Squeeze clean cloth out of hot water, dip it in wliiting, and with this rub the paint till all dirt is removed. Rinse well with clean water, diy with a soft cloth, and polish with a chamois leather. Paint cleaned in this way looks like new, and the whiting✪ To Clean Paint will not injure even the most delicate colours. To remove the smell of paint, put a pail of water in the room and change it every few hours. The water will absorb the smell of the paint, but it will do the work more quickly if a sliced onion or lemon, a large piece of camphor or ammonia, or a handful of hay, be put into it. For washing a varnished wall, a little melted glue, or dissolved glue size, put in the water, is a great improvement. Cement for mending; Hot Water Cans, leaks in Stoves, Kettles, or Iron Articles. Mix equal quantities of glycerine and litharge (oxide of lead) to the consistency of thick cream. It resists the action of hot or cold water, and almostl any degree of heat. Only mix a little at a time, veiy thick, more like putty than cream. Let the article when mended harden for a week before using. Glass. New glass shordd never be used until ti'eated so that it is rendered, as near as possible, unbreakable. Place tumblers, &o., in a lai'ge pan, pack them round with hay, and then fill with cold water. Add handful salt. Place the pot on the fire and then bring it slowly to boiling point. Then remove from the fire, and stand it aside until cold. Broken glass or earthenware can be easily mended by this simple recipe. Tie broken edges together so that they will stay in place. Do not wash or wet them after they are broken, but put them in a flat kettle and cover with skim milk. Put kettle on fire and let sim- mer for 2 hours or more. Then remove, and when cold t ke the ware out carefully and put it on one side for a month, when it will be ready for use. How to Make a splendid Substitute for Glue. Take a small piece of cold potato, which has been boiled, and rub it up and down a piece of paper with your fingers for about five J34 TRIED FkVOV RITES COOKERY BOOK. minutes. It will become the right consistency and stick as well as-, the strongest glue. > o Keep away Moths, &c. Take 1 oz. of each of the following : —Cloves, nutmeg, mace, car- raway-seeds, cinnamon, and Tonquin beans, and 6 oz. orris-root ; grind to a powder, mix thoroughly, and put in muslin bags, which store amongst your clothes. Besides imparting a delicious fragrance, these- help to keep away moths. or. Place lumps of najDthaline, or whole cloves, among your blankets, or furs, &c. How to make Half a Ton of Coals go as far as 15 Hundredweight. Place a quantity of challc in the grates. Once heated, this is prac- tically inexhaustible from combustion, and gives out gi’eat heat. Place the chalk at the back of each of your fires in nearly equal proportions with the coal. Full satisfaction will be felt both as to the cheerfulness and as to the warmth of the fire, and the saving throughout the winter will be at the rate of 26 per cent. Another way to economise coal. — Take old newspapers, about eight at a time, and roll them up as tightly ^as possible, binding the ends of the roll with wire to prevent it coming undone, and place on the fire. These rolls bum like coal, and give out a good heat. The wire can be used over and over again.

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Squeeze clean cloth out of hot water, dip it in whiting, and with this rub the paint till all dirt is removed. Rinse well with clean water, diy with a soft cloth, and polish with a chamois leather. Paint cleaned in this way looks like new, and the whiting will not injure even the most delicate colours. To remove the smell of paint, put a pail of water in the room and change it every few hours. The water will absorb the smell of the paint, but it will do the work more quickly if a sliced onion or lemon, a large piece of camphor or ammonia, or a handful of hay, be put into it. For washing a varnished wall, a little melted glue, or dissolved glue size, put in the water, is a great improvement. Cement for mending; Hot Water Cans, leaks in Stoves, Kettles, or Iron Articles. Mix equal quantities of glycerine and litharge (oxide of lead) to the consistency of thick cream. It resists the action of hot or cold water, and almost any degree of heat. Only mix a little at a time, very thick, more like putty than cream. Let the article when mended harden for a week before using. Glass. New glass should never be used until treated so that it is rendered, as near as possible, unbreakable. Place tumblers, &o., in a large pan, pack them round with hay, and then fill with cold water. Add handful salt. Place the pot on the fire and then bring it slowly to boiling point. Then remove from the fire, and stand it aside until cold. Broken glass or earthenware can be easily mended by this simple recipe. Tie broken edges together so that they will stay in place. Do not wash or wet them after they are broken, but put them in a flat kettle and cover with skim milk. Put kettle on fire and let simmer for 2 hours or more. Then remove, and when cold take the ware out carefully and put it on one side for a month, when it will be ready for use. How to Make a splendid Substitute for Glue. Take a small piece of cold potato, which has been boiled, and rub it up and down a piece of paper with your fingers for about five minutes. It will become the right consistency and stick as well as the strongest glue. > o Keep away Moths, &c. Take 1 oz. of each of the following : —Cloves, nutmeg, mace, carraway-seeds, cinnamon, and Tonquin beans, and 6 oz. orris-root ; grind to a powder, mix thoroughly, and put in muslin bags, which store amongst your clothes. Besides imparting a delicious fragrance, these help to keep away moths. or. Place lumps of naphthaline, or whole cloves, among your blankets, or furs, &c. How to make Half a Ton of Coals go as far as 15 Hundredweight. Place a quantity of chalk in the grates. Once heated, this is practically inexhaustible from combustion, and gives out great heat. Place the chalk at the back of each of your fires in nearly equal proportions with the coal. Full satisfaction will be felt both as to the cheerfulness and as to the warmth of the fire, and the saving throughout the winter will be at the rate of 26 per cent. Another way to economise coal. — Take old newspapers, about eight at a time, and roll them up as tightly as possible, binding the ends of the roll with wire to prevent it coming undone, and place on the fire. These rolls bum like coal, and give out a good heat. The wire can be used over and over again.

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