ALL ROUND THE HOUSE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 141, 13 June 1912, Page 8

ALL ROUND THE HOUSE.

(By a Now Zealand Housewife.) When steaming puddings or dumplings put a cloth over the steamer before putting on the lid. This will prevent the moisture settling and rendering the pudding heavy. Keep silver articles in green baize bags lined with flannelette, and in each bag put a small piece of camphor; then your silver will remain bright for an indefinite period. To remove fruit stains from the hands, rub the stains with a piece of cut lemon before washing in soap and water. Tomato skins rubbed over the bands are also effective for removing fruit stains. To prevent potatoes becoming bla-ek when cooked, put them into cold water, and when brought to the boil squeeze a little lemon juice in. They will then keep a good colour and be of good flavour. To clean a porcelain kettle, fill it half full of hot water and put in a table/spoonful of powdered borax: let it boil.:-If this does not remove all the stains, scour with a cloth rubbed with soap and borax. New leather boots are sometimes difficult to polish successfully. When this is the case it is a good plan to rub over the leather with a cut lemon. Allow the juice to dry thoroughly. Apply blacking in the U3ual way, and polish with a good hard brush. For a nervous headache or one following a too strenuous day a simple means of alleviation is to remove the pressure of the blood on the brain by soaking the feet in water as hot as can be borne. The blood is drawn quickly* to the feet, and the brain is thus relieved of pressure. A teaspoonful of mustaTd added to the water will effect a relief when the former method faile. A little salt rubbed on cups will take off tea stains. As a tooth-powder it will keep tbe teeth white and the gums hard and rosy. It is one of the best gargles for sore throats. Neuralgia of the feet and limbs can be cured by bathing night | and morning -with salt and water as hot !as can be borne. When taken out, rub the feet briskly with a. coarse toweL -Salt and -water is one of the best remedies for sore eyes, and if applied _. __e_w2J, scatter the i__m__fcion. Onion skins ____: be boiled in soup,. ;»a tbey _t__ t_e "__» nOr a trice-colour.