The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-20

0rtfto'ta Vare. - Britannia w,re
should be first rubbed gently with Wool,
len cloth and sweet oil; then washed in
warm suds and rubbed with soft leather
and whiting. Thus treated, it will retain
It's beauty to the last.
TO Clean Brass.-Clean brass ket-
tie before using it for cooking, with salt
and vinegar. Brass and irons should he
cleaned, done up in papers, and pu, in
dry place during the summer. Vinegar
or vitrlol water mixed with rotten stone
is good preparation for cleaning brass
of any kind.
Soap.-Dse hard soap to wash vopr
clothes, and soft to wash vour Aoors
Soft soap is so slippery that it wastes a
good deal in washing clothes.
Horse-Radish.-.It is easy to have a
supply Of horse-radish all winter. Have
quantity grated while the 70 OF is in per.
lection, put it in bottles, fill it with vine.
gar, and keep it corked tight. 1T is verv
much improved by keeping in this way
if KEEP! from the action of the air.
Boil your Molasses.-When molasses
is used in cooking, it is prodigious i'm
provement to boil and skim it before Won
use 1t. 1t takes out the unpleasant raw
taste, and makes it almost as good as
sugar. Where molasses is used much for
cooking, it is well to prepare one or two
gallons in this way at time.
10 Preseroe Suet.-Suet keeps good
all the year round, if chopped and packed
down IN stone jar, covered with mo-
lasses.
To PreUem Hoolens from SHRINKING
an oollens should be wash
ed in very hot suds, and not rinsed.
Lukewarm water shrinks them.
Under Beds.-Barley straw is the best
for beds dry corn husks slit into sfrsds
are better than straw.
For Cold and Hoarseness.-BoiT a.
middling sized turnip, lay it in a COM
mon saucer, and pour on it three table,
spooniulls of common molasses; the juice
of the turnip is extracted, and forms
sirup which will be found very efficaci-
GUS in removing the hoarseness and sore
throat Of common cold.
To take Rancid Taste from But.
ter.-Melt and simmer it; then dip into
it a crust of bread well toasted on both
sides. Bad butter may be cured by mel
ting it in considerable quantity Of hot
water, skimming it off, and working it
again in churn with the addition of salt
and fine sugar.
Labor Saving ISoap.-The following
is recipe for making the iabor-saving
soap, $50 called,) which is an excellent
article for washing, and saving of labor.
The recipes for making have been sold
At from five dollars to ten dollars, and the
soap seven cents per pound but can be
for about two cents. Take
two pounds of sal soda, two pounds Of
yellow bar soap, and ten quarts of water;
cut the soap in thin slices, and boil all
together two hours, then strain il through
a cloth; let it cool, and it is fit for use.
Directions for using the soap Put the
clothes in soak the night before you
wash, and to every pail of water in
which you boil them, add one pound OF
soap. They will need no rubbing;
merely rinse them cut, and they will DO
perfectly clean and white.
Horrible.-"Well, / swan tew man,
there's darncd muss over tew our
house," "Why, what's the matter.
Johnny" '.Oh, dads got new hat,
Moll's got the snub-nosed hooking cough,
and Jake's a baking tew smash with the
are-toed-measles." "Yew don't u
''Yes-and that amt all nuther." "Oh
dear, what else - '.Old puss has got a
hull snag of pups and mothers got APP
pie dumplins' and molasses for dinner y
a La,cyer's .Advice.--Lord Chief JUS
tice Rengan once said to a rich friend
who asked his opinion as to the probable
success of his son i'm the world :---USir.