Buckeye cookery

principal woods used are walnuts of various kinds, ash, bird’s-eye maple, satinwood and kingwood. Kingwood is almost crimson in color. Bookcases are of all prices from twenty to fourteen hundred dollars, and sideboards from: seventy-five to one thousand dollars. It is a good rule in selecting furniture, not to buy any thing not actually needed, to buy the best of its kind, and to pay cash or not buy. Never get any thing because some one else has it, and do not be afraid to wait for bargains. Wise young housekeepers buy furniture in single pieces or small lots,-as they have means, rather than expend more than they can afford in entire sets, which are really less attractive. Carpets should, as a rule, be of small patterns. The stoves—if grates or fire-places are not used—should be of the kind that may be thrown open or closed at pleasure. If a furnace is used, great care must be taken that the rooms are not kept too hot in winter, and that there is most thorough venti- lation, as the health of the family depends as much on the quality of the air. they breathe as the food they eat. To waste heat is not so bad as to waste health and vigor, and fuel is always cheaper, on the score of economy, than doctors’ bills. In furnace-heated houses—and the furnace seems to be accepted as the best heater, though apparatus for steam and hot water seems likely to be so perfected as to supplant it by furnishing a milder and more agreeable heat, entirely free from noxious gases—there should always be grates or fireplaces in living or sleeping rooms; and whenever the furnace heat is turned on, there should be a little fire, at least enough to start the column of air in the chimney and secure ventilation. It is a common mistake to buy too small a furnace or other heating apparatus. This ought to be ample for the coldest weather, so that ordinarily it need not be kept up to its full capacity. When a furnace is heated too hot, the little particles of dust afloat in the air are charred, and the air has a burnt flavor, as unwholesome as it is disagreeable. Without fire, chimneys are apt to draw down a current of cold air. If there are no grates or fire-places, do not rely on airing rooms from the _ halls, but throw open the windows and take in the outside air. This is especially necessary when a room is used as a study, or for an invalid. The air from the halls, although cold, is not pure. House-plants will not thrive in furnace-heated houses where gas is burned, and human beings, especially the young and delicate, need quite as pure air as plants. Ina study, or other room much occupied, the windows may be dropped during meals, and the room warmed anew before it is needed again. There must also be plenty of sunlight, floods of it in every room, even if the carpets do fade; and the housekeeper must be quick to note any scent of decay from vegetables or meats in the cellar, or from slops or refuse carelessly thrown about the premises. Many a case of fatal diphtheria or typhoid fever may be traced directly to the noxious vapors arising from decaying matter in a cellar, the outside of which is fair to look upon, while the parlors and living rooms are kept with perfect neatness. Such houses are whited sepulchers, and the inmates are doomed to pay the penalty of ignorance or carelessness. Every room must be clean and sweet. In sickness, care in all these respects must be doubled. In 372 HOUSEKEEPING. _ sap