Every house should be provided with one or more ianterns. 278. To preserve any headed kinds of cabbages through the winter, suspend them in a sound state from the rafters of a dry room, or put them upright in sand, or store them in heaps with straws around them, like turnips or cattle-beet. 279. The greatest security from fleas is to keep rooms as free from dust as it is possible: this troublesome insect seeks to lay its eggs wherever dust or down are combined. 280. Woollen articles attacked by moths, should be well beaten and brushed, and, if possible, they should be put in hot water to destroy the young larvæ. 281. Alabaster ornaments are mostly made in several parts; they should not, therefore, be left to soak, lest the cement, by giving way, should occasion breakage. 282. To prevent ants from climbing up trees, bind a horse-hair rope three or four times round the tree; make a ring of tar round the tree; others recommend a ring of chalk. 283. Common soft pomatum is made of equal parts of beef and mutton suet and hog's lard melted together ; / any perfume can be added while they are liquid. 284. Cold melted butter may be warmed by putting the jar containing it into boiling water and covering it over. 285. All kinds of jellies and blancmanges, when broken, may be dissolved over the fire, put into fresh moulds and re-served. 286. Spices, such as nutmeg, mace, allspice, &c., should be powdered and kept dry in bottles, as they go much further in this state, and more readily give out their flavour. 287. A neat, clean, fresh-aired, sweet, and wellarranged house, exercises a moral as well as a physical influence over its inmates. 288. For making litters to carry persons who have met with severe accidents, hop-poles, or other stout stakes, and blankets or horse-cloths serve; and a door or a hurdle is a litter ready made. Brush cloth clothes well before washing. Dusting meat well with black pepper is a preservative against flies. Green vegetables should not be placed in water till just before being used. 289. Never forget the maxim that as things grow dearer, if we cannot increase our income, and wish to be at ease, we must diminish our expenses. 290. The frequent complaints we hear of inflammation and pains in the joints are occasioned by shoes made too tight: all the misery of corns is produced in the same way. 291. Keep anchovies well covered; when you open a jar, moisten the bladder tied upon it and it will come off easily; as soon as you have taken out a fish, replace the coverings: the air soon spoils anchovies. 292. If you wish to have a mustard poultice, act quickly; mix it with hot or cold water as you please, as thick only as you would have it mixed for the dinnertable. 293. To make good the defects occasioned by woodshrinking in a house, warm gutta-percha until it becomes glutinous;, then, with a heated iron or chisel, point all along the joints: after two or three minutes the whole surface will become as one board. 294. Put your balls, or reels of cotton, into little bags, leaving the ends out. 295. A simple ointment for dressing wounds and sores is made by melting in a pipkin by the side of the fire, without boiling, one part of yellow or white wax, and two parts of hog's-lard or olive-oil. 296. Milk has always been considered a certain antidote in some cases of poisoning: the soluble caseum will perform the same office against most of the metallic salts; but there is reason to believe that white of egg is better than either against corrosive sublimate. 297. An excellent size for illuminators, artists, &c., may be made thus:-Four ounces of Flanders' glue, and four ounces of white soap, are to be dissolved on the fire in a pint of water; two ounces of powdered alum should be added, and the whole should be stirred and left to cool; this should be spread cold with a sponge or pencil on the paper to be prepared. 298. Dirty windows speak to the passer-by of the negligence of the inmates. Pudding-cloths should be of stout and tolerably fine linen. 299. To remove the unpleasant smell of oiled or varnished cloths and stuffs, expose them to the action of a chloric fumigation in a close room. 300. It is said that the butchers of Geneva use the oil of laurel as a substance which prevents flies from approaching their meat: the odour of the oil, though strong, is not very disagreeable, and the flies will not approach the walls or parts which have been rubbed with it. The person who describes their effects, says that he has, in this way, guarded the gilt frames of mirrors and pictures most perfectly from flies. 301. Caustic as an application for corns should be used with great caution, and would be better left in the hands of a medical man. 302. By tying a silk or cotton handkerchief round the neck, and covering even the mouth and nostrils when out in cold and damp weather, colds will very frequently be prevented. 303. The best means to preserve eggs is to rub them very carefully over with fresh olive-oil, and then put them in jars with bran about them, and tie them with wax paper or bladder: in this operation the oil must not be rancid (good olive-oil has no particular smell, and is almost tasteless), and the whole surface of the eggshell must be saturated with it by rubbing, the omission of a piece the size of a pea will cause the egg to be bad: fresh butter is used for the same purpose. 