WE SELDOM REPENT OF HAVING EATEN TOO LITTLE.

green.

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iii. Avoid bright-red peppers, spices, and sauces.

iv. Purchase spirits and beer of large dealers and brewers.

v. Avoid coloured confections,—especially those that are green, blue, or red. vi. Weigh and measure your purchases when they are brought home. You will thus not only secure your just amount, but will arrive at a knowledge of the proper weights of pure articles, and be assisted in the rejection of the spurious.

leaves of the sycamore, horse-chest-pickles artificially raised to a bright nut, and plum; with lye tea, which is made up of tea-dust, sand, and gum, to give it consistency; also with leaves of the beech, bastard plane, elm, poplar, willow, fancy oak, hawthorn, and sloe. It is coloured with blacklead, rose pink, Dutch pink, vegetable red and yellow dyes, arsenite of copper, chromate and bichromate of potash. Green teas are more adulterated than black. They are coloured with Prussian blue, turmeric, Chinese yellow, &c., flavoured with sulphate of iron, catechu gum, la veno beno, and Chinese botanical powder. Tea leaves that have been once used are collected, "doctored," and again sold as fresh tea. Obtain some genuine leaves of tea, moisten them, and lay them out with gum upon paper. Press them between the leaves of books until dry. When you suspect a sample of tea, damp and unroll the leaves, and gum and dry them as the genuine ones,-you will then be able, by comparison, to detect the admixture.

2509. TOBACCo is adulterated with rhubarb, potato, coltsfoot, dock leaves, sawdust, malt combings, and medicinals. The leaves may be unrolled and compared, as recommended in the case of tea.

2510. WINES are adulterated with the juice of elderberries, gooseberries, hop champagne, cider, the juices of various fruits, known as British wines, and coloured by means of logwood, burnt sugar, and other ingredients.

2511. THE RESULT of these inquiries proves that a majority of articles sold are adulterated. But it is also proved that a majority of the substances used for adulterations are not positively injurious, though they are fraudulently substituted for the genuine article.

2512. THE FOLLOWING ARE HINTS which, if acted upon, will turn these discoveries to practical account :

i. Grind your own wheat, and make your bread at home.

ii. Avoid green pickles; that is,

2513. Bread contains eighty nutritious parts in 100; meal, thirty-four in 100; French beans, ninety-two in 100; common beans, eighty-nine in 100; peas, ninety-three in 100; lentils, ninety-four in 100; cabbages and turnips, the most aqueous of all the vegetables compared, produce only eight pounds of solid matter in 100 pounds; carrots and spinach produce fourteen in the same quantity; whilst 100 pounds of potatoes contain twentyfive pounds of dry substance. From a general estimate it results, that one pound of good bread is equal to two pounds and a half or three pounds of potatoes; that seventy-five pounds of bread and thirty of meat may be substituted for 300 pounds of potatoes. The other substances bear the following proportions; four parts of cabbage to one of potatoes; three parts of turnips to one of potatoes; two parts of carrots and spinach to one of potatoes; and about three parts and a half of potatoes to one of rice, lentils, beans, French beans, and dry peas.

2514. Use of Fruit.-Instead of standing in any fear of a generous consumption of ripe fruits, we regard them as conducive to health. We have no patience in reading the endless rules to be observed in this particular department of physical comfort. No one ever lived longer or freer from disease, by discarding the fruits of the land in which he finds a home. On the contrary, they are necessary to the pre

354 HE WHO SERVES WELL NEED NOT BE AFRAID TO ASK HIS WAGES.

2518. A Table of the Number of Days, from any Day of any one Month to the same Day of any other Month.

What is the number of days from 10th October to 10th July? Look in the upper line for October, let your eye descend down that column till you come opposite to July, and you will find 273 days, the exact number of days required.

Again, Required the number of days from 16th February to the 14th August?

Under February, and opposite to August, is

From which subtract the difference between 14 and 16

The exact number of days required is

181 days.

2 days.

179 days.

N.B.-In Leap Year, if the last day of February comes between, add one day for the day over to the number in the Table.

519.

For Mistresses and Servants: Table of Expenses, Income, and Wages.

Showing at one view what any sum, from £1 to £1,000 per Annum, is per Day, Week, or

Month.

2520. Interest Table for Savings, Investments, &c.

Showing what any sum, from £1 to £500, will produce for a given number of days, which may be, by simple addition, calculated at £5 per cent. for Months or Years, for sums up to £5,000 or any other amount.

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Year.

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