HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4801, 23 June 1939, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Clean mirrors and window-panes with a flannel rag dipped into camphorated alcohol.

When straining fruit juices with no one to help you, the muslin can be adjusted over the basin with little spring clothes-pegs.

Grate a bar of soap with the coarse side of the vegetable grater, and store the shreds in a cardboard box that has holes in the sides (this lets the shreds dry easily). In this way you have a supply of prepared soap ready for the copper on washing-days. The fine shreds take less time to dissolve than when the soap is sliced.

It is an excellent precaution to have covers over your upholstery. When fixing a cover on to a chairback slip a sheet of blotting-paper under the cover. It will absorb any grease.

Town mud that is splashed on to

stockings has oil in it. Soap and water will fail, but eucalyptus oil dabbed on and around the splashes has been found effective. Use blot-ting-paper underneath when dabbing.

A country woman solved one problem on a showery winter’s washingday. She cut the sleeves on an old raincoat off at the elbows, and thus made it into a working overall which kept her warm and dry.

Suede shoes may be cleaned and freshened with a rubber nailbrush. To remove grease, let a stiff paste of fuller’s earth and water dry on the shoes, then lightly brush off.

Invisible hairpins are much better to use than pins when curtains are being made. The pins which are supposed to hold the hems constantly drop through the mesh.