HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

Auckland Star, Issue 123, 24 May 1919, Page 20

HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

To clean saucepans and sinks mbc equal parts of garden earth (or sifted wood ashes) and bathbrick. This answers the purpose just as well as bought powders, and removee all stains with very little trouble. If milk, or anything that makes a denee, suffocating smoke, has boiled over on the etove cover quickly with ealt. If you haven't any turnips, remember ! that "radishes that have grown "woolly" will give the turnip flavour to soups or stewe. Wa3h out all jam jars or syrup tine with just a little hot water, and use this for sweetening any pudding you may be making. There is really quite a lot ot sweetness in the bits clinging round a jar or tin. To clean white woodwork and cement in kitchen or bathroom use baking soda freely instead of soap. It makes it beautifully clean, and doee not take the gloss off as eoap would. To revive and help potted plants that are drooping place a tea3poonful of ammonia in three quarts of water and water the plants thoroughly with this mixture. Cement for Stopping Leake.—Mix thoroughly 4lb of resin, a pint of linseed oil, and loz of red lead. While hot, apply this cement with a brush. It will stop leaks in roofs or water casks. To clean mirrors and picture glasse* make a thin paste of ammonia and whiiing, crush a piece of newspaper into a ball, dip it into the paste, and rub it over the glace. Then polieh with another piece of crumpled paper, and give a final rub with a clean soft rag. To remove stains from a tiled hearth squeeze a little lemon juice over the • stain, leave for twenty minutes, then, with a cloth damped with a little warm water, wipe off the lemon juice. Thia will generally remove the stain; if not, repeat the process. Polish afterwards with a soft cloth. Prop a hot flatiron face up between two wooden blocks, lay a wet pad on it, and draw the velvet over the steaming surface while brushing it with a soft brush. If the pad is used instead of moistening ',hi back of the velvet and drawing it taut across the edge of the iron, there ia less danger of marks. Be sure and not let the fingers touch the pile while the velvet is damp. A good tfnting solution for silk and ' georgette blouses may be made at home by squeezing a piece of ordinary ; crepe paper in clear water until you have the colour you desire. The paper is then removed, and the garment, .which has been previously rinsed'in cold water, is put in and allowed to remain until ' feuffieiently and evenly coloured.