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DOMESTIC.

! And some advice l'll give you
In simple little song,
With the simple little chorus Of
Girls you go along,
Oh! as you go along.
Leave everything where it should be.
Girls. ss you 20 along
You take fancy Tor d cake,
Late in the afternoon,
And -four. butter, sugar. eggs.
And milk and bowl and spoon.
And ether necessary aids. ra 78
The kitchen table throng:
Don't let chem stay,sclear them away,
Girls, as you go along.
Oh. as you go along,
Put eaehone back i'll It's right place.
Girls, as you go along.
And then You'll find how easily
A great deal can be done.
Without your being tired TO death"
At setting of the sun;
And though, sometimes, in spite OF care,
Things seem to turn Up wrong.
Twill always pay TO smooth the way,
Girls, rs you go along,
Oh! as you go along,
Then never leave your work behind
Girls as you go along.
tGood Housekeeping, MARGARET EYTINGE.
Cistern water may be purified by char
coal put in bag and hung in water
Whiting or ammonia in the water is
preferable to soap for cleansing windows.
Powdered rice, sprinkled upon lint and
applied to fresh wounds will stop bleeding.
Coffee cake should be wrapped, while
warm, in a napkin, and there remain till
cut.
In pairing fruit for canning, use a silver
knife, SO that the fruit may not turn dar X
colOred.
A single choice tile framed and hung
on wall makes an excellent decoratios
to a room.
Medallions worked in colored silks, and
appropriately framed make excellent wall
ornaments.
Buy bar soap by the quantity. Keep il
where il will dry, and it will go much
farther in using.
Prick potatoes before baking, SO that
the air will escape, otherwise they may
burst in the oven.
Hot, dry 1annels applied to the face and
neck is a very effective remedy for 6
jumping tootache."
Brass utensils are often ruined because
the salt and vinegar necessary to theil
perfect cleansing are forgotten.
Fruit or rnst stains on table linen OF
other white cloths may be removed by
soaking in weak solution Of oxaiic acid.
When the burners of lamps become
clogged with char, put them in strong
soap suds and boil awhile to clean them
No kitchen should be without scales to
test the integrity of things purchased by
weight and to measure the quantities Of
various recipes.
That the most effectual remedy for
Shiny and greasy drain pipes is copperas
dissolved and left to work gradually
through the pipe.
Lamp chimneys are easily cleaned by
holding them over the steam from tea.
kettle, then rubbing with soft cloth, and
finally polishing with paper.
A liquid black lead for polishing stoves
is made by adding to each pound of black
lead one gill of tnrpentine, one gill of
water and one ounce of sugar.
Plaster of Paris ornaments may be
cleaned by covering them with thick
layer of starch, letting it dry thoroughly,
and then brushing it with stiff brush
Tin vessels rust AID are often worthless
in few weeks, because after washing,
they are rot set on the stove for a moment,
or in the sun, to dry thoroughly before
they are put away.
1t is a good plan to wrap cans of fruit
in newspapers and put them away in a
dark, cool place. The wrapping in paper
and keeping dark is said to prevent the
bleaching of the fruit.
To make fern pictures, take sheet Of
strong white paper, and with an atom
izer pass over it with a spray of diluted
mucilage SO as to obtain thin and slight
ly sticky film. that will make the fern ad
here of which it is desired to make the
picture. The ferns and leaves must first
have been pressed in a book, and after ar
ranging them to suit your taste, cause
tiiSi1i " SIS SiOssIAy W eIS poS-
sihle; fill an atomizer with very dilute
India ink and blow spray over the ferns
more or less in proportion as you want q
darker or lighter shade 1t is well to do
this with intermissions, letting it dry
little, SO as TO avoid an excess of moisture,
and possibility of running into liquid drops.
When nearly dry but.stin little moist, |
remove the ferns, which may be used over
again several times.
Interest in crazy work has not died out |
on the contrary, it is increasing. Feminine |
now seems directed toward the /
formation of new stitches for joining, IS |
the old embroidery and border stitches |
were found quite inadequate for all that |
was required of them. These inventions |
are known as s.crazy stichss,V and they
initiate every known object under the |
sun, Or no object at all They
may be briefly described as caricafures of I
stars, crescents, comets, snoHdakes ket~
ties musical notes, rainbows, wheeibar-
rows, bootjacks and so on, sd Infnitum
They are generally arranged in rows, SO
far as necessary, to outline or define or se-
cure patch-but there Is no positive rule I
for them any more than there is for the
patchwork itself, so that every lady may
invent her oHn crazy stitches. Perhaps
the ne west idea in crazy patchwork lis to
introduce among 1t scraps from real India T