HANDY FOR EXCURSIONISTS.

Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 41, 22 May 1906, Page 2

HANDY FOR EXCURSIONISTS.

* It is not always convenient to mak-c lemonade at a picnic or excursion, yet nothing is more refreshing as a beverage. To obviate the trouble of carrying lemons, sugar-, pitcher, etc., just make a lemon syrup. Take twelve large lemons, roW them, and extract the juice. Put with six pounds of granulated sugar sufficient water ‘ to dissolve it, and boil till it is a thick syrup. Wring a square of glass cloth out of warm water, and strain the lemon ’juice through it. Squeeze the residue to extract the oil of the lemon rind. Beat the juice into a syrup, and bottle it. A tablespoonful in a glass of ice-water makes a delicious beverage.

A GOOD AID TO BEAUTY, —+ ‘ The value of Hot water as an aid to beauty cannot be over-estimated. It is an enemy to corpulency ; in connection with it sallowness cannot exist ; and pimples, blackheads, and irritations of skin dishppear beneath its magic. But alas ! upon the body frequently immersed in it it has an enervating effect, and its regular us£ upon the face produces, in time, wrinkles and a dry, cracked appearance, anything fyut beautiful. The question now is which to use, hot or cold water ? and the answer is—both. For the daily bath immerse the body first-in water as hot as it can be endured and wash thoroughly with a good soap. By the time the latter process is completed, fac& and body will be found to be perspiring freely, the pores having been opened. To leave the bath while in this condition would make one liable not only to a cold, but to a feeling of intense drowsiness not always to be desired. To avoid this/ permit the cold water to flow rapidly, thus graduating the temperature of the bath without the shock to the body which woulfl occur were the cold water dashed over it. When the water in the bath reaches the tepid point, the bather may leave it with perfect safety to health. A bath of this description may be taken within a few minutes, and will have a far more soothing effect upon nervous and irritable persons than drugs.