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REMEDIES & HINTS To clean your wood stove: Mix one part grease, one part paraffin and one part kerosene in a coffeecan with lid. Melt slowly, remember all are flammable! Let mixture cool, then apply small amount to the top of your stove. Polish with a paper bag or cloth. PROBABLY BEST NOT TO TRY THIS AS IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE NEEDS OF OUR PAST ONLY. Powdered cloves and cucumber peelings will keep ants out of your kitchen. Parsley for stubborn red ants. Cloves, nutmeg, and caraway seeds hung in a bag around your porchlight will keep moths from flying around the light. Dust a little flour or cornstarch on your cake before icing it. It will go on easier. Put a slice of apple in confection to keep it fresh longer. Put two cloves on top of jellies and jams and the top won’t mold. When you don’t have buttermilk or sour milk--put 2T vinegar in sweet milk and it will do. For dropsy: Remove skin from lemon, cut fruit into small slices and cover with honey. To begin take juice of one lemon daily, increasing to juice of 10 taken daily. For rheumatism: Take juice of 1/2 lemon before each meal and before retiring. Apply juice externally also.
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