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Show Some Uses for fllum Alum is very useful in the home, and there is nothing better for mending broken dishes or a lamp when it is loose in the collar than alum mel ted and used while hot. Sprinkle the alum under the edges of your carpets and in the corners, and the moths will not bother you. An excellent remedy for croup is made by beating the white of an egg to a stiff frotn, then sweeten a little, add a little pulverized alum and give a tea-spoonful tea-spoonful every ten or fifteen minutes until relief comes. There is no better way to remove anv foreign substance from the eye than to make this same mixture, spread it on a clolh and lay it over the eye. To set the color in light shades of pink and blue soak the goods in Salt water with a small lump of alum added and use the alum alone for different shades of lilac and violet. After the color has been set wash the garments tnrough warm borax Mjds, as the borax not only softens the water, but helps to keep the color in the goods. If the eet are tender bathe them often in strong alum and boric acid; rubbed on when the feet are dry it will remov any odor, but it must be allow.d to dry on the feet. It is one of the best remedies known to stop bleeding. A heaping teaspoon-ful teaspoon-ful of powdered alum laced in a common com-mon teacnp of water will stop the flow of blood in any ordinary wound where no large artery has baen severed. Snuffing Snuf-fing a solution will stop bleeding of the nose. A teaspoonful of powdered alum and molasses will cure the croup in children. It will also cure p tinU'r's col c. A wash made with a teaspoonful of ' alum and a quart of water will prevent offensive sweating. Burnt alum will remove proud flesh in wounds and sores. Exchange. j I |