Ladies’ Column.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2023, 28 January 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Ladies’ Column.

A 4'»t>boai’d sun! its Health Contents.: li there-is anything that adds to one's comfort in an emergency-- says Miss Stafford if is a closet shelf prepared for emergencies, That is clour. Accidents, nervousness, .sudden pain, midnight calls for help, parcels that want doing up, broken crockery and ornaments, all find a ready answer to their call on this carefully prepared shelf. It in no easy to prepare and keep in order, can bo small or large, as one decides to coniine its contents to a few things or enlarge to many. 1 intend to give a list for the smallest one. that I think it advisable for anyone to keep, bo she keeping bouse or boarding. First of all comes the things that arc to be ready for illness, sudden or otherwise -camphor, for faintness, headache, ora sudden attack of diarrhoea, although, for the latter, there is nothing equal to a tablepoonfol of raw flour in a glass of cold water, to by taken in two doses half an hour aparl.

A closely covered little box of raw Hour is easily kept on the shelf, f" he often renewed, lest it get musty. A small tin can of Hour and mustard, mixed in equal parts, ready to make into a paste for a mustard plaster, is to me a pleasanter arrangement for a hastily required mustard plaster than the “ mustard leaves ” ready at the drug stores. In a little box beside this can, should be old linen and cotton rags, for the other half of the plaster, as well as for cuts or bruises ; alao'e, atrip of flannel, a “linger” broad and threequarters of a yard long, to put upon the outside of a cotton cloth, several times folded and wet in cold wider, for a compress for a sore throat. Keep your ease of court plaster in thus box of rags, and a spool of white linen thread, both conveniently near the necessary pair of small scissors.

Camphorated oil, which is best when made at home by dissolving camphor gum in warm olive oil until no mere will dissolve, is invaluable for sore throats and ehcsi.j, or a cold on the lungs. Hub in well, and there will be no cold taken afterwards, as there is after the old-fashioned “goose grease.” Vaseline is good for this purpose a!.-. 0, as well as for many others that every one knows about. There is nothing, for chapped hands, equal to glycerine and tincture of hydrastis, fifteen drops of the latter to an ounce of glycerine. Wash the hands in warm water thoroughly, and, before wiping, rub m a little or good deal of the mixture, [recording to the need. Tannin, a dry, greenish powder, is a great comfort where a sudden severe nose bleeding occurs in a family. Once snuffing it up well into the nostrils, generally ends the trouble. Tannin forms, vv ith wafer, a good gargle for a sore thnud, as it is a healthy astringent. It is the heal thing I know of for severe chafing, especially for infants. The effect is in igie.il. I’ond’a Extract of 1 lamamclis is another indispensable for thin emergency shelf. it is really good for nearly all live ills mentioned on the wrapper of the bottle. An excellent way to git hamamolin is by the quart, and it is the cheaper way. (fin principle my emergency shelf always holds olive oil, alcohol, and ammonia. Hot summer days and headaches find me grateM for rav bav rum bottle.

According t,i> my faith, I keep the twelve principal homoeopathic remedies and a, little book of directions for (heir simple use. My faith waxes stronger with the passing years, ami my family is a living monument to their often efficiency. 1 quite forgot to put arnica in my remedy list, although it is decidedly second to tincture of calendula for cuts or wounds. Doth arc to ha diluted with water when used.

It is very pleasant to turn from the above list and point you to my ‘‘Perfect ” mucilage bottle ; that is its commercial name, and well deserved. How many times you will use it if convenient mi its shelf. Next it should stand a. bottle of stratena, or one of its relations in the content family', if Clyde's head comes oil', or the butter dish cover breaks in two, or your favorite china cup gets into so many bits that it will only do for a ornament after a vigorous use of ihe cement, you will be glad of the remedy. A bottle of shoe polish or a box of shoe paste is a handy thing when one dresses in a hurry. Last, but not least, comes a ball of twine. If you are fortunate enough to possess a •silk bag, with pretty ribbons and pair of scissors, to hold your string ball, it is de - lightful. Otherwise, a ball on the end of the emergency shelf will save, much hunting for string and much vexation of spirit.

It is a relict to nee a woman, be she young or old, whose complexion is not artificial. dime was w hen tho woman whose face wan powdered and rouged, whoso lips were painted and eyebrows stencilled, was viewed wiili social suspicion and mentally placed where .-die no doubt properly belonged. It is dulerent now, very different. Par: nan art certainly beautitica the face, but the art iliualily is detected simply becaaao n is too beautiful to Is,? natural. It is argued that the dissipations of fashionable life, the round of gaiety, late hours, luxurious eating, inadequate exercise and fresh air, prematurely dc.,U'oy youth and iresluiesu of face, rendering recoin, cto cosmetics necessary. No doubt thin is true, and more tho pity, and one can only con lecture wluil manner of faces mud be bid behind the masks seen in fho theatre, at the fable d hote and in the parlors. The haunts of “good society '’ abound in these frescoed women, and, from a certain standpoint, they arc a sight to sue. It is all in keeping, however, with Vanitv hair.