A writer in a medical journal long ago said—"The best preparation for the hands at night is white-of-egg with a grain of alum solved in it, Roman toilet paste is merely white-of-egg, barley flour, and honey. They sny this was used by Roman ladies in olden tim Anyhow it is a first-rate things yet it is sticky, and doos not do the work any better than oatmeal. The roughest and hardest hands can be made soft and white in a month's time, and all the tools needed are a nail-brush, a bottle of ammonia, a box of powdered borax in the water, and that water just lukewarm when used, will keep the hands clean and soft."
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