Household Economy

Wall Ornaments. - An old horseshoe painted in two bright colors makes ! a pretty wall ornament, lied and blue a very good combiuation, provided it accords with the other decorations of the room. Gild the nails and fasten close to the wall. Soap For Wax. - A piece of white Castile soap is better than wax for smoothing white sewing cotton, and is : especially good for the use of very young seamstresses wlio have not learned to keep their small flugers quite clean. The blackest seam will bc white after one washing, if soaped cotton be used. ' Lemon and Oranoe Tinctüre. - Never throw away lemon or orange peel; cut the yellow outside off carefully, and put it into a tightly-corked bottle, with enough alcohol to cover it. Let it stand until the alcohol is a bright yellow, then pour it off, bottle it tight, and use it for flavoring when you make rice pudding. Add lemon and alcohol as often as you have it, and you will always have a nice flavoring. A pretty pattem for a sofa pillow, for the benefit of ladies who flislike to try their eyes by counting stitches, may ] be made by taking worsted of four ! , oolors, dividing the length of the 1 . ion into four parts and making each the ' base of a pyramid. Work each row in , a different tint, and, when the four 1 mids are done, turn the canvas and fill j in the spaces either with plain mids in the darkest tint or with dark gamet. If the right colors be used, the effect will be something like that of a Cashmere shawl. When hard water is uaed for cooking ! or washing, it is best to boil it for a few ' minutes before using it, as then the fur or sediment is thrown down on the sides of the boiler and not on tho food or clothes. Hard water isn't good for making tea, as the strength of the tea leaves is very slowly extracted. The bad eflects of hard water in cooking may be partly remedied by using a small quantity of carbonate of soda, or even common washing soda, which softens the water, though if much be added it gives a soapy, unpleasant taste. To Keep Things from Moths. - Fold up your things, sprinkling a little dry camphor in between. Then sew them j up in bags, made of some strong mate j rial, containing no wool wliatever; linen, of eourse, is excellent, but ! mon bed-ticking answers very weli. j The bags should be stitched very ly, best by machine, and leaving not the smallest opening anywhere. This keeps the goods perfectly safe. You need never use any other precaution, even for furs, but you must, of eourse, i make sure that the moths have had no i chance te lay their eggs in the things J before they are packed. Mince Pies. - Boil a fresh tongue; chop it very fine, after removing the skin and roots; when cold, add one pound of chopped suet, two pounds stoned raisins, two pounds currants, two ponnds citrón cut in fine pieces, six cloves powdered, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, half teaspoonful mace, one pint brandy, one pint wine or eider, two ponnds sugar; put this all in a stone jar and cover well: in making pies, chop some apples very fino, and to one bowl of the prepared meat take two of apples; add more sugar, according to taste, and sweet eider enough to make the pies juicy, but not thin ; mix, and warm the ingredients before putting into your pie-platos ; always bake with an upper and under ernst, made with one cup of lard, one Of butter, one of water, and four of flour.