clear cold water; wipe the outsides with a nice dry cloth, put the
decanters to drain, and when dry they will be almost as bright as new
ones.

To brighten Gilt Frames.

2337. Take sufficient flour of sulphur to give a golden tinge to about
1-1/2 pint of water, and in this boil 4 or 5 bruised onions, or garlic,
which will answer the same purpose. Strain off the liquid, and with it,
when cold, wash, with a soft brush, any gilding which requires
restoring, and when dry it will come out as bright as new work.

To preserve bright Grates or Fire-irons from Rust.

2338. Make a strong paste of fresh lime and water, and with a fine brush
smear it as thickly as possible over all the polished surface requiring
preservation. By this simple means, all the grates and fire-irons in an
empty house may be kept for months free from harm, without further care
or attention.

German Furniture-Gloss.

2339. INGREDIENTS.--1/2 lb. yellow wax, 1 oz. black rosin, 2 oz. of oil
of turpentine.

_Mode_.--Cut the wax into small pieces, and melt it in a pipkin, with
the rosin pounded very fine. Stir in gradually, while these two
ingredients are quite warm, the oil of turpentine. Keep this composition
well covered for use in a tin or earthen pot. A little of this gloss
should be spread on a piece of coarse woollen cloth, and the furniture
well rubbed with it; afterwards it should be polished with a fine cloth.

DUTIES OF THE MAID-OF-ALL-WORK.

2340. The general servant, or maid-of-all-work, is perhaps the only one
of her class deserving of commiseration: her life is a solitary one, and
in, some places, her work is never done. She is also subject to rougher
treatment than either the house or kitchen-maid, especially in her
earlier career: she starts in life, probably a girl of thirteen, with
some small tradesman's wife as her mistress, just a step above her in
the social scale; and although the class contains among them many
excellent, kind-hearted women, it also contains some very rough
specimens of the feminine gender, and to some of these it occasionally
falls to give our maid-of-all-work her first lessons in her multifarious
occupations: the mistress's commands are the measure of the
maid-of-all-work's duties. By the time she has become a tolerable
servant, she is probably engaged in some respectable tradesman's house,
where she has to rise with the lark, for she has to do in her own person
all the work which in larger establish