IN GRANDMAMA'S TIME.
HERBS FOR BEAUTY. In every household there was a small room or largo' cupboard set apart and entirely devoted to the drying and storing of herbs. Leaves, flowers, fruits, and roots, were each kept separately and neatly labelled. What a pleasant smell must have pervaded the air! It would appear that at this time surgeons were scarce; and so it fell that the ladies cf the manor used to treat and cure nearly all the ailments of tho neighbouring poor. They knew a lot, too, about beauty concoctions. Freckles and sunburn were prevented or cured by washing the face and neck in buttermilk through which elder blossom had been boiled. A little gum of cherry bark dissolved in wine and taken, cleared the complexion, brightened the eye and cured a cold. When regularly used the charred branches of the vine made good toothpowder, ss tho teeth became snow white. =^o<=^o<=>oc==>oc=>o«==>o<=>(:
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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153IN GRANDMAMA'S TIME. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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