For Coloring Orange.—For six pounds 
of rags, use twelve ounces sugar of lead, six 
do. bichromate of potash, two quarts stone 
lime. Dip llrst in bichromate of potash, next 
with some bright colored stuff, in harmony 
with the room. In this way remnants of 
goods, bright fringes, gimps and cords may 
bo utilized. 
HYGIENIC NOTES AND QUERIES 
“Wild Tea”—A Cancer Cure.—Mr. 
YarDley, whose letter concerning a cancer 
euro wo published in the I tun A I. New- 
Yorker Jan. (5., sends us a pulverized sam¬ 
ple of the "Wild Tea" spoken of, which 
may bo the foliage of Tied Tops or Beach 
leaves or any other dried foliage. We can¬ 
not. determine it botanically until we have 
a perfect loaf Meantime wo publish the 
following concerning Mr. Yaudley, which 
wo find in the Ithaca Journal: 
One Chari.es Yaudley, of Pittsburg, 
writes us a letter, as he has written a letter 
to every editor in the country, we guess, 
saying lie was cured of cancer by using wild 
tea. Nobody but Mr. Y. has “wild tea,” 
and he will swindle anybody who will trust 
him. _ 
Remedy for Ringworms*— Acetio acid, 
applied with a small piece of sponge every 
morning, for about three weeks, caused a 
ringworm, which I had allowed to spread 
unnoticed until it covered the whole of my 
left cheek, to ent irely disappear. This hap¬ 
pened about two years ago, arid l have not 
been troubled since.—T. G. A., Waxh haj- 
ton, i>. C, _ 
Dry and Cracked Fingers.— Why suf¬ 
fer with dry and crooked lingers ? You need 
not if you will wash your hands thoroughly 
with Castile soap from time to time, and 
before retiring for the night rub them with 
glycerine and dry it in before the stove. 
Follow it up until warm weather comes. It, 
is a preventive, no mistake about, it.—W., 
linchcHtcr, N. Y. 
Pincushion.—Paok 107. 
In tho sugar of load, aud lastly in the lime 
water, which must bo boiling hot. Color 
a fast one. 
Embroidered Toilet 
To Color Fur.— Sarah K. asks how she 
can color fur brown. We have seen the fol¬ 
lowing recommended by one who has tried 
it,, but we have never tested it: Apply one 
ounce of crystallized nitrate of silver, eight 
ounces carbonate of ammonia, one and one- 
resulting 
To Color Bine.—Take three ounces prus- 
siate of potash, one do. oil of vitriol, twota- 
Cure for Ringworms.— Place two or 
three old copper pennies in a small earthen 
dish, and cover with strong vinegar; when 
the vinegar becomes of a dark green color, 
wet the parts affected with it two or three 
times a day. It has worked a perfect cure 
in a rooeut case in my family, where all 
other remedies failed.— Mrs. W. W., Stan- 
tr/.e, Oneida Co., N. Y. 
blespoonfuls copperas. This will color five 
pounds. Wash the rags clean, and then to 
Color Green, dip tho blue first into the 
bichromate of potash, next into tho sugar of 
lead.—Mas. E. M. Davis. 
Frosted Foot, -Tell Katie 8. te send to 
the druggist's aud get ten cents worth “Oil 
Origanum,” and bathe tho parts affected 
lightly wllli it two or three times, and she 
will feel no more oT it. It is a sure remedy, 
line which 1 have never known to fall.—F., 
New York city. 
Lamp-Glass Cover. Page 167. 
half pints pure rain water, well corked and 
shaken, to the fur, and it will produce a 
beautiful brown. Repeat the process if it 
is desired to deepen to a dark brown or 
black. Apply tho mixture with a brush. 
ABOUT PIES 
I HAVE noticed several articles on dyspep¬ 
sia, in your valuable paper; many of them 
contain suggestions and recipes which are 
very valuable. 1 notice One recommends 
wheat bran asu remedy. That may be very 
good, but, F should Judge, a dry dose to swal¬ 
low. Now, l contend that wheateu grits, or 
cracked wheat , boiled, is a healthy diet for 
a dyspeptic -better than medicine, and very 
palatable, with a sauce of milk or cream and 
sugar. If t hey will persist in partaking of 
pastry, in the form of pies, allow me to give 
a few recipes, preferable to tho much used 
and abused lard pie crusts: 
('ream Pie Crust.—Take equal quanti¬ 
ties Graham and white flour, wet with thin, 
sweet cream, roll thin, bake in hot oven, as 
common pie crust. Or take a piece of bread 
dough, after it has risen, and roll in a small 
piece of butter; roll out as pie crust. 
Pumpkin Pio.—Stew, sfft, add as much 
boiling milk as will make it about one-third 
thicker than for common pumpkin pie; 
sweeten with sugar or molasses, bake in a 
hot oven. Or add rolled cracker or Hour to 
tho sifted pumpkin; add milk to tho thick¬ 
ness of common pumpkin pie. Squash and 
sweet potato pie are made in the same way. 
Cranberry Pie.—stew, strain through 
sieve, add sugar; bake oil under crust. 
Peach Pie. -Small, juicy peaches; till pie 
dish; sprinkle sugar, a little flour, a table¬ 
spoonful of water; cover; bake one hour. 
Apple Pie in the same way, with cream 
crust. A Subscriber. 
Fruit Creams.—Dissolve half an ounce 
of isinglass in water enough to Cover it; add 
this to a pint of cream, sweetened with four 
spoonfuls of sugar, and boil it. When cool, 
Muslin Collar.—Page 167. 
Serving at Table.- If you employ no 
servants, train the children to wait ou tho 
table, taking turns regularly, a week at a 
time. Order, politeness, and rules of good 
breeding at table, do much toward refining 
lay somo apricot, raspberry or peach pre¬ 
serve in a glass dish, and pour the cream 
over it. 
Butter in Small Tin Cans.—N., Claren¬ 
don, Vt., asks, “How will butter keep, put 
handkerchief vignette.—Page 167. 
and fitting a family for cultivated society. 
Ease of manner is secured. 
Folding Napkins “ Lady’s Slipper ” 
Style.— We give another series of engrav¬ 
ings illustrating the manner of folding nap- 
ODDS AND ENDS, 
House Furnishing. — The utility and 
neatness of white window shades bring 
them into general use. It is a fashion, of 
late, to trim tho bottom with a row of white 
bullion fringe, which gives them an agreea¬ 
ble finish. Now that rooms are so much 
upholstered—window sills, mantles, chairs, 
etc., one can give a room a very cosy and 
charming appearance, by putting up little 
nmutles aud shelves, and upholstering them 
kins in what is called “Lady’s Slipper” 
form: — E 1, first fold; E 2, second; E 3, 
third; E *1, fourth, and E, the final form, as 
it should appear upon the table, 
up in small tin cans ? Will it pay to do so 
for market use ?” Let any one who has had 
experience answer. 
®hc 0ith}pt[d. 
THE GRAPE TRADE. 
There is one feature of the grape trade 
that lias developed itself this season, since 
the closing of tho holiday trade, that I think 
is very Important as well as interesting to 
growors:—that is, that since the holiday 
trade closed, which luia formerly been 
considered the complete clone of tho trade, 
there is a good demand for Catawba* at an 
advanced price; and had some of the fruit 
received better care, no doubt it would 
have sold at better figures. This is a pleas¬ 
ing feature of tho trade, for growers will 
not now bo so anxious to force their fruit, 
on the market in large quantities as former¬ 
ly, and realize low prices. There is one 
cause for this state of trade that it is well 
to consider and prepare for in the future; 
it is, the quantity of foreign grapes that 
may be sent hero. This season they have 
arrived in such poor condition that they 
wero not fit for those to make use of who 
habitually buy them, consequently these 
parties wore compelled to purchase tho na¬ 
tive fruit. 
I have attended the auction sales where 
this fruit is sold, and soon sovoral lots 
offered for sale, but they were in such bad 
order that) no one would bid for them over 
tho value of the package. 
For the information of t hose not acquaint¬ 
ed with this foreign article, I would say that 
the grape is white, largo and very sweet, 
containing no pulp like ours, but a solid, 
meaty substance. These are packed in what 
is known to the trade as barrels and half- 
barrels, the first containing fifty pounds, tho 
latter twenty-five pounds. For packing 
material, ground cork is made use of, it be¬ 
ing cheap, and free from all offensive odor. 
In regard to the outside demand, as we 
call it, for our native fruit the past season, 
I would say that it lias Increased very ma¬ 
terially, and in places where the 8tate fruit 
has entered into competition with the West¬ 
ern crop, it has taken the lead, particularly 
at tho latter part of tho season. Judging 
from the past season, ill my opinion, the 
Southern States will require fifty per cent, 
more of Northern grapes next season than 
they did the last,. Last, fall 1 made two ship¬ 
ments of tho Isabella and Catawba to Glas¬ 
gow, Scotland; they arrived In good condi¬ 
tion, but owing to their being so unlike any 
grape they have there, they did not sell well. 
They refused the Catawba, saying it was 
notripe; but tho Isabella, being black, was 
preferred, their grapes being either black or 
white. Now and Then. 
New York, Feb., 1872. 
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GRAFTING GRAPE VINES. 
Will you, or some of your numerous cor¬ 
respondents, pleaso inform me, as soon as 
possible, as to tho best time and method of 
grafting the grape vine, and oblige one of 
your readersV E. Smith, Lake, Co., Ohio. 
There are almost as many different 
methods of grafting grape vines as there are 
of fruit trees; also, ns many different opin¬ 
ions among vineyardlsts In regard to tho 
best time, somo advocating one season, 
others another, these having arisen through 
tho various degrees of success which have 
attended tho operation In different hands 
and under diverse oirou instances. If you 
wish to graft grape vines this spring, it will 
have to bo done very early— i. e., before tho 
sup begins to llow, or you must wait until 
the vines have made a growth of several 
Inohes. If the clous are inserted at the time 
the sap is flowing most rapidly in spring, 
while it is very thin, and before any has 
been assimilated by the leaves, it will press 
through and over the cion, and, to use a 
common phrase, “draw it.” 
We have explained all this many times, 
giving the why and wherefore, according to 
our present knowledge of vegetable physi¬ 
ology; therefore pass over any furt her ex¬ 
planation at this time, merely stating that 
if the cions can be inserted a month before 
the vines commence growing, it is better 
than to wait until a later period. If this 
cannot bo conveniently done, then wait 
until the young shoots are six inches to a 
foot long; then graft. 
Tho cions should be cut and kept in a cool 
place, where they will remain dormant until 
used. Out off tho stocks a little below tho 
surface, and insert the clou In the ordinary 
manner of cleft grafting. Tie in with string 
or bass bark, and draw the soil around tho 
stock and cion, leaving only the bml ex¬ 
posed. The cions should not be over three 
or four inches long; consequently, if strong, 
long-jointed wood is used, there will be but 
one bud on each. 
