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and it is often to be bought pure as imported. East India sugars are finer for
the price, but not so strong, consequently unfit for wines and sweetmeats, but
do well for common purposes, if good of their kind. To prepare white sugar,
pounded, rolling it with a bottle, and sifting, wastes less than a mortar.
Candles made in cool weather are best; and when their price, and that of soap,
which rise and fall together, is likely to be higher, it will be prudent to lay
in the stock of both. This information the chandler can always give; they are
better for keeping eight or ten months, and will not injure for two years, if
properly placed in the cool; and there are few articles that better deserve care
in buying, and allowing a due quantity of, according to the size of the family.
Paper, by keeping, improves in quality; and if bought by half or whole reams
from large dealers, will be much cheaper than purchased by the quire. The
surprising increase of the price of this article may be accounted for by the
additional duties, and a larger consumption, besides the monopoly of rags; of
the latter it is said there is some scarcity, which might be obviated if an
order were given to a servant in every family to keep a bag to receive all the
waste bits from cuttings out.
Many well-meaning servants are ignorant of the best means of managing, and
thereby waste as much as would maintain a small family, besides causing the
mistress of the house much chagrin by their irregularity; and many families,
from a want of method, have the appearance of chance rather than of regular
system. To avoid this, the following hints may be useful as well as
economical:--
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