The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
Home economics; Household employees
DR. WITHERING’S COSMETIC LOTION.
Take a tea-cupful of soured milk, cold,
scrape into it a quantity of horse-radish.
Let this stand from six to twelve hours, and strain, when it
may be used to wash the parts affected, twice or thrice a day.
PREVENTIVE WASH FOR SUNBURN.
Take two drachms of borax,
one drachm of Roman alum,
one drachm of camphor,
half an ounce of sugar candy,
a pound of ox-gall.
Mix, and stir well for ten minutes, or so, and repeat this stirring
three or four times a day for a fortnight, till it appears clear
and transparent. Strain through blotting paper, and bottle up for
use. Wash the face with it every time you go into the sunshine.
GRAPE LOTION FOR SUNBURN.
Dip a bunch of green grapes in
a basin of water, and then sprinkle it with
alum and salt, powdered and mixed.
Wrap it in paper, and bake it under hot ashes. Then express
the juice, and wash the face with it, and it will remove
sunburn, tan, and freckles.
LEMON CREAM FOR SUNBURN AND FRECKLES.
Put two spoonsful of sweet cream into
half a pint of new milk, squeeze into it
the juice of a lemon, add
half a glass of good brandy, and
a little alum, and loaf sugar.
Boil the whole, skim it well, and when cool, put it aside for use.
THE WORM PIMPLE WITH BLACK POINTS.
This sort is very common and very annoying to females, from the
age of fourteen and upwards, as they give the skin a dirty greasy
appearance, which no washing will remove. The vulgar opinion that
such pimples are caused by worms or grubs, is quite erroneous. The
best means of removing the worm pimple, is by squeezing out all the
thickened matter of each; for, unless you do this, it is impossible
to get rid of them, as no wash nor other application will remove
them, nor will they ever disappear of their own accord. Several
things may be useful in preventing their return. Of these, the Roman
balsam, is a safe and excellent application, and daily rubbing the
parts very gently with a soft glove, or with the warm hand.
THE SMALL RED PIMPLE.
In this species, the pimples appear singly, and are not very
numerous, and the intermediate skin is unaffected. They are most
liable to appear upon the cheeks, nose, and forehead, though they
sometimes spread over the shoulders and upper part of the breast.
Gowland’s Lotion, Kalydor, Cold Cream, and all such nostrums, ought
to be used with great caution, but prefer the three following.
BATEMAN’S SULPHUR WASH.
Break one ounce of sulphur, and pour over it
one quart of boiling water.
Allow it to infuse for twelve or fourteen hours, and apply it to
the face twice or thrice a day, for a few weeks. It is excellent
for removing the roughness of the skin which usually succeeds
pimples.
KNIGHTON’S LOTION.
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