one ounce of castile soap and
one of spirits of wine. Dissolve the soap in two quarts of soft
water, add the other ingredients. Apply with a soft sponge and rub
out. Very good for deaning silks.

_To Remove the Odor of Onion_ from fish-kettle and saucepans in which
they have been cooked, put wood-ashes or sal soda, potash or lye; fill
with water and let it stand on the stove until it boils; then wash in
hot suds, and rinse well.

_To Clean Marble Busts:_--First free them from all dust, then wash
them with very weak hydrochloric acid. Soap injures the color of
marble.

_To Remove old Putty from Window Frames_, pass a red hot poker slowly
over it and it will come off easily.

_Hanging Pictures:_--The most safe material and also the best, is
copper wire, of the size proportioned to the weight of the picture.
When hung the wire is scarcely visible, and its strength is far
superior to cord.

_To Keep Milk Sweet:--_Put into a panful a spoonful of grated
horse-radish, it will keep it sweet for days.

_To Take Rust from Steel Implements or Knives:--_Rub them well with
kerosene oil, leaving them covered with it a day or so; then rub them
hard and well with finely powdered unslaked lime.

_Poison Water:--_Water boiled in galvanized iron becomes poisonous,
and cold water passed through zinc-lined iron pipes should never be
used for cooking or drinking. Hot water for cooking should never be
taken from hot water pipes; keep a supply heated in kettles.

_Scouring Soap for Cotton and Silk Goods:_--Mix one pound of common
soap, half a pound of beef-gall and one ounce and a half of Venetian
turpentine.

_A Paint for Wood or Stone that Resists all Moisture:_--Melt twelve
ounces of resin; mix with it, thoroughly, six gallons of fish oil and
one pound of melted sulphur. Rub up some ochre or any other coloring
substance with a little linseed oil, enough to give it the right,
color and thickness. Apply several coats of the hot composition with a
brush. The first coat should be very thin.

_To Ventilate a Room:_--Place a pitcher of cold water on a table in
your room and it will absorb all the gases with which the room is
filled from the respiration of those eating or sleeping in the
apartment. Very few realize how important such purification is for the
health of the family, or, indeed, understand or realize that there can
be any impurity in the rooms; yet in a few hours a pitcher or pail of
cold water--the colder the more effec