acking Bottles:_--India-rubber bands slipped over them will prevent
breakage.

_To Clean Ivory Ornaments:_--When ivory ornaments become yellow or
dusky, wash them well in soap and water with a small brush, to clean
the carvings, and then place them, while wet, in the sunshine. Wet
them with soapy water for two or three days, several times a day,
still keeping them in the sunshine, then wash them again, and they
will be perfectly white.

_Stained Brass:_--Whiting wet with aqua ammonia, will cleanse brass
from stains, and is excellent for polishing faucets and door-knobs of
brass or silver. "Sapolio" is still better.

_Hartshorn_ applied to the stings of poisonous insects will allay the
pain and stop the swelling; or apply oil of sassafras, which is
better. Bee stings should be treated in this way.

_For Cleaning Glass Bottles:_--Crush egg-shells into small bits, or a
few carpet tacks, or a small quantity of gunshot, put into the bottle;
then fill one-half full of strong soap-suds; shake thoroughly, then
rinse in clear water. Will look like new.

_Cutting off Glass Bottles for Clips and Jars:_--A simple, practical
way is to take a red-hot poker with a pointed end; make a mark with a
file to begin the cut; then apply the hot iron and a crack will start,
which will follow the iron wherever it is carried. This is, on the
whole, simple, and better than the use of strings wet with turpentine,
etc.

_Cistern Water may be Purified_ by charcoal put in a bag and hung in
the water.

_Salt will Remove the Stain from Silver_ caused by eggs, when applied
dry with a soft cloth.

_Opened Fruit, Fish or Vegetables:_--Never allow opened fruit, fish or
vegetables to stand in the tin can. Never stir anything in tin, or, if
it is done, use a wooden spoon. In lifting pies or cakes from bright
tin pans, use great caution that the knife does not scrape off flecks
of bright metal.

Never use water which has stood in a lead pipe over night. _Not less
than a wooden bucketful should be allowed to run._

Never use water from a stone reservoir for cooking purposes.

Never allow fresh meat to remain in paper; it absorbs the juices.

Never keep vinegar or yeast in stone crocks or jugs; their acid
attacks the glazing, which is said to be poisonous. Glass for either
is better.

_Squeaking Doors_ ought to have the hinges oiled by putting on a drop
from the sewing machine oil-can.

_Plate Glass and Mirrors:_--A soft cloth wet in alcohol,