THESE FOR YOUR MEMORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19376, 10 July 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)

THESE FOR YOUR MEMORY.

If a child gets a fish-bone in its throat, give it the white of a raw egg to swallow. To clean out" the flour-sifter, hold a lighted piece of paper under it and this will burn out all surplus flour, etc. A few whole cloves dropped into the pan of boiling fat when frying doughnuts will give a delicious flavour to your cakes. ; To renovate a black straw hat, brush . off all dust then apply enough methylated spirits with a camel-hair brush to make the hat damp. When dry it will be as good as new. Much fried food is ruined by being sodden, but if one part of beef dripping is used to three parts of lard there will be a perfect frying mixture. Flannels will not shrink if they are washed with soap jelly in just tepid water and dried immediately in the open air. When children's shoes and boots become kicked and roughened and the smooth surface of the leather has been destroyed, rub. them well with, common beeswax, then polish with a moderately-hot iron. This will give the .leather a surface which will polish as if the leather was quite new. When two glass tumblers or dishes stick together so that there is danger of breaking in getting them apart, put cold water in the inner one and hold the outer in warm water. The resulting contraction and expansion will cause the glasses to separate at once.

If your furniture wants a good freshening, try this mixture: 1 teaspoonful of turpentine, 2 tablespoonfuls of olive oil, 1 tablespoonful of vinegar.' ; Apply with flannel and polish with an old silk duster. If a housewife wears glasses and is troubled through steam clouding the lenses she should mix a tablespoonful of glycerine with five tablespoonfuls of methylated spirits, shake the mixture and apply a little to her glasses, then rub them clean. This will prevent the glasses from clouding, and the effect will last the day.