Useful Recipes.

Remedy for Moths.—A small piece of paper or linen moistened with spirits of turpentine, and put into a drawer for a single day, two or three times a year, is an effectual preservative against moths.

Keeping Butter.—There is a very common mistake made in keeping sweet butter, namely, in water. This very quickly injures the flavour of it. It should be kept in a cool, airy place, but perfectly dry. When butter is made up in small fancy shapes, and kept for two or three days in water, the flavour is affected, and the butter more or less injured.

Tender Feet may be cured by dissolving one pound of bay salt in one gallon of spring water; and by soaking or bathing the feet therein about five minutes night and morning.

Bran Tea.—A very cheap and useful drink in colds, fevers, and restlessness from pain: Put a handful of bran in a pint and a half of cold water; let it boil rather more than half an hour; strain; and flavour with sugar and lemon juice according to taste.

Cheap Fuel.—The following recipe, taken from Parkes' "Chemical Essays," is worth attention now coal is so dear : "Get half a peck of clay, or stiff loam; make it soft with water; then put one peck of small coal to it and mix them well together until you can roll it into several parts like pieces of charcoal and long eggs. Any other combustible may be added and mixed up with the above, such as sawdust, tanners' waste, bark, curriers shavings, &c. As much can be made in an hour as would last several days.

To Cleanse Silks.—The finest and most, delicate silks may be cleansed, without injury to the fabric or colour, by the pulp of a few potatoes finely scraped into water. Silk which has got wrinkled may be rendered nearly as smooth as when new, by sponging it on the surface with a weak solution of gum arable or white glue, and then ironing it on the wrong side.

To Take Ink out of Linen.—Take a piece of tallow, melt it, and dip the spotted part of the linen into the tallow. The linen may then be washed, and the spots will disappear without injuring the linen.

To Remove Carpet Spots.—A few drops of carbonate of ammonia in a small quantity of warm rain-water, will prove a safe and easy anti-acid, &c., and will change, if carefully applied, dis-coloured spots upon carpets.?