HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XX, 15 May 1897, Page 622

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

IT has just been discovered by an eminent American doctor that in cases of typhoid the banana is invaluable as food, the percentage of nourishment in it being 9-5, while there is no waste in the food to irritate the inflamed and nicerated intestinal walls. Cement for mineral-oil lamps : Boil three parts of resin with one part of caustic soda and five parts of water. The composition is then mixed with half its weight of plaster of Paris, and sets firmly in from half to three-quarters of an hour. It is very adhesive, and excellent for attaching the brass-work to mineral-oil lamps. perfumed fumigating papers. The paper to be used, whatever the perfume afterwards employed may be, is first converted into ‘ touch paper ’ by immersing it in a cold solution of potassium nitrate and drying it on strings. Unsized paper, such as ordinary filter paper, should be used. It is perfumed by dipping into any of the following essences and again drying. Papier de Armenie— No I. Musk, ten ; otto of rose, one ; benzoin, one hundred ; myrrh, twelve; powdered orris root, two hundred and fifty ; strong spirit of wine (sixty-four per cent.), three hundred parts byweight. No. 2. Benzoin, eighty; balsam of tolu, twenty ; storax, twenty ; yellow sandal-wood, twenty ; myrrh, ten ; cascarilla, twenty ; musk, one ; alcohol (sixty-four per cent.) two hundred parts by weight. Papier de Orient. — No. 1. Oil of cloves, thirty; oil of cinnamon, thirty-six ; oil of bergamot, forty-eight ; oil of lavender, forty-eight ; simple tincture of benzoin, four hundred and twenty parts by weight. No. 2. Balsam of Peru, fifteen ; oil of cloves, thirty ; oil of bergamot, thirty ; acetic ether, thirty-six ; essence of musk, six ; essence of vanilla, sixty; tincture oi benzoin, one hundred and sixty ; tincture of cedar wood, thirty. Other aromatic combinations may be made on similar lines.