ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 20

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

“ Economy.”—(a) This home-made Irish Moss is quite a good cough medicine. Boil together fur thirty minutes one ounce of Irish moss (rinsed in cold water), one pound honey, ono and a-half pints of water, one pound of sugar, ono pint of best vinegar, half stick of best licquirico cut fine. Then strain, and when cold. add’ a small quantity of aniseed, and loss of peppermint. Bottle tightly, and use as wanted. (b) I have iio recipe for tooth paste, but you could make one of the following mixtures at small cost, for use daily:—To 2oz of prepared chalk add Aoz powdered orris root, \oz carbonate of soda. Mix, sieve twice, then put in a box for use. A good tooth wash is made by dissolving two ounces of borax in three pints of hot water When nearly cold add one tcaspoonful of tincture of myrrh, and one tablespoonful of spirits of camphor. Bottle the whole, and use a small quantity in water. Soot is a good and economical tooth cleanser, but somewhat dirty. “Holiday.”—Carry a bottle of eau-de-Cologne,'a little plain starch powder, and a small cloth to remove the dust from railway travelling. You will find this most refreshing.