Add the acacia to the oil and mix thoroughly (in a large mortar); then add five fluidounces of water (all at once), and rub briskly until the emulsion is formed. Dissolve the hypophosphites in three fluidounces of water, to which add the glycerin; then add all the emulsion and rub well together. Add enough water to make up the measure of sixteen fluidounces of finished product.

(2) Paraffin oil (liquid petrolatum)....
Oil of sweet almonds....
Acacia, powder...
Glycerin......

Sodium hypophosphite...
Calcium hypophosphite.
Lime-water....

4 fluidounces.

2 fluidounces.

2 ounces av.

11⁄2 fluidounces.

128 grains.

128 grains.

8 fluidounces.

Glycerin

Tannin...

Alcohol..

Rose water..

day with a piece of soft linen.

4 drachms.

2 fluidounces.

The selected lotion is applied two or three times a

Dr. Unna's usual treatment of blackheads consists of

applications of the following ointment:

2 fluidrachms.

3 fluidounces. Io fluidounces.

.....

Mix and dissolve. Apply night and morning.

-British and Colonial Druggist.

Tooth Powders and Pastes.

POWDERS.

(1) Chalk, precipitated.. Orris root, powder.. Borax, powder..... Cardamom, powder.. Sugar, powder....

2 ounces av.

2 ounces av.

1⁄2 ounce av. 11⁄2 ounces av.

THE SCRAP BOOK.

THE NUMBER of Women WHO ENTER PHARMACY.In a recent report made by President Angell, of Michigan University, he stated that "the rapid increase in the number of women who are obtaining collegiate training is one of the most striking educational facts of our time. Not only is this proportion of women to men in all of the so-called coeducational institutions annually growing, but the attendance upon the 'annexes' such as Radcliffe and Barnard, and upon the colleges established exclusively for women like Wellesley and Vassar and Smith and Bryn Mawr, is swelling so rapidly as to test the capacity of those institutions to care for them. It is no longer the case, as in a large degree it was twenty years ago, that nearly all of the women in college are preparing themselves for teaching or for some form of professional life. A considerable proportion of them are studying merely for the sake of culture, which may enrich and adorn their lives, whatever may prove to be their spheres of activity. It seems not improbable that before many years the number of college-bred women in this country will equal that of the college-bred men. The intellectual and social results of this fact must be of no little importance."

Discussing further the entrance of women into the different professions and callings, President Angell, coming to pharmacy, said that "some women who have graduated from the school of pharmacy have found a congenial and remunerative career as pharmacists, but whether owing to the disinclination of men in the business to employ them, or to the fatigue of the continuous labor in the office, not many remain in the occupation. Some, however, enter the service of manufacturing chemists or are employed as pharmacists in hospitals or other charitable institutions."

THE SODA FOUNTAIN REACHES ENGLAND AT LAST! -The drinking of soda-water in England, according to a recent annual report, has been introduced in Birmingham. A drug store in the Grand Hotel Block, on Colmore Row, Birmingham, sold various sodas and phosphates the last two months of the summer season. The proprietor is an enterprising man, who is ready to try new things. It is said that on one warm day 1000 glasses of various flavors were sold. "The winter use of the soda fountain," writes Marshal Halstead, "having been explained, he expects to build up a hot beef tea, hot clam juice (if he can get the clam juice), and soda tonics trade. It was not possible to introduce ice cream soda this season, owing to the small size of his shop. Doctors called and denounced the use of soda water, fearing harmful effects from the dangerous ice-cold liquid, and then took it themselves, just as they do at

home. The success of this fountain is another indication of the growth of the ice habit in England. Colmore Row is a great thoroughfare, but is not as likely a place for a soda - water fountain as is crowded New Street. It seems that an American soda-fountain syndicate has taken up the matter of the introduction of sodawater fountains in England, and is determined to and will succeed. They offered inducements last summer in prices, etc., to any one in any British city who would put in the first fountain, and a number of cities have them now in successful operation."

THE TEN HEALTH COMMANDMENTS.-I. Thou shalt have no other food than at meal-time.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any pies, for the dyspepsia will be visited upon the children to the third and fourth generations of them that eat pie, and long life and vigor upon those that live prudently and keep the laws of health.

3. Remember thy bread to bake it well; for he will not be kept sound who eateth his bread as dough. 4. Thou shalt not indulge sorrow or borrow anxiety in vain.

5. Six days shalt thou wash and keep thyself clean, and the seventh take a great bath, for in six days man sweats and gathers filth and bacteria enough for disease; whereupon the Lord has blessed the bath-tub and hal

lowed it.

6. Remember thy sitting-room and bed chamber to keep them ventilated.

7. Thou shalt not eat hot biscuit.

8. Thou shalt not eat thy meat fried.

9. Thou shalt not swallow thy food unchewed, or highly spiced, or just before hard work, or just after it. II. Thou shalt not keep late hours in thy neighbor's house, nor with his cards, nor his glass, nor with anything that is thy neighbor's.-Exchange.

