A.

Abrasions of the skin, to prevent, 93
Absorbents, 544
Abstinence, 127
Accidents in open carriages, to avoid, 206
Accidents, prevention of, 460
Accomplishments, 385
Acids, 120
Acids, to restore color taken out by, 59
Acquaintances after marriage, 518
Agreeableness, 500
Agriculture, hints about, 265, 463
Agriculture, important fact, 266
Air, its effects on life, 676
Air, city, 678
Air, country, 677
Air-bath, 436
Alabaster, to clean, 31
Alabaster, marble, or stone, to stain, 417
Alcohol, 120
Alder, advantages of, 265
Alkalescent drinks, 242
Alkalies, 120
Alternatives, 544
Alum water, 389
Alum whey, 247
Ammonia, 120
Ammoniated anodyne, 550
Anagrams, 430
Anemones, to paint, 391
Anglo-Japanese work, 166
Animal food, 599
Anodyne and discutient, 550
Antidotes and poisons, 120
Ants, to destroy, 85
Ants and wasps, to destroy, 85
Aperient for children, 100
Aperients, gingerbread, 615
Aperient pills, 618
Apoplexy and fits, 570
Appetite, loss of, 374
Appetite, 553
Apples, to color, 390
Apples, to keep, 354
Apples, to preserve, 193
Apples for hogs, 470
Apple fritters, 331
Apple trees, 304
Apple water, 242
April, 183
April showers, 455
Arms and polished metal, to keep from rust, 24
Arnica, extract of, 115
Aromatic vinegar, 148
Arrow-root, 239
Arrow-root jelly, 240
Arsenic, 120
Arsenic, to detect, 192, 619
Artichoke, 476
Artificial flowers, 486
Arts, elegant and ingenious, 385
Ash color, 386
Asparagus, 476
Assafœtida, 553
Asses, to color, 390
Asthma, 385, 623
Asthma, to relieve, 103
August, 185
Authors, advice to, 659
Aviaries, 644

B.

Bacon in summer, 470
Baldness, to prevent, 611
Balls and evening parties, 509
Balls, to make breeches, 63
Balls for removing spots, to make, 63
Balsamics, 545
Baltimore oriole, 643
Bandages, 563
Bandages, circular, 564
Bandages, various, 565
Barn-floors, to make durable, 315
Bark, dog-wood, 243
Bark, wild cherry, 243
Barley water, 245
Bathe, time to, 539
Bathing, advantages of, 125
Baths and bathing, 124, 538
Bathing tubs, 539
Baths for children, 540
Baths, tepid and cold, 539
Bath, vapor, at home, 250
Batter, French, 332
Batter pudding, 332
Bay color, 386
Beans, 476
Beans, to color, 390
Bed, to heat, 439
Bed clothes, hints about, 17, 536
Bed furniture, &c., to wash, 51
Bed-room linen, 155
Bed-rooms, scouring, 10
Bed-rooms, to clean, 9
Beds making, &c., 254
Bee or wasp, sting of, 123
Beech-tree leaves, 17
Beef, as food, 365
Beef, essence of, 377
Beef, roasting, 600
Beer, 609
Beer, keeping, 258
Beer, to prevent growing flat, 350
Beer, to recover sour, 351
Beer, table, to make, 351
Bees, 467
Bees, to manage, 176
Bees, to preserve, 317
Bees, to remove, 316
Beetles, to destroy, 276
Beets, 476
Beets, &c., to preserve all winter, 273
Belladona, 120
Beverages, 608
Beverages, spring, 611
Bile, remedy for, 625
Bile and bilious complaints, 553
Bilious disorders, 625
Binding, 154
Birdlime, 644
Birds, 641
Birds, sick, 642
Birds, beasts, &c., to preserve, 317
Birds, shot, to preserve, 318
Birds in water colors, 392
Birth marks, 135
Biscuit, to preserve, 356
Biscuits, cheap ginger, 329
Biscuits, pic-nic, 328
Bite of venomous animals, 122
Biting the nails, 612
Black, to color, 362
Black paper for patterns, 170
Black reviver, 61
Black silk, to dip, 61
Blackberries, 247
Blacking, celebrated for boots, &c., 79
Blacking, good, 79
Blacking, liquid, 80
Blacking for leather seats, 22
Blankets, 155
Bleaching liquid, 626
Bleaching straw, 66
Bleeding at the nose, 95
Bleeding from a cut, to stop, 98
Blisters, to apply, 374
Blisters, management of, 113
Blond lace, 61
Blood, taking, 571
Blood, the, is the life, 127
Blue, light, 387
Boards, to give a beautiful appearance to, 13
Boards, to scour, 14
Boards or stone, to extract oil from, 13
Body in flames, 572
Boils, to cure, 109
Bone dust, 464
Bone or ivory, to stain, 417
Bonnets, straw, 66
Bonnets, straw and cheap, to dye, 77
Books and accounts, 213
Books, to preserve, 39
Books or prints, to clean, 39
Books, to choose, 383
Boots, 493
Boots and shoes, 489
Boots and shoes, to clean, 261
Boots and shoes, to prevent snow water, &c., 81
Boots, water-proof, 82
Boot tops, to clean brown, 80
Borax, uses of, 116
Borecole, 476
Botanical specimens, 408
Bottles, to cleanse, 31
Bottling, 340
Bowel complaints, 615
Bowels, pain in, 224
Braiding, 155
Brandied peaches, 320
Brandy and salt, 617
Brandy cherries, 320
Brass and copper, to clean, 26
Brass ornaments, to clean, 26
Bread, 590
Bread, cheap, 595
Bread, to discover if adulterated, 356
Bread, to keep, 593
Bread, Indian, 592
Bread, pulled, 594
Bread, rye and Indian, 593
Bread, unfermented, 336
Bread crumbs, white, 327
Bread, sippets of, 326
Bread-pans, to clean, 258
Bread poultice, 113
Breadths of light, 393
Breakfast, 368
Breakfast, making, 253
Breakfast, cold meats at, 253
Breakfast, neatness in, 252
Breakfast-room, work in, 252
Breath, for the, 103
Breath, bad from onions, 146
Breath, bad, remedy for, 119
Breath, offensive, 625
Brewing, cheap method of, 351
Brewis, 445
Brittannia, tins, &c., polishing paste for, 27
Brittannia, to clean, 27
Brocoli, 477
Bronzed chandeliers, &c., 438
Bruises or contusions, 115
Bruises and inflammations, 571
Bruise or sprain, 233
Brussels sprouts, 476
Budding, 480
Buckwheat, utility of, 269
Bugs, to destroy, 87
Bugs, 620
Bugs and worms, to destroy, 276
Building, 310
Buildings, to color, 393
Bulbous roots, 179
Bullfinch, 642
Bunion, inflamed, 618
Bunions, to cure, 97
Burning, to protect children from, 52
Burns, 109
Burns and scalds, 109, 110, 616
Burns, to cure, 442
Butter, 287, 357
Butter, hints about, 456
Butter, bad, 605
Butter, improved method, 288
Butter, to cure a bad tub of, 358
Butter, salt, to make fresh, 358
Butter or milk, to remove the taste of turnips from, 358
Butter as diet, 367
Butterflies and moths, 482
Butterfly's wings, to take impressions of, 169

C.

Cabbage, 477
Cabbage water, 258
Cake, common black, 596
Cake, composition, 596
Cake, loaf, 597
Cake, maize, 596
Cake, sponge, 597
Calcareous deposits in boilers, 620
Calico furniture, to clean, 10
Calico furniture, to wash, 51
Calves, to rear, 286
Calves' feet jelly, 376
Camera Lucida, a new, 169
Camphor mixture, 246
Camphorated ointment, 549
Canary birds, 175, 641
Canary, to teach to sing, 641
Cancer, 617
Candle, to make, &c., 35
Candle, blowing out a, 34
Candle snuffs, use of, 32
Candles, 439
Candles, economy in, 622
Candles, plain hints about, 34
Candles and lamps, 215
Candles and lamps, spurting, 450
Candlesticks, cleansing, 262
Cane-chairs, &c., to clean, 22, 439
Canker, or sore mouth, 232
Canker-worm, 484
Carbonic acid gas, 676
Carbuncles, 618
Cardinal Grosbeak, 642
Cardoon, 477
Carefulness, 211
Carminatives, 545
Carnations, laying, 293
Carpets, brown, green, and red, 449
Carpets, economy in, 449
Carpets, to beat, 11
Carpets, to clean, 10
Carpets, Turkey, to clean, 11
Carpets, to sweep, 447
Carpets, to wash, 362
Carriage, to clean, 44
Carriers, common, laws for, 683
Carrots, 447
Carrots, &c., to keep, 273
Carrots, utility of, 286
Carrot-seeds, &c., 271
Carvacrol for toothache, 94
Cashmere, to clean, 62
Casking, 339
Casks, to sweeten, 340
Cataplasm, alum, 238
Cataplasm, salt, 238
Caterpillars, to destroy, 195, 277, 278
Caterpillars, 274
Caterpillars, ants, &c., 86, 481
Cathartics, 545
Cats, 646
Cattle, 466
Cattle in winter, 289
Cauliflower, 477
Cautions, 203
Cautions in visiting the sick, 234
Celandine, 235
Celery, 477
Celery, essence of, 191
Celery, to keep, 355
Cellars and outhouses, 88
Cement and ground-glass imitation, 69
Cement, to resist fire and water, 69
Cement, bottle, 70, 71, 359
Cement, blood, 71
Cement, diamond, 71
Cement for metal and glass, 71
Cement for iron flues, 72
Cement for alabaster, &c., 72
Cement, strong, 73
Cerate of cantharides, 238
Ceremonies, 500
Cesspools, offensive, 679
Chalk mixture, 108, 246
Chalk ointment, 549
Chambers of the sick, to purify, 91
Chamomile flowers, 195
Chamomile tea, 117
Chamomile and orange peel, 243
Champagne, summer, 611
Change of apparel, 457
Charade, 658
Charcoal, 121
Charcoal, to prevent ill effects, 41
Charcoal, hints about, 460
Charcoal fumes, 437
Charcoal powder, 445
Charlotte Russe, 331
Cheap carpeting, 11
Cheerfulness, 212
Cheese, coloring for, 359
Cheese-curd, 329
Cherry-tree gum, 118
Cherries, to color, 390
Chervil, 477
Chess, laws of, 425
Chestnuts for dessert, 338
Chickens, to fatten, 201
Chicken water, 376
Chickweed or salad, 644
Chilblains, lotion for, 97
Chilblains, remedy for, 97
Chilblain liniment, 98
Children, amusement for, 665
Children, dress of, 662
Children, young, 217
Children, to arrange for, 253
Chimaphila, 549
Chimneys, fires in, 203
Chimneys, smoky, 313, 440
Chimneys, to sweep without children, 41
Chimneys, to color the backs of, 24
Chimneys, stone, to blacken, 24
China, to clean, 31
China, to mend, 69
China, to cement, 70
China and glassware, 462
Chinese method of mending china, 70
Chintz, to wash, 52
Chloride of lime, to use, 92
Chocolate, Iceland moss, 608
Choke damp, 679
Choking, 569
Cholera, prevention of, 556
Chowder, New England, 323
Church-yards, 234
Cider in bottles, to cork, 350
Cinnamon, 214
Cisterns, lead, 43
Cleanliness, 457
Cleanliness, effects on animals, 460
Cleanliness in houses, effect of, 460
Climate, 542
Cliver, to make, 375
Clocks, to oil, 439
Closets, to free from moths, 436
Cloth, &c., to paint, 177
Clothes, to brush, 440
Clothes, to prevent odor in, 441
Clothes bags, 157
Clothes lines, 263
Clothes posts, 88
Clothing for children, 218
Clouds, to color, 386, 393
Coach-wheels, 45
Coals, 216
Coal fire, to light, 40
Coat, white or drab, to clean, 62
Cockroaches, &c., to destroy, 85
Cocoa, 352
Cod-liver oil, 442, 612
Coffee, 189, 608
Coffee, Turkish method, 352
Coffee, substitute for, 352
Colds, 106, 231
Cold, effects of, 451
Cold, to remove, &c., 461
Colds, to avoid, 616
Cold in the head, 106
Cold cream, 135, 624
Colic in infants, 225
Cologne water, 146
Coloring clothing, 360
Coloring, general rules for, 362
Coloring for rooms, cheap, 36
Colors and complexions, 485
Colors, mixed, directions for, 386
Colors, water, 385
Colors, to prevent cracking, 388
Colors, most useful, 392
Colors for Grecian painting, 398
Color to silk, to restore, 441
Columbo root and ginger, 243
Combs, &c., to clean, 54
Complexion, 133, 625
Complexion, to improve, 132
Composition, blue, 360
Composition, to prevent iron, &c., from rusting, 24
Composition for washing in sea-water, 52
Composition for colored drawings, &c., 168
Composition, cheap and excellent, 315
Compresses, 562
Compresses, pierced, 563
Concussions, 569
Condiments, 368
Conduct, Mrs. Fry's rules of, 532
Contusions or bruises, 115
Conundrums, 430
Conversation, 526
Convulsions, 226
Cookmaid, duties of, 251
Cookmaid, of the,