CITRON PRESERVES. 
|Uw ^utilisations’ 
iu the same dye. Then I would like to make 
a border two feet wide of a darker shade of 
the same or some contrasting color. But now 
comes the dilemma—what shall be the color 
or colors that, will look pretty and cheerful 
and yet not keep mo constantly sweeping and 
dusting? My room is well lighted and is 
painted in imitation of black walnut, with 
French walnut panels: the paper is light. 
One more question'—which is the better, to 
sew the border of a rag carpet fast to the 
center or tack it separately? Will some one 
please advise? a perplexed reader. 
WASHING WOOLENS. 
Recent experiments in washing woolens, 
made in German}', seem to prove that woolens 
should not be dried iu the sun if we would* 
avoid the board-like texture often given them 
after washing a few times. Of the many 
cleansing materials used soap lye auil am¬ 
monia gave best results with colored woolens, 
while soap lye and borax gave a softness and 
whitcuess to white woolens superior to any 
other cleanser. In all of the experiments the 
water for washing was very hot,and the wool¬ 
ens were dried in a shady, airy place in sum¬ 
mer, mid in a warm room in winter. 
SOME USEFUL RECIPES FROM GER¬ 
MANY. 
to solder tins. 
Take equal parts of glycerine and lactic 
acid; mix together and apply to tin. It is 
quite harmless, and is frequently used for 
vegetable tins, etc. 
' CUT GLASS. 
If one wants to cut thick glass quickly, and 
has no glass-cutter, the following may be 
tried with advantage. Soak some string iu 
turpentine, lay it across the glass, light the 
string nud sprinkle cold water immediately 
on the glass. By pressing slightly the glass 
gives way in the line of the string. 
TO HA KE BRONZE LOOK OLD. 
Take the bronze ornament, wash it carefully 
in diluted vinegar, get a tightly closing box 
and put ammonia iu it. place the ornament in 
the box and close the latter tightly, leaving 
the bronze exposed to the fumes of the am¬ 
monia. Another way; Put the bronze orna¬ 
ment in a bath of one part iron porchloride 
and two parts water. Vary the duration of 
the hath with the depth of color wanted. 
A CIIEAP NIGHT-LIGHT. 
The following night-light is held to be the 
most ancient on record, having been used by 
the aucieut Egyptians in Sais, iu the open air, 
round their houses. Get a cup, fill it with 
salt, make a wick out of twisted cotton-wool, 
fix it in the suit so that it touches the bottom 
of the cup. Pom* enough oil in the cup to soak 
the salt thoroughly. Light the wick and it 
will burn all uight. Petroleum must uot be 
used. 
GERMAN COMPLEXION RECIPE. 
The following recipe is iu much favor in 
Germany: Take a teaspoouful of brau of al¬ 
monds, and wheu the skin is still wet from 
washing,rub it iu for about five minutes every 
morning. Zinc, white lead, bismuth and 
quicksilver arc very harmful to the complex¬ 
ion, as also chalk. As most of the ‘’Complex¬ 
ion Charms” are composed of these ingredi¬ 
ents, it is well to avoid them. 
CEMENTING FLOOR SEAMS. 
As germs of sickness often lurk between the 
floors, it is very important to keep them down. 
One way of doing this is by cementing the 
sea ins. A very good cement is prepared in 
the following manner: A thorough mixture 
of now cheese (five parts) and unslaked lime 
(one part) and also, if one wishes to color it, 
of terra de Sienna, caput mortuum or other 
earth colors. 1 his cement dries remarkably 
hard and is quite impervious to water. 
BRILLIANT STARCH. 
A very brilliant starch is obtained in the 
following way: Add about one-sixteenth to 
one-twentieth of powdered steariue to the or¬ 
dinary Starch. DIE HAUSMUTTEK. 
Waldfriede, North Germany. 
Pare and cut the citron into dice, weigh, 
and for every pound take oue-balf pound of 
browu sugar. Stir this with the cut citron 
and let it stand over-night. In the morning 
the sugar will be found dissolved, and there 
will be juice enough so that no water will be 
needed. Put over the fire in a porcelain ket¬ 
tle, anil cook until the citron is tender. Slice 
a lemon fine aud cook in with it. Strain 
through a colander and boil the juice until 
it is thick enough to suit, then pour over the 
citron. Put up hot in cans or other conve¬ 
nient vessels and set away in a cool place. 
Canned fruit keeps well packed in dry sand, 
and a dark closet is as nice a place as need he 
if one has such a convenience. 
TO MAKE MUCILAGE. 
Put a large teaspoon ful of gum-Arabic in a 
bottle which will hold about a teacupful, fill 
up with rain water and when it is dissolved it 
will be as good as what you can buy for five 
times the cost. If not thick enough to suit, 
put in a little more gum. 
TO CLEANSE BOTTLES. 
Put in some shot and strong soap-suds, and 
shake well. Sometimes ashes and soap will 
answer the purpose. It is well to kepp bottles 
of all sizes washed up as they are iu constant 
demand, and it is a convenience to have them 
always ready for use. aunt rachel. 
BOSTON BROWN BREAD. 
Two cups of Indian meal, one cup of flour, 
one cup of rye flour —meal if you can get it, 
two-thirds cup of molasses, three cups of cold 
water, one and one-half teaspoonful of soda, 
one teaspoouful of salt. Steam in a boiler 
three hours. 
BOSTON BAKED BEANS. 
One quart of beans soaked all night, one 
pound of salt pork, scored, two large spoon¬ 
fuls of molasses or a little less sugar, one-half 
teaspoonful of soda. Bake six hours. Keep 
covered with water until nearly done. 
MRS. S. J. SPRAGUE. 
■iUioceUancouS pUvcvti.oiniv 
Have You Heard 
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George W. Pick, of Newton, Mass., 
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A Terrible Cough. 
I lost flesh rapidly, had night sweats, 
and was soon confined to my bed. A 
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and. before finishing the first bottle, was 
able to sit up. Four bottles effected a 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
SAUSAGE FOR SUMMER USE. 
To keep sausage during the summer, make 
cloth sacks of thin muslin two inches short¬ 
er than the jar you pack in |l used a four- 
gallon stone jar) and about four inches 
around. Stuff the sacks with the sausage 
incut, pack the jar full, standing the sacks up 
aud cover with incited lard. Sausage keeps 
iu this way a long time and is more like fresh 
sausage thau wheu it is cooked before pack¬ 
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FRIED APPLES. 
A nice accompaniment for a disli of fried 
pork is tart apples sliced and fried in some of 
the gravy left after frying the meat. They 
give an agreeable relish to the pork. 
R0S3IE IRON ORE PAINT, 
Is made from Red Oxide (Uv l> the lies! utnl must 
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THE MAY CENTURY 
Contains 100 illustrations, and is the first num¬ 
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arc two papers of timely importance on 
PHARAOH. 
The first, by Edw. L. Wil¬ 
son, author of “A Photo¬ 
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describes the romantic dis¬ 
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by Prof. J. A. Paine, is a 
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Ramoses the Great, and his 
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ABKA11A1I LINCOLN: A HISTORY*. 
By his private secretaries, Nicolay and Hay, 
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Sub-topics: "Civil War in Kansas,” "Jeffer¬ 
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"THE COMPOSITION OK OUR BODIES 
AND DI R FOOD.” 
By Professor Atwater, of Wesleyan Univer¬ 
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