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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2275, 18 July 1881, Page 4

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THINGS TO BB BBMBMBBBBD. That parsley eaten with vinegar will remove the unpleasant effects of eating onions. That cakes, puddings, &c, are improved by making the currants, sugar and flour hot before using them. That lamp shades of ground glass should be cleaned with soap or pearl ash; these will not injure or discolor them. That white satin shoes may be cleaned by rubbing them with blue and stone flannel, and afterwards cleaning them with bread. That gold laoe may be cleaned by rubbing it with a soft brush, dipped in roche alum, burnt, and sifted to a very fine powder. That earthy mould should never be washed from potatoes, carrots, or other roots, until immediately before they are to be cooked. That cold boiled potatoes used as soap will olean the hands and keep the skin soft and healthy. Those not over boiled ore the best. That oharooal powder is good for polishing knives without destroying the blades. That potato water in which potatoes have been scraped, the water being allowed to settle, and afterwards strained, is good for sponging dirt out of silk. That straw matting may be cleaned with e. large coarse cloth, dipped in salt and water, and then wiped dry. The salt prevents the straw from turning yellow. That buttermilk is excellent for cleaning sponges. Steep the sponge in the milk for some hours, then squeeze it out, and wash it in cold water. Lemon juice is also good. That tea leaves, used for keeping down the dust when sweeping carpets, are apt to stain light colors ; salt is the best in the winter and new-mown hay in the summer. That a piece of linen cloth dipped in turpentine and wrapped round the toe on which a soft corn is situated will give relief, and after a few days the corn will disappear. That the white of an egg into which a piece of alum about the size of a walnut has been stewed until it forms a jelly is a capital remedy for sprains. It should be laid over the sprain upon a piece of lint, and be changed as often as often as it becomes dry.

How to Wash Clothes without EadINO.—A lady correspondent sends ua the following receipt, which she has tried with success on all kinds of fabrics : —Wash and peel Irish potatoes, and then grate them into cold water. Saturate the articles to be washed in this potato water, and they can then be washed with soap without any running of the color. I have taken oil out of oarpets saturated with this potato water, when simple cold water would make the colour run ruinously; have set the color in figured black muslins, in colored merinos, in ribbons and other silk goods. Often the potato water cleanses sufficiently without the use of soap ; but the latter is neoessary where there is any grease. In such' cases (without soap) I take the grated potato itself and rub the goods with a flannel rag. In woollen goods it is nee ssary to strain the wuter, else the particles will adhere, but this is not necessary in goodß from which they can be well shaken.

To Copt Fbbns.—Dip them well in com- ! mon porter, and lay them flat between white sheets of paper with slight pressure, afterwards letting them dry out. To Deivb Away Eats.—A writer in treating of this question gives a very simple plan by whioh any one can rid his premises of rats and keep the vermin away peimv nently. Ha says : —" We clear our premises of theso dotestable vermin by making whitewash yellow with copperas and covering the stones and rafters in the cellar with it. In every crevice in which a rat may tread we put the crystals of copperas and scatter the same in the corners of the floor. The result was a perfect Btampede of rats and mice. Since that time not a footfall of either rat or mouse has been heard about the house. Erery spring a coat of yellow wash is given the cellar as a purifier, as an exterminator, and no typhoid, dysentery, or fever attacks the family. Many persons deliberately attract all the rats in the neighborhood by leaving fruit and vegettbljs uncovered iv. the collar, and sometimes even the soap grease is left open for their regalement. Cover up everything eatable in the oellar and pantry, aDd you will soon have them out. These precautions, joined to the service of a good oat, will prove as good a rat exterminator as chemists can provide. We never allow rats to be poisoned in our dwelling, they are so liable to die between the walls and produce much annoyance."