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THE FRUGAL
Suet keeps good all the year round, if
chopped and packed down in a stone jar,
covered with molasses.
Pick suet free from veins and skin, melt
it in water before a moderate fire, let it
cool till it forms into a hard cake, then wipe
it dry, and put it in clean paper in linen bags.
Preserve the backs of old letters to write
upon. If you have children who are learn¬
ing to write, buy coarse white paper by the
quantity, and keep it locked up, ready to he
made into writing-books. It does not cost
half as much as it does to buy them at the
stationers’.
Do not let coffee and tea stand in tin.
Scald your wooden ware often; and keep
your tin ware dry.
When mattresses get hard and bunchy,
rip them, take the hair out, pull it thoroughly
by hand, let it lie a day or two to air, wash
the tick, lay it in as light and even as pos¬
sible, and catch it down as before. Thus
prepared, they will be as good as new.
Barley straw is the best for beds; dry
corn husks, slit into shreds, are far better
than straw.
Straw beds are much better for being
boxed at the sides; in the same manner
upholsterers prepare ticks for feathers.
Brass andirons should be cleaned, done
up in papers, and put in a dry place, during
the summer season.