Year: 1869

Hor to Preserve Flowers Fresa.-Take deep
plate, into which pour quantity of clear water.
Set vase of flowers upon the plate, and over
the vase set bell-glass with its rim in the wa
| ter. The air that surrounds the flowers being
confined beneath the bell-glass, is constantly
moist with water, thai rises into it in the form
| of vapor. As fast as the water becomes con-
densed it runs down the side of the bel-glass
into the dish and if means be taken to enclose
the water on the outside of the bcll-glass, so
to prevent it from evaporatng into the air of the
sittng-room, the atmosphere around the flowers
is continually damp. The plan is designated the
i" Hopean apparatus The experiment may be
tried on n small scale by inverting tumbler
over a rosebud in n saucer of water.


Bouquets-The following also may be of in
terest to the ladies'.


When you receive bouquet sprinkle it lightly
with fresh water then put it in a vessel contain
| ing soap-suds this will nutrify the stems and
keep the flowers as bright as new. Take the
bouquet out of the suds every morning and lay
it sideways (the stocks entering frst) into clean
water. Keep it there minute or two, then take
it out and sprinkle the flowers lightly by the
hand with water replace it in the soap-suds,
and it will bloom fresh as when first gathered.
The soap-suds need changing every three or four
days. BY observing these rules a bouquet may
be kept bright and beautiful for at least month,
and will last still longer in very passable state.


Another Pldn.-To preserve cut flowers, put a
pinch of nitrate of soda into the water every
day when it is changed Nitrate of potash in
powder has nearly the same effect.


| To Clear House Of Vermin.-" Burleigh,' of
the Boston Journal, says:


| tell You, ladies, secret that may be worth
your knowing-a new remedy to clean n house
of reaches and yermin has been found. So
complete is the remedy that offer to rid
premises of all these pestiental nusances by
contract The article is sold under the name of
French green and other high-sounding names,
and at quite high price. But the article, in
plain English is common green paint in powder.
Six cents worth used about any house will clear
the kitchen and all its surroundings. These
pests infest many houses in this city, ad nau-
scum, and We believe the ladies will thank US for
suggesting so cheap an eradicator.


How to keep Hams through Summer.-After
your hams have taken salt, hang them up and
smoke them well, take them down and dip them
| into boiling water for few seconds that will
kill all the eggs of insects, if there should be any
! on them then roll them in ashes while wet, and
hang them up again smoke then more if you
choose. This will do also for sides and shoul-
| ders; also, those that do their bacon in this
way, will never have any bugs or shippers on
| their meat


| Purifying Uater-A French paper mentions
"
ter will clarity water which is unfit to drink and
the taste of the alum will not be perceived. A
French chemist in Algers shows that muddy
water will become potable in the course of from
seven to seventeen minutes by adding half
grain of pottassic alum tor every quart of water.
Boiling Ncats-Never put them into cold wa
| ter, but plump them into that which is boiling
brskly. This will coagulate the album on the
outside close the pores, and prevent the water
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need freshing, let it previously be done with
cold water, taking all needed time, with fire.
quent changes of the water, if it is very salt.
Iire-Proof Muslins.-An exchange says that
a concentrated neutral solution of tungstate of
soda, diluted with water to twenty-eight de-
grees, and then mixed with three per cent. of
phosphate of soda, will ef'ectually protect mus
Inns from fire. 1t be used in the laundry,
and will not prove Injurious to the texture.


Aatidote for Poison Oak.-An exchange says
'' We are informed by several who have tried it,
that iodide of potassia, taken in doses of three
to five grains, three times day will afford i'm
mediate relief in cases where the person has
been poisoned by poison oak.


Cayenne pepper mixed with fine road dust,
sifted over young vines will prevent their de-
struction by striped bugs. The same, mixed
with little sulphate of soda, and both mixed
with moist meal, will save young chickens from
death by gapes."


The leaves of the gcraniums are excellent for
cutsIwhere the skin is rubbed off, and other like
wounds. One two leaves must be bruised
and applied TO the part, and the wound will be
cicatrizedin q short time.


Soot.-One quart of SCOT to twelve quarts of
water, will make powerful liquid manure,
which will improve the growth of flowers, or
garden vegetables. The liquid should be ap-
| piled about twice n week.


Mice may be expelled from drawers and cup
boards most efIectually by placing fresh twigs Of
alder brush within. The door of the alder is in
| tolerable to the animal.


| To take Ink out Of Linen.-Dip the spotted
part in pure melted tallow: then wash out the
| talow and the ink will come out