The Household.

Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1609, 8 September 1874, Page 349

The Household.

The Fashions. We extract the following from the latest Paris correspondence of the Young Ladies' Journal:— The crownless bonnets, called diadem or fathioib bonnets, have met with a great success. They are very light and becoming, much less towering than the others, and delightfully cool. Besides, they can easily be made by amateur modistes, which renders them highly popular among ladies with slenderly-furnished purses. I saw a few days ago, a new model of earrings, which seems to me more strange than pretty. Being made to match a black velvet bracelet with diamond buckle and pendant, it has the appearance of a narrow velvet ribbon passing through the car, both ends being fastened together by a miniature diamond buckle, and finished off by a pendant to match. Although the bijou be in itself very pretty and rich, yet the idea of the velvet ribbon passing through the ear is rather repulsive. There are lovely sleeveless jackets, made of ISpanish beaded lace, to be worn over black silk dresses, which render very elegant a handsome faille Princess dress, made quite simple, and without trimming. I have already described, I think, the beaded lace tabliers, which are, on the contrary, worn with sleeveless bodices of plain ailk. I have seen a dress of mauve silk, with tablier and sleeves of white beaded lace, which was excessively stylish. These sorts of toilettes arc worn in France by young married ladies. They are not thought simple eneugh for the unmarried ones. These wear muslin or foulard, with trimmings of the same materials, or a few ribbon bows. Imitation Valenciennes does very well for a morning peignoir; but is in bad taste for, an evening dress. Bands of clear muslin, simply hemmed or edged with narrow slip of Brussels net, and finely pleated, are infinitely more distingue. I have heard people object to what they call an affectation of simplicity; but even, if it was an affectation, is it not by far preferable to an affectation of misplaced elegance? Towering chignons arc getting rather out of fashion for young ladies. In the best society they have taken the wis<! decision to wear only their own hair, and to arrange it (gracefully in such a manner that there remains not more lhan two inches uncovered either from the forehead, the neck, or the ears. The shape of the head is much improved by this arrangement, infinitely neater, more modest and graceful than the Bacchante dishevelment of two years ago, or the sticking-out Japanese chignons of the last season. Remedies for Diphtheria.—The following is an explicit recipe for the use of Greathead's remedy for diphtheria, which has in many cases been attended with remarkable success :—" Let the commou sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol be used. One drop let fall from an ordinary small medicine phial into one tablespoonful of water, and sweetened with a few grains of sugar, may be taken by an infant, Let an additional dose of the same, both acid and water, be added for each year of age up to four ; then for every three years afterwards, till a maximum dose of nine or ten drops iu an equal number of , table-spoonfuls of water is reached. This may be repeated every four hours." A French physician, Dr Ozenau, administers as a preservative from epidemic diphtheria, from ten to twelve drops of bromine in the course of the day in sugar and water, in proportion from twenty-five to fifty grammes of the latter per drop. This liquid solution * must be kept in the dark, since light would cause the formation of hydrobromic acid. The vial must be kept well stoppered, and its contents must be changed as soon as the light amber color has disappeared. To the patient the solution is administered in drops, hourly, in a .tablespoonfulof sugar and water, 80 as to give from one to two grammes of the former in the course o'f' twenty-four hours. In cases of croup, Dr Ozenau prescribes fumigations of bromine. A basin with hot water is placed before the patient, a large pinch of bromide of potassium or else common kitchen salt is thrown in, and then, in the course of five minutes, three teaspoonsful of the above bromided solution are added. The patient inhales the vapor of bromide thus evolved through a glass funnel. By this means the author has cured upwards of 150 cases of croup or diphtheria, with only five failures. ' , ,'