TO RECALL LETTERS.-Many times people would like to recall a letter after it has been mailed. This can be done, even if the letter has reached the postoffice at its destination. At every postoffice there are what are called "withdrawal blanks." On application they will be furnished, and when a deposit is made to cover the expense the postmaster will telegraph to the postmaster at the letter's destination asking that it be promptly returned. The applicant first signs this agreement: "It is hereby agreed that, if the letter is returned to me, I will protect you from any and all claims made against you for such return, and will fully indemnify you against any loss you may sustain by reason of such action. And I herewith deposit $ to cover all expenses incurred, and will deliver to you the envelope of the letter returned." In many cases persons have made remittances to fraudulent

parties or irresponsible firms, not learning until after the letter had gone, and have succeeded in recalling them. There is an instance where a Kansas City merchant had remitted a dishonest traveling man a draft for $175, and by means of a withdrawal rescued the draft in time.

SHE WANTED "FLESH-CULLAH!"-A young drug clerk, who had heard the story of the colored woman who asked for flesh-colored court-plaster and was given black by the observant dealer, stored the incident away in his mental garbage can and decided to use it at the first opportunity. He had not long to wait, for a few nights ago a comely colored girl stepped into the store where he was employed. "Ah wants some cou't - plastah," she said.

"What color?" inquired the clerk with affected nonchalance.

assistance was required, but the steamer did not carry a member of that profession. The list of passengers was read through in order to discover whether there was a medical man among them, and sure enongh, there was the name James T-, M.D. The steward quickly ran to the berth and aroused the occupant.

"What's the matter? Is the boat sinking?" came from within in a startled tone.

"There's a passenger ill, and we want your assistance, doctor," replied the steward.

"What are you playing at?" growled the voice, "I ain't no doctor!"

"Why, you've got 'M.D.' after your name!"

"Well, I can put them letters after it if I like, can't I?" said the other emphatically. "That's my trade; I'm a mule driver, that's what I am."-Tit-Bits.

OPPORTUNITY.

Master of human destinies am I!

Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait,
Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace-soon or late-

I knock unbidden once at every gate!

If sleeping, wake-if feasting, rise before

I turn away. It is the hour of fate,
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury, and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore.

I answer not, and I return—no more!

-JOHN J. INGALLS in Saturday Evening Post.

AT THE JUDGMENT BAR!-St. Peter: "And who are you?"

Candidate: "I am a druggist."

St. Peter: "Did you take a pharmaceutical journal ?”
Candidate: "Yes."

St. Peter: "Did you pay for it?"
Candidate: "No."

St. Peter:

ELECTRIC MUSTARD!-"An exchange reports," says Electricity, "that in an examination that was made of some 'electric belts' sold by a street fakir, it was found that beneath a strip of gauze was beneath a strip of gauze was a layer of dry mustard. When the wearer perspired the mustard was moistened and set up a burning sensation, and the deluded victim believed a current of electricity was passing through him."

THE man that invented ice cream soda is dead, but his product is yet in good fizzical condition.

VOL. XV.

No. 2.

THE

cians-one or two of whom are almost sure to be on the

THE RIGHT COURSE ONLY IS NECESSARY. When the pharmacists of a State are urged to secure the enactment of a law which, while conserving the rights of the public, will incidentally give themselves a just measure of protection, the answer is frequently made that it is next to impossible to get the legislature to pass a bill, or if the bill is passed, that it is only after it has been amended out of all recognition and usefulness. This feeling is quite general among pharmacists, and it has prevented them from demanding of legislatures that which would greatly benefit them.

In a paper from Professor Beal which we are pleased to be able to present to our readers elsewhere in this issue, the Professor says positively that if the right methods be used there is little reason to fear the failure of a measure, or even the patching of it in any degree whatsoever. Failure usually results, he says, from a number of causes which are capable of prevention and correction. Often a bill contains provisions, demanded by radicals, which are unreasonable; or it attacks the interests of physi

lature; or it is faulty in construction and abounding in inconsistencies; or it has some other defect which causes its defeat or at least its amendment. Furthermore, the methods used to secure the introduction and passage of a bill are, as a rule, not those best calculated to yield success; and often the pharmacists chosen by the State association to have charge of the measures are not the ones who come up to the rather difficult requirements of the task.

Professor Beal is recognized now as an authority in pharmaceutical jurisprudence; moreover, he has had eight or ten years of practical experience in seeking the passage of pharmaceutical measures. No one is 'more competent to speak than he; and no one's advice deserves to be more carefully followed. In the present paper he gives in detail the course which should be pursued from the very outset in securing the passage of a bill, and we trust that this valuable counsel, based upon practical experience, and begotten of necessity, will be of great service to the pharmacists of those several States wherein new pharmacy laws are soon to be sought. And we hope, too, that Professor Beal's paper will stimulate pharmacists generally to be more active in pharmacy legislation—to strive to secure laws "which shall protect the public interest without imposing upon the natural and constitutional rights of the pharmacist, and which shall secure to the latter the opportunity of exercising his calling with the hope of reasonable profit, without infringing upon the rights of the public." To secure such laws, remarks Professor Beal, "pharmacists must be active, not passive, factors. Plato says 'that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.' The penalty imposed upon pharmacists if they fail to take a proper interest in the enactment of pharmacy legislation is that they must live under laws enacted by men much less competent than themselves to prepare such legislation."