HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1918, Page 16

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Lamp chimneys should not be waened, as they are liable to crack after it. Clean well with soft paper, moistening it if necessary with a little methylated spirit. After removing batter puddings from the saucepan, leave them for four or five minutns to shrink before attempting to turn them out. When cooking a roly-poly pudding, put it into a dry cloth without flouring, but allow room for the pudding to swell. Rugs should be bound on their unde.r edges with strips of webbing to prevent their turning up, and also to add to their wearing properties. Rust stains may be removed by holding the damaged fabric in boiling rhubarb water.

Never trim a lamp-wick with scissors. It is almost impospible to cut it clean and straight. Just nib the burned part ou with an old cloth.

Lime powder well sprinkled where cockroaches abound will drive them away.

To Clean a Wringer.—Soak a cloth in paraffin and well nib the rollers. Wipe afterwards with a clean flannel.

Vinegar makes a splendid disinfectant. If a little is burnt or sprinkled about the room it is both refreshing and agreeable. To keep hardwood floors smooth and clean looking, rub with a soft flannel dipped in paraffin, polish with a clean dry one..

To remove tho yellow appearance of linen that has been laid by, add a heaped tablespoonful of borax to the water when boiling the clothes.

One tablrppoonful of vinegar p.ddcd to the water when boiling or stowing will make even very tough meat tender.

Always steep now brooms and brushes in cold watfr before using, to prevent the hairs or bristles falling out.

To cleanse the hands when very dirty, try rubbing well with paraffin, then waeh thoroughly in warm water, rinse well with cold. The hands will be quite free from grime, and leave no unpleasant smell.

Use left-over starch instead of water for mixing red ochre or whitening for the kitchen hearth. It will remain on the stone longer than if . mixed with water.

The remove scorch from linen, use the juice of an onion. Bake a large onion and squeeze out the juice through a piece of muslin: mix with an ounce of fuller's earth, a little finely-shredded soap, and a wineglassful of vinegar. Boil together till the soap has dissolved, leave till cold, and then apply the preparaton to tho scorched linen. Let it dry, and then wash in the usual way.

If a little water in which rice has been boiled be added to the rinsing wateiwhen washing -white silk blouses, they will have the sort of stiffness that the silk has when new.

Keep melted fats in a small dish with an inch-wide brush to grease cake and bread tins with. It saves time stopping to wash the hands after greasing the dish with paper.

Tf painters splash the glass when painting the window-fiill, melt some soda in very bot water and wash the glass ■with it, using a eoft flannel.