The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-05-02
Scraps for the Economical.

LOOK frequently 10 INC pallS, 10 sec tlldt
nothing is thrown to the pigs which should
have been in the grease-pot.
Look TO the grease-pot, and see that moth
ing is there which might have served TO nou-
rish your ewn family, or poorer one.
See that the beef and pork are always
under brine; and that the brine is sweet and
clean.
Count towels, sheets, spoons, &c. occu-
sioRally; that these who use them may moi
become careless.
See that the vegetables are neither sprout-
ing nor decaying: if they are SO, remove
them TO drier place, and spread them.
Examine preserves, to see that they are
not contracting mould; and your pickles, 10
see that they are not growing soft and taste
less.
As far as it is possible, have bits of bread
eaten up before they become hard.
Attend TO all the mending in the house,
once week, if possible.
Make your own bread and cake. Some
people think it is just as cheap to buy of the
baker and confectioner; but it is not half as
cheap.
An ox's gall will set any color,-silk, cot
ton, or weolen. have seen the colors Of
calico, which faded at one washing, fixed by
it.
Tortoise shell and horn combs last much
longer for having oil rubbed into them once
in while.
Indian meal and rye meal are in danger
of offermenting in summer; particularly Indian.
They should be kept in cool place, and
stirred open to the air, once in while.
A warming-pan full of Goals, or shovel
of Goals, held over vanished furniture, will
take out white spots. The place should
be rubbed with flannel while warm.
Spots in furniture may usually be clean
sed by rubbing them quick and hard, with a
flannel wet with the same thing which took
out the color; if rum, wet the cloth with
rum, sc.
Sal-volatile, or hartshorn, will restore CO.
lors taken out by acid.
Spirits of turpentine is good to take grease
spots out of woollen clothes; TO take spots
of paint, &e. from mahogany furniture; and
to cleanse white kid gloves.
An ounce of quicksilver, beat up with the
white Of two eggs, and put on with feather,
is the cleanest and surest bed-bug poison.
Lamps will have a less disagreeable smell
if you dip your wick-yarn in strong hot vine
gar, and dry it.
Those who make candles will find it a
great.inprovement to steep the wicks in lime
water and saltpetrc, and dry them. The
flame is clearer, and the tallow will not "run.' .
Britannia ware should be first rubbed
gently with woollen cloth and sweet oil
then washed in warm suds, and rubbed with
soft leather and whiting.
Eggs will keep almost any length of time
in lime-water properly prepared. One pint
of coarse salt, and one pint of unslacker
f lime, to pailful of water. If there be toe
J much lime, it will eat the shells from the
eggs; and if there be single egg cracked
it will spoil the whole.
| New iron should be very gradually heatet
at first After it has become Injured to thu
, heat, il is not as likely 10 crack.
/ 1t is good plan to put new earthen ware
into cold water, and let it heat gradually
until it boils, then cool again. Brown ear
: then ware, in particular, may be teughenet
in this way.
} Skim-milk and water, with bit of glue il
: it., heated scalding hot, is excellent restore
: old, rusty, black Italian Grape.
Wash-eather gloves should be washed ir
clean suds, scarcely warm.
The oftener carpets are shaken, the Longer
they wear; the dirt that collects under them
grinds out the threads.
Do not have carpets swept any oftenel
than is absolutely necessary.
1t is not we'll TO clean brass andirons
handles, &c. with vinegar 1t makes them
very clean at first; but they soon spot and
tarnish. Rotten-stone and oil are proper
materials for cleaning brasses.
{ Feathers should be very thoroughly drieo
before they are used. For this reason they
should not be packed away in bags, wher
they are first plucked. They should be lait
lightly in basket, or something of that kind
and stirred up often.
If feather-beds smell badly, or become
heavy, from want of proper preservation o.
the feathers, or from old age, empty them
and wash the feathers thoroughly in tub o
suds; spread them in your garrett 10 dry, ane
they will be as light and as good as new.
New England rum, constantly used to
wash the hair, keeps it very clean, and free
from disease, and promotes its growth agrea
deal more than Macassar oil.
you wish to preserve fine teeth, always
clean them thoroughly after you have eater
, your last meal at night
Rags should never be thrown away because
they are dirty.
Linen rags should be carefully saved; 70
they are extremely useful in sickness.
After oldcoats, pantaloons, &c. have beei
cut up for boys, and are no longer capable
i of being converted into garments, cut then
into strins. and employ the leisure moment