HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XXII, 30 May 1896, Page 643

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Never wash a clean cut, but close it in its proper shape at once. Put on some lint, apply a bandage, and if it is possible, never wet it or remove the bandage for two days. At the end of that time it should be healed. Treated so, a cut heals quickly, aud leaves very little scar. Washing a cut removes the blood and all the life of the thin skin, leaving nothing to heal the severed parts along the edge.

Nothing so quickly restores tone to exhausted nerves and strength to a weary body as a bath containing an ounce of aqua-ammonia to each pailful of water. It makes the flesh firm and smooth as marble.

The hop has long enjoyed a medicinal reputation. It is a fruit of the cone order, and owes its properties to a substance it develops called lupulin. It is a tonic and a sedative. A pillow stuffed with hops is an old-fashioned cure for sleeplessness. The tonic effect of bitter ale is, of course, due to the hops it contains.