Show RECIPES WASHING CLOTHES I 1 have used for several years a washing fluid which very much lessens the labor of washing without injuring the clothes clother in the least it is made as follows take for one gallon of water one pound of washing soda and a quarter of a pound of unpacked lime put them in tile the water and arid simmer twenty minutes when cool pour off the clear fluid into glass glasa or stone stoie ware for it will ruin it to crack until it falls to pi pieces aces i if the C clothes othes are very dirty put them in i rah pak soak over night wring them out in the morning soap them and put them in the wash kettle with enough water to cover them to a common sized kettle or boiler full put a teacupful of fluid boil half an hour then wash well through one suds and rinse thoroughly in two waters those careful housewives who have always washed their clothes twice then boiled them and then washed them again will think this a ver very y superficial way of wd washing shing but I 1 know f frony experience that my clothes not only wash easier but look better and arid last fully as long iong on as when I 1 washed in the old way this fluid is very good for cleaning paint A very little put in the water will remove grease I 1 or fly stains much better than that i soap too much of it will remove the paint also S S rockwell in country gentleman BLACKING nor EOR HARNESS melt afelt four ounces of mutton suet with twelve ounces of beeswax add twelve ounces of sugar candy four oune oun ces of soft soap dissolved in watch and two ta 0 ounces of indigo finely powdered when melted and well mixed a add half halt a pint of turpentine lay it on the harness with a sponge and polish off with a brush here is another recipe take three sticks of the best black sealing wax dissolved in half a pint of spirits spirit of wine to be kept in a glass bottle and well shaken previous to use applied with a soft sponge another recipe for black varnish is the following best sealing wax half an ounce rectified spirits of wine two ounces powder the sealing wax and put it in with the spirits is of wine into a four ounce phial digest them in a sand heat or near the fire till disa olred lay liy it on warm with a fine hair brush spirits of turpentine may be used instead of spirits spirita of wine ex GOOD BISCUIT rub a quarter pound of butter sweet and fresh into three pounds of flour flur use as little cold water in mixing it as possible for the dough must be exceed exceedingly ingi stiff as stiff as it can possibly be worked when thoroughly kneaded pound it with a wooden mallet or an axey axe rolling it up whenever pounded flat continue pounding for half an hour or until the tire dough is as smooth as putty then break off small bits and work into cakes of the size of a dollar in thickness a quarter inch bake from halt half to three quarters of an hour the biscuit must be thinner in the center than at the edges and must be pricked with a fork if this receipt is good in your sight I 1 can give some more recipes life lite illustrated CREOSOTE FOR WARTS dr kainey kalney of saint thomas hospital london has haa written an article to 0 o the lancet detailing the effect of creosote applied to warts ile he applied it fre ire freely to an obstinate warty excrescence on th tile e finger then covered it over with a piece of sticking plaster this course he pursued every three days for two weeks when the wart was found to have disappeared leaving the part beneath it quite healthy this is certainly a remedy which pan can be applied by any person ex USEFUL CEMENT J B daines dainef of london lias bas obtained a patent for fora a cement which protects walls from damp it consists of eight parts of oil to one part of flour of sul sui sulphur hur which by being heated to two hundred anre anTe and seventy venty degrees unite rhe tha cement i applied by means of or a at brush ex CURE CUKE fon yon CHOLERA take a pound of wheat flour wrap it tia til tightly in a cloth and boil it for three flours hours bours when cold cut oll oli the mucilage laFe iafe and a ball is left resemble resembling lia chalk this is to be given to the patient in in boiled milk ex PRESERVED FISH z when the russians de aire to keep fish perfectly fresh to be carried a long journey in a hot climate they dip them in hot beeswax which acts like an airtight air tight covering in this way they the y are taken to malta perfectly sweet even in summer ex |