PLAN No. 503. BANISHING FLIES BY FUMIGATION
A western man who was interested in the swatting-the-flies idea, yet wished to do so without using the messy, sticky stuff you put on fly papers generally, or running the risk of poisons, invented a fumigating flypaper that is easy and clean to use, and gets rid of the flies in a hurry. He makes it as follows:
Powdered quassia, 4-ounces; powdered chlorate of potash, 11⁄2 ounces; French oil of pennyroyal, 3⁄4 ounce. Mix these well, then add 3⁄4 pint of clear water and mix all together thoroughly. Soak sheets of blotting paper about 4x9 inches in size in this solution, stirring it up frequently. Dry the sheets in the sun or by gentle heat. A sheet thus prepared, if burned in a room, will clear it of flies.
The man put these up in packages of ten sheets each, and retailed it at 10 cents per package. The druggists and grocery stores bought large quantities, and when he advertised it in a list of good papers, he received a great many orders.
His first year’s operations netted him a very good livelihood.
PLAN No. 504. CEREAL DISEASE—U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
PLAN No. 505. SALE PLAN FOR ALMOND CREAM
Few of the accessories of women’s toilets are more highly esteemed than is a preparation known as almond cream, and a lady who was especially partial to this, put it up in the following manner:
Distilled water, 90 fluid ounces; quince mucilage, 5 ounces; solution of soda, 11⁄2 ounces; boric acid, 1 ounce; cold cream, 1⁄2 ounce; sweet almond oil, 1⁄2 ounce; glycerine, 1⁄2 ounce. Stir cold cream, almond oil and solution of soda together until a uniform soapy cream is obtained. Dissolve the boric acid in 60 ounces of water, warmed, and to this add the glycerine and quince mucilage, then add this composition slowly and with regular stirring to the former. Add sufficient perfume and the rest of the water, stirring until uniform.
The drug stores sold a large quantity, and she added to her receipts by making it a mail order proposition.