A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

both up stairs and down, and get them to use them if you can. Boil new earthen in bran-water, putting the articles in, when cold. Do the same with porcelain kettles. Never leave wooden vessels out of doors, as they fall to pieces. In Winter, lift the handle of a pump, and cover it with blankets, to keep it from freezing. Broken earthen and china, can often be mended, by tying it up, and boiling it in milk. _Diamond cement_, when genuine, is very effectual for the same purpose. Old putty can be softened by muriatic acid. Nail slats across nursery windows. Scatter ashes on slippery ice, at the door; or rather, remove it. Clarify impure water with powdered alum, a teaspoonful to a barrel. NOTE. A volume, entitled the _American Housekeeper's Receipt Book_, prepared by the author of this work, under the supervision of several experienced housekeepers, is designed as a Supplement to this treatise on Domestic Economy. The following Preface and Analysis of the Contents will indicate its design more fully: _Preface (for the American Housekeeper's Receipt Book.)_ The following objects are aimed at in this work: _First_, to furnish an _original_ collection of receipts, which shall embrace a great variety of simple and well-cooked dishes, designed for every-day comfort and enjoyment. _Second_, to include in the collection only such receipts as have been tested by superior housekeepers, and warranted to be _the best_. It is not a book made up in _any_ department by copying from other books, but entirely from the experience of the best practical housekeepers. _Third_, to express every receipt in language which is short, simple, and perspicuous, and yet to give all directions so minutely as that the book can be kept in the kitchen, and be used by any domestic who can read, as a guide in _every one_ of her employments in the kitchen. _Fourth_, to furnish such directions in regard to small dinner-parties and evening company as will enable any young housekeeper to perform her part, on such occasions, with ease, comfort, and success. _Fifth_, to present a good supply