A piece of pointed whalebone or fine pine wood is nice to clean out corners.

An easy way to wash windows. Use two washcloths and a large one free from lint for drying. Wet one of the cloths with soap and water. Rub this over the window to moisten the dirt. Dampen the second cloth and pour on it a little coal oil. Go over the window with this. Then polish briskly with the dry cloth. Do not have either cloth so wet that it will drip.

To prevent odor while cooking cabbage or onions, set a cup of vinegar on stove and let it boil.

Glass bottles can be cut off below the neck and used for jelly glasses. Tie a cord around the bottle at the desired place, wet cord with turpentine or coal oil and set on fire. Try it.

An oyster shell placed in the tea-kettle will attract the stony particles to itself, thus preventing the formation of a crust on inside of kettle.

When your kerosene lamps give a bad light, and smoke, or smell, boil the burners half an hour with a tablespoonful of soda in the water. Never fill your lamps to the brim, as the oil rises and causes a disagreeable odor.

Use Spanish bark for washing wool goods. Shake goods thoroughly and iron when partially dry.

Lard or drippings are clarified by frying slices of raw potato in them. Strain through a cloth.

Water should just begin to boil when used for cooking. Otherwise it is insipid.

When crackers become soft place them in a hot oven a few moments to freshen them.

If a pinch of soda be put into an omelette it will retain its shape when put upon the table.

Instead of opening the door if the oven be too hot, place a small dish of cold water in the oven.

Soap rubbed on the hinges of a door will prevent creaking.

A tablespoon of milk put into the water in which old potatoes are cooked will prevent their turning a dark color.

After a stove has been thoroughly polished rub it every morning with an old paper and it will look well for a long time.

Make starch with soapy water and the irons will not stick and the linen will have a better gloss.

Use hard soap for closing mouse holes.