Tonic To Prevent Chills

One pint whiskey, half a pint water, three ounces Peruvian bark, fifteen drops of oil of cloves, forty drops of Fowler's Solution. Dose. - Three-quarters wineglassful for thirty days, before breakfast. This is excellent.

How To Curl Tumbled Feathers

Hold them over the heated top of the stove, not near enough to burn; withdraw, shake them out, and hold them over it again until curled.

How To Clean Straw Matting

Wash with a cloth, dipped in clean salt and water, then wipe dry at once. This prevents from turning yellow.

Floor Stain

One pound of burnt umber ground in oil; mix this with boiled linseed oil, enough to color well without thickening the oil. Rub this mixture well into the wood with a woolen cloth, wiping with another cloth until the stain ceases to come off. Mix one gallon of turpentine with one pound of wax, shaved up, let it stand all night. Next day rub on the floor with a woolen cloth.

How To Make The Best Tea

Scald your teapot, then allow a teaspoonful for every two cups; have the water boiling on the table, put the tea in the pot, then add the boiling water. Let it steep about five minutes. Sliced lemon and sugar for those that prefer it, but true lovers of good tea never take lemon, and often no sugar. Some persons prefer cream with it.

How To Clean Black Lace

Half cup rain water or very soft spring water, one tea-spoonful borax, one tablespoon spirits of wine. Squeeze the lace through this three times, then rinse in a cup of hot water, in which a black kid glove has been boiled. Pull out the edges of the lace until almost dry; then press it for two days between the leaves of a heavy book.

How To Stop The Flow Of Blood

Bind the cut with cobwebs and brown sugar, press it on like lint, or, if you cannot procure these, with the fine dust of tea. When the blood ceases to flow apply laudanum.

Cologne Water

Sixty drops of oil of lavender, sixty of bergamot, sixty of oil of lemon, sixty of orange flower water, and one pint of alcohol. Cork and shake well.

Antidotes To Poison

If you have taken corrosive sublimate, half dozen raw eggs, after mustard and water. If laudanum, a cup of very strong coffee. If arsenic, first the emetic, then half cup sweet oil or melted lard.

Hair Tonic

Sixty grains of quinine in one quart of bay rum, and rubbed in the scalp every day. Very fine.

How To Whiten And Soften The Hands

Use lemon juice and glycerine - two-thirds glycerine, one-third lemon juice. Use every night after washing the hands. Rub it in well.

Butterless Sauce

Scald half a gill of milk; mix half a pint of powdered sugar with the yolks of two eggs and add to the boiling milk. Stir until the mixture is as thick as boiled custard. When cool flavor, and just before serving whisk in lightly the stiff whites of the eggs.

Cold Cream Sauce

Beat together a cup of sugar and half a cup of butter; add a cup of cream. Stir all to a thick, even liquid; flavor with lemon or vanilla and place on ice until ready to serve.

Everyday Sauce

A pint of boiling water, a heaping teacup of sugar, a table-spoonful of butter, a pinch of salt and a tablespoonful of corn starch dissolved in cold water. Boil half an hour. Season with nutmeg, or flavor with a tablespoonful of currant jelly liquefied in a tablespoonful of hot water.

Foaming Sauce

Melt a teacupful of sugar in a little water, let it boil; stir in a glass of wine and whisk in the well-beaten whites of three eggs. Serve at once.