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Show Hints for Hie Household. A bow of quicklime kept in a cupboard will (piickly absorb the moisture if there be any. In bottling catsup or pickled boil the cork', and while hot you can press them into the, bottles, and when cold they are tightly sealed. Use the tin foil from compressed yea.-t to cover the corks. To prevent new griddles from sticking scour thoroughly with salt before using. A carpet can be irreatly improved by a second swecpitin- w ith coarse, salt or dampened damp-ened corn meal scattered over it. It is iuite astonishing how much dirt will be taken up. Wiping Wip-ing the carpet thoroughly with damp flannel cloth, wrunu' out of warm soapsuds or water softened with ammonia or borax, is also .1 good way to keep a carpet bright and nice. If oih loth is rubbed now and then w ith turpentine tur-pentine and beeswax it w ill last longer. . |