Buckeye cookery

Do not polish stoves until fall if you are going to put them away during the summer, but to keep them or any iron utensils from rustiug, rub over with kerosene. When polishing, six or eight drops of turpentine added to blacking for one stove, brightens it and makes it easier to polish. To remove mortar and paint from windows, rub spots of mortar with hot, sharp vinegar; or, if nearly fresh, cold vinegar will loosen them. Rub the paint spots with camphene and sand. To remove spots from gray marble hearths rub with linseed oil. Fall house-cleaning deserves no less attention, except that white- washing and painting can best be done in the mild days of spring, when the house may be thrown open to wind and sunshine. The best time is in the constant weather of October; and before beginning, all the dirty and heavy work for the winter, such as getting in coal and wood, should be completed, and the cellar made clean and sweet. PROTECTION AGAINST MOTHS. During the week before the ‘‘siege’’ of house-cleaning in spring or fall, flook over all garments and articles to be put away, mend, remove all grease ‘spots if possible. An effective mode for cleansing is toa table-spoon ammonia add a tea-cup boiling water; when cool enough saturate a piece of the goods orasponge with it and rub the spot briskly, rinse with a clean cloth and fresh water, rubbing as before. Shape the garment with the hands so that the wet part will neither be stretched or shrunken; dry in the air or by a sunny window. If not out repeat process:being careful to rub the goods with the nap, then beat with a limber cane and place on the line in the wind and sun fora day. Towards evening, before dampness finds its way into them, fold them up with pulverized camphor, cut tobacco or cedar chips, lay in their wrinkles, wrap them in newspaper, carefully tie and label them, and they are ready for the closet shelves. Or, have fixed a trunk, box, or chest that is thoroughly cleaned, and lay an old sheet, that has, however, no holes in it, in this receptacle, so that the middle of the sheet is parallel with the bottom of the box. Lay the heaviest garment at the bottom with a plentiful supply of gum camphor in bits the size of a hickory-nut, or cedar shavings, strewn upon each garment; when the box is filled strew camphor or cedar shavings on top of the last garment, and all around the edges, and fold and pin the sheet over so that all of the edges lap over each other. Close the box, and set in closet in some part of the house which is frequented often during the warm weather, for the presence of any animated object is certain to disturb the moth. Always clear out all closets and trunks early in the spring. Wash with a sponge dipped in a mixture of ammonia and alcohol. Every thing the closets or trunks contain should be shaken and well aired. Sometimes a heavy carpet, in aroom seldom used, is not taken up at housecleaning time. In this case lay a cloth along the edge of the carpet and pass slowly over it with a hot flat-iron. This will kill moths and their eggs. If moths are discovered in a carpet at a time when it is inconvenient to take it up, they may be killed in the same way. A carpet, particularly if turned under at edges, should not be left down longer than one year, even if not much used. ‘ All moths work in the dark, hence clothing, furs or carpets exposed to the light are not in so much danger as when put away in the dark. The worms are torpid and do not work during the cold of the winter. Early in the spring they change into chrysalids, and again in about three weeks they transform into winged moths, when they fly about the house during the evening until May or June.. Then they lay their eggs, always in dark places, and immediately after die. The eggs, which are too small to be detected with