In regard to the great deficiencies of domestics, in qualifications for their duties, much patience and benevolence are required.

Dress the infant, so that it will be always warm, but not so as to cause perspiration.

The bad effects of this, can be better appreciated, by reference to one important principle of the mind.

The cessation of appetite is the warning of Nature, that the system is in such a state, that food cannot be digested.

In cases of bad burns, where the skin is taken off, the great aim should be, to keep the injured part from the air.

One of the most useful and important, is, the cultivation of flowers and fruits.

There is nothing, which so much improves the appearance of a house and the premises, as painting or whitewashing the tenements and fences.

Coal-stoves should be carefully put up, as cracks, in the pipe, especially in sleeping rooms, are dangerous.

To make Hard White Soap, take fifteen pounds of lard, or suet; and, when boiling, add, slowly, five gallons of ley, mixed with one gallon of water.

A fluting-iron, called, also, a patent Italian iron, saves much labor, in ironing ruffles neatly.

Salmon Color is made by boiling arnotto or anotta in soapsuds.

Straw matting is best for chambers and Summer parlors. The checked, of two colors, is not so good to wear.

It is considered an accomplishment for a lady to know how to carve well, at her own table.

Every bedchamber should have a washstand, bowl, pitcher, and tumbler, with a washbucket under the stand, to receive slops.

Musquitoes. Close nets around a bed, are the only sure protection at night, against these insects.

The linings for the waists of dresses should be stiffened cotton or linen. In cutting bias-pieces, for trimming, they will not set well, unless they are exact.

White. Ice Plant, Sweet Alyssum, White Leptosiphon, Walker's Schizopetalon, Blumenbachia insignis, *Candytuft.

Seed-fruit can be budded into any other seed-fruit, and stone-fruit into any other stone-fruit; but stone and seed-fruits, cannot be thus mingled.

The soil, for a nursery, should be rich, well dug, dressed with well-decayed manure, free from weeds, and protected from cold winds.

Pretty baskets, for flowers or fruits, on centre tables, can be made thus.