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 SUPERIOR MILK OF ROSES. Boil fresh rose leaves in asses milk, and bottle it off for immediate use; it will be found far more efficacious than the sold by perfumers.

AN EXCELLENT RECEIPT FOR LIP SALVE. Melt one ounce of spermacetti, soften sufficiently with oil of almonds, color it with two or three grains of powdered cochineal, and pour while warm into small toilet pots. We mention the cochineal to colour the salve, it being usual to make lip salve of a pale rose colour, but we should consider it far more healing in its effects without it.

A COSMETIC BATH. Boil slowly one pound of in two quarts of water, with half a pound of linseed, six ounces of the roots of the water lily, and one pound of bean meal; when these have boiled for two hours, strain the liquor, and add to it two quarts of milk, one pint of, and a wine glass of spirits of ; stir this