HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

After washing the oilcloth on the larder shelves, polish with a good white cream. This will keep the shelves clean longer, and will also help to preserve the oilcloth.

When packing bottles of medicine, etc., cut the fingers from old gloves and tie over the corks. This will prevent the risk of having your clothes spoiled.

To clean a card table which is covered with green or blue baize, mix togetner powdered chalk and salt and warm slightly before sprinkling thickly over the baize, leave overnight, then brush off in the morning. Any particularly dirty marks should be cleaned off first with a little hot ammonia.

A cake of camphor ground and dissolved in a bottle of methylated spirit is an excellent remedy for tired and aching feet. Keep away from the fire. ♦ ♦ *

For burnt saucepans, leave them standing overnight with water in which some common salt has been dissolved. Boil up next day, and they will be easily cleaned with steel wool or ordinary pot-scraper.

Stitch rubber rings from preserve or pickle pots to the under side corners of rugs to prevent slipping on highlypolished floors.

When washing blankets do not put them through a mangle or wringer; hang on the line with the water dripping from them. The weight of the water prevents blankets from shrinking ’

Include in the camping equipment a dozen -brass cup-hooks. Screwed into the ridge-pole of the tent or a lowhanging bough of a tree, they will be found invaluable. ♦ * *

Before moving a heavy piece of furniture, place an old cushion under each end or a suitable pad under each corner. The article of furniture may then be pushed or pulled without damaging Hie flooring.

To keep greens fresh for several days wash, and put them into a dish with a lid that fits well. Hun fresh water over them every day.