HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 107, 6 May 1913, Page 9

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

(By a NEW ZEALAND HOUSEWIFE.)

J If a package or envelope is'eealedivith while of egg instead of gum it cannot be nUsamed open.

When making mustard add a tiny drop of salad oil to it while it is being mixed. It will greatly improve the flavour.

A cup of moderately strong tea. in which two or three elices of lemon have been infused, will frequently cure a nervous headache.

Fingers stained with fresh fruit, walnute, etc., should be dipped in strong tea, rubbed with a nail-bru=h, and then washed in warm water.

By immersing an ink-etained handkerchief in milk immediately after if has been stained and allowing it to soak, the ink will invariably disappear. Always add ;\ small piece of butter to milk puddings when cooking them, as thi3 not only improves the tar,te, but prevente tie pndding from boiling over. To soften paint-brushes which have become' dry and hard, heat as much vinegar as required to boiling point, immerse the bruehes, and allow them to dimmer for 10 minutes ; then wash in •strong soapsnds.

To improve the flavour of an - apple pie, sprinkle the fruit with lemon juice after it ie filled into the crust, and cover with tiny piece of butter, then add the sugar and nutmeg or cinnamon. To Keep Enamel Baths Like Xew.— Make a -fchin paete comprised of a little paraffin or turpenLiaie- and whiting; then take a piece of coarse flannel; dip it in the paete, and well rah the bath or any enamel vceseT or porcelain Finks. You will be surprised at the result.

To Give Baby Caertor Oil.—Most mothere nikl it trying to give their ehlltfren caetoT oil. If they wIH fiflst put afew drops of pure glycerine on the spoon', then the oH and a> fowmore drops of glycerine they win have no more trouble. ChiMren all like the eweet-taete of the glycerine. •■ ■

Chili 'Beer.—Twenty-iour small chilies, eight quarts water, 3H). engar, 2oz- cream of tartar, two-tableepocnf-nls yeast, essence of leieon. Boil tbe chffies in four quarts -of water 20 mimrtas; add engar and cream' of tartar -, etradn, then add fonr quarts cold-water (essence of fenon to flavour, if liked) and y-eaet. Bottle art*! corV* &ns~tje-dwxm at -once.

Vegetable -Marrow Jam.—Peel and re- | move palp, cat into thick chunks, put four pounds of inarrowinioabowl,etTew. over four poimd&of preserving sugar, the iaice and finely shredded rinde of two large lemone. Letthis stand all night; add two oraicee of whole ginger. BoH very gently for four bonre. Tronbtee" of the Tjips. Mouth, and Teeth. —Ulcers of the lips sometimes form-on the-mueous -membrane lining the inside of the lips. They are of a emxtil circular or oval elixpe, of a grey colour. They are pakrfal when biting and chew-iag--food r '«nd axe<«ansed byilre irritation of a. -bad tooth or I>y -jndigeetion. If the cause ie from a bad tooth,' have it removed, ivod"tatlce-a simple opening medicine. Tbepsrin-Ss also relic-red by applying with a c*mcl-ferr pencil ecrme borax and glycerine, or borax and boney and water. Cracks on the lips ebenH be treated with glycerine or vaseline, th# Irp9 being kept constantly soft and most. Cracked tongnee show a' seriee of irregular farrows, often of came depth, running over the enrface of the trowrne. They are very painful wjwn eating or speaking, and often ariee from. a disordered stomach: sfVTr.R citrated magnesia ebould if tafcew. also fne earn? waeh a.wprred to the tongue" ac to tne steer, viz.. 5 grains of borax to 1 oz. of wartervwrUtaenan quantity of glycerine.