Good Uses of Salt

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 31, 1907

Good Uses of Salt

If washing your table tumblers with cold water, dip your fingers in the salt, and see the result of it.

When rinsing your mouth after cleaning your teeth, put a little salt in the water. It will harden your gums and so prevent them from bleeding.

A little salt in your starch will prevent the starch from blowing out of your clothes on windy days, and will prevent the starch from freezing on cold days.

To sprinkle your carpet with salt before sweeping, not only gives it a bright color, but also prevents moths from getting into it.

Always wash the inside of your clothes-press with salt water. It keeps the moths out of the clothes.

Beeswax and salt will make your rusty flat-irons as smooth and clean as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag, and keep it for that purpose.

Salt will remove the stain from silver, caused by eggs, when applied dry with a soft cloth.

Lemon juice and salt will remove iron rust from clothes.

Hemorrhages of the lungs or stomach are promptly checked by doses of salt.

Salt and water is used as a gargle for a sore throat.

A strong salt-water bath to the feet will take out all tiredness.

A little salt put on a child's tongue when in spasms will give relief.

Salt and vinegar will clean copper better than anything else. It will also take spots off chinaware.—Selected.