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H0USE CLEANING.
is but too true that in coals and candles, servants are in-
elined to waste and extravagance.
   Wooden spoons are the best for cooking purposes, and it
is a good plan to nail a piece of leather in some convenient
pewith spaces between every nail, rather loose, to admit
the handle of the spoon; they may be thus kept outof the way.
              HOUSE CLEANING IN AUTUMN.
   At this season all summer decorations should be forthwith
discarded, and every thing be ready to meet the sudden
change in the weather, which-may be expeted from day to
day. Carpets should be taken up and well beaten, to pre-
vent the accumulation of the dust from fires upon summer
dust, and the rooms scoured; muslin summer curtains
should be removed, washed, and rough-dried, and be re-
placed by the winter set; and every ornament should be
discarded from the grates, in which, after being nicely
cleaned, a fire should be laid ready to be lighted at a mo-
ment's notice. Any small chimney ornament which would
be injured by fire-dust, should either be removed or cover-
ed. In cleaning rooms and furniture the housemaid should
be directed to take out the hair or any moveable seats of
chairs, and thoroughly beat out the summer's dust; and it
is a good plan to wash with a flannel and soap and water
(not soda,) all painted and wicker-bottomed chairs; it is al-
lowing the dust to accumulate month after month which
makes the furniture look so very soon shabby in some
houses. Carpets should be occasionally wiped over with
a wet cloth, and then rubbed hard till dry; by this means
the carpet is brightened, and the room, if much in use, is
greatly refreshed. It is very unwise to allow servants to do
things ", any how," because there is no company; it is mis-
taken kindness to the servant, and causes much discomfort
to the mistress when she happens to have her friends about
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