304. Much waste of tallow is occasioned in many families that can ill afford it by careless and slovenly habits; such as carrying a candle aslant, or not properly fixing it in a candlestick, or suffering a lighted candle to stand in the draught of an open door or broken window; or, in the daytime, instead of putting the pieces of candle in the box, exposing them in the candlestick to the influence of the sun or fire; or instead of sticking the small pieces upon a save-all, suffering them to burn away in the socket. 305. Nuts ought only to be eaten while fresh, and when the skin, which is extremely unwholesome, can be removed; they should be well chewed and eaten with salt: if eaten in large quantities they produce alarming diso Green vegetables should not be placed in water till just before being used. 289. Never forget the maxim that as things grow dearer, if we cannot increase our income, and wish to be at ease, we must diminish our expenses. 290. The frequent complaints we hear of inflammation and pains in the joints are occasioned by shoes made too tight: all the misery of corns is produced in the same way. 291. Keep anchovies well covered; when you open a jar, moisten the bladder tied upon it and it will come off easily; as soon as you have taken out a fish, replace the coverings: the air soon spoils anchovies. 292. If you wish to have a mustard poultice, act quickly; mix it with hot or cold water as you please, as thick only as you would have it mixed for the dinnertable. 293. To make good the defects occasioned by woodshrinking in a house, warm gutta-percha until it becomes glutinous; then, with a heated iron or chisel, point all along the joints: after two or three minutes the whole surface will become as one board. 294. Put your balls, or reels of cotton, into little bags, leaving the ends out. 295. A simple ointment for dressing wounds and sores is made by melting in a pipkin by the side of the fire, without boiling, one part of yellow or white wax, and two parts of hog's-lard or olive-oil. 296. Milk has always been considered a certain antidote in some cases of poisoning: the soluble caseum will perform the same office against most of the metallic salts; but there is reason to believe that white of egg is better than either against corrosive sublimate. 297. An excellent size for illuminators, artists, &c., may be made thus:-Four ounces of Flanders' glue, and four ounces of white soap, are to be dissolved on the fire in a pint of water; two ounces of powdered alum should be added, and the whole should be stirred and left to cool; this should be spread cold with a sponge or pencil on the paper to be prepared. 298. Dirty windows speak to the passer-by of the negligence of the inmates. Always sweep the hearth after arranging a fire. Pudding-cloths should be of stout and tolerably fine linen. Puff-paste, while being made, should be kept as cool as possible. 299. To remove the unpleasant smell of oiled or varnished cloths and stuffs, expose them to the action of a chloric fumigation in a close room. 300. It is said that the butchers of Geneva use the oil of laurel as a substance which prevents flies from approaching their meat: the odour of the oil, though strong, is not very disagreeable, and the flies will not approach the walls or parts which have been rubbed with it. The person who describes their effects, says that he has, in this way, guarded the gilt frames of mirrors and pictures most perfectly from flies. 301. Caustic as an application for corns should be used with great caution, and would be better left in the hands of a medical man. 302. By tying a silk or cotton handkerchief round the neck, and covering even the mouth and nostrils when out in cold and damp weather, colds will very frequently be prevented. 303. The best means to preserve eggs is to rub them very carefully over with fresh olive-oil, and then put them in jars with bran about them, and tie them with wax paper or bladder: in this operation the oil must not be rancid (good olive-oil has no particular smell, and is almost tasteless), and the whole surface of the eggshell must be saturated with it by rubbing,—the omission of a piece the size of a pea will cause the egg to be bad: fresh butter is used for the same purpose. 304. Much waste of tallow is occasioned in many families that can ill afford it by careless and slovenly habits; such as carrying a candle aslant, or not properly fixing it in a candlestick, or suffering a lighted candle to stand in the draught of an open door or broken window; or, in the daytime, instead of putting the pieces of candle in the box, exposing them in the candlestick to the influence of the sun or fire; or instead of sticking the small pieces upon a save-all, suffering them to burn away in the socket. 305. Nuts ought only to be eaten while fresh, and when the skin, which is extremely unwholesome, can be removed; they should be well chewed and eaten with salt: if eaten in large quantities they produce alarming disorders. Hair trunks rarely fail to attract moths. T White feathers should never be worn while the weather is damp. |