Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1910 — AN OLD-FASHIONED REMEDY. [ARTICLE]

AN OLD-FASHIONED REMEDY.

Camomile Tea, a Bererase of Oar Grandmother*, Again la Favor. If you wish to be beautiful drink, camomile tea and if you wish to. be fashionable drink camomile tea. The advice is easy to folio,w, for the tea, in spite of the fact that it makes for beauty and fashion, is very inexpensive. The fashion is only jußt arriving in New York, the Tribune of that city says, but the women who are growing beautiful on their herb beverage say that all French women drink camomile tea in preference to anything else. A New York woman who is pretty enough not to need complexion improvers was taking luncheon at the home of a friend the other day when she made a discovery. After luncheon coffee was served to .hey- in the usual tiny after-dinner coffee cup, but the other women at the table were drinking from generous big, fat, round cups which looked as if they held half a pint each. “What are you all drinking?” she asked, finally. There was a multi-mil-lionaire banker’s daughter,’ a woman of affairs and a literary woman present. “Camomile tea,” they all answered like a chorus, and then every one laughed. “Is that what has given you that beautiful complexion?” asked the inquisitive visitor of her hostess. “Yes,” answered the one of roses and lilies, "there is nothing like it for the blood and consequently for the complexion. We all drink it three times a day and nothing else. It simply makes you over. The French women drink it and that is what keeps them so fresh and young.” Camomile tea is an old-fafshioned remedy of the days of the grandmother, when it was taken for colds or as a spring tonic.

It is the German camomile flower that is used for making the tea. It is to be found at'the druggists, and two ounces will cost 6 cents, while an ounce will make a pint of strong tea. The druggist will tell fearful inquirers that camomile is, as the beauty seekers say, a good tonic for the blood, that it may be taken In any amount without harm and with really good effects.

The tea is made as other tea is. The boiling water is poured on the little flower, they are allowed to steep for a time and then the liquor is strained into a cup for drinking. It has rather a peculiar flavor, not altogether agree* able, but not distinctly unpleasant.