HOUSEHOLD HINTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4295, 2 March 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

liipo tomatoes will remove ink from i white cloth ; also from the hands, j A tahltsspoonful of turpentine boiled | with while clothe.-- will aid in the whitendug process, ( Boiled starch is much improved by (he addition of a little salt or gum amide dissolved. Beeswax and salt will make rusty Hal irons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a cloth and Keep j it for that purpose. When the irons are hot, ruh them first with a wax j rag, thou scour with a paper sprinkled with salt. By applying crushed resin to a cut j if will stop the blood, heal the wound, j and case the pain immediately.

I To get rid of ants a little camphor (burned in the closet, or elsewhere, and : keeping the door closed, will soon make 1 a clearance. 'When meat is sent from the butcher’s wrapped in paper, this should at once . be removed, for it only absorbs the juice of the meat'. ; If clothes avo soaked overnight, one tea,spoonful of pure ammonia in each tub of water wifi materially lessen the labour of washing. The best way to wash'bedsteads is to thoroughly sponge all parts of the bedstead with hot water in which a little alum has been dissolved. Faded cashmere may have the colour improved by being sponger with equal quantities of ammonia and alcohol added to a little warm water. ■ White felt hats can bo cleaned liy covering them with a paste made cf i white pipeclay, mixed with a little pre- ,. oipitatod chalk and water. Cover the ,bab with the paste let it dry on, then i brush off with a clean, dry brush. Brown shoes n ay bo blackened by ! washing them with soda and water, j When dry, ruh them thoroughly with ! some good, black ink ; when this has j dried, polish in the usual way, with '.blacking or boot polish. Date stones should be planted in | small pots, in some rich soil, mixed with ■ a little sand. Keep them in a warm S-placo and well watered: soon they will j grow into pretty little plants of about j Gin in height. | A squeaking hinge may be reduced to ! working order by rubbing it with the | point of an ordinary black lead pon- ; oil. ' 1 Salt will curdle new milk; hence in jr.enuring milk porridge, gravies, etc, , the salt should not be added natil the j dish is prepared. ! To remove dandruff.—A lake, a mixture . of half a pint of vinegar and half a pint of toilet vinegar. Take a lump <jf quick-

:i!i"the niglu, then strain if, and add to the other, This, rubbed well into the head, is perfectly harmless, and will remove the dandruff.

Clear boiling tinier will remove tea stains and many iia.'f stains. Pour (he water through the stain, and thus pren nT: it spreading over the fabric.