HOUSEHOLD HINTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11247, 27 June 1922, Page 5

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

TO REMOVE RUST ON DAMASK. Soak the spot on the cloth in lemon juice and hold them in the full current of steam from a boiling kettle. Renew the lemon iuice from time to time, and continue steamily till the spots have almost disappeared; then wash and boil in the usual w(jy. To clean the laundry tubs, run a little kerosene on them end clean with a cloth dipped first in tho kerosene and then in the newly-powdered hath hrtek. Wipe the tubs thoroughly dry. Then give one coat of a quick-dry-?ns Paint and two coats of enamel paint, leaving the tubs for a couple of day* between each coat to dry. POLISHING JEWEILLERY. A good powder for polishing jewellery can be mado at homo and will cost no* thing. Save all broken gas mantles, rub them to a fine powder, and store in a box. The powder is splendid foy polish* insr brooches, rings, and the like. Ap* ply the powder on a soft ra* and polish with a piece of chamois. DUSTING. Fow tasks are more boring to th% housewife than those of dusting and sweeping. Tradition dies hard as to methods, but the boredom and time-expendi-ture of daily dusting can bo minimised if old ideas and prejudices are. '‘scrapped.** The dusting brush, for one thing, ;s utterly useless, and must go; its only effect is to move dust from one place la another. Use a soft, rather thick duster and wico articles carefully, shaking out the cloth very often at the open window. When there are no fires lit. and the fteoi is always cleuned with a carpet sweepei for the carpet, and a cedar-mop for boards or .linoleum, it is quite unnecessary to dust each article daily- two or thref times a week is often enough for lodges and ornaments, and every minute is a consideration to tho scrvnntlesp woman, who very likely has cooking, sewing, and possibly professional work to do as well Keep your dusters clean —a soiled ore is next to no goo Tl. Dust in gloves, end then another time-waster, the cOAotani washing of hands, is done away with. THE SCULLERY SINK. The ucullery sink can be kept clean by pouring down -regularly a jpillon of boiling water containing a tenapoonful of spirit of ammonia, and dissolving about four ounces of aoda. This will remove all grease and objectionable refuse The grotin r s below rain pip°-s are benefited bv tin's solution if the trap be lifted and all refuse be cleansed from it beforehand. SOAP ECONOMISE. it is- a useful economy to make use of ends of soap. Pieces of yellow soap should be kept by the careful housewife in one jar, while all ends and scraps of toilet soap can be put. in another. The ycUow noap can be used as required in the washing up bow l , in a wire soap saver. The pieces of scented soap can ba collected until the jaz is full. Then the pieces can be shredded and melted in a little hot water at the side of the stove. When the soap is all dissolved remove the saucepan from the fire, till it is cool enough to take the soap in the hands. Then roll the soap into a ball and set it aside to cool and harden, and the result is a largo cake of ooap which is just the thing for tho bathroom. If there is too largp a quantity to make into one ball it can be poured while still hot into '••rensed moulds, using those travelling soap cases that most housewholds possess. AVhpn cold, the soap has set into cukes.