HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 26

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Linen that has been stained with tea, coffee, wine or fruit, can be restored by boiling in clear water, to which borax has been added in the proportion ot one tablespoon to the quart. It is not essential to have a knife-, board even if your knives are not made of stainless steel. Scrape up a little bathbrick and put on a small piece of carpet, double it, and rub the blades of the knives between. Rinse them in clean water and dry thoroughly. They will look quite as well as when rubbed on a board. Pour the soup through a cloth that has been well saturated in cold water. The fat will remain in the cloth, ana the soup will be as free from it as if it had been removed when coin. The fat can be taken from the cloth ana melted down and clarified for use. If a tin of paint has to be left open, stir it thoroughly to dissolve all the oil, then fill up with water. When it becomes necessary to use the paint again, pour off the water, and you will find it as fresh as when first opened. If a patent shoe pinches any part of the foot, a rag well soaked in boiling water should be placed over the part. If this is done while the foot is in the shoe the leather will soften to the shape of the foot.. Silver and plated goods, if not in every-day use, should not be exposed to air or to an atmosphere laden with gas. Clean and polish them, wrap each article in soft tissue paper, and roll up in a strip of green baize before putting away in a drawer or cupboards. When hanging woollens on the line to dry, especially tiny clothes and jumpers, do not peg them. Thread a piece of tape through the arms of each garment, and peg the ends of the tape to the line. In this way the garments not only dry quicker, but keep their proper shape. So many people are fond of onions but refuse to eat anything with onion cooked in it. If a teaspoonful of sugar is added to anything you are cooking with onion it 'does- away completely with objectionable after effects and does not spoil the flavour of .your dish. It rather improves it.