USEFUL HINTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19169, 7 November 1925, Page 6 (Supplement)

USEFUL HINTS.

Undoing Knots. —When lingerie ribbon becomes tied in a -bard knot, don't lose time and patience trying to unpick it with your fingers. Insert the points of embroidery scissors into the folds of the knot and force the scissors orcn. The knot, will become looso enough to undo easily. Any sort of knot or tangle yields quickly to this method. Cut Flowers.—Cut flowers will last longer if pieces of white soap are added to the water in which they are placed. Rancid Dripping. —When dripping becomes rancid, slice a potato and fry it in the dripping until it, is quite brown. The dripping will then be good again, and may be used for cakes, pastry, etc. For Saucepans. —To freshen a saucepan after cooking fish or onions, burn a piece of brown paper in the stove and turn the saucepan over if. The funics from (be burning paper will deodorise the saucepan in a few minutes. For Toothache.—To stop a bad toothache pour a little vinegar in a saucer and place it in a piece of brown paper folded to about three thicknesses. When the paper is wet, pepper it well and bold it on to the part, affected. This does not hurt the skin, and never fails to relieve the ache. When Travelling.—lt is not always possible to have plenty of clean handkerchiefs when travelling; but a handkerchief can be washed at night, spread very flat with the fingers on the looking glass, and left to dry. In the morning it will be dry and will appear as if it had been ironed. Tinware and Bust. —New tinware should be rubbed over with fresh lard and thoroughly heated in the oven before it, is used. Tt will never rust afterwards.