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but it has a hot, drying tendency, which New-Jhin^ia* 

 rum has not. 



Woollens should be washed in very hot suds, and not 

 rinsed. Lukewarm water shrinks them. 



Suet and lard keep better in tin than in earthen. 

 Suet keeps good all the year round, if chopped and 

 packed down in a stone jar, covered with molasses. 



Legs of mutton are very good, cured in the same way 

 as ham. Six pounds of salt, eight ounces of salt-petre, 

 and five pints of molasses, will make pickle enough for 

 one hundred weight. Small legs should be kept in 

 pickle twelve or fifteen days: if large, four or five weeks 

 are not too much. They should be hung up a day or 

 two to dry before they are smoked. 



A pailful of ley, with a piece of copperas half as big 

 as a hen's eg^ boiled in it, will color a fine nankin color, 

 which will never wash out. This is very useful for the 

 linings of bed-quilts, comforters, &c. 



THE WAY TO W EALTH. 



The way to wealth, is as plain as the way to market. 

 It depends chiefly on two words, industry/ and frugality; 

 that is, waste neither time nor money ^ but make the best 

 use of both. 



He that would be rich with the least labour must 

 have few wants: for he that has little, and wants less, 

 is richer than he that has much and wants more. A tub 

 was large enough for Diogenes, and a world too little 

 for Alexander. 



We are ruined, not by what we . eally want, but by 

 what we think we want. Never go abroad in search 

 of wants; if they be real wants, they will come in search 

 of you. He that buys what he does not want, will soon 

 want what he cannot buy. 



METHOD OF PRESERVING TOMATOES." 



The boiling required for the preservation of fruits, 

 always changes their quality, and sometimes entirely 

 alters their character; and it often happens, when the 

 fruits are acid, as in the Tomato, that they ihibibe in 



