Indelible Ink.
To make the ink, put into the small bottle six cents worth of lunar caustic, and fill it with rain water.
To make the wash, nearly fill the largest bottle with soft water, and add gum arabic enough to make a thin solution—about a teaspoonful of the lumps. Then put in a drachm of salt of tartar. If the ink spreads, add more gum-arabic to the wash.
To prevent Books, Ink, Paste, &c., from moulding.
A drop or two of oil of lavender on a book, and a single one in a pint bottle of ink, will prevent mould.
Tooth Powder.
Two ounces of Peruvian bark, two of myrrh, one of chalk, one of Armenian bole, and one of orris root.
Rose Butter (a good substitute for rose water).
Gather every morning the leaves of the roses that blossomed the day before, and put them in a stone jar in alternate layers with fine salt. After all the leaves are gathered, put a saucer or small plate into the jar, and lay in a pound of butter, for cake or pudding sauce. It is a very good way of obtaining the flavor of roses, without expense.