fine chalk to powder and rub it well into the linen; lay it out on the grass in the sunshine, watching to keep it damp with soft water. Repeat the process the next day, and in a few hours the mildew will entirely disappear.

TO REMOVE STAINS AND SPOTS FROM SILK.

We often find that lemon-juice, vinegar, oil of vitriol and other sharp corrosives stain dyed garments. Sometimes, by adding a little pearlash to a soaplather and passing the silks through these, the faded color will be restored. Pearlash and warm water will sometimes do alone, but it is the most efficacious to use the soap-lather and pearlash together.

Boil five ounces of soft water and six ounces of powdered alum for a short time, and pour it into a vessel to cool. Warm it for use, and wash the stained part with it and leave to dry.

Wash the soiled part with ether, and the grease will disappear.

TOOTHACHE PREVENTIVE.

Use flowers of sulphur as a tooth-powder every night, rubbing the teeth and gums with a rather hard toothbrush. If done after dinner too, all the better. It preserves the teeth and does not communicate any smell whatever to the mouth.

CERTAIN CURE FOR A FELON.

Take a pint of common soft soap and stir in it airslaked lime till it is of the consistency of glazier's

putty. Make a leather thimble, fill it with this composition and insert the finger therein, and change the composition once in twenty minutes, and a cure is certain.

CURE FOR THE CROUP.

A piece of fresh lard as large as a butternut, rubbed up with sugar in the same way that butter and sugar are prepared for the dressing of puddings, divided into three parts and given at intervals of twenty minutes, will relieve any case of croup which has not already progressed to the fatal point.

CURE FOR INGROWING NAILS ON TOES.

Take a little tallow and put it into a spoon, and heat it over a lamp until it becomes very hot; then pour it on the sore or granulation. The effect will be almost magical. The pain and tenderness will at once be relieved. The operation causes very little pain if the tallow is perfectly heated. Perhaps a repetition may be necessary in some cases.

TO REMOVE GREASE-SPOTS FROM WOOLEN CLOTH.

Take one quart of spirits of wine or alcohol, twelve drops of wintergreen, one gill of beef-gall and six cents' worth of lavender. A little alkanet to color if you wish. Mix.

To CLEAN WOOLEN CLOTH.

Take equal parts of spirits of hartshorn and ether. Ox-gall mixed with it makes it better.

TO TAKE INK-SPOTS FROM LINEN.

Take a piece of mould candle of the finest kind, melt it, and dip the spotted part of the linen in the melted tallow. Then throw the linen into the wash.

HOW TO DARKEN FADED FALSE HAIR.

The switches, curls and frizzes which fashion demands should be worn will fade in course of time; and though they match the natural hair perfectly at first, they will finally present a lighter tint. If the hair is brown this can be remedied. Obtain a yard of dark-brown calico. Boil it until the color has well come out into the water. Then into this water dip the hair, and take it out and dry it. Repeat the operation until it shall be of the required depth of shade.

HOW TO WASH LACES.

Take an old wine-bottle and cover it with the cutoff leg of a soft, firm stocking, sewing it tightly above and below. Then wind the soiled collar or lace smoothly around the covered bottle; take a fine needle and thread and sew very carefully around the outer edge of the collar, catching every loop fast to the stocking. Then shake the bottle up and down in a pailful of warm soap-suds, occasionally rubbing the soiled places with a sponge. It can be rinsed after the same manner. It must be rinsed well. When the lace is clean, then apply a very weak solution of gum arabic and stand the bottle in the

sunshine to dry. Rip off the lace very carefully when perfectly dry. Instead of ironing, lay it between the white leaves of a heavy book; or, if you are in a hurry, iron on flannel between a few thicknesses of fine muslin. Done up in this way, lace collars will wear longer, stay clean longer, and have a rich, new, lacy look that they will not have otherwise.

TO KEEP HAIR IN CURL.

To keep hair in curl, take a few quince-seed, boil them in water, and add perfumery if you like; wet the hair with this, and it will keep in curl longer than from the use of any other preparation. It is also good to keep the hair in place on the forehead on going out in the wind.

PUTTING AWAY FURS FOR THE SUMMER.

When you are ready to put away furs and woolens, and want to guard against the depredations of moths, pack them securely in paper flour-sacks and tie them up well. This is better than camphor or tobacco or snuff scattered among them in chest and drawers. Before putting your muffs away for the summer twirl them by the cords at the ends, so that every hair will straighten. Put them in their boxes and paste a strip of paper where the lid fits on.

REMEDY FOR BURNT KID OR LEATHER SHOES.

If a lady has had the misfortune to put her shoes

or slippers too near the stove, and thus got them burned, she can make them nearly as good as ever by spreading soft-soap upon them while they are still hot, and then, when they are cold, washing it off. It softens the leather and prevents it drawing up.

TO CLEAN SILKS AND RIBBONS.

The water in which pared potatoes have been boiled is very good to wash black silks in; it stiffens and makes them glossy and black.

Camphene will extract grease and clean ribbons without changing the color of most things. They should be dried in the open air and ironed when pretty dry.

Soap-suds answer very well. They should be washed in two suds and not rinsed in clean water.

Take equal quantities of soap lye-soap, alchol or gin, and molasses. Lay the silk on a clean table without creasing; rub on the mixture with a flannel cloth. Rinse the silk well in cold clear water, and hang it up to dry without wringing. Iron it, before it gets dry, on the wrong side. Silks and ribbons treated in this way will look very nice.

TO CHOOSE GOOD BLACK SILK.

Pull out a thread of the filling and see if it is strong. If it stands the test, then rub one coner of the silk in the hands as though washing it. After this operation, if it be good silk, it will upon being brushed out, look as smooth as ever. If, on holding