HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 172, 22 July 1922, Page 24

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Salt in whitewash makes it etiok. In the event of jelly roiueing to set, the addition of juice of a. lemon, and, failing this, some white vinegar, often assists the process. A copper kettle should he rubbed, with a rut. lemon (lipped in powdered batti brick. When all the stains have disappeared it should be washed with warm soapy water, and finally polished with a soft vloth and powdered bath brick. Wheu using marking ink for linen, mark the initials on the linen witn an ordinary lead pencil and then trace ■with tin; ink over the pencil marks. The | pencil will prevent the ink from spreading and giving the linen a blotted appeal am c. FL'RKITUKE OREAJI. Ingredients. —:)oz. beeswax, XJ; lAoz. whitewash, 2d; loz. eastillc soap, "id; 1 pint turpentine, 1/3: 1 pint boiling water; total cost, 2/5. Method—Take a large jar «nd shred wax nnd soap into it, and stand it on T * n f, a ,^ xrii stir occasionally till it melts, then add boiling water and turpentine, and let the mixture stand till & i= SS penally whUe ; o oLg.