HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIX, 9 May 1896, Page 548

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

CHICKEN-POX. Chicken-pox is an infectious but not a dangerous disease. It is accompanied by slight fever, drowsiness, and sometimes a running at the nose. After a time, varying from twenty-four to forty-eight hours, a crop of small rose-coloured spots appear, which the next day will have developed into vesicles filled with clear fluid. This is succeeded by a second crop of the same nature. After twenty-four hours the contents of the vesicles become milky, and gradually dry up into small dry crusts. Sometimes the eruption is itchy, and great care should be taken not to allow them to be scratched and broken. Painting them occasionally with a solution of carbolic acid, i part in 20 parts of glycerine, will assist to allay the itchiness. The patient should be kept in bed, and the bowels slightly relaxed by a little saline mixture. ROUGH LIPS. Glycerine, diluted with water, is one of the best cures for rough lips. Keep the lips wet with the moisture for a few days, and allow it always to dry of its own accord, and the skin will become soft and smooth. TO DARKEN GREY HAIR. Lockyer’s Sulphur Hair Restorer, quickest, safest, best; restores the natural colour. Lockyer’s, the real English Hair Restorer. Large bottles, is 6d, everywhere—(Advt)