Hints and Suggestions.

Otago Witness, Issue 2407, 19 April 1900, Page 56

Hints and Suggestions.

For a Sick Headache. — The juice of g lemon taken in a cup of strong tea without milk will often cure a sick headache-. Another excellent remedy is two teaspoonsful of prepared powdered charcoal taken in half a tumblerful of cold water.

Rice for Invalids. — Take a tablespoonful of rice, a pint of milk ; put them in an, open dish and bake for two hours. Keep the dish covered for the first hoar, after which the cover should be removed and the rice stirred occasionally.' Sachet Bags to Scent Linen. — The following mixture for filling these is excellent: Pound in a mortar loz each of cloves, nutmeg, inaoe, cinnamon, caraway seed, Tonquin beans, arid 6oz of orris root. Put this in little muslin bags, and place amongst your linen. They give a delicious perfume to dress bodices if pl?.ced in the lolds when the dresses are put away.

For the Invalid. — Port wine lozenges:' Take one pint of port wine, loz of best isinglass, a tabltspoonfnl of sugar, a piece of lemon peel, and a little cold water. Put the isinglass into a basin and barely cover it with cold water, and let soak for 12 hours. Next day set all the ingredients into a double saucepan, and cook, while constantly stirring, till reduced to half the original quantity. Pour into flat dishes till set,, then turn out and cut into lozenges with a sharp knife. Curing Colds at the Beginning. — " Only a cold " is a foolish saying, since two-thud of the ailments of humanity are direct or indirect results of " neglected " or halfcured colds. Once a -cold 'gets a thorough hold of anyone, especially of a child, it is hard to cure, but"" so much can be done ia the beginning. Hot bath and an early going to bed and long night will often quite check the development in early stages, especially if- a fixe be lit in the bedroom and the temperature bs kept just the same point as that of the room left. The inhaling has quite a marvellous effect, either over a basin of boiling water, or oi eucalyptus, camphor, or creosote.