How To Cure A Felon

Take the yolk of an egg with an equal amount of homemade soft soap, and the same quantity of common salt; add one teaspoon of spirits of turpentine. Mix well, and apply the poultice on going to bed. If the felon be so far advanced as to render lancing necessary, then apply a new one after lancing, as before.

Small-Pox Remedy (Very Fine)

One grain sulphate of zinc, one grain foxglove (digitalis), half a teaspoonful sugar; mix all with two tablespoonsful of water. When thoroughly mixed add four ounces of water. Dose. - A spoonful every hour. For a child smaller doses according to the age. This remedy is also good in scarlet fever.

Boneset For A Cough

Pour one and a half pints of water on a ten cent package of boneset. Let it steep by the fire ten or fifteen minutes, then strain it. Sweeten it with two and a half coffee-cupsful of loaf sugar, then add half a pint of Jamaica rum, and bottle it. Dose for a child one teaspoonful before each meal; for a grown person a sherry glassful.

How To Cook Puddings In Boiling Water

Wet and flour the cloth before putting in the pudding. In tying it leave room enough for the pudding to swell. If cooked in a mould, do not fill the mould quite full. Never let the water stop boiling. As it wastes away in boiling replenish the kettle from another containing boiling water. It is better to cook puddings (plum puddings as well) in a steamer than in boiling water. The principle is just the same, and there is no water soaked.

Recipe For Soft Soap

Fifteen ounces of castile soap, thirty ounces sal soda, six drachms of pulverized arrow-root. Put these ingredients into six quarts of hot water that has just come to a boil. When these are dissolved add fifteen quarts of cold water, and let the whole come to a boil. The soap is then done and is fit for use as soon as cold. The castile soap should be scraped fine and the soda pounded. A teaspoonful of hartshorn added to the soap used will remove tar, paint, or grease spots from cloth.

An Excellent Mixture For Washing China, Glass, Or Silver

Fill a stone jar with alternate layers of any good laundry soap, shaved very thin, and of washing soda. When the jar is full, pour over the mixture cold rain water. Let it stand a few days until it jellies. Put one tablespoonful to a pan of hot water when needed for use.

Hard Soap

Six pounds soda, four pounds lime, four gallons water. Mix in the pot till quite hot, but do not let it boil. Let this settle. Put in seven and a half pounds of grease, and let it simmer till soft. Then add the soda, lime, and water, and let it boil two hours, not longer. While boiling feed with soda water. Put in half a pint of salt fifteen minutes before the boiling is done. It must be stirred all the time while boiling. If the lime is very strong two and a half pounds will be enough. The sediment of the soda and lime will do for whitewash.