HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 213, 6 September 1916, Page 8

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Soap actually Improves with keeping; it should never' be used fresh, ac it is most wasteful. Dried soap goes as far again as fresh. Buy soap in bars and cut into pieces ready for use, and when for use in the bathroom it is a good plan to knock each sharp corner on a board, as it is then much nicer to handle. Store the soap thus cut up, pyramid fa-shiori, ou a shelf in a dry cupboard, but not near foodstuffs. To prevent the colour fading when washing mauve prints and muslins, put a little soda in the water in which they are washed, in order to keep the colour from running out. Soda is said to have exactly the opposite effect ou mauve that it has on other dyes. One of the most useful things in a kitchen ie a table of weights and measures, typewritten or written out, covered -with glass and framed with a simple binding;. To black white kid: Sponge the kid with liquid ammonia, working always in the direction of. the grain. When dry, apply a coat of finishing ink. Finishing ink can be obtained from any ehoerepairing shop, a pennyworth sufficient for two pairs of dancing shoes. To clean brass quickly and easily, mix emery powder to a paste with paraffin. Then polish with a piece of old velvet. To stone raisins quickly and prevent the usual unpleasant stickiness, rub a little butter on the fingers and on the knife before beginning to etone. To polish oilcloth, add a tablespoonful of paraffin to the water used for washing it, and it will look as if polished with beeswax. When water is spilt on .a N highlypolished table, rub. with furniture cream as soon as the water is wiped off, and no mark, will remain. Before cutting new bread dip the knife in boiling water. By", doing this the j thinnest slice can be cut from a new loaf without crumbling the, bread.