HINTS FOR THE HOME.
Greasa spot? on a carpet should b« treated as follows:—Add a tablespoonful of ammonia to a pint of hot water and rub tho place briskly with a piece of soft flannel. Dry with a clean cloth: then cover the spots with a paste of Fuller's earth and cold water. Leave till quite dry, brush off, and tho grease should have disappeared. Placo lemons that havo become dry in a saucepan of hot, not boiling, water. Leave tho saucepan at the back of the stovo for about two hours. Then wipe tho lemons, and they will be found soft and full of juice. Leave until cold before using. . Two ounces of Fuller's v earth, boiled in half-a-pint of vinegar and tho juice _of throe onions, is excellent for removing scorch marks from linen.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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