Smoky Stove Or Range Chimneys

To prevent smoking, use a screen or blower of fine wire gauze, from 36 to 40 wires to the inch, immediately in front of the fire and about two inches therefrom.

Cure For Sooty Chimneys

Plaster the inside with salt mortar. The proportions used are 1 peck salt added, while tempering, to 3 pecks mortar. Chimneys thus treated have remained perfectly clean for fifteen years.

Fire-Proof Wash For Clothes

Four parts borax and 3 parts Epsom salts, mixed with 3 or 4 parts warm water to 1 part of the combined substances, is an excellent fire-proof wash for clothes. It should be used immediately after preparation.

Cider-Stains

These may be removed by lemon-juice or citric acid.

Sifting Cinders

To insure servants doing this, and to prevent vegetable refuse being thrown into the ash-barrel, provide a grated cover for the latter, which secure by a padlock to prevent removal.

Cleaning Cisterns

This should be done just before warm weather sets in, and should be done every year.

How To Remove Clinkers From Stoves Or Fire-Brick

Put in about half a peck of oyster-shells on top of a bright fire. This may need repeating.

Winter Clothing

Sufficient clothing should be worn to keep off a feeling of chilliness when about usual avocations. Less than that subjects one to an attack of dangerous pneumonia at any day or hour. More than that oppresses. Steadily aim, by all possible ways and means, to keep off a Feeling of chilliness, which always indicates that a cold has been taken.

Washing Compound For Clothes

The German washerwomen use a mixture of 2 ozs. turpentine and 1 oz. spirits of ammonia well mixed together. This is put into a bucket of warm water, in which 1/2 lb. soap has been dissolved. The clothes are immersed for 24 hours and then washed. The cleansing is said to be greatly quickened, and 2 or 3 rinsings in cold water remove the turpentine smell.

How To Drive Away Cockroaches

Poke-root (phytolacca decandra), sliced thin and laid about a house, will destroy cockroaches quicker than any other poison. It never fails. Another way of preparing the root is to boil 1 oz. in 1 pint water, until all the strength is extracted. Mix with molasses, and spread on plates in the localities infested by the insects.

How To Remove A Cork When Pushed In A Bottle

When a cork gets pushed down into the neck of a bottle, insert a loop of strong twine and engage the cork in any direction most convenient. Then give a strong pull, and the cork will generally yield sufficiently to be withdrawn.

How To Can Green Corn

Dissolve 2-1/2 ozs. tartaric acid in a pint of water. Of this solution, use 1 tablespoonful to every pint of corn while the corn is at boiling heat. When opened for use, add 1 teaspoonful soda to every 3 pints of corn.