SOME USES FOR POTATOES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 132, 10 July 1914, Page 4

SOME USES FOR POTATOES.

Lace that is desired to take an old lace shade will soon do so if, after -washing, it is dipped in the water potatoes have been boiled in; care must be taken not to get this too stiff. Potato parings, cut rather small, washed and partly dried, are preferable to tea leaves for sweeping carpets, as they brighten the colours, With no danger of staining.

Tin that has become rusty or stained may be cleaned by dipping the cut surface of a raw potato in fine bathbrick, and rubbing well with this. If anything on which paraffin has been spilled—hands included —is rubbed with raw potato, the smell will immediately disappear.