After washing with soap, rinse the hands in fresh water and dry them thoroughly, by applying Indian meal or rice flour.

Lemon-juice three ounces, white wine vinegar three ounces, and white brandy half a pint.

Add ten drops of carbolic acid to one ounce of glycerine, and apply freely at night.

TO CURE CHILBLAINS.

Two tablespoonfuls of lime water mixed with enough sweet oil to make it as thick as lard.  Rub the chilblains with the mixture and dry it in, then wrap up in linen.

Bathe the chilblains in strong alum water, as hot as it can be borne.

When indications of the chilblains first present themselves, take vinegar three ounces and camphorated spirits of wine one ounce; mix and rub on the parts affected.

Bathe the feet in warm water, in which two or three handsful of common salt have been dissolved.

Rub with a raw onion dipped in salt.

HAIR RESTORATIVE.

The oil of mace one-half ounce, mixed with a pint of deodorized alcohol, is a powerful stimulant for the hair.  To apply it, pour a spoonful or two into a saucer, dip a stiff brush into it and brush the hair and head smartly.

On bald heads, if hair will start at all, it may be stimulated by friction with a piece of flannel till the skin becomes red.  Repeat this process three times a day, until the hair begins to grow, when the tincture may be applied but once a day, till the growth is well established.  The head should be bathed in cold water every morning, and briskly brushed to bring the blood to the surface.

WASH FOR THE TEETH.

Dissolve two ounces of borax in three pints of warm water.  Before the water is quite cold, add one teaspoonful of spirits of camphor.  Bottle the mixture for use.  One wine-glass of the mixture, added to half a pint of tepid water, is sufficient for each application.  This solution used daily, beautifies and preserves the teeth.

FOE WHITENING THE HANDS.

A wine-glass of cologne and one of lemon-juice strained clear.  Scrape two cakes of brown Windsor soap to a powder and mix well in a mould.  When hard, it is fit for use, and will be found excellent for whitening the hands.

Wear during the night, large cloth mittens filled with wet bran or oatmeal, and tied closely at the wrist.  Persons who have a great deal of house-work to do, may keep their hands soft and white by wearing bran or oatmeal mittens.

TO REDUCE THE FLESH.

A strong decoction of sassafras, drank frequently, will reduce the flesh as rapidly as any remedy known.  A strong infusion is made at the rate of an ounce of sassafras to a quart of water.  Boil it half an hour very slowly, and let it stand till cold, heating again if desired.  Keep it from the air.