ure for inverted
toe-nail.

CHAPTER XI.

Things for the Sick Room. Tells how to prepare the following articles
for the sick and convalescent: Barley water; Sage tea; Refreshing
drink for fevers; Arrowroot jelly; Irish moss jelly; Isinglass jelly;
Tapioca jelly; Toast; Rice; Bread jelly; Rice gruel; Water gruel;
Arrowroot gruel; Beef liquid; Beef tea; Panado; French milk porridge;
Coffee milk; Drink for dysentery; Crust coffee; Cranberry water; Wine
whey; Mustard whey; Chicken broth; Calves'-foot jelly; Slippery elm
jelly; Nutritive fluids; Gum acacia restorative; Soups for the
convalescent; Eggs; Milk for infants; Water gruel.

CHAPTER XII.

Things Curious and Useful: To get clear of mosquitoes; To get rid of
bedbugs; To obtain fresh-blown flowers in winter; To increase the
laying of eggs in hens; The art of transferring on to glass; To
prevent horses being teased by flies; To prevent flies lighting on
windows, pictures, mirrors, etc.; To make leather wear forever; To
prepare waterproof boots; To render paper fireproof; To cure
drunkenness; To cure laziness; To take leaf photographs; To make lamp
wicks indestructible; To make different kinds of perfumes; To write
secret letters; To preserve flowers.

CHAPTER XIII.

Home Decoration: On furnishing a house; How to furnish the Parlor,
Library, Dining-room, Hall, Chambers, and Kitchen; Telling the proper
way of arranging each room tastefully and economically.

CHAPTER XIV.

How to Care for House Plants: How to succeed with plants; A good
collection of plants; To kill the spider; To start slips; To keep
plants without a fire at night; To kill rose-slugs; On watering
plants.

To prepare autumn leaves and ferns; To prepare skeleton leaves; Pretty
hanging baskets.

CHAPTER XV.

The Laundry: To make washing fluid; Gall soap; For washing woolens and
fine prints; To take out scorch; To make bluing; To make coffee
starch; To make flour starch; To make fine starch; Enamel for shirt
bosoms; To clean articles made of white zephyr; To clean velvet; To
clean ribbons; To take out paint; To remove ink stain; To take out
fruit stains; To remove iron rust; To take out mildew; To wash
flannels in tepid water.

CHAPTER XVI.

How to do your own Stamping and make your own Patterns: The article