HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 149, 24 June 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To Clean Buff-Coloured Linen Blinds. —Lay the blind on the table and well brush, then cover with powdered bath brick. Rub in lightly with a clean dus" ter; then shake well and rub once aeain To Clean Ivory Knife Handles Sw < rubbing with whiting and lemon-juice first. If successful with that use sandpaper. The whiting injures the i VO n least, so give it a fair trial. f

Thick Shoes Indoors.—Try nailing a piece of indiarubber on the heels of noisy' shoes if you are obliged to wear thick ones indoors. Use the small headless nails for fastening the rubber on.

To Renovate a Brown Gladstone Baj? —Rub well with the inside of a banana skin and skim milk. Then polish with a soft duster. Methylated spirits will remove stains from brown leather. Rub O n with soft flannel, then polish. To Clean Window Blinds.—A blind with a shiny surface can over and over again be cleaned with breadcrumbs, and made to look almost as good as new Lay it on a flat surface and rub lightly changing the bread as it geb dirty. One Reason for Heavy Cakes.—Flour that has been allowed to get damp invariably makes heavy cakes and puddings Flour should always be kept in the driest possible place, and for making cakes should be slightly warmed before using. A Fire to Last for Hours.—lf you waiit a fire to keep in for hours try this pl an - First let it burn till quite clear and rather low. Then put on some big lumps of coal. Flatten down, and on top heap a good thick layer of dust and ashes which press down with a shovel as hard as you can.

To Clean Copper.—Half a lemon dipped in salt cleans copper beautifully, and a lemon from which most of* .the juice has been squeezed does just as well as a freshly cut one. Rinse the copper "in clean, uot water afterwards; dry and polish with a clean, soft cloth.

Rub your carpets with a clean cloth wrung out in ammonia water after sweeping them. This will improve the appearance of an old and dingy carpet, and is much to be recommended for refreshing the air of a sick room and for preventing dust.

Turpentine cleans tin or zinc and makes it beautifully, bright. It can also be used with great success to clean white bath-enamel that has become discoloured. Dip a cloth in the turpentine, and with this rub the stained parts, then polish with a soft duster.

A Reviver for Linoleum.—The retailer who is asked for a polish which will revive linoleum can easily make up the article in one or other of the following ways:—lo parts of yellow beeswax. 20 parts (by weight) of turpentine, and 10 parts of boiled linseed oil; or 1 part of palm oil, 18 parts of solid paraffin, and 4 parts of paraffin oil, The latter is by far the cheaper, but the better results are obtained from the first recipe.

If, after a hard day, you fpel tired out, and fit for nothing, have a hot bath, to I which ammonia has been added in -the proportion of a teaspoonful to a gallon, the - last thing before getting into Yd. Don't stay in the water more than ten minutes at the outside; then, after a brisk rubbing, jump into bed as quickly as possible.

To prevent a bruise from becoming discoloured apply to it a cloth which has been wrung out of water as hot as can be borne comfortably, and change it as it becomes cold. Supposing hot water cannot be procured, the next best thing V , to moisten some dry starch with cold water, and to cover the bruised part with it.