HOUSEHOLD HINTS
To remove water spots from glassware, rub with half a lemon dipped in common baking soda.
Do not wrap bread in a cloth, as its imparts na unpleasant flavour. Wrap well in grease-proof paper. To keep sandwiches moist, wrap first iu waxed paper aud then cover with a damp cloth.
Fibre suitcases should be cleaned by sponging them over with hot water to which has been added a. little vinegar. Dry thoroughly and finish with floor polish. Tomatoes need not by scalded in to peel them, Scrarie them gently but firmly all over with a small knife, then cut into the top and peel like a peach. The skin will come uffi as thinly as paper.
A splendid way of keeping cheese from going mouldy is to dip a piece of white rag in vinegar and squeeze very dry, and then wrap your cheese in it. To clean and polish paua shells, boil them tor a little while in a weak solution in caustic potash. Then remove irregularities with a medium file and complete the process with first coarse and then fine emery paper. Wash well in warm water and dry in hot sawdust. After this polish uell with chamois leather and oliie oil. To preserve the surface, brush the shells over with waler in which a little gum arabic has been dissolved.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 237, 19 September 1934, Page 1
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