FOR YOUR MEMORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19454, 9 October 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)

FOR YOUR MEMORY.

Old hot water bags, split open and cut into circular pieces, make excellent mats for house plants. Squeaking Shoes.—Dip a rag in boiled linseed oil and rub tho soles all over once or twice. To blacken brown boots rub them well with a raw potato, then apply the black polish in the usual way. Home-made Tooth Paste. —Mix together equal portions of powdered camphor and precipitated chalk. i Fish Hints.—When scaling fish, put in hot (not boiling water) for one minute, then scrape from the tail upward with the back of knife. If you warm your fresh packets of tea in the oven before using them the flavour will bo much better. If your bedroom rugs curl up at the ends some flat hat wire sewn firmly round tho edges will keep them down. If you bring currants, raisins, or sultanas to tho boil before using them they are much more easily digested, and will go further. If jugs that have been used for milk are first washed in cold water they will bo much easier to clean. When washing chamois leather, leave as much soap as possible in it and, when dry, it will be as good as new. If magnesia is placed on the tooth-brush and rubbed directly upon the affected parts it will removo tartar from teoth after two or three applications. A good cement for mending saucepans, etc., is made by mixing equal parts of putty, sifted coal, and sifted table-salt. Pack into the hole and place the article on the stove with a little water in it until "the cement hardens. Soon it will become as hard as tho enamel. This never fails. To preserve new-laid eggs, rub them slightly over with good butter and put in a jar of salt. Care should be taken that the salt covers them all. Cover the jar so that tho air cannot get into it. Eggs preserved in tbis way are quite fresh after twelve months. Tinting without streaks.—To dyo white stockings tho fashionable flesh colour with tea, make tho tea the desired strength and put in your stockings; just squeeze them a little and fill them with soft paper and hang out to dry. You will find that thero will not be any streaks when yon remove tho paper after they are dry.