ng goods, and set them in this way. The gall can be bought for a
few cents. Get out all the liquid, and cork it up in a large phial.
One large spoonful of this in a gallon of warm water is sufficient.
This is likewise excellent for taking out spots from bombazine,
bombazet, &c. After being washed in this, they look about as well as
when new. It must be thoroughly stirred into the water, and not put
upon the cloth. It is used without soap. After being washed in this,
cloth which you want to _clean_ should be washed in warm suds, without
using soap.

Tortoise shell and horn combs last much longer for having oil rubbed
into them once in a while.

Indian meal and rye meal are in danger of fermenting in summer;
particularly Indian. They should be kept in a cool place, and stirred
open to the air, once in a while. A large stone, put in the middle of
a barrel of meal, is a good thing to keep it cool.

The covering of oil-flasks, sewed together with strong thread, and
lined and bound neatly, makes useful tablemats.

A warming-pan full of coals, or a shovel of coals, held over varnished
furniture, will take out white spots. Care should be taken not to hold
the coals near enough to scorch; and the place should be rubbed with
flannel while warm.

Spots in furniture may usually be cleansed by rubbing them quick and
hard, with a flannel wet with the same thing which took out the color;
if rum, wet the cloth with rum, &c. The very best restorative for
defaced varnished furniture, is rotten-stone pulverized, and rubbed on
with linseed oil.

Sal-volatile, or hartshorn, will restore colors taken out by acid. It
may be dropped upon any garment without doing harm.

Spirits of turpentine is good to take grease-spots out of woollen
clothes; to take spots of paint, &c., from mahogany furniture; and
to cleanse white kid gloves. Cockroaches, and all vermin, have an
aversion to spirits of turpentine.

An ounce of quicksilver, beat up with the white of two eggs, and put
on with a feather, is the cleanest and surest bed-bug poison. What
is left should be thrown away: it is dangerous to have it about
the house. If the vermin are in your walls, fill up the cracks with
_verdigris_-green paint.[1]

[Footnote 1: There are two kinds of green paint; one is of no use in
destroying insects.]

Lamps will have a less disagreeable smell if you dip your wick-yarn in
strong hot vinegar, and dry it.

Those who make candles will find it a great im