WRINKLES.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXIV, Issue 1223, 10 December 1897, Page 7

WRINKLES.

Boiling turnips in milk and water makes them sweet and nice. To stop bleeding at the nose, work the jaws as if in the act of masticating. Try walking with your hands behind you, if you find yourself becoming bent forward. Don't buy gloves just the size you can pquerze your hand into, but rather a siz^ over. Broth will keep fresh for a week if a cauliflower is boiled along with the other vegetables. A selvedge seam on a skirt should be notched, as it is often a little tighter, and is apt to drag. To fasten securely the silver-plated tops of pppper bottles in cruets a little melted alum is invaluable. The white of an egg rubbed on patent leather shoes will preserve them from cracking, and givo them a nice polish. Any small wound, such as a tear from a thorn, if rubbed instantly with a little wax out of the ear, will give no I further trouble. | White fluted skirts will look better if, instead of being hung up, they are I drawn into flutes from the top and | folded flat. To put a silk cord on the bottom of a dress bodice neat and straight, it should be first stitched on the stufi and the hem turned in. Lade? who use curling pins for their fringes ought to be very careful not to put them in tightly, as it breaks the skin and causes pimples. Neither food nor drink should bn allowed to remain in a sick-room, as the atmosphere is apt to hasten decomposition — most df all in milk preparations. An easy way to administer powders to infants is to wet the tip of the finger, get the powder on the moist place, then rub on the baby's tongue in its attempts to suck the finger. If a piece of strong cotton is tightly and firmly pasted over small holes in broken planter before being whitewashed or pappred, they will scarcely be noticeable. A good plan for washing net screens and fine lace is to boil them in a pot among water and soap for a few minutes, as you very often tear when rubbing and washing with the hands. A piece of clean white rag dipped in boracic lotion and placed on a boil or cirbune'e, will prevent suppuration, or draws it out when there, and is most useful when on a part of the body inconvenient to poultice.