To save coals, leave slide at top of range a little open ; will have more heat and great saving of coals. A Sewing Machine Secret, &c. Take out the screw that holds the foot-plate, remove it, and you will be sui’prised at the amount of fiuff accumulated there. Clean the little grooves and under the whole of the plate with a penknife (the needle must be taken out before the work is begun). You will often find this is the only cause for the machine running hard and not carry- ing the work. When working Avith machine on crape or any other flimsy ma- terial, by placing a piece of paper underneath, it will be found to prevent it stretching. Yellow stains left by machine oil on white material may be re- moved by rubbing the spot with a cloth wet with ammonia before washing with soap. Flannel should not be used in needle-books for sticking needles into, as flannel is often prepared with sulphur, which will rust the needles. A piece of fine linen or chamois leather is better. In making sleeves of children’s dresses, make quite full and long enough to turn a hem and gather at wrist. When too short, rip out the hem and gather into a cuff. Test for Bad Water. Buy 1 oz. of saturated solution of permanganate of potash. If, when a drop of this is added to a tumbler of water, its colour changes to brown, it is unfit to drink. If it remains clear or slightly rose- coloured after an hour it is, broadly speaking, safe. This test should TRIED FAVOURITES COOKERY BOOK. 235 always be applied when sore throats are prevalent, or diphtheria or typhoid is in a house. Mixture for Destroying Flies &c. 1 pint infusion of quassia, 4 oz. moist sugar, and 1 oz. pepper✪ Fly Destroying Mixture. Mix well and stand about in saucers. A little tui-pentine sprinkled among the clothes or put about the closets will make moths flee, and exterminate cockroaclies. It will take spots out of muslin, and if a tablespoonful be added to a boilerful of clothes it will whiten them much. It is good for a cut or burn. Fly Papers. 1 oz. Eesin, 1 oz. Castor Oil ; add a few drops Iloiiey and a small piece Bees^-Wa✪ Fly Paperx. Melt together, and spread on firm papers. Try a little first, to see if proper consistency, when cool. If not hard enough, add a trifle more resin. Cleaning Hints. Old Brass may be cleaned to look like new by pouring strong ammonia on it, scrubbing with a scmbbing binsh, and then rinsing in clear water. Chased Brass Goods, such as are generally known as Benares work, are easily cleaned in this way; Wash in hot soap and water, and dry thoroughly. C\it a lemon in half, and with it mb the brass. When it looks clean, rinse in warm water, dry, and tlien polish well with a chamois leather. Chased work should never bo cleaned with any kind of powder. To Clean Mardle Washstands. — Take 2 ounces of washing soda, 1 of powdered pumice-stone, and 1 of powdered chalk. Pound togeth- er, and then pass through a sieve. Take some of the powder and make it into a paste with cold water, rub it well over the surface of the marble, and leave 24 hours, wash off with soap and water. To Clean Oxidised Silver. — Dip a rag in saturated solution of sulphate of soda and rub. Silver will be clean in a few seconds. Scour badly-stained Knives by dipping raw potato in bath-brick. To CtEAN Knives. — Mix a tiny bit of carbonate of soda with bath- brick. They will polish more easily.

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To save coals, leave slide at top of range a little open ; will have more heat and great saving of coals. A Sewing Machine Secret, &c. Take out the screw that holds the foot-plate, remove it, and you will be sui’prised at the amount of fiuff accumulated there. Clean the little grooves and under the whole of the plate with a penknife (the needle must be taken out before the work is begun). You will often find this is the only cause for the machine running hard and not carry- ing the work. When working Avith machine on crape or any other flimsy ma- terial, by placing a piece of paper underneath, it will be found to prevent it stretching. Yellow stains left by machine oil on white material may be re- moved by rubbing the spot with a cloth wet with ammonia before washing with soap. Flannel should not be used in needle-books for sticking needles into, as flannel is often prepared with sulphur, which will rust the needles. A piece of fine linen or chamois leather is better. In making sleeves of children’s dresses, make quite full and long enough to turn a hem and gather at wrist. When too short, rip out the hem and gather into a cuff. Test for Bad Water. Buy 1 oz. of saturated solution of permanganate of potash. If, when a drop of this is added to a tumbler of water, its colour changes to brown, it is unfit to drink. If it remains clear or slightly rose- coloured after an hour it is, broadly speaking, safe. This test should TRIED FAVOURITES COOKERY BOOK. 235 always be applied when sore throats are prevalent, or diphtheria or typhoid is in a house. Mixture for Destroying Flies &c. 1 pint infusion of quassia, 4 oz. moist sugar, and 1 oz. pepper. Mix well and stand about in saucers. A little tui-pentine sprinkled among the clothes or put about the closets will make moths flee, and exterminate cockroaclies. It will take spots out of muslin, and if a tablespoonful be added to a boilerful of clothes it will whiten them much. It is good for a cut or burn. Fly Papers. 1 oz. Eesin, 1 oz. Castor Oil ; add a few drops Iloiiey and a small piece Bees^-Wax. Melt together, and spread on firm papers. Try a little first, to see if proper consistency, when cool. If not hard enough, add a trifle more resin. Cleaning Hints. Old Brass may be cleaned to look like new by pouring strong ammonia on it, scrubbing with a scmbbing binsh, and then rinsing in clear water. Chased Brass Goods, such as are generally known as Benares work, are easily cleaned in this way; Wash in hot soap and water, and dry thoroughly. C\it a lemon in half, and with it mb the brass. When it looks clean, rinse in warm water, dry, and tlien polish well with a chamois leather. Chased work should never bo cleaned with any kind of powder. To Clean Mardle Washstands. — Take 2 ounces of washing soda, 1 of powdered pumice-stone, and 1 of powdered chalk. Pound togeth- er, and then pass through a sieve. Take some of the powder and make it into a paste with cold water, rub it well over the surface of the marble, and leave 24 hours, wash off with soap and water. To Clean Oxidised Silver. — Dip a rag in saturated solution of sulphate of soda and rub. Silver will be clean in a few seconds. Scour badly-stained Knives by dipping raw potato in bath-brick. To CtEAN Knives. — Mix a tiny bit of carbonate of soda with bath- brick. They will polish more easily.

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