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 TO REMOVE TAN. Cut a cucumber into pieces after having peeled it, and let the juice drain from it for twelve hours, pour it off, and add to it an equal quantity of orange flower-water, with a small piece of dissolved in a wine-glass of, bottle the mixture, and wash the parts that have been exposed to the sun two or three times in the twenty-four hours.

EAU DE COLOGNE. Mix together one ounce of essence of bergamot, the same quantity of essence of, , and orange flower-water, two ounces of and honey-water, with one pint of spirits of wine; let the mixture stand a , after which put it into a glass , the body of which immerse in boiling water contained in a vessel placed over a lamp (a coffee lamp will answer the purpose), while the beak of the retort is introduced into a large ; keep the water boiling while the mixture distils into the decanter, which should be covered