A Doctor's Bill in a Viennese Lodging House
In a four story Viennese lodging, Lisi, a penniless seamstress, cares for Fraulein Traun, who hoards a hidden treasure in a wooden chest while rumors of avarice swirl. When Fraulein Traun collapses with hunger and illness, Lisi debates fetching a doctor as the old woman hints at wealth. The tale ends with Fraulein Traun’s fever taking hold, promising a continuation next week.
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Hold Your Tongue Or Hiccup Cure Through Prolonged Tongue
A Victorian era note discusses hiccough as a distressing condition, warns against tight lacing, and describes an anesthetic cure by sticking out the tongue until spasms stop. Accounts cite Professor Lepine and a British doctor noting tongue protrusion as effective in adults and a nervous six year old girl.
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The Hot Sand Bag Pain Relief Advice
A physician recommends a hot sand bag as superior for warming and soothing, detailing steps to prepare a eight inch square flannel bag filled with dry, thoroughly heated sand. The bag should be sewn shut and covered to prevent leakage and heat loss, offering long heat retention for bedridden patients.
How to clean carpets and floors effectively
Instructions advise sprinkling tea leaves on carpets before sweeping and warn against frequent use of a whisk brush to avoid wear. Suggest weekly full sweeps, using leaves and a hair brush otherwise, with fine carpets gently brushed by hand on the knees.
Cleaning technique for soiled carpets with gentle brushes
The article notes that heavily soiled carpets can be scrubbed with a small-band brush rather than a full washing. It recommends adding a small amount of water to preserve colors, a splash of gill, and a little ammonia to the solution for better results.
How to Make a Linseed Poultice for Burns and Pain
Combine four parts fine linseed meal with ten parts boiling water. Stir gradually until thick and hot. Spread an inch thick on skin with a thin flannel layer between to tolerate higher heat.
Eggs Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe
Six eggs, two ounces mushrooms, an ounce butter, a tablespoonful bread crumbs, pepper, salt, cayenne. Boil eggs hard, shell, cut in halves, remove yolks. Fry mushrooms in butter, mix with yolks, crumbs, seasonings. Refill whites, place on buttered toast rounds, bake two to three minutes. Serve hot.
Salt Codfish with Cream Method
Soak one and a half pounds salt codfish overnight. Simmer two hours, drain, shred. Cook in a saucepan with a quart of milk and butter. Stir in flour mixed with cold milk, bring to boil, remove, whisk in one beaten egg, and serve.
Cocoanut Pudding Recipe Improves Sweet Dish
Half a pound each grated cocoanut flour and sugar two eggs two tablespoonfuls cream half teaspoon baking powder essence vanilla and rosewater Cream butter with sugar add cocoanut and flour mixed with baking powder beat eggs with cream and fold into dry ingredients Fill small buttered moulds and bake then turn out and serve with sweet sauce.
Onion Soup Recipe Note with Stock and Cream
A historic onion soup method uses large onions and two ounces of butter, with salt and pepper. Cook onions in butter until tender without browning, add one quart of stock, then season and strain. Finish by stirring in boiling cream or milk and serve. Time is about fourteen hours.
Minced Mutton With Poached Egg
A leftover dinner method repurposes cold mutton into a dish by frying minced onion in butter, heating the meat with salt and pepper plus a splash of soup, then serving spoonfuls on toast with a poached egg atop.
To Roast Pigeons In Currant Jelly Sauce
Roasted pigeons are seasoned with bread crumb stuffing, salt, pepper and sweet herbs. They are browned in butter after stewing until tender, with water added to cover. Serve with a rich gravy, and accompany the dish with currant jelly for dipping.
Beef Patties From Toasted Meat and Pasta Dough
Unfinished recipe notes describe shredding underdone beef with fat, seasoning with pepper salt and onion. A plain pasta is rolled thin and cut into apple puff shapes filled with mince, edges pince. Paste uses a small amount of butter and egg.
MIS CHOICE STORY ABOUT A BROTHER AND A CHOICE
A mother divides two apples, a large and a small. The elder boy is to grant his younger brother a choice. The younger is offered the smaller apple as his selection or nothing. He chooses the smaller apple, saying he was given the choice between that or nothing.
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