HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 21, 2 January 1907, Page 2

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

ASTHMA. Take jib. fresh garlic, and gently simmer in a pint of water till very soft, then strain off the garlic, measure the same water, and add to it the same quantity, of good vinegar and a good cupful of sugar. Let it simmer until it becomes a syrup, pour the syrup over the garlic, and take three teaspoonfuls of the syrup, and some of the garlic, every morning fasting. SPRAINED ANKLE. Wash the ankle often with the following mixture Sugar of lead, one dram ; tincture of opium, one ounce ; water, seven ounces. Keep the foot elevated and cool ; do not stand on it ; and move it as little as possible. BLOOD RESTORER. Citrate of iron and ammonia. This is an excellent blood restorer and tonic, and is often well tolerated by the stomach when other iron preparations are rejected in consequence of their astringency. Dose.—s to 8 grains dissolved in water, with a little orange or essence of pepperment added. BITE OF CENTIPEDE. The place bitten should be touched with the stronger liquor of ammonia, and clothes wet in a solution of one part of ammonia to fifty parts water should be kept on the wound until the danger is over. CONVULSIONS OR SPASMS. The above in children, may be caused by worms, the irritation of toothing, water on the brain, or the unfavourable turn of an eruptive disease, such as measles or scarlet fever. Place the feet and legs of the child in hot mustard water, applying, at the same time, cold cloths to the head. An injection of warm water may also /be administered. If the fit is dUe an overloaded stomach, vomiting should be induced. TO MAKE GUM. Dissolve 2oz. dextrine in soz. hot water, and loz. of acetic acid and loz. spirits of wine. CURING CROUP.

Croup can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and sugar. The way to accomplish the deed is to take a knife and grate or shave off in small particles about a teaspoonful of alum, then mix it in twice its quantity of sugar to intake it palatable, tt ml administer it as quickly as possible. .Almost instantaneous relief will follow.

TO PREVENT LAMPS EXPLODING The cause of explosion has usually been, attributed to allowing the oil to get low in the lamp, the vacuum filling with gas. Another cause assigned is that explosions sometimes take place through neglecting to cut off the charred portion of the wick when the lamp is filled. Observation will show that in a few days’ use the wick becomes like charcoal in composition considerably below the top of the tube, and alter the lamp has burned a short time the heated tube fires all the charred portion of the wick inside, and that sets the oil on fire below ; this may, be prevented by cutting off a sufficient portion of the charred wick each day after using the lamp. Thus it appears that all housewives have to do to make'the use of coal oil lamps as safe as any other is to keep them full ; fill them by daylight, and have the wicks well trimmed. It is claimed also that a‘ r tablespoonful of salt in the oil of a lamp will render it non-explosive.