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Maw's Remedies (Maw says if the doctor's comin' though, might better ask him, too.)

  • Remove Coffee and Tea Stains: Glycerine. Or, ethylene Glycol ("Prestone"). Or, Diethylene Glycol.
  • Tooth Powder: Equal parts table salt, borax and bakeing soda. Ask your dentist.
  • Remove Water Marks From Table Tops: Dissolve paraffin shavings in olive or cooking oil. Rub one way only.
  • Remove Rust Stains From Fabrics: Equal parts alum and tartaric acid, or 10% solution hydrofluoric acid. Rinse!
  • Remove Chewing Gum: Turpentine is most effective. Next, Benzine or other hydrocardon solvents.
  • Flowers Preserved Indefinitely: Collodion, thinned with ether. Or, keep stems in a vase of powdered silica gel.
  • Super Cleaning Cloth: Ounce of oxalic acid in a gallon of water. Wring and dry the cloths before using.
  • Burn Candles Twice as Long: Dip candles in liquid shellac. The candle wax will burn - not drip.
  • Beauty Clay: 5 tsp. Fuller's Earth and 3 tsp. lemon juice. Or, Bentonite (clay) and water.
  • Treatment for Pyorrhea: Chlorine laundry bleach applied daily with toothpick and cotton "swab."
  • Make Glass Sparkle: Carbon Tetrachloride, sells in drug stores as "Carbona."
  • Fruits and Flowers Grow Larger: A little iron sulfate (green copperas) in watering fluid. Use only infrequently.
  • Eyeglass Cleaner: Mix together 8 oz. ammonia and 32 oz. denatured alcohol.
  • Liquid Hand Soap: Dissolve any good powdered soap in boiling water, add one part alcholol to each 4 parts solution. Odor may be added when cool.
  • Hydrocotyle Asiatic Teas Are Brain Food: Energizes and preserves the brain and body indefinitely. Noted for making geniuses.
  • Dandruff: Coconut oil is most effective for stubborn cases.
  • Superfluous Hair: Apply 20 vol. peroxide. This is twice as strong as ordinary peroxide. This will in time discourage hir growth.
  • Gray Hair: Massage sulphur well into the scalp once a week for a few weeks, and partake of sulpher foods whenever possible.
  • Liquor Cravings: Gold Thread mixed with Golden Seal in teas creates a violent distaste for alcoholic drinks. A few grains of epicae added to liquids nullifies all desire for liquors.
  • Cigarette Habit: Before breakfast take 1/2 teaspoon each rochelle salts and cream of tartar. Or, chew ginseng root and swallow the juice.
  • More energy: Use honey in copuious amounts. Drink teas of alfalfa for litheness, strenght and swiftness.
  • Arthritis: Take 2 tbsp. orange juice thoroughly mixed with 1 tbsp. codliver oil on an empty stomach just before bedtime at night, several hours after the evening meal. Eat no food or drink for a number of hours after taking the oil. This allows the stomach to empty and bile flow to subside. Then when the whole digestive system is resting, the oiled orange juice will pass into the blood stream and is readily absorbed by the bone structure which comprise the malady.
  • Influenza: Yarrow herb know as milfoil has been used with good results to stop hemorrhaging of the lungs. If the tea is taken freely at the beginning of a cold, mixed with elderberry blossoms and peppermint, and the patient remains in bed, it will break up a cold and flu within 24 hours. From a bad cold take a teaspoonful of Arm & Hammer soda in a glass of cold water. If taken 15 minutes or so before a meal for 5 meals it will banish a cold. Cayenne and eybright teas will dry up a cold quickly. One teaspoonful of cream of tartar in a glass of water will quickly banish fevers.