Helps for the Home

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5618, 6 April 1931, Page 11

Helps for the Home

Many housewives when dusting shako their duster out the window everey little while, which is a great loss of time. Here is a swift and cleaner method of dusting. Add a little vinegar to a basin of lake warm water. Wet a chamois leather in the basin and rub tlhe furniture with it. Rinse the leather in the water to remove the dust which adheres to it. The furniture •will possess a delightful freshness and the vinegar imparts such a beautiful ■gloss that polishing becomes a waste of time.

Keeping Mattresses Clean. For the care of bedrooms a large clean apron should be worn by the bedmaker. If one has much housework to do, a pair of white cotton sleeves to bo slipped on before making the beds will be found a great assistance in preventing bed linen from becoming soiled. All mattresses should cither have cotton eases or strips of white calico tacked over their sides. By these simple means, mattresses may bo preserved for many years in p. condition as good as new.

To Scrape .Potatoes. A quick w r ay to scrape potatoes which have been dug up a few days, is to cover them with hot water, in which a small lump of soda has been dissolved. Let them remain in this for ten minutes and the skins will come off as easily as if freshly dug up, and, moreover, will not stain.the fingers. A youth of 14 in searc hof employment on a farm showed some originality at the Addington saleyards on Wednesday when he approached a wellknown commercial man and asked his assistance. He was spoken for during sales, and a cheer resulted from his courage in standing on a fence while the hundreds of farmes present inspected him critically. His determination won him a position on a Canterbury farm for three weeks, while he was also given an address at which he will probably And permanent employment.