skins off your potatoes before they grow cold.

Vials, which have been used for medicine, should be put into cold
ashes and water, boiled, and suffered to cool before they are rinsed.

If you live in the city, where it is always easy to procure
provisions, be careful and not buy too much for your daily wants,
while the weather is warm.

Never leave out your clothes-line over night; and see that your
clothes-pins are all gathered into a basket.

Have plenty of crash towels in the kitchen; never let your white
napkins be used there.

Soap your dirtiest clothes, and soak them in soft water over night.

Use hard soap to wash your clothes, and soft to wash your floors. Soft
soap is so slippery, that it wastes a good deal in washing clothes.

Instead of covering up your glasses and pictures with muslin, cover
the frames only with cheap, yellow cambric, neatly put on, and as near
the color of the gilt as you can procure it. This looks better; leaves
the glasses open for use, and the pictures for ornament; and is
an effectual barrier to dust as well as flies. It can easily be
re-colored with saffron tea, when it is faded.

Have a bottle full of brandy, with as large a mouth as any bottle you
have, into which cut your lemon and orange peel when they are fresh
and sweet. This brandy gives a delicious flavor to all sorts of