HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 25, 29 January 1921, Page 16

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

When washing madras curtains, baste ; ends together, and they will hang as! evenly as when new. Glycerine is the best thin? to use when j tea is spilt, on ;i cloth. After washing. the mark disappears. I Wash cretonnes in bran water and put | in the rinsinjj water. Wring them ! through tne wringing machine, and iron | while still wet. Elderfinwer ointment is made by simmering the fresh flower.-; in butter or good lard with an eighth the proportionate quantity of spermaceti. When making a fruit tart mix a little cornflour with the sugar before putting it into the fruiu !t makes the juice ! beautifully thick like syrup ami 2 >rc " ! vents it fvom boiling over. \ A Good Wash for Sunburn a:ul Free- ' kles. —Steep a peck of elderflowers in ; two quarts of water —dit>tille<l water is j beat—all night. Put in a. told still and j let the water coae off the still and it j will be, very Clear. Cork well and it i keeps splendidly. Dealing with Flies.—lt is very unwholesome to allow flies about the house. They are disease-carriers, and they are always contaminating eatables. It is best to give the Hies some attraction in the way of food which, after cating j will quickly kill them. Poisonous compounds should never bo used in the. )iou.=.e, aa children sonicthnr-s get hold of these. This following two mixtures are absolutely safe, and very ettV'.'tu". , , seeing that (lies eat. freely and noon die. Quassia chips ! water one pint, treacle or any syrup 4oz. Boii t.':c (juassia chip? and the water for about 10 minutes, and then add the treacle. Thu other mixture is: Black pepper a teaspoonfu!, brown sugar two teaspoon fuls, cream four teaepoonfuls. Either of these mixtures may be stood about a room in saucers, and the flies soon perish in large numbers. ,