A Housewife’s Diary Hints About The Home

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 187, 21 May 1938, Page 4

A Housewife’s Diary Hints About The Home

Cracked Egg. ... A cracked egg can be boiled if a teaspoon of vinegar is added to the water. , Braces. Replace the worn ends of a boy’s braces with pieces cut from the tongue of an old shoe. Chintz. ; Colours will be brightened when chintz Is being washed by putting some Epsom salt in the water. Slender Fingers. , ' Fingers can be made more slender and shapely, by massaging them with a good reducing cream every night. Apply as if you were pushing down the fingers of new gloves. • Gloves. •••/<(>,. • ■ ' t ! ! Turn a torn kid or nappa glove inside out, draw torn edges together and press over adhesive- tape. Pictures. ... ? Pictures will be more easy to hang straight if a strip of sandpaper about half an inch wide is glued near lower edge on back of frame. Rough surface grips wall. " .. . , • " Perspiration. Treat perspiration marks on voiles, etc., by soaking in a solution of Glauber’s salts until marks disappear. Then wash. Thimble Place. Make a tiny pocket on the outside of the work basket to keep the thimble. Whitewashing 1 . By adding a handful of dry soap to the whitewash you will get a smooth surface when it is applied to any discoloured patch of the ceiling. Towels. Wring towels by gathering them along the selvedge from end to end and so prevent the risk of tearing. Flower Container. Something novel in flower containers is a clear glass bowl, globe-shape, restbig on a black vase. Real flowers submerged in water show through the sides of the bowl with much the same effect ' as those glass bail paper weights containing a snow-storm scene but, of course, on a much larger scale. Beauty Hint. Here’s a beauty hint that is seasonable; a method used for “finishing” lipstick application. You dip a small fiat paint brush into cold creem then pass it over tbs lip after a smear paste rouge has been applied, it achieves that smooth even look to the tint of the lips and is a safeguard against the drying effects of the wind.