How To Prevent Bright and Delicate Colors in Percale and Chintz from Fading.

Dissolve five-cents' worth of sugar of lead in a bucket of cold water, and soak the dress in it for two hours; then wash it.

How To Make Good Hard Soap

To every three pounds of grease, put one and a quarter pounds of salted potash and a bucket of water.

Put the grease and potash together in a large boiler, with, if only three pounds, three quarts of boiling water, set it over the fire. As it boils, add hot water at short intervals until you have the full quantity; boil it for three hours or until you find the soap adhering to the stick you stir it with; then pour all out into a tub or bucket, and let it stand until next day; then cut it in squares and dry for a day or two in the air.

This is an excellent recipe for soap.

How To Keep Meat In Hot Weather

Wet a clean cloth with vinegar, wrap it round the meat, and put it on the ice.

Cement For Bottles

One ounce of yellow beeswax and two ounces of powdered rosin melted together in a tin cup; stir in finely-powdered red brick-dust until the consistency of sealing-wax; dip the corks in this whilst warm.