THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Cover pantry shelves with white American cloth. This can bo wiped with a damp cloth, and so is easily kept clean. This covering is also inexpensive in the first instance. Tea stains that are obstinate will be removed after equal parts of glycerine and yolk of egg have been applied and allowed to dry on. Afterwards wash out in clear cold water. Keep a piece of lemon near the kitchen sink; if the fingers are rubbed with it after preparing vegetables all stains will bo removed. If you mix mustard with new milk instead of water, this will remove any bitterness and tlio mustard will keep fresh for a week or more. New curtains should always be steeped overnight in water in which a packet of salt has been dissolved to remove all lime. Brass and copper kettles that have become black on the firo will polish brilliantly if well rubbed with methylated spirits. Burnt marks on plates can be treated successfully with a cork and a little damp salt. Lamp chimneys will be less likely to crack if cleaned with some form of spirit applied with tissue paper. Do not wash them. Rusty flat-irons can be made bright by standing them in a dish of parraffin for a clay or two. Afterwards wipe them with fine emery paper. Finally, polish with powdered batlibrick made hot in the oven. If irons not in use are rubbed with an oily rag and wrapvied up in an old piece of flannel they will not become rusty.

To ensure the wliitc of eggs being frothy add a pinch of salt before beating them, and when half beaten add a pinch of corbonate of soda. Always use the white as soon as the egg is broken.