Household.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 996, 3 April 1891, Page 5

Household.

Hot tallow is said to remove machine oil from white goods. Repeated applications will also remove ink stains,!* exposed to the rays of the sun. Isinglass boiled in spirits of wine will produce a transparent cement, which will unite broken glass so as to render the fracture almost imperceptible. If ironwork is exposed to wind and rain, lake red oxide of iron, ground in oil, and mix with equal parts of boiled linseed oil and turpentime ; add loz of patent dryers to the pound. . Silver and plated ware should not be washed with ordinary soap, as it will be certain to lose its lustre. Soft chamois should be used with fine whiting ; then wash thoroughly in pure water and dry with alcohol. To oleanso porcelain saucepans, fill them half full of hot water, and put in the water a tablespoonful of powdered borax, and let it boil If this does not remove all the stains, Bcour well with a oloth rubbed with soap and borax. Hot cakes, pies, etc. need not be removed from the pans in which they are baked, if precaution is taken to set tbsm on small supports, so that the air can circnlate under them. This effectually prevents the moisture from steam in the bottom of the pan. Boiled eggs, to slice nicely, should be put over tho fire in cold water, and should remain fifteen minutes after the water begins to boil, and allowed to cool io the same water. If cooled by dropping them into cold water they will not peel smoothly. To cut glass .vessels neatly fill the vessel the exact height yon wish it to be cut, with oil of any kind ; then dip, very carefully, a red hot iron in the oil. This will heat it all aloDg the surface, and when the upper portion cracks all round you can lift it clear off by the surface of the oil. The following varnish will main, tain its transparency and the metallic brilliancy of the articles will not be obscured. Dissolve ten parts oE clear grains of mastrio, five parts of camphor, five parts of sandarach and five parts of elemi in a sufficient quantity of alcohol and apply without heat. Now that milk and soda is so much taken before leaving at small dances the following recipe given by a contemporary may be servicoable :—‘Heat some milk, but by no means let it boil. Hand it round in long glasses, into which may be frothed a small quantity of seltzer water from a syphon, with a heaped teaspoonful of white sugar added at the last moment. When the face is unusually pale bathe it in tepid water, rubbing briskly with a Turkish towel. Then apply every day the following preparations.—4oz rose water, 2oz of glycerine, and loz of diluted amqnia* Rub well into the skin for about three minutes, then wipe off with a soft towel. If any irritation be felt add a little more glycerine to the preparation. Often persons pour out tea who, not being at all aware that the first oup is the weakest, and that the tea grows stronger as you proceed, bestow the poorest cup upon the greatest stranger, and gives the strongest to a very young member of the family, who would be better without any. Where several cups of equal strength are wanted, yon should pour a little into each and then go back, inverting the order as you fill them ao, and the strength will be apportioned properly. Fresh cold water is a powerfnl absoibant of gases. A bowl of water placed under the bed of the siok room and frequently changed is among the valuable aids in purifying the air. The room in which the London aldermen sit is purifyed by open vessels of water placed in different parts of the room. It can be i easily inferred from this that water standing for any length of time in a close room is unfit ; for drinking. Experiments of this kind are i not costly. It has frequently been observed : that restless and troubled sleep has been l corrected by plaoing an open vessel of water near the head of the bed.