t as soft as rain water. Some people
use pearlash, or potash; but this costs something, and is very apt to
injure the texture of the cloth.

If you have a strip of land, do not throw away suds. Both ashes and
suds are good manure for bushes and young plants.

When a white Navarino bonnet becomes soiled, rip it in pieces, and
wash it with a sponge and soft water. While it is yet damp, wash it
two or three times with a clean sponge dipped into a strong saffron
tea, nicely strained. Repeat this till the bonnet is as dark a straw
color as you wish. Press it on the wrong side with a warm iron, and it
will look like a new Leghorn.

About the last of May, or the first of June, the little millers, which
lay moth-eggs begin to appear. Therefore brush all your woollens, and
pack them away in a dark place covered with linen. Pepper, red-cedar
chips, tobacco,--indeed, almost any strong spicy smell,--is good to
keep moths out of your chests and drawers. But nothing is so good as
camphor. Sprinkle your woollens with camphorated spirit, and scatter
pieces of camphor-gum among them, and you will never be troubled with
moths. Some people buy camphor-wood trunks, for this purpose; but they
are very expensive, and the gum answers just as well.

The first young leaves of the common currant-bush, gathered as soon as
they put out, and dried on tin, can hardly be distinguished from green
tea.

Cream of tartar, rubbed upon soiled white kid gloves, cleanses them
very much.

Bottles that have been used for rose-water, should be used for nothing
else; if scalded ever so much, they will kill the spirit of what is
put in them.

If you have a greater quantity of cheeses in the house than is likely
to be soon used, cover them carefully with paper, fastened on with
flour paste, so as to exclude the air. In this way they may be kept
free from insects for years. They should be kept in a dry, cool place.

Pulverized alum possesses the property of purifying water. A large
spoonful stirred into a hogshead of water will so purify it, that in
a few hours the dirt will all sink to the bottom, and it will be as
fresh and clear as spring water. Four gallons may be purified by a
tea-spoonful.

Save vials and bottles. Apothecaries and grocers will give something
for them. If the bottles are of good thick glass, they will always be
useful for bottling cider or beer; but if they are thin French glass,
like claret bottles, they will not answer.

Woolle