HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1199, 22 February 1895, Page 16

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Never enter a aick room in a state of perspiration, as the moment you become cool your pores absorb. • • Do not approach contagious disease with an empty stomach, nor sit between the sick and the fire, because the heat attracts the vapour. Preventatives are preferable to pill or powder. Do not dust, bub wipe. The duster—that peaceful emblem of domestic labour —under certain circumstauces becomes a dangerous weapon to handle. Clean brushes with luke. warm water, and a little ammonia. It is best to clean two brushes at the same time, as they can be rubbed together. Let them dry in the hot sun. I ■• Linoleum should never he wetted if it can possibly be avoided. Either beeswax and turpentine or paraffine forms a good dressing for it. After applying either of these, polish the surfaoeiwell by rubbing with soft cloths. hwisyfi One of the best and -simplest remedies for torpid liver or biliousness is a glass of hot water t with the juice of half a lemon squeezed into it, but no sugar. This is to be taken night and morning.

A good tonic f<>r the skin is made thus : —Two ounces of Eau rie Cologne, one ounce of tincture of camphor, half an ounce of tincture ©f benzoin. A few drops of this should be added to the washing basin when bathing the face, • '.'"• . • • • To remove paint from clothes, if the stains are old and dry, first soften them by lightly rubbing the material with a little olive ojl. The softened mass will then easily yiejjd.tp the action of the other solvents. Then saturate the spot with a solution of equal parts of turpentine and spirits of ammonia, and wash out with soap and water. NVise mothers know how beneficial to infants the mixture of lime water with their food is.; but very few of them know that they can make lime water at home quite well, instead of payinga high price for it. The following is the method: —Slacked lime, half an ounce ; water, two pints. Put the lime into a stoppered bottle with the water, and shake well for two or three minutes. Allow it to stand until the sediment has fallen to the bottom, and then draw off the clear liquid into a wellstoppered green glass bottle for use.