ON KEEPING COOL

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 59, 2 December 1933, Page 15

ON KEEPING COOL

Living rooms will be cooler if you suspend a wet sheet over open windows and doorways. Take away any superfluous draperies, as these only help to make rooms stuffy. Some people keep all bedroom windows closed during the hottest part of the day, opening them only at night. Gauze sheets bung across windows are a good plan to keep out mosquitoes from bedrooms. Citronella oil is worth trying as a perfume. The main meal should be eaten in the cool of the day, preferably at about seven in the evening. Cooling drinks should be sipped, not gulped, and should be drunk between meals, not: with them.

Ants can be kept at bay by rubbing over all larder and storeroom shelves with carbolic solution and keeping saucers of oil of lavender about the kitchen. Wrapping the legs of curtboards and tables with rags soaked in caster oil is another useful tip often used in hot countries.

A good way to keep butter sweet for cooking is to clarify it and store It in a jar in Hie larder. If you do this only just sufllcicnt “eating” butter need be ordered and kept in the cooler.