Y U ia E L O G S Gnd Miscellany

Yule Logs

2 pounds coarse salt

2 pounds bluestone

1 ounce strontian nitrate

2 gallons boiling water

Use a wooden tub or barrel as

the solution eats tin. Dissolve
the salt and bluestone in the boil-
ing water, and when it’s cooled
off a little add the nitrate. Then
roll your old copies of The Van-
couver Sun into tight wads (or
magazines will do), tie them
tightly at the ends, and soak in
this solution for a week or two.
Then hang them up to dry for as
long a time as you can. Cover
them with gay papers and rib-
bons, and leave near the fireplace
so one can be thrown into the
fire occasionally. They make at-
tractive Christmas gifts.

English Pot Pourri

Gather rose petals in early
morning. Select those that are
free from blemishes. Toss lightly
on a table or rack in a cool room
and leave until dry. Put in glass
jar in W%-inch layers, sprinkling
each layer with salt.
be added from day to day until
the desired amount is obtained.
Let stand for ten days, stirring
in the petals well each morning.
For each quart of cured rose

Petals can .

petals use a mixture of %4 ounce
mace, % ounce each nutmeg,
cloves and finely broken stick
cinnamon, l ounce powdered orris
root or unscented talcum powder,

and % pound dried lavender
flowers. Sprinkle a little of the

spice mixture in pot pourri Jar.
Add a layer of rose peials, al-
ternating the spice mixture and
rose petals. Place a few drops
of rose geranium, almond or
orange flower oil on each layer if
a heavier scent is desired. Pour
2 tablespoons toilet water or eau
de cologne over each quart.
Cover.

Poor Man’s Garden

6 tablespoons salt

6 tablespoons liquid blueing

6 tablespoons water

1 tablespoon ammonia water

Mix all together and then pour
over a clinker, or a piece of coke
or a broken brick. Set in a shal-
low dish. A strange growth will
take place. Dabs of mercura-
chrome, red or green ink, or
food coloring may be added to
get a lovely color effect. Make
sure the clinker or brick is dry.
Vaseline rubbed along the edge
of the dish will prevent the
growth from going over. Make
sure you use an old dish as it
will check.

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