HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 14 July 1925, Page 2

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

To restore the polish of a leather suitcase beat the whites of two eggs with two teaspoonfuls of turpentine, rub the mixture into a fine lather with a flannel, and apply. . Polish the ease with a clean linen cloth until it shines.

Cloves burnt on the top of the kitchen stove will remove all smell of onions or the very unpleasant smell of cooking ( cabbage. To remove finger-marks on floors, rub gently with a piece of cloth clipped in paraffin oil. Wipe with a clean cloth, wrung out in hot water, to take away the smell.

Stale slices of bread can be made fresh by laying the pieces together and folding a damp clotili round them. Put this parcel into a paper bag, and place in a hot oven for ten minutes.

W'hen the wall is soft and loose, and a nail will not bear the weight of a picture, mix a little plaster-of-Paris with water; scoop out a small hole in the wall, fill with plaster, and gently insert the nail. This plaster hardens quickly, and then the picture can b« hung with safety. If the piano keys are scratched, mix some very fine pumice powder with water and polish the scratches with it. Wipe the keys carefully with a clean rag and polish with a silk duster. Care must be taken not to Jet any of the pumice powder fall between the keys. To take ink out of linen, take a piece of nould candle, or common candle will do nearly as well, melt it, arid dip the spotted part of the linen into the melted tallow. It may then be washed, and the spots will disappear without injuring the linen. To wash silk underwear, soak for 20 minutes in suds of about 98 degrees, to which ammonia has been added in the proportion of a teaspoonful to a gallon. Then wash the dirt out by pressing and squeezing, something in the same way as you would wash lace. Rinse in two lots of water of the same temperature as the suds, adding a very little blue to the last if the garments are white. Squeeze as dry as you can, and hang out till nearly dry. Then iron under cloth.