HOUSEHOLD HINTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 5

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Wine stains will disappear from linen if:,the stained part is soaked in boiling milk. Soda is good for the sting of a wasp or other insect. Old pieces of velveteen make good polishers for glass and metal. Ink stains may be removed from linen by putting melted tallow on the mark, and then washing the article. The ink and the grease will come out together. Linoleum ■ may ,be effectively brightened if polished with a weak solution of beeswax and turpentine. To restore a black silk dress, sponge with hot coffee strained free from grounds- Iron when not quite dry. The coflee removes grease spots and gives a gloss to the silk. \ ■ Boil eggs; for fifteen minutes if required hard. Milk or cream that is only slightly sour can be sweetened with a little carbonate of magnesia. Iron will keep bright for a long time if polished with emeiy-cloth and then rubbed over with a slightly oily rag. Silver and plated goods, if not in everyday use, should not be exposed to air or to “an atmosphere laden with gas. dean and polish them, wrap each article in soft tissue paper, and roll.up in a strip of green baize before putting away in drawer or cupboard. „ To prevent, sausages bursting dip them in boiling water before frying. When, washing blankets, choose a breezy day. Do not wring the blankets, but when partly dry beat with a stick, and this will make them nice and fluffy. Olive oil is one of the best and simplest cures for indigestion, because it lubricates the machinery of the body. A teaspoonful should be taken three times a day. To give a refreshing scent of violets to handkerchiefs and underclothes, put some orris root into , a muslin hag and drop it into the water in which the articles are boiled. To sweeten meat that is losing its freshness, wash in vinegar and water, and if boiled or steamed, place a tiny piece of charcoal in the pan or wash o piece of coal and put it in with the meat. The carbon in this will put :it right. 1 Meat that is to be served cold should not he cut while hot. In this way the juice is retained, and the meat is moist and Tull of flavour instead of being hard and-, insipid. Coloured Handkerchiefs.—Soak coloured handkerchiefs in tepid water to which a teaspoonful of turpentine has been added for about-twenty minutes, then wash .in the usual way. This method prevents the colour running. To Clean Trays.—Never pour not water on jap&nneJ trays, or their surface will crack and peel off. The right plan is to wash them with a little warm soapy water, dry with a cldth, and polish With a little dry flour. Verdigris on metal can be removed by rubbing it ; with a cloth dipped in liquid ammonia. To clean pewter, wash the articles oughly.; with soap and Water, then brush it over well, especially in the crevices, with - mixed With a little blue. Allow it to dry thoroughly, and then polish with a clean, ary cloth.

Storing Knives.—Oil knives cardfully before storing them, and wrap them in paper. This will keep them fiom rust, but inspect them occasionally in case they need oiling again. To clean pewterfi wash the articles with hot water and fine* silversaud. then , dry, and polish them with * leather ' Salt and vinegar make an .excellent mixture for cleaning water-bottles and wine-decanters. Put a dessertspoonful oi rough salt ,into a decanter, moisten it with, vinegar, and then shake ;.’,e decanter till the stains are removed. • When 9fraining Fruit Juice.—Before straining fruit juice through a .jellybag, dip, the bag into boiling water ana then wring as dry as possible." This vill prevent the fruit juice sinking into the doth. Inkstains can be taken out of linen by rubbing paraffin on the stains, letting it so ils: all night. Then wash in the ordinary way. Afterwards apply soap to the spots and boil for twenty minutes. Milk.—Do.not. store irilk in a jug It keeps mulch better in a shallow milk cowl covered with a net. A second supply of milk must not he rinsed witu that from an earlier .delivery. Sending Flowers by Post.—When sending away’ flowers bv post, pi. k