good for the piles. It is a gentle and healthy physic, a preventive
of dyspepsy, humors, inflammation, and all the evils resulting from a
restricted state of the system.

Elder-blow tea has a similar effect. It is cool and soothing, and
peculiarly efficacious either for babes or grown people, when the
digestive powers are out of order.

Lungwort, maiden-hair, hyssop, elecampane and hoarhound steeped
together, is an almost certain cure for a cough. A wine-glass full to
be taken when going to bed.

Few people know how to keep the flavor of sweet-marjoram; the best
of all herbs for broth and stuffing. It should be gathered in bud or
blossom, and dried in a tin-kitchen at a moderate distance from the
fire; when dry, it should be immediately rubbed, sifted, and corked up
in a bottle carefully.

English-mallows steeped in milk is good for the dysentery.

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CHEAP DYE-STUFFS.


A few general rules are necessary to be observed in coloring. The
materials should be perfectly clean; soap should be rinsed out in soft