To Make Tracing-Paper:—­Dissolve a ball of white beeswax, one inch in diameter, in half a pint of turpentine.  Saturate the paper in this bath and let it dry two or three days before using.

To Preserve Brooms:—­Dip them for a minute or two in a kettle of boiling suds once a week and they will last much longer, making them tough and pliable.  A carpet wears much longer swept with a broom cared for in this manner.

To Clean Brass-Ware, etc.:—­Mix one ounce of oxalic acid, six ounces of rotten stone, all in powder, one ounce of sweet oil, and sufficient water to make a paste.  Apply a small portion, and rub dry with a flannel or leather.  The liquid dip most generally used consists of nitric and sulphuric acids; but this is more corrosive.

Polish or Enamel for Shirt Bosoms is made by melting together one ounce of white wax, and two ounces of spermaceti; heat gently and turn into a very shallow pan; when cold cut or break in pieces.  When making boiled starch the usual way, enough for a dozen bosoms, add to it a piece of the polish the size of a hazel nut.

An Erasive Fluid for the Removal of Spots on Furniture, and all kinds of fabrics, without injuring the color, is made of four ounces of aqua ammonia, one ounce of glycerine, one ounce of castile soap and one of spirits of wine.  Dissolve the soap in two quarts of soft water, add the other ingredients.  Apply with a soft sponge and rub out.  Very good for deaning silks.

To Remove the Odor of Onion from fish-kettle and saucepans in which they have been cooked, put wood-ashes or sal soda, potash or lye; fill with water and let it stand on the stove until it boils; then wash in hot suds, and rinse well.

To Clean Marble Busts:—­First free them from all dust, then wash them with very weak hydrochloric acid.  Soap injures the color of marble.

To Remove old Putty from Window Frames, pass a red hot poker slowly over it and it will come off easily.

Hanging Pictures:—­The most safe material and also the best, is copper wire, of the size proportioned to the weight of the picture.  When hung the wire is scarcely visible, and its strength is far superior to cord.

To Keep Milk Sweet:—­Put into a panful a spoonful of grated horse-radish, it will keep it sweet for days.

To Take Rust from Steel Implements or Knives:—­Rub them well with kerosene oil, leaving them covered with it a day or so; then rub them hard and well with finely powdered unslaked lime.

Poison Water:—­Water boiled in galvanized iron becomes poisonous, and cold water passed through zinc-lined iron pipes should never be used for cooking or drinking.  Hot water for cooking should never be taken from hot water pipes; keep a supply heated in kettles.

Scouring Soap for Cotton and Silk Goods:—­Mix one pound of common soap, half a pound of beef-gall and one ounce and a half of Venetian turpentine.