_Arrow-root_, _Tapioca_, _Sago_, _Pearl Barley_, _Pearl Wheat_, _Cracked Wheat_, _American Isinglass_, _Macaroni_, _Vermicelli_, and _Oat-meal_ are all articles which help to make an agreeable variety, and it is just as cheap to buy a small quantity of each as it is to buy a larger quantity of two or three articles. Eight or ten pounds of each of these articles of food can be stored in covered jars or covered wood boxes, and then they are always at hand to help to make a variety. All of them are very healthful food, and help to form many delightful dishes for desserts. Some of the most healthful puddings are those made of rice, tapioca, sago, and macaroni; while isinglass, or American gelatine, forms elegant articles for desserts, and is also excellent for the sick. _Sugars_ should not be bought by the barrel, as the brown is apt to turn to molasses, and run out on to the floor. Refined loaf for tea, crushed sugar for the nicest preserves and to use with fruit, nice brown sugar for coffee, and common brown for more common use. The loaf can be stored in the paper, on a shelf. The others should be kept in close covered kegs, or covered wooden articles made for the purpose. _Butter_ must be kept in the dryest and coldest place you can find, in vessels of either stone, earthen, or wood, and never in tin. _Lard and Drippings_ must be kept in a dry, cold place, and should not be salted. Usually the cellar is the best place for them. Earthen or stone jars are the best to store them in. _Salt_ must be kept in the _dryest_ place that can be found. _Rock salt_ is the best for table-salt. It should be washed, dried, pounded, sifted, and stored in a glass jar, and covered close. It is common to find it growing damp in the _salt-stands_ for the table. It should then be set by the fire to dry, and afterward be reduced to fine powder again. Few things are more disagreeable than coarse or damp salt on a table. _Vinegar_ is best made of wine or cider. Buy a keg or half-barrel of it, set it in the cellar, and then keep a supply for the casters in a bottle in the kitchen. If too strong, it _eats_ the pickles. Much manufactured vinegar is sold that ruins pickles, and is unhealthful. _Pickles_ never must be kept in glazed ware, as the vinegar forms a poisonous compound with the glazing. _Oil_ must be kept in the cellar. _Winter-strained_ must be got in cold weather, as the _summer-strained_ will not burn except in warm weather. Those who use kerosene oil should never trust it with heedless servants or children. Never fill lamps with it at night, nor allow servants to kindle fire with it, or to fill a lamp with it when lighted. Inquire for the safest pattern of lamps, and learn all the dangers to be avoided, and the cautions needful in the use of this most dangerous explosive oil. Neglect this caution, and you probably will be a sorrowful mourner all your life for the sufferings or death of some dear friend.