Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1911 — Doubly Useful Mucilage. [ARTICLE]

Doubly Useful Mucilage.

"If you make your own mucilage (one heaping teaspoonful of gum arable to an ordinary mucilage bottle gives it a cheaper rate than that bought ready made), you can dispense with court plasters, liquid or otherwise, except where an lntiaeptlc is necessary,” says Women’s Home Companion. "Ordinary cuts can be coated with it quite as effectively as with the patent preparation. Two coats thoroughly dried will stand the application of water better than any. thing but what the adhesive plaster doctors use.