Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 4 June 1908, Page 33

Domestic

By MAUREEN

Camphor Ice. I am often asked" for a recipe for camphor ice for chapped hands. Here is one which - can be relied ' UI L°? : ll of sweet almonds, 2oz ; spermaceti, 4oz ; white wax, 2oz ; camphor," £oz. Melt them over a warm bath,, and pour, into shallow pots. A Simple Breathing Exercise. Stand before an open window in the early morning rest the weight of the body on the balls -jo! the teet, abdomen in, chest out, head, erect. Take long deep inhalations through the nose, hold the breath for a few moments and exhale through the nose. Repeat five times, rest a few moments, and repeat again five times. Cracked Lips. ' When the lips are cracked they should be anointed two or three times a day with a salve composed of spermaceti, £oz ; alkanet root, £oz ; white wax, 6drs ; almond oil, ljoz ; otto or roses, £dr. Digest the alkanet in the almond oil over a water bath until a deep color is produced, then strain, and in the colored oil dissolve the wax and spermaceti. Then remove from the source of heat, and stir until it thickens, adding the perfume towards the last. Parsley Water for the Face. The latest cure for a thicki or spotty complexion is to wash it with paisley water. Take half a pint of rain water and soak in it a large bunch of parsley, letting it . remain in the water all night. In the morning when you dress ' rub the face well with a dry cloth, then dip your sponge in the parsley water, and pass the damp sponge over the face, leaving it on without drying it. If this is done three times daily, at the end of a fortnight you will be surprised to see"" that there are no more spots or roughness on your face. Toilet Notes. The hands should never be exposed to extremes ~of temperature, such as arise, for instance, from putting them alternately into hot and cold water. A good rubbing of the skin of the head often serves to stimulate the growth of the hair. This should be repeated twice a week, and the friction should be so vigorous as to make the sldn become red and glowing. Thin hair often becomes thick and long after this method of treatment is applied. Another useful experience for the hair is being allowed to float freely about for an hour or so in order that the air may circulate through it. A child's hair shodld never be curled or plaited tightly if it is wanted to grow long and thick. Many scanty crops of tresses in later life are due to straining the hair while the child is growing. To Cough Properly. Few people know how to cough properly. It never occurs to the ordinary individual that there is a right way and a wrong way of doing it. Yet it is a matter of no small importance. If every sigh means a drop of blood out of the heart, as people say, every cough means some greater or less" proportion of time knocked off one's life. Most neople cough as loudly and forcibly as they can. But ' it ' js_. rather costly ". noise, - for the simple reason that it tears and inflames the lungs. The lnngs consist of an j extraordinary delicate.r sponge-like tissue, which sometimes gets inflamed and choked with phlegm. When we try to get rid of this substance we cough. But obviously, if we remove it violently, we must necessarily injure the delicate lung tissue. Therefore, train yourself to cough as' gently as possible.