HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 4, 5 January 1910, Page 8

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

See that your cookery books have prat oovers which slip off easily and cub washed. Put a piece of tape under the buttn* when making children's clothes, tad jW will not be troubled with buttons puliuf out nnd making holes in the garment : The good housekeeper. is alwayt tan that her kitchen and pantry are fitted with up-to-date labour-saving devices, N that when her new maid arrives way' thing will be ready for herTo keep a bunch of parsley fresh, »1»« it in a quartz jar, screw the lid op tity and keep it in a cool place. Cared for it this way, parsley will sometimes last iff a week in good condition. .'■ ,tjj I Use a small bicycle pump when nrmy ing the stairs, for it will blow.the OH out cf all the sharp corners. It it »Ut very useful in cleaning around the '3**tons" in upholstered furniture, When stitching a thick,.heavy hem » ! seam on the machine, and the needle it most refuses to go through, toy mkbn a piece of soap on the wrong sideOf tb material. The needle will then '*% ■ through easily. ;! Use plenty of blotting-paper ] HkM stencilling, if you want the most's»tb< factory results. Many handsome pia*< of material are ruined by a failure b place enough pads of blotting-paper hMfet the goods during the process of ling. ■'-. ~'_j A piece of coarse sandpaper on tb*'e*« of the ironing board is a help in kWF?I-; the iron free from roughness. A hot iros rubbed over a piece* of pine or «dir bough, having the needles still onv*,*il| ■ rival in smoothness one, upon which erea the time-honoured beeswax has beenpsefc' Odd buttons, and loose hooks and .«J* that find their way into one's workbtlW are convenient to have always atluauL - find a ve.ry useful holder in a large «•*&■ pin. Slip on the buttons; hooks andefe close the safety pin, and you have '*vffthing handy, easily seen, and always B order. The following remedy for insomm*** learned by a nurse from an old Genßt|.» doctor: "Put socks on the patient, tb* with a sponge and a bowl of W **J thoroughly wet them. Wrap each fc* I in a large piece of flannel, pinnedVJjj | protect the bed. The wetting is repeswa | as often as the patient wakens. Wh* 1 the socks are removed, rub the':feet to*. I methylated spirits, and apply heat W 1 means of a hot-water bottle." |j Cut a strip of dark cloth or felt tto» I inches wide and long enough to Ttl ~~ a around the right-hand end of the tw»- I of your sewing-machine. Draw the end* 1 together underneath as tightly as J°* | can, and fasten- to the table with tray I tacks. As you take the pins from yon*, i work, stick them into the cloth sliatjh* I or, if hurried, simply lay them on. 1 will not roll off and give one the botMt 1 of picking them up, as is usually the c»V I Then, too, one has pins always afchsni | when wanter'. Cleaning the Stove.—By rubbing the ;| stove when it is cold with a few drop* j* I sweat oil or kerosene, it may be kep* I black and clean, and food spilled is t**vf. ;| washed off, as is not the case when*.l blacking is used. Be careful of the k&* jj of stove-blacking you use. Many v«>me» I have been seriously burned by the el* | plosion of stove-blacking.' Blaekbif;-! which evaporates quickly or smokes <**" sidexably should be avoided. Only"Jn**' . blacking on the stove when it is' cool-—f: before lighting a fire js the only -| Buy your blacking of a reliable person | and be sure it is not explosive. " "■■fell