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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 388, 15 October 1903, Page 7

ON SHAMPOOING. There are all sorts of shampoo powders in the market that make, shampooing at home easy, but failing these, a thick lather, made of any good soap, and plenty of hot iain water, makes the hair deliciously soft and bright; no soda, please, exaept a pinch of bicarbonate ol soda in the rinsing wjater occasionally, or, if yon will, one teaspopnfnl of ammonia—on!y one —to a basin of water. SERVING TEi WITH FISH. * As you value your own and your family's digestion don't serve tea with fish. The tannic acid hardens the fibre and makes it indigestible. It should not be offered with any form of fish, shell-fisb, or the articulate like lobs'.era and crabs. Iced tea and soft-shelled crabs, for example, are a combinitimthat should be avoided. HEADACHE. The first thing thafe ought to ba pre ecribed for a headacnl sufferer is freß air. Avoid sitting in closed rooms a much as possible. Walk the streets an lounge in the paiks, if you cin't do better but keep out of doors. Headache sufferers should never sleep with closed windows winter or summer. Opening the window in the next room won't do. Yon must have fieeh air from first hand. DELIOATE~Ceiu>RE;zS. •< Delicate children whomra mother really feels cblijed to keep indoors during.wet weahtr should not be allowed to remain idle or fo keep sitting still for long at a lima- A few minutes spent ia doing calisthenics in an- tker roam, while the room wrere they have been sitting is ventilated by a thorough draught, will be found veiy valuibl? £n, preventing the little onoß getting* a headache and becoming crces. ; '"^'" ' " ? "