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For painful affections of the joints, as chronic rheumatism, &c., hops dipped in hot vinegar will answer as well. Take of flaxseed tea or cornmeal gruel, from one to two pints, sweet oil 2 or 3 ounces, common salt one teaspoonful, brown sugar two tablespoonsful; mix. Take of a solution of starch in water, of jelly, or water half a pint, laudanum forty drops; mix.
And then he said slowly, his very quiet voice and that little smile tempering the words: "Here's to all those fellows who went down without the banners or the trumpets! To the boys who took the starch out of their own tragedies! To those first class sports who made no fuss about their own funerals! Here's to the Great Unwhimpering!" Dr.
Mix with boiled icing one ounce each of chopped citron, candied cherries, seedless raisins, candied pineapple and blanched almonds. To one pound of extra refined sugar add one ounce of fine white starch; pound finely together and then sift them through gauze; then beat the whites of three eggs to a froth.
Bottle it in two or three months. Split into pieces a vanilla bean, and boil it in a very little milk till the flavour is well extracted; then strain it. Mix two table-spoonfuls of arrow-root powder, or the same quantity of fine powdered starch, with just sufficient cold milk to make it a thin paste; rubbing it till quite smooth.
"My opinion, gentlemen, is that the whole blamed thing is a bluff! There ain't no Mr. Dimmidge; there ain't no Mrs. Dimmidge; there ain't no desertion! The whole rotten thing is an ADVERTISEMENT o' suthin'! Ye'll find afore ye get through with it that that there wife won't come back until that blamed husband buys Somebody's Soap, or treats her to Somebody's particular Starch or Patent Medicine!
Use a cupful of ordinary cooked starch to a gallon of water. Soda Bath. Dissolve a tablespoonful of ordinary baking soda in a little water and add it to four quarts of water. Clothing. Do not be afraid to take off the baby's clothes in summer. All he needs in hot weather are the diaper and one other garment.
The indicator required for this process is made by dipping strips of filter paper in a starch solution prepared as described on page 76, to which 1 gram of potassium iodide has been added. These strips are allowed to drain and spread upon a watch-glass until dry.
Bread has long been known as the "staff of life," and although it forms the main dietary staple for large numbers of people, that does not in any way prove its eligibility as an article of food. Wheat is rich in heat producing qualities, which is due to the quantity of starch it contains.
Doubtless you never dreamed that starch may be a means of detecting the nature of a poison in obscure cases in criminology, especially in cases where the quantity of poison necessary to cause death is so minute that no trace of it can be found in the blood. "The starch method is a new and extremely inviting subject to me.
To his astonishment she gave him the briefest possible nod over her shoulder; and walked away, her hand clasping that of her mother, even yet a dainty airy figure in her mussed white dress still flaring with starch, her slim black legs, and her wide leghorn hat with the red roses. The hurt and puzzle of this lasted him to his home, and caused him to forget the spanking in prospect.
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