Good Furniture Polish
Beat up the white of one egg, adding to it one gill of pure sweet oil, half a gill of methylated spirits and half a gill of vinegar. This mixture will be found especially good for reviving leather.
Source: 1001 Household Hints, Ottilie V. Ames
Cologne Water (Superior)
Oil of lavender two drachms, oil of rosemary one drachm and a half, orange, lemon and bergamot, one drachm each of the oil; also two drachms of the essence of musk, attar of rose ten drops, and a pint of proof spirit. Shake all together thoroughly three times a day for a week.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
A Sure Remedy for Nervous Sleeplessness
Take one or two sugar-coated asafoetida pills before retiring.
Source: Household Hints and Recipes, Henry T. Williams
Cold Cream
Melt one ounce oil of almonds, half ounce spermaceti, one drachm white wax, and then add two ounces of rose-water, and stir it constantly until cold.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
Nausea (Sick Stomach)
Give small bits of cracked ice. Soda mint. Lime water.
To crack ice: wrap a piece in a cloth, and hammer.
Source: The Mary Frances First Aid Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
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TAKE a quartor of a pound of blew currans an ounce of Anyseeds and a penny worth of liquorish makeing it and your seeds first into powder then beat your currans to a kind of a conserve strewing in your powder as you beat them then take of the best maiden honey you can gett putting thereof as much as will moisten all this seting it on the fire let it simer a while but not to long lest it be clammy so take from the fire and keep it for your use. take it as oft as you please upon the poynt of a knife the quantity of a nutmeg.
Source: A Book of Simples, H.W. Lewer
When Too Much Salt Has Been Used
When you have accidently used too much salt, the effect may be counteracted by adding a tablespoon of vinegar and a tablespoon of sugar.
Source: 1001 Household Hints, Ottilie V. Ames
Stings
Extract sting if it remains imbedded in flesh. Apply household ammonia, diluted with a little water, or solution of bicarbonate of soda (1 tsp. soda to 1 cup water).
Mud, wet salt, slice of onion, arnica, witch hazel, camphor are soothing. If there is much swelling, apply cracked ice. Apply spirit of camphor or alcohol to mosquito bites.
Source: The Mary Frances First Aid Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
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Chloride of lime is infallible; it should be put down the rat holes and spread about wherever they are likely to appear.
Source: 1001 Household Hints, Ottilie V. Ames