HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 226, 23 September 1922, Page 24

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

A few grains of rice at the bottom of the salt cellar will prevent salt from becoming damp or lirmpy. Apply metal-polish (paste) with a cloth damped with paraffin. It cleans better, and the polish lasts longer than if water is used. Many polished floors show every footmark. Such marks can lie avoided if the beeswax and turpentine is mixitd with a small quantity of linseed oil. Poliah with a F.oft cloth. Handkerchiefs and clothes which have become yellow should be allowed to soak in cold water with cream of tartar —a teaspoonful of cream of tartar to a quart of water. This ■- n very effect iv*j a.nd simple method of whitening them. To remove grass stains from while tennis clothes dissolve v t->a ••■ > mftn if cream of tartar in n little boHing wn'rr and apply to the soiled par:. XA. should be taken in; '.o apply ■' tion stronger than indicated alio To wash feathers from pillows. them in o:■ muse." l-e >\-. h ~: a lather made from soap-jelly, squeeze the bag, and hantr it in the air to dry. A fine, breezy day should be and the bag frequently shaken well as it hangs an the line.