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FOR WOMEN FOLK.

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FOR WOMEN FOLK. HOMELY HINTS AND DAINTY DISHES. Earache can often be cured by wringing out a flannel in boiling water, sprinkling a few drops of laudanum on it, and applying it to the ear. A little cotton wool dipped in essence of oil of cloves and applied to the tooth which aches will often he successful where other remedies have failed. To clean a. carpofc which has been soiled by coal dutet being tr;xiden into it, the best plan is to rub over the whole surface with a quarter of a. pound of white curd soap, made into a jelly, and mixed with one penny-, worth of salt of tartar, which should be applied with a flannel. This quantity is eufficient for a medium-sized carpet. Preserving Small Fruits A good way to preserve small fruits is to fill wide-mouthed bottles, tie paper pricked with holes over the top, and set the bottles in warm water. When the fruit changes colour the bottle should be corked and I tightly sealed. Pickled Spanish Onions I Cut the onions up in thin rounds, lay on I dish, and sprinkle with salt, and let remain I for twelve hours. Afterwards dry in cloth, then place in respective jars. Then allow two quarts of vinegar to every 61b. onions. ) Boil the vinegar with loz. of whole pepper j and loz. of whole ginger. Pour over onions j when cold. Tie down tightly, and it will be II ready for use in a month. I To Preserve Pears Six pounds of pears, four pounds of s116ar. Boil the parings in as much water as will cover them. strain it through the colander, lay some pears in the hottom of the paa. 3Jut in sugar, then another layer of pears, and so on alternately. Then pour the liquor off tho pear skins. Boil them until they begin" to look transparent, then take them out, let the juice cool, and strain. Put the pears in again, add a little ginger. boil until done. Let the liquor boil, after taking out the pear. until it is reduced to a. syrup. I Bottle when cold. To Exterminate Fleas Save the parings (raw) of all potatoes used and boil them for one or two hours very pently to avoid as much waste as possible. Strain off the liquor, which is very acrid and bitter, and usa it very strong in hot water, as hot as can be comfortably borne, for the floors or wherever the fleas are troublesome. A small brush round the bedticks, dipped in a little of the solution, and on the bedstead^ will be sufficient, as h,ouse fleas carry larvae I and breed in millions. One of these insects, if examined, will be found full of what look like minute salt grains, -which they scatter. They are different from the sharp, thin- pointed grass and earth fleas, which are more J spiteful and sting. A Question of Colour 1 -Not one woman in ten realises the impor- tance of ascertaining and making a careful study of one particular colour modt becom- ing to her and of always having a touch of it introduced in eome pa.rt of her dress. The auburn-haired woman looks best in fcrown, shading into the tones of her hair, or in rich dark-greens. The yellow-haired girl can. wear red. The greens, too, are delightful on her, as also certain yellows and black. White is less becoming, but she must be brilliant in com- plexion or else most delicate as to tints to wear greys and blues to advantage. Blue, particularly the cold and pale blues, are beet adapted to brunettes. Tobacco as Medicine I Tobacco has paesed through two distinct phases in the medical world. First it was received as a heaven-sent boon to suffering humanity, and was applied with a lavish hand for the cure of every malady. Then followed bitter experiences of pain, and even death, inflicted in cases where it had been fondly hoped relief would be obtained. About half a century ago Mr. Lizars and Mr. Solly, of St. Thomas's Hospital, London, inaugurated a crusade against tobacco, hold- ing forth on the physical and mental misery, leading to insanity, which must inevitably follow its use in any form. Conspicuous among medical treatises of recent years wherein the subject is dispas- sionately surveyed is mentioned that of Dr. John C. Murray, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Remarking upon the curative effect of tobacco-smoking on the sick and wounded in the Franco-German War, he says that its healing virtues were so obvious to an army surgeon of his acquaintance that from being strongly opposed to the use of tobacco he bccame a convert, in so far that he actually purchased cigars and presented them to the wounded, in consequence of having observed that their smoking assisted recovery.

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