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few sprigs of parsley. Boil for ten minutes more. Put 

 the fillets into the oven to cook. When the souchet is 

 dished, put in the fillets, and serve with brown bread 

 and butter, and lemons. 



Everything of the kind is now to be bought, but I 

 think the following few receipts may turn out useful. 

 In washing paint, so many do not know how injurious 

 is soda or yellow soap or soft soap. 



For Washing White Paint. — Shred common yellow 

 household soap, and boil it down in a saucepan with 

 sufficient whitening to make it into a thick paste. Put 

 it in a jar, and use a little on a rag when required. It 

 will clean the paint perfectly, and will not turn it yel- 

 low. Never use soda for paint ; it spoils it and marks 

 it at once. 



Furniture Polish. — To clean, polish, and take marks 

 out of furniture, ' Sanitas Furniture Polish' is excellent 

 and not expensive ; but the following is an old re- 

 ceipt and very good : Equal quantities of methylated 

 spirit, vinegar, and linseed oil. The bottle should 

 be well shaken before using, or the spirit remains on 

 the top and will burn the polished surface of whatever 

 it touches. 



For Polishing- New Brown Boots and Shoes. — I 

 am sure many people will agree with me as to the 

 extreme ugliness of new brown shoes ; yet we all must 

 have them new sometimes. An excellent way of cor- 

 recting this ugly newness is to rub the leather three 

 times in succession with vaseline. After that, clean 

 them in the ordinary way with brown cream, and they 

 will take the polish as if they were months old. 



To Remove Fruit Stains. — Soak the stain in a 

 glass of water in which you have put ten to twelve 

 drops of sulphuric acid. Then wash with clear water. 



To Prevent Lamp-wicks from Smoking. — Steep 



