Slice green tomatoes, i gallon ; pour over this sufficient water to cover them ; sprinkle salt over the top about % inch thick; let them stand 24 hours; then drain from the brine. Put them into a large kettle; add a quart of sugar and vinegar enough to cover them, and a good handful of al- spice and cloves ungroun✪ Pickled Tomatoes - Sweetd. Let them boil up and take off and put into jars. PICKLED CUCUMBERS WITHOUT VINE- GAR. Carefully wash the cucumbers so as not to bruise them, then place about a dozen large grape leaves✪ Pickled Cucumbers Without Vinegar upon the bottom of a 5 -gallon keg or stone jar. Now pack a layer of cucumbers snugly on the leaves, and sprinkle over them a small handful ©f salt; then lay the grape leaves again, and then cucumbers and salt, and repeat the order until the vessel is nearly full ; cover over with vine leaves, and put a round board on the leaves with a clean stone on the top ; fill the vessel with water✪ Pickled Cucumbers until the cucumbers are covered from the air. Taste 39^ DOMESTIC GUIDE. the liquid. It should be pleasantly salt. Add a little salt if it is too flat. Let the whole stand in a middling cool place for 3 weeks, when the cu- cumbers will be sour and ready to eat They will keep all the winter if kept in a cool place. No vinegar is necessary. The pickles will be of an olive color, and are more wholesome than are the poisonous, bright green, sulphuric acid pickles to be had in the market. This is the German meth- od— a country where it is said that dentistry is not so perfect as it is in this country, hence they en- deavor to make their pickles so as not to destroy the natural teeth ; in this country, where so many have false teeth, it does not matter so much. PIMPLES ON THE FACE. For pimples on the face, dab the spots 3 or 4 times daily with strong spirits of camphor, and take a little sulphur and cream of tartar every second evening, for 2 or 3 weeks, which has been mixed up with a little honey or syrup — not over i^ teaspoonful at a time. This will also eradicate face-worms, if any exist. TO PATCH RUBBER BOOTS. Take a piece of a worn-out boot or shoe for the patch; then, to break up the gloss ot the boot and the patch as far as the patch is to extend, rub it with sand paper ; coat both with liquid rubber 4 or 5 times, letting each coat dry before putting on the next. Do the same again and apply the patch to the boot, putting on pressure while the last coat is MISCELLANEOUS DIVISION. 39/ soft, and it is done. If liquid rubber is not kept by druggists, take pieces of clean rubber and dis- solve it in turpentine, by means of heat, to the consistency of thin molasses. POLISH FOR FURNITURE. Alcohol, I quart ; pale shellac, i y^ pounds ;: gum mastic, light colored, 2 ounces. Dissolve without heat by shaking or stirring until dissolved., Apply with a sponge or a soft woolen rag, and rub down with a dry rag. POLISHING FURNITURE. It may be that some will be glad to know that a little sweet oil put over the furniture and then rubbed dry with a clean, soft rag, will leave a fine,, glossy appearance. TO DRY BEEF.

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Slice green tomatoes, i gallon ; pour over this sufficient water to cover them ; sprinkle salt over the top about % inch thick; let them stand 24 hours; then drain from the brine. Put them into a large kettle; add a quart of sugar and vinegar enough to cover them, and a good handful of alspice and cloves unground. Let them boil up and take off and put into jars. PICKLED CUCUMBERS WITHOUT VINE- GAR. Carefully wash the cucumbers so as not to bruise them, then place about a dozen large grape leaves upon the bottom of a 5 -gallon keg or stone jar. Now pack a layer of cucumbers snugly on the leaves, and sprinkle over them a small handful of salt; then lay the grape leaves again, and then cucumbers and salt, and repeat the order until the vessel is nearly full ; cover over with vine leaves, and put a round board on the leaves with a clean stone on the top ; fill the vessel with water until the cucumbers are covered from the air. Taste the liquid. It should be pleasantly salt. Add a little salt if it is too flat. Let the whole stand in a middling cool place for 3 weeks, when the cucumbers will be sour and ready to eat They will keep all the winter if kept in a cool place. No vinegar is necessary. The pickles will be of an olive color, and are more wholesome than are the poisonous, bright green, sulphuric acid pickles to be had in the market. This is the German method— a country where it is said that dentistry is not so perfect as it is in this country, hence they endeavor to make their pickles so as not to destroy the natural teeth ; in this country, where so many have false teeth, it does not matter so much. PIMPLES ON THE FACE. For pimples on the face, dab the spots 3 or 4 times daily with strong spirits of camphor, and take a little sulphur and cream of tartar every second evening, for 2 or 3 weeks, which has been mixed up with a little honey or syrup — not over i^ teaspoonful at a time. This will also eradicate face-worms, if any exist. TO PATCH RUBBER BOOTS. Take a piece of a worn-out boot or shoe for the patch; then, to break up the gloss ot the boot and the patch as far as the patch is to extend, rub it with sand paper ; coat both with liquid rubber 4 or 5 times, letting each coat dry before putting on the next. Do the same again and apply the patch to the boot, putting on pressure while the last coat is soft, and it is done. If liquid rubber is not kept by druggists, take pieces of clean rubber and dissolve it in turpentine, by means of heat, to the consistency of thin molasses. POLISH FOR FURNITURE. Alcohol, I quart ; pale shellac, i y^ pounds ;: gum mastic, light colored, 2 ounces. Dissolve without heat by shaking or stirring until dissolved. Apply with a sponge or a soft woolen rag, and rub down with a dry rag. POLISHING FURNITURE. It may be that some will be glad to know that a little sweet oil put over the furniture and then rubbed dry with a clean, soft rag, will leave a fine, glossy appearance. TO DRY BEEF.

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