bureaus, etc., with soap. Use clean warm water (if very much soiled add a little ammonia) and a soft cloth, drying immediately -with a soft towel. There is nothing that will entirely remove grease spots from marble, hence the necessity of avoiding them. To clean marble or marbleized slate man- tels, use a soft sponge or chamois-skin, dampened in clean warm water without soap, then polish with dry chamois-skin. In dusting, use a feather- duster, and never a cloth, as it is likely to scratch the polished surface. Slate hearths are preferable to marble, as they are not so easily soiled. To wash them, use a clean cloth and warm water. Many oil them thoroughly when new with linseed oil; thus prepared they never show grease sputs. INDELIBLE INK.—Two drams lunar caustic, six ounces distilled or rain- water ; dissolve, and add two drams gumi-water. Wet the linen with the fol- lowing preparation: Dissolve one-half an ounce prepared natron, four ounces water, add half ounce gum-water, (recipe below); after smoothing it with a warm iron, write with the ink, using a gold, quill, or a new steel pen. The writing must be exposed to a hot sun for twelve hours; do not wash for one week, then be particular to get out the stain which the preparation will make. If this is followed in every particular, there need never be a failure. Gum-water for the above is composed of two drams gum-arabic to four ounces water. One tea-spoon makes two dranis, two table-spoons make one ounce. If at any time the ink becomes too pale add a little of pure lunar - saustic. Never write without using the preparation, as it will rot the cloth. GENERAL SUGGESTIONS. 889 * To EXTERMINATE BepsBucs.—In March scald with boiling water every crack or suspected place where they find refuge, and then touch thoroughly every crack and seam where the bugs are likely to harbor, with kerosene. Great care must be taken not to injure fine varnished furniture. If any injury is done to varnish by the hot water, it may be restored by rubbing immedi- ately with a rag wet in turpentine or oil. Beds should be examined again. for vermin in July and August, and if measures are taken to exterminate > them, there will be very little trouble. Another death-dealing method is to fill crevices with salt,.and wash bedstead with strong brine, or use kerosene in the same way. Paris-green and mercurial ointment are deadly poisons to the bedbug, but as they are dangerous to have in the house, the first-named methods are preferable. One part quicksilver to twenty parts white of an egg, applied with a feather to every crack and crevice in bedstead and room, will kill them. Most people are unable to console themselves for sleepless nights as did the Irishman, who said: ‘‘ Indade, I did quite as well as the bugs, for not one of them slept a wink all night,’’ and the above recipes, are any of them certain to remove the pests if properly and faithfully applied. FARMER'S Door Mat.—Every doorstep should be provided with a foot- scraper and a brush or broom, and every one, as he comes in, should take the

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bureaus, etc., with soap. Use clean warm water (if very much soiled add a little ammonia) and a soft cloth, drying immediately with a soft towel. There is nothing that will entirely remove grease spots from marble, hence the necessity of avoiding them. To clean marble or marbleized slate mantels, use a soft sponge or chamois-skin, dampened in clean warm water without soap, then polish with dry chamois-skin. In dusting, use a featherduster, and never a cloth, as it is likely to scratch the polished surface. Slate hearths are preferable to marble, as they are not so easily soiled. To wash them, use a clean cloth and warm water. Many oil them thoroughly when new with linseed oil; thus prepared they never show grease spots. INDELIBLE INK.—Two drams lunar caustic, six ounces distilled or rain water; dissolve, and add two drams gum-water. Wet the linen with the following preparation: Dissolve one-half an ounce prepared natron, four ounces water, add half ounce gum-water (recipe below); after smoothing it with a warm iron, write with the ink, using a gold quill or a new steel pen. The writing must be exposed to a hot sun for twelve hours; do not wash for one week, then be particular to get out the stain which the preparation will make. If this is followed in every particular, there need never be a failure. Gum-water for the above is composed of two drams gum-arabic to four ounces water. One tea-spoon makes two drams, two table-spoons make one ounce. If at any time the ink becomes too pale add a little of pure lunar caustic. Never write without using the preparation, as it will rot the cloth. To Exterminate Bedbugs.—In March scald with boiling water every crack or suspected place where they find refuge, and then touch thoroughly every crack and seam where the bugs are likely to harbor, with kerosene. Great care must be taken not to injure fine varnished furniture. If any injury is done to varnish by the hot water, it may be restored by rubbing immediately Beds should be examined again. for vermin in July and August, and if measures are taken to exterminate > them, there will be very little trouble. Another death-dealing method is to fill crevices with salt,.and wash bedstead with strong brine, or use kerosene in the same way. Paris-green and mercurial ointment are deadly poisons to the bedbug, but as they are dangerous to have in the house, the first-named methods are preferable. One part quicksilver to twenty parts white of an egg, applied with a feather to every crack and crevice in bedstead and room, will kill them. Most people are unable to console themselves for sleepless nights as did the Irishman, who said: "Indeed, I did quite as well as the bugs, for not one of them slept a wink all night."’ and the above recipes, are any of them certain to remove the pests if properly and faithfully applied. FARMER'S Door Mat.—Every doorstep should be provided with a foot- scraper and a brush or broom, and every one, as he comes in, should take the

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