A System of Nails

What’s in Mrs. Hale Receipt for the Million, 1857? 646. Towels — Towels are made of diaper or huckabuck, of a quality adapted to the uses to which they are applicable. They should be one yard long and about ten or twelve nails wide. The best are bought...

Some Things Never Change

What’s in Mrs. Hales Receipts for the Million 1857? 4143 & 4144. There is such a rush of all other kinds of words in our days … There are vain words, and idle words, and hasty words, and spiteful words, and silly words, and empty words, and profane...

Butter Me Up

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipt for the Million 1857? 1308. Butter.– Keep your pails, churn. and pans sweet. In winter warm the pans and churns with hot water, in summer cool them with cold. Keep your milk in summer where it is cool and airy, in winter...

Gardening for Words

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? 1100. To remove Herbs and Flowers in the Summer. — If you have occasion to transplant in the summer season, let it be in the evening after the heat is past; plant and water the same immediately,...

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