eeps
water out, perfectly. Keep small whisk brooms, wherever gentlemen hang
their clothes, both up stairs and down, and get them to use them if you
can.

Boil new earthen in bran-water, putting the articles in, when cold. Do
the same with porcelain kettles. Never leave wooden vessels out of
doors, as they fall to pieces. In Winter, lift the handle of a pump, and
cover it with blankets, to keep it from freezing.

Broken earthen and china, can often be mended, by tying it up, and
boiling it in milk. _Diamond cement_, when genuine, is very effectual
for the same purpose. Old putty can be softened by muriatic acid. Nail
slats across nursery windows. Scatter ashes on slippery ice, at the
door; or rather, remove it. Clarify impure water with powdered alum, a
teaspoonful to a barrel.

NOTE.

A volume, entitled the _American Housekeeper's Receipt Book_, prepared
by the author of this work, under the supervision of several experienced
housekeepers, is designed as a Supplement to this treatise on Domestic
Economy. The following Preface and Analysis of the Contents will
indicate its design more fully:

_Preface (for the American Housekeeper's Receipt Book.)_

The following objects are aimed at in this work:

_First_, to furnish an _original_ collection of receipts, which shall
embrace a great variety of simple and well-cooked dishes, designed for
every-day comfort and enjoyment.

_Second_, to include in the collection only such receipts as have been
tested by superior housekeepers, and warranted to be _the best_. It is
not a book made up in _any_ department by copying from other books, but
entirely from the experience of the best practical housekeepers.

_Third_, to express every receipt in language which is short, simple,
and perspicuous, and yet to give all directions so minutely as that the
book can be kept in the kitchen, and be used by any domestic who can
read, as a guide in _every one_ of her employments in the kitchen.

_Fourth_, to furnish such directions in regard to small dinner-parties
and evening company as will enable any young housekeeper to perform her
part, on such occasions, with ease, comfort, and success.

_Fifth_, to present a good supply of the rich and elegant dishes
demanded at such entertainments, and yet to set forth so large and
tempting a variety of what is safe, healthful, and good, in connexion
with such warnings and suggestions as it is hoped may avail to promote a
more health