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She looketh well to the ways of her household was said of the virtuous woman of old. In the House Economical we must most closely follow her example in its ingle-nooks. Our average cook thinks it good to use only lumps of orrell in the range, ignoring the possibilities of saving in any form. Now all housekeepers know that pokers should be absent from the hearth if we would limit coal bills; that cinders, sifted and washed, are most useful fuel for frying and laundry work; that a judicious admixture of wet slack with wood or
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is advisable. There are two economical ways of building and maintaining good fires in our parlours. One is to ignite at the top and suffer to burn _downwards_. The other is to lay and light after the usual fashion and
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with a bucket of damp coal dust. Either procedure gives a fire that will burn for hours without attention, if not
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by Mary Jane. We need not, like the ghost in Hamlet,