d gentle
perspiration. Horseradish is more powerful. It is excellent in cases
of the ague, placed on the part affected. Warmed in vinegar, and
clapped.

Succory is a very valuable herb. The tea, sweetened with molasses, is
good for the piles. It is a gentle and healthy physic, a preventive
of dyspepsy, humors, inflammation, and all the evils resulting from a
restricted state of the system.

Elder-blow tea has a similar effect. It is cool and soothing, and
peculiarly efficacious either for babes or grown people, when the
digestive powers are out of order.

Lungwort, maiden-hair, hyssop, elecampane and hoarhound steeped
together, is an almost certain cure for a cough. A wine-glass full to
be taken when going to bed.

Few people know how to keep the flavor of sweet-marjoram; the best
of all herbs for broth and stuffing. It should be gathered in bud or
blossom, and dried in a tin-kitchen at a moderate distance from the
fire; when dry, it should be immediately rubbed, sifted, and corked up
in a bottle carefully.

English-mallows steeped in milk is good for the dysentery.

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CHEAP DYE-STUFFS.

A few general rules are necessary to be observed in coloring. The
materials should be perfectly clean; soap should be rinsed out in soft
water; the article should be entirely wetted, or it will spot; light
colors should be steeped in brass, tin, or earthen; and if set at all,
should be set with alum. Dark colors should be boiled in iron, and set
with copperas. Too much copperas rots the thread.

The apothecaries and hatters keep a compound of vitriol and indigo,
commonly called 'blue composition.' An ounce vial full may be bought
for nine-pence. It colors a fine blue. It is an economical plan to
use it for old silk linings, ribbons, &c. The original color should be
boiled out, and the material thoroughly rinsed in soft water, so that
no soap may remain in it; for soap ruins the dye. Twelve or sixteen
drops of the blue composition, poured into a quart bowl full of warm
soft water, stirred, (and strained, if any settlings are perceptible,)
will color a great many articles. If you wish a deep blue, pour in
more of the compound. Cotton must not be colored; the vitriol destroys
it; if the material you wish to color has cotton threads in it, it
will be ruined. After the things are thoroughly dried, they should be
washed in cool suds, and dried again; this prevents any bad effects
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