It does not
cost half as much as it does to buy them at the stationer's.
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 possible, and catch it down, as before.
Thus prepared, they will be as good as new.
It is poor economy to buy vinegar by the gallon, Buy a barrel, or half
a barrel, of really strong vinegar, when you begin house-keeping.
As you use it, fill the barrel with old cider, sour beer, or
wine-settlings, &c., left in pitchers, decanters or tumblers; weak tea
is likewise said to be good: nothing is hurtful, which has a tolerable
portion of spirit, or acidity. Care must be taken not to add these
things in too large quantities, or too often: if the vinegar once
gets weak, it is difficult to restore it. If possible, it is well to
keep such slops as I have mentioned in a different keg, and draw them
off once in three or four weeks, in such a quantity as you think the
vinegar will bear.
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