CHARCOAL AS PURIFIER

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 586, 18 July 1933, Page 7

CHARCOAL AS PURIFIER

Charcoal has an extraordinary power of absorbing gases and carlifying liquids. Charcoal has other good uses in the home. Applied to a burn, it relieves the pain immediately, and for wounas and sores it forms an unrivalled poultiee. To make it take Jlb of linseed meal and loz of powdered charcoal. Mix ioz of charcoal .with' the meal and make like an ordinary poultice. Spread the mixture on linen, shalce over the remainder of the charcoal, and apply* Washing out the mouth with powdered charcoal and water will render the breath perfectly sweet. A little charcoal mixed with clean water and poured down a sdnk will disinfect it and remove unpleasant smells. A piece added to the water in which cut flowers have been arranged will greatly prolong their life. Class vessels and fiower vases may he purified by placing charcoal in them for a little time and then rinsing. Charcoal arrests the deeay of animal substances. Poultry will keep fresh if a piece of string .is tied around the neck to exclude the air ^nd a piece of charcoal put into1 the vent. Place a pan of charcoal in the larder and it will keep everything sweet and wholesome. There is nothing better than ai layer of charcoal in a filter for the purpose of punifying 1 water.