Simple Means of Removing Tartar from the Teeth
In these summer months, tartar may be effectually removed from the teeth, by partaking daily of strawberries.
Source: The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, Florence Hartley
Chilblains
Pour kerosene oil in a saucer, wring out a rag in it and with this wipe the affected parts several times each day. If awake in the night, do the same thing. Do not saturate the cloth and lay it upon the chilblains, as it might cause a blister. Wipe the feet with a dampened cloth and let them dry themselves.
Source: 1001 Household Hints, Ottilie V. Ames
Boil Remedy
Take a piece of soft linen or borated gauze, rub some vaseline upon one side of it, quickly pour upon it some chloroform, apply it to the unopened boil or carbuncle, and place a bandage over all. It smarts a little at first, but this is soon succeeded by a pleasing, cool sensation. The patient is given a bottle of the remedy, and directed to change the cloth often. In from 2 hours to 1 day the boil (no matter how indurated) softens and opens.
Source: Henley’s Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes
Drive Ants Away
Sprinkle a little epsom salts around or near where the ants are and they will quickly disappear.
Source: 1001 Household Hints, Ottilie V. Ames
Growing Pains Cured
Following in our mother’s footsteps, we have been routed night after night from our warm quarters, in the dead of winter, to kindle fires and fill frosty kettles from water-pails thickly crusted with ice, that we might get the writhing pedal extremities of our little heir into a tub of water as quickly as possible. But lately we have learned that all this work and exposure is needless. We simply wring a towel from salted water–a bowl of it standing in our sleeping room, ready for such an emergency–wrap the limb in it from the ankle to knee, without taking the child from his bed, and then swathe with dry flannels, thick and warm, tucking the blankets about him a little closer, and relief is sure.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette