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a book for entering the dates; which will not only serve to prevent overcharges,
but will shew the whole year's consumption at one view.
An inventory of furniture, linen, and China should be kept, and the things
examined by it twice a year, or oftener, if there be a change of servants; into
each of whose care the articles used by him or her, should be entrusted, with a
list, as is done with plate. Tickets of parchment with the family name,
numbered, and specifying what bed it belongs to, should be sewed on each
feather-bed, bolster, pillow, and blanket. Knives, forks, and house-cloths, are
often deficient: these accidents might be obviated, if an article at the head of
every list required the former should be produced whole or broken, and the
marked part of the linen, though all the others should be worn out. The
inducement to care of glass is in some measure removed, by the increased price
given for old flint glass.--Those who wish for trifle dishes, butter-stands,
at a lower charge than cut glass, may buy them made in moulds, of which there is
great variety that look extremely well, if not placed near the more beautiful
articles.
The price of starch depends upon that of flour; the best will keep good in a dry
warm room for some years; therefore when bread is cheap it may be bought to
advantage, and covered close.
SUGARS being an article of considerable expense in all families, the purchase
demands particular attention. The cheapest does not go so far as that more
refined; and there is difference even in the degree of sweetness. The white
should be chosen that is close, heavy, and shining. The best sort of brown has a
bright gravelly look,
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