About The House

Cut flowers muy be kept for a wcek or more by placing them in camphor water. Tkeatment for paint bruslics, to keep tliem frorn getídng hard and matted togetlier: Soak in linseed oil, and wash off m soapy water. Pbocess for ttilvering glass: A sohition oí mtrate of silver and Boclielle salte is applied to tlie glass, a film of metallic silver being deposited. Kitchbn PhpPKB. - Mix in tho finest powder an ounce each of ginger, einnamon, black pepper; of nutmeg and alspice, a half ounce eacli; ten eloves and sfx ounces salt. Keep in a bottle; ït is an agreeable addition to brown sauces, soups. or stows. gíOFFINO TOB POTILTEÏ OR FlSH.- OllO cup of bread erumbs, one egg, one teacupful mashed potatoc, butter size of an egg, savory, sage, pepper and Balt. The above, with tlie addition of a c-liopped onion,' is excellent for goose, duck or wild meat of any kind. Pkessed or Jellied Mbat. - Take tlie lean bits and a sparerib, cook with a cliicken until tender, season and chop fine, puck and put a píate over it with wcight to press. Molded m uome iaiioj form, it matee a dish ornamental as well as usoful for a grange feast. -Farmer s Fricnd. Wabts.- FrequenÜy apply munatic acid to the wart only, it will soon disappear In the absence of this, scrape cnoligh soap frena a commonbar tomnke a poultice and wear at niglit , and the wart will eventually dissolve. The same is truc of corns. Ambrosia is made by plaeiug upon a glass stand, or other deep vessel, iiltoruate layers of grated cocotumt, oranges peeled and sliccd round, and a pmeipple sUced thin. Begin with the oranges, and use eocoauut last, spreadinc between eacli layer sifted loat sugar. Bweeten the cocoanut milk aud pour over it. A good way to start slips of plants is to et an old glass fruit jar, BÜt moe mcllow earth in it till it is tw, or three niches deep, or till it towlu's end oi the slip, then pout water over it till it is full. Set the jar where it will not be moved often. Aïter the roots start sift more earth over, till aam with water if aeeded, and bo on tíU it íbítüI aud filled with vootfs tben carefuUy break the gla off ad transplant to a pot, oud you wil! ao trouble in sfftytang it