HEALTH AND RELAXATION TIPS

Try a cup of baking soda in a cup of warm water. Relax for tenminutes or until refreshed.One tablespoon of baby oil in very warm bath water for smoothskin. Watch the wrinkles go.Try a warm bath with feet propped up high for a relaxing twentyminutes.Mix dry oatmeal and water into a paste and spread on face. Liedown and let it dry. Wash off with warm water. Excellentfacial.Cold Cream on eyelashes and brows keeps soap out of eyes whileshampooing.For that Bright Eyed look, place cucumber slices on eyelidswhile relaxing in a hot bath for ten minutes.Remove gum from hair with nail polish remover, then shampoo.Cornbread mix spread on face, let dry and wash off with warmwater and see how clean your skin looks.Another refresher... squeeze cotton pads out of ice water, placeon eyelids and lie down, elevate feet.To prevent hair pins from falling out, bend one prong in a "V"about halfway up and insert in hair. It will stay.Clean your rings with toothpaste and old brush.Artgum eraser will clean bone colored shoes.To keep Cold Cream from spoiling and maintain its freshness,keep it in the refrigerator... and it's so cool.Prevent wrinkled scarves. Roll and place in toilet tissue cones.Old lipstick tubes, thoroughly cleaned, are great forpurse-sized pill boxes or for pins etc.White shoe polish will keep a cast clean on broken bones.Clip on earrings can be used for cuff links or scatter pins.Cuticle remover will clear hands of nicotine stains.Ice water and soap to remove ring from swollen finger.Cut legs off old card table, to about ten inches high. Thiswill make a good table for sick or bed-ridden folks.Boil pine splinters and sip tea to stop hiccups of long duration.Use a lazy susan at bedside to enable sick to reach more items.Old socks worn over shoes on ice helps to prevent falls.Tape on shoes helps prevent falls on highly waxed floors.Emergency Sinus Relief - swab white vinegar high up in thenostrils.Recycle Your Own Paper - Use backs of unwanted advertising mailfor scratch paper pads. Roll your newspapers into a tight rolluntil they are log size, tie with a wire and burn in thefireplace. It will burn like a log, but even longer. Shred allof your newspapers and junk mail and save in a large bag for usein packing materials and for making paper mache items by addingflour and water.Save cans to freeze leftovers in.Save plastic bags from bread for freezer use.Save plastic milk containers, fill with water and freeze. Usein camper iceboxes or coolers. Also these can be used to freezecolored water or juices in for later use in a punch bowl.Clean vinyl with liquid window cleaner.Avoid tears when peeling onions, slice first, then slip thebands of skin off.Use an egg slicer to slice apples or mushrooms.Leftover pancake batter makes good fried onion rings. Separateand let soak in batter for fifteen minutes. Fry in hot oil.Loose door knob? Put a drop of shellac in the screw hole, thentighten. It works.To grow thyme - thyme will grow anywhere, but it prefers a dry,poor soil. If the ground is rich, the plant will become tooluxuriant and lose its aromatic qualities.A very strengthening drink - beat the yolk of a fresh egg with alittle sugar, add a very little brandy, beat the white to astrong froth, stir it into the yolk, fill up the tumbler withfresh milk and grate in a little nutmeg.How to preserve flowers and fruit - Fruit and flowers may bepreserved from decay and fading by immersing them in a solutionof gum arabic and water two or three times, waiting a sufficienttime between each immersion to allow the gum to dry. Thisprocess covers the surface of the fruit with a thin coat of gum,which is entirely impervious to the air, thus preventing thedecay of the fruit or flower. Roses thus preserved have all thebeauty of freshly picked ones, though they have been separatedfrom the parent stock many months.Household cleaner formula: Soap powder - 2 oz.; soda ash - 3oz.; trisodium phosphate - 40 oz.; finely ground silica - 55 oz.Mix well and put up in containers. Most of the above items canbe purchased from drug store or hardware and paint stores.Household window cleaner formula: Castile soap - 2 oz.; water -5 oz.; chalk - 4 oz.; french-chalk - 3 oz.; tripoli powder - 2oz.; petroleum spirits - 5 oz. Mix well and pack in tightcontainers. Above ingredients can be purchased at local drug,hardware, paint, or nursery stores.Fire Kindler Formula: Rosin or pitch - 10 oz.; sawdust - 10 ormore oz. Melt, mix and cast in forms.Paint Brush Cleaner - ammonia (household ammonia will do).Sun Burn Lotion - Peanut oil (buy at grocery store).Radiator Cleaner - Tri-sodium phosphate (buy at paint store).Tree Wound Dressing - Lanolin (buy at drug store).Frosted Window Paint - super saturated solution of Epsom salts.Mosquito Repellant - Oil of Pennyroyal, rub on skin (buy at drugstore).Furniture polish and cleaner - Vinegar.Tile Cleaner - Deodorized kerosene (buy at an oil company).Windshield Anti-fog - Glycerine (buy at drug store).Label Cement - Egg white is an excellent label cement.Cockroach Exterminator - Borax (buy at the grocery store).Ground Mole Control Powder - Black pepper placed liberally intheir runs.Battery Anti-corrode - Vaseline.Fire Extinguisher - Plain baking soda.Nail Bleach - Hydrogen peroxide (buy at the drug store).Type Cleaner - rubbing alcohol (buy at the drug store).Wonder Car Product - Removes tar, paint, wax gum, etc. Benzol.Cures Cigarette Habit - Take before breakfast 1/2 teaspoon eachof Rochelle Salts and Cream of Tartar, also chew Ginseng rootand swallow the juice.For Great Beauty - drink a teaspoon of Figwort. This willbanish every blemish from your skin as it cleanses the blood. Chamomile teas will give one a complexion to be proud of.SEWING HINTSEmergency ripped hem repair - use double faced sticky tapebetween hem and dress.Bobbins, thread, and other sewing notions can be hung on abulletin board with straight pins near your machine.Cut buttons, zippers, snaps, hooks, and eyes from all oldclothes and place near your sewing machine. Pin all the buttonsthat are alike together with a large safety pin. Saves a lot!Cut the cost of making a round tablecloth by using the fringefrom an old bedspread.To cover unremovable spots on children's clothes, iron transfersof animals, etc. over spots or paint with textile paints. Looksnew!To reline a jacket or coat, use the old lining for the pattern. Spray heavily with starch and press. Pin to the new materialfor a perfect pattern.For a matched set of spread and drapes, buy two bedspreads andmake a set of drapes from one.For an attractive eyeglass case, fold a pot-holder and sew upone side and the end.Worn out tops of little girls slips? Cut off at the waist andinsert elastic for half-slip. Also good if she has grown tootall for it.Use iron-on rug binding on men's trousers to prevent "waist-bandcuring" of trouser tops. Great for the heavy-set men.CLOTHING HINTSFootlets twisted twice in arch of foot prevents slipping off.Use two rubber bands and three safety pins on sliding brastraps. Pin to each strap and in a "V" to center bra.Use hair spray to stop runs in hose.Clear nail polish will stop runs in hose and also makes goodglue.Use nylon net to brush lint off dark clothing.Fold several pieces of tissue, pin through dress with tissues onback to prevent heavy broach from sagging.Felt markers are good to cover shoe scuffs.Grease spots which have set, in washable fabrics, can often beremoved by rubbing fresh grease on spot and washing immediately.