the seidaitz
powders, proceed as follows: Take one
Troy ounce of btcarbonate of soda and
three Troy ounces of Rochelle salts, and
mix them thoroughly together. Divide in
to twelve equal parts and put these up
IN twelve blu papers. Then divide 400
grains of tartaric acid into twelve equal
parts and put up in twelve white papers.
"a dozen seidlitz powders will be enough
to keep on hand at one time, although
one may keep enough of the three ingre-
dlents in separate well-corked bottles to
Hast a long slime. 1t SHOULD be remem-
bered that powdered or crystalline aka
Hes and acids must be kept from the air,
AS otherwise they win absorb moisture.
effloresee and become vaiseless.
1t is a good thing to keep lime water
or hand also, especially where there are
-tAtA Ill IL ina 0E 6dSuY
prepared at home. Take two ounces of
Fine. two quarts Of distilled water. slack
the lime with a little of the water. pour
on the remainder of the water, stir them
together, and Immediately cover the yes
BEL and let it stand four hours. Keen the
solution with the undissolved lime in a
glass bottle. well corked. and when want
ed for use pour off the clear liauor.
Is n fn11 49,
notes digestion and mixed with a decoc-
ton OF Peruvian bark it wonderfully
Strengthens the debilitated. For dyspep-
sa ana kindred complaints the dose is
from two to four ounces several times
daily; combined with an equal quantity
Of milk its disagreeable taste will be SON
realec. For nausea a tablespoonful mixed
with milk may be given every fifteen
minutes.
Spirits or turpentine should always be
pn hand. as it Is a most excellent ruhefa-
fient in cases wrere it is desirable to Use
q coursterSrritant-that is, TO get I'D an
irritation on the surface in order to draw
me blood from some infamed organ.
IT IS OF course important to have some
peaer neeessaries. such az rolls of muslin.
pio linen, sponges, lint broad and mar
row tapes. linen and soft flannel suitable
Tor bandages, a box of plasters and sna-
elai medicine spoons. Porcelain SPOONS are
always best for use among medicines.
They are preferable to even the best sill
yer for even silver may be corroded by
pertain medicines.
IN domestic practice hot Concentrations
are a useful remedy for a~llaying pain. re-
.ievang irritation, relaxing and removing
spasms and inducing local and general
perspiration, and if there is no gas in the
house a little alcohol lamp should he
found In the emergency closet with a hot
lie OF alcohol and matches convenient 90
mat water can be heated quickly in the
night without taking the trouble and
lime to hindle a fire in the kitchen range
pr stove.
Quite a new idea in dress trinrn;nes
are those that come In ingenious designs
which look as If a~ppliqued on the bodica.
Tor instance. criss-cross effects in ribbon
which would be an endless task to measure
and sew together, may be bought ready
10 stitch on the waist. thus saving manv
an hours labor in dressmaking.
What with charming displays of an
tumn and winter dress fabrics. lovalv
hints of coming styIae IN ruu.a-