mix all together and let stand for 24 hours, occasionally shaking,
and it is ready for use.


100. LEMONADE

Take of fresh lemon juice 4 oz., fresh lemon peel 1/2 oz., white
sugar 4 oz., boiling water 3 pints; mix all together; let them stand
till cool, and then strain off for use; if you wish you can cool at
once with ice. Where this is used as a cooling drink in fevers a
little sweet spirits of nitre may be added.


101. A BRILLIANT WHITEWASH

This bears a gloss like ivory, and will not rub off. Take of clean
unslacked lime 5 or 6 quarts, slack with hot water in a tub, cover
to keep in the steam; when ready, pass it through a fine sieve, and
add 1/4 lb. of whiting, 1 lb. of good sugar pulverized, and 3 pints
of rice flour, first made into a thin paste; boil this mixture
well, then dissolve 1 lb. of clean glue in water, and add it to the
mixture, and apply while warm with a whitewash brush, except when
particular neatness is required you may then use a paint brush; in
both cases put it on warm. You may add colouring matter to give it
any shade you please.


102. CHANGING VARNISHES

Varnishes of this description are call changing because, when