Women’s World

Mt Benger Mail, 9 October 1940, Page 1

Women’s World

HOUSEHOLD HINTS To remove children’s greasy finger-marks on wallpaper, cover the spot where the mark is with blotting paper, iron with hot iron, repeat several times, then rub over the marked place with a soft cloth dipped in cornflour.

To prevent ugly finger marks from getting around electric light switches through groping around in the dark, paint a thin line of some luminous paint around the switch, this will show up in the dark and not be noticeable during the daytime.

Keep your split clothes pegs, for the broken halves can be put to good use. If you have a window that rattles at night when there is a strong wind, wedge the half of a clothes peg in the window and it will not rattle. A split clothes peg is also useful for scraping out the bottom of a saucepan as it does not scratch.

To keep dust from collecting in large clocks, such as diningroom clocks or grandfather’s clocks, soak a handful of cotton wool with paraffin oil, and place it inside the case of the clock, away from the pendulum, and the works will not accumulate dust, etc.

Sea grass or wicker furniture that has turned yellow, can be cleaned and restored to its original colour by scrubbing with water to which j clip of common salt and 2oz of chloride of lime has been added; wash over the furniture with clean water and dry in the sun. Use rubber gloves to apply solution.

When tea stains appear in cups, damp a piece of cloth, dip it in cooking salt and rub the stains until they disappear; then rinse the cups and they will look bright and renewed.

IF FURNITURE' DEVELOPS “THE WORM”

Try This Home Remedy Every 'woman’s heart sinks when she discovers that some favourite piece of furniture has “got the worm.” Actually, the damage is done by small grubs, which eventually turn into beetles These grubs live on the wood, and literally eat their, way through it, working steadily outward till in due time, having arrived at a new sage of existence, they drill the familiar hole in order to get out of the wood and enter the world as a beetle. The species vary but all work in the same destructive way, and if left undisturbed, colony after colony will chew the wood to powder till the merest sheath is all that remains. Oak is partieulaly subject to the work; walnut suffers terribly; chestnut too. When little heaps of powder, or “frass, ” are seen near the holes it is a sure sign that activities are going on inside. There are, of course, professional ways of dealing successfully with the problem, but a perfectly safe home remedy which has been proved successful is wax dissolved in paraffin and applied hot with a paint brush. Candle wax answers the purpose admirably; put the wax and paraffin in stone jar, set it on the stove in a pan of boiling water till it has liquefied, and keep it standing in the water while in use. The hot paraffin fumes suffocate the grubs near enough to be affected, and the liquid wax penetrates into the holes and forms a stopper when it solidifies.

Watch the wood after this treatment, and if holes appear in fresh quarter make a fresh application. So far from injuring the wood the paraffin wax makes a lovely polish when it has dried and been well rubbed in. In point of fact pieces that, are kept well waxed in the ordinary way are far less likely to be attacked by “wood-worm” than such as are left to take care of themselves and merely dusted.

RECIPES

Chocolate Orange Sponge Two cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, a pinch of salt, 8 tablespoons butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 unbeaten eggs, J cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Sift Hour once,

measure, add rising and salt, and sift three times. 'Cream butter, add sugar, then add eggs, and beat throroughly. Add flour alternately with milk, beating till smooth, add essence, and bake in two buttered 8-in layer tins 25 pinutes in a moderate oven. Between layers and all over cake spread the following mixture. Chocolate Orange Frosting.— Cream together 4 tablespoons butter and 2 teaspoons grated orange rind, add 1 cup sugar gradually, add U squares unsweetened chocolate (melted), and a pinch of salt. Mix well, add gradually another cup of sugar alternately with about 3 tablespoons orange juice. It may be Anally sprinkled with coconut or left chocolate coloured.

Fried Bananas and Bacon Peel bananas and cut them in halves lengthwise. Sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent discolouration. Dredge with flour and fry until a nice brown, but not soft. Sprinkle with brown sugar to which add a little cinnamon. Place under a hot grill for a few minutes to melt sugar. Dish up on a hot dish, garnish with fingers of fried bread and crisp bacon.