HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 180, 1 August 1925, Page 26

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Boiled vinegar diluted with water cleans and freshens a cloth frock.

To keep glass bright, egg shells, crushed into small pieces and shaken well in decanters three parts filled with cold water, will not only clean thoroughly, but make the glass look like new.

When cleaning windows or pictures, a little paraffin oil should be added to the water. This will prevent flies from settling on the glass; also a brilliant and clear polish will result.

When baking apples, if the skin is cut round the middle of the apple, this will prevent any pulp baking out, and the skin is very easily removed, and the apple keeps its shape. When drawing threads in linen for hemstitching, wet a small nail-brush, rub it on a piece of soap until a lather is produced and scrub the threads to be drawn. They will pull out quite easily and without breaking. An easy way to peel onions in quantities without hurting the eyes is thiß: Pour boiling water over them. It will not make your eyes watery, nor make onions soft and spoil the flavour. Split open the two upright edges of a hat box. When the cover is raised the sides will drop as if hinged. This is a good plan when the box is kept on a shelf. Then the hat can be taken out without lifting down the box.

Here is an old-fashioned method of giving lace a soft creamy tint. Wash the lace and rinse it; then break an egg and beat it to a froth. Add a quart or more of cold water, according to the tint required for the lace. Dip it in the mixture several times, and then squeeze gently. When the lace is half dry, put it between two cloths and iron it. .