| Show GOOD FOR HEALTH AND TOILET Some of tie Uses to Which the Puckerful Lemon May Be Put I was informed the other day that lemons lem-ons would keep an indefinite time i placed in sour milk or water says a writer in the Philadelphia Times Thic is a receipt however which I shall not try since the time of year has arrived when I do not care to keep my lemons I indeed the faster I can now use them the better for my family We need their helpful acid to counteract the excess of fats which have for caloric been consumed con-sumed more doubtless than have been assimilated Why now goad the weary long tired liver with blue pills when lemons are supplied in lavish profusion Surely they are the product of the soil where dwell the most bilious people Paterfamalias is suffering from biliousness bilious-ness therefore I throw physic blue pill to the dogsand they wise creatures will not touch it giving In its stead lemon tea or hot lemonade The excess of bile I is thus summarily destroyed and per I chance n fever routed Malaria threatens another member of the family I fore with prepare the Roman cure which is nothing more than lemons rind and pulp cut up in watera pint of water to a lemonand boiled down to one pint dose one teaspoonful before a meal Though sufficiently sour to give a marble bust a wry face pharmacists claim it has cured cases so stubborn that quinine had no more effect than sugar or salt Perhaps Per-haps the little 3yearold shows symp I toms of a severe cold I shall nip it in the bud by a fire warmth and a hot lemonade I ahe is hoarse 1 shall bake a lemon some twenty minutes and squeeze therefrom the hot juice upon a half cup of granulated sugar The pleasant and palatable pal-atable syrup thus formed will avert that mosttobedreaded croup Nothing better can I find to impede a threatened pneumonia pneu-monia attack upon myself The rem nants of some of the lemons I shall give Biddy to rub her hands with after the weekly washing thereby preventing the chanping which she so much dreads Clean rind pieces left from cooking I shall place in a glass jar covering with alcohol thereby manufacturing a superior I su-perior quality of lemon essence As a breakfast appetizer I shall remove the rind and pith of three lemons then slice thin and strew with powdered sugar Surely I should be penny wise and pound foolish to save at the present time my lemons |
