Hard Soap (Without Boiling)

Dissolve one box lye over night in seven pints of warm water, and in the morning add six pints liquid grease. Stir for three-quarters of an hour, all one way. Pour it into moulds, and cut it out the next day. A small piece of beef tallow added will make it finer.

Hard Soap

Put one box of saponifier into three gallons of water; knock off the end, and let the box boil until it empties itself; add four and a half pounds soap fat, and let it boil two hours and ten minutes. Then add a small half pint of salt, and let it continue boiling thirty-five minutes longer. Then add half a gallon of hot water, and let it come to a boil. Take the tub in which the soap is to be put, and pour a tumblerful of cold water round the sides and bottom of it to keep the soap from sticking. Let it stand all night, and cut it out in the morning.

How To Cure A Gathered Breast

To half pint linseed oil add half pint brandy, a piece of castile soap as large as a walnut, a piece of mutton tallow and beeswax. Stew them together, and when cold spread it on brown paper, and apply it to the breast. To be kept on until all hardness is dispersed. Cocoa butter is very fine also.

Cough Mixture

Syr. tolu, three ounces; aquae font., one ounce; potassa bromide, three drachms; acid hydrocyanic dilute, and sol. morphia Maj., each thirty drops. Mix. Dose - Teaspoonful every four hours. 19

How To Extract The Salt From Lard

For medicinal purposes, lard which is free from salt is often required. In order to extract the salt put a tablespoonful of lard in a tin cup, and pour on it a pint of boiling water. Set it aside to get cold. The lard will be found in a cake on the top, and the salt which it contained will remain in the water.

A Pretty Experiment

An acorn suspended by a thread within half an inch of the water in a hyacinth glass will in a few months burst, and throw out a root, and shoot upward with straight and tapering stems, covered with beautiful green leaves.

A Pretty Centre Piece

Take a goblet from which the stem has been broken off, and sew tightly round it a piece of coarse flannel, wet it, and put as much flaxseed on it as will stick to it. Place this in a saucer of water, and replenish it as often as it commences to dry up. The tumbler will soon be thickly covered with green, and is a very pretty ornament to a table.

How To Clean White Satin Slippers

White satin slippers can be cleaned by scrubbing well with a brush, castile soap, and rain water. Then put in the sun to dry, after stuffing the toes with cotton.

Cosmetic Soap

Take one pound castile soap, or any other nice old soap, scrape it fine, and put it on the fire with a little water. Stir till it is a smooth paste; pour into a bowl; when cold add lavender water or some kind of essence. Beat with a silver spoon till well mixed; thicken with corn meal, and keep in small pots. Cover tight, for the air will make (he soap hard.