ROSEMARY POMATUM.—Strip from the stems two large handfuls of recently gathered rosemary. Boil these in a well-tinned saucepan, with half a pound of hog’s lard, till reduced to four ounces. Strain it, and put it into a pomatum pot. Oils for the hair may be made by simply stirring any essential oils into oil of ben, oil of almonds, olive oil, or castor oil. The pink and red oils are coloured by being heated to the boiling point, and poured upon alkanet root. But such preparation is bad, because heating the oil to the point necessary to make it act upon the dye of the alkanet root, gives it a tendency to become rancid. Coloured oils should therefore be avoided, if it be for this reason only; but for ladies who wear caps, there is a still stronger—coloured oils always stain these caps.—W. POMATUM.—Take of white mutton suet four pounds, well boiled in hot water (three quarts), and washed to free it from salt. Melt the suet when dried with a pound and a half of fresh lard, and two pounds of yellow wax. Pour into an earthen vessel, and stir it till it is cold; then beat into it thirty drops of oil of cloves, or any other essential oil whose scent you prefer. If this kind of pomatum is too hard, use less wax. TO MAKE COURT-PLASTER.—Stretch tightly, some thin black or flesh-coloured silk in a wooden frame, securing it with packthread or small tacks. Then go all over it with a soft bristle brush, dipped in dissolved isinglass or strong gum arabic water. Give it two or three coats, letting it dry between each. Then go several times over it with white of egg.—J. MANSON. ROSE LIP SALVE.—Eight ounces sweet almond oil, four ounces prepared mutton suet, one ounce and a half white wax, two ounces spermaceti, twenty drops otto; steep a small quantity of alkanet root in the oil, and strain before using. Melt the suet, wax, and spermaceti together, then add the chloric oil and otto.—R. S. BANDOLINE FOR THE HAIR (A FRENCH RECEIPT).—To one quart of water put half an ounce of quince pips, boil it nearly an hour, stirring it well, strain it through a piece of fine muslin, let it stand twenty-four hours, and then add fourteen drops of the essential oil of almonds. A dessert-spoonful of brandy may be added, if required to keep a long time.—E. I. BANDOLINE FOR THE HAIR.—Take of castor oil, two ounces; spermaceti, one drachm; oil of bergamot, one drachm. Mix with heat and strain; then beat in six drops otto of roses. If wished coloured, add half a drachm of annatto. Tried and recommended by W. B. W. K. Cost, 1s. 4d. ELDER-FLOWER OINTMENT.—This is the mildest, blandest, and most cooling ointment, as the old women term it, which can be used, and is very suitable for anointing the face or neck when sun-burnt. It is made of fresh elder-flowers stripped from the stalks, two pounds of which are simmered in an equal quantity of hog’s lard till they become crisp, after which the ointment, whilst fluid, is strained through a coarse sieve.