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Eighteen per cent.--Multiply by number of days, separate right hand figure,
and divide by 2.
TO BUILD A CHIMNEY.--Fire-places for a parlor or sitting-room should be about
two feet and eight or ten inches between jams, and about the same height, and
eight or nine inches deep. The jams should flare about four inches, so as to
leave the back two feet between jams. The back should be carried up plumb
fourteen or fifteen inches, and then gradually brought forward six inches to a
level with the mantel bar, and then two more courses laid plumb, all backed up
solid. This offset forms a shelf which sustains the weight of the cold air,
which must be set in motion before the fire begins to draw. The fire and hot
air, passing through the narrow threat, forms an eddy at the shelf, and the
draft is at once established as the warmer air moves upward. Two or three of
these offsets do no harm if it is convenient to put them in. The flue of the
chimney should gradually taper to twelve by twelve, or even ten by ten inches
when the building is two stories.
TO CLEAN LIGHT KIDS.--Put the glove on the hand, and rub thoroughly with white
corn meal, using a piece of cotton flannel.
TO REMOVE GREASE FROM SILK, COTTON, LINEN, OR WORSTED GOODS.--Rub magnesia
freely on both sides of silk or worsted goods and hang away. Benzine, ether, or
soap will take out spots from silk, but remember the goods must not be rubbed.
Oil of turpentine or benzine will remove spots of paint, varnish, or pitch from
white or colored cotton or woolen goods. After using it they should be washed in
soap-suds. Spots from sperm candles, stearine, and the like, should be softened
and removed by ninety-five per cent. alcohol, then sponged off with a weak
alcohol and a small quantity of ammonia added to it. Holding white cotton or
linen over the fumes of burning sulphur, and wetting in warm chlorine water,
will take out wine or fruit stains. The sooner the remedy is applied, after any
of these spots or stains are discovered, the more effectual the restoration.
From white linen or cotton by soap-suds or weak lye, and from calicoes with warm
soap-suds. From woolens by soap-suds or ammonia. On silks use either yolk of egg
with water, magnesia, ether, benzine, ammonia, or French chalk.
LIME-WATER AND ITS USES.--Place a piece of unslaked lime (size is immaterial, as
the water will take up only a certain quantity) in a perfectly clean bottle, and
fill with cold water; keep corked in a cellar or a cool dark place; it is ready
for use in a few minutes, and the clear lime-water may be used whenever it is
needed. When the water is poured off, add more; this may be done three or four
times, after which, some new lime must be used as at first. A tea-spoon in a cup
of milk is a remedy for children's summer complaint; also for acidity of the
stomach; when added to milk it has no unpleasant taste. When put into milk that
would otherwise curdle when heated, it prevents its curdling, so that it can
then be used for puddings and pies. A small quantity of it will prevent the
"turning" of cream and milk. It also sweetens and purifies bottles which have
contained milk. Some add a cupful to a sponge of bread to prevent it from
souring.
THE LIGHTNING ROD.--When properly put up, the lightning rod is a perfect
protection; but, when not scientifically constructed, is only a source of
danger. The following are essentials: 1. It must extend several feet into the
ground so as always to be in contact with moist earth, or into a never-failing
supply of water; 2. It must be sharp at the top, and, if there are several
points, all the better; 3. It must be half as high above the top of the building
as the distance horizontally to the most remote part of the roof of the
building; 4. It should be large enough to convey off every discharge
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