Household.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 994, 20 March 1891, Page 5

Household.

Apple and pear pips when braised impart a delicious flavour to tarts. • • • • » Banquet lamps are now made with bronse figures as supports. A pair lately shown has the figures of two warriors in fall armour. When washing ornaments, a good plan to to prevent the gilt from rubbing off is to let them dry themselves. • • • • • Tall lamps designed to represent Egyptian vAse3 are now being made. The prevailing tints in globes &Dd shades are the new corn colour and lililite. When the skin is bruised it may be prevented from becoming discoloured by using a little dry starch or arrowroot, merely moistened with cold water and placed on the injured part. This shonld be done at once. To make a good furniture polish take half an ounce of Castile soap, one ounce of beeswax, one and a half ounce of white wax, and half a pint of turpentine. Boil the soap in a pint of Boft water, and mix all to the consistency of cream. Earache is generally caused by cold. To cure it bathe the feet in hot water, steam the head over hot herbs, and put cotton wool dipped iu sweet oil into the ear. This treatment is often found beneficial for either toothache dr face ache. It is also a good plan to tie a handkerchief over the ears for either of these troubles. To restore plusb, after careful use, an application of chloroform will bring out tho colours as bright as ever, after sponging with chloroform. The commercial chloroform will answer the purpose very well. This information will be found very useful, as chloroform, which is quite cheap, readily restores the colour of faded plush garments. If you have brick paths about the yard or garden you are no doubt troubled by their becoming green and slimy daring the rainyweather. Hard scrubbing often fails to remove such stains. Go to the drnggist’s and and get some ‘ Venetian Red.’ First, wash the dirt from the bricks with clean water ; then sprinkle the powder lightly over tho bricks and distribute it evenly with a wet broom. This makes the bricks a bright red. It also fills up the crevices between the bricks and prevents weeds and moss from growing there. By doing this twice a month you can keep your paths in good condition. Very pretty reminders of a summer jaunt may ba made as fallows : While in tho meadows or woods gather any oddity or prettily coloured leaves, a few sprays of grasses or ferns, a few clusters of clover and daisies and lay them smoothly between tha leaves of a book to preß3. After you are home again take them out and fasten with a little mucilage on a square piece of Btiff drawing paper. Arrange them as artistically as possible ; then mark across one corner tha date when, and the place where,gathered. If you wish they can be framed in neat little ornaments for a bedroom or library. Any glass or china that is gilded—even that kind which is thought moßt durablemust be geotly washed in hot water, then rinsed in cold, and set to drain. It should never be rubbed with a cloth. After it is rinsed, turned down, and drained and dried, if not perfectly clear It may be gently wiped with a thin, soft cloth or silk, kept for that and no other pnrpose. But rubbing or attempting to polish will very soon injure the gilding. If by accident or carelessness the gilding does become tarnished, a little whiting on a chamois leather may be gently used. But it is a pity if any such cleaning, becomes necessary. Great improvements have been made in tha dying of black stockings by the use of tha new Imperial fast dye, for whioh it is claimed that the colour will improve rather than not by washing. No powders of any sort Bhonld be made use of, and they should be washed in soft water, soap lather first, and instead of wringing them oat hard, which is the common process, and by which, at all events, certain portions of the dye must be expected to be removed, they should be rolled in a dry cloth and have the moisture well pressed out, and then dried quickly afterward. Nothing looks worse than than the rusty, white black Blockings of years gone by, after they had been a short time in nse, but the blue black colour of the new dyes gives an excellent appearence.