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Show HEALTH AND BEAUTY. ' Pineapple is good for indigestion, the juice containing a digestive fluid similar to pepsin. If you wish to preserve your teeth take all medicines containing acids through a glass tube. Almond ol and lanolin in equal parts rubbed into the eyebrows will stimulate their growth. For a greasy, oily skin, put sbme astringent, a little alcohol or toilet vinegar, into the wash water. Honey is excellent In nearly all throat and lung affections. For a sharp tickling throat cough a tea-spoonful tea-spoonful taken - every few moments will quickly allay the irritation. The habit of biting the nails may be conquered by will power in an oldr person, but with children cut the nails very close and dip the ends of the fingers in quinine or a little extract of quassia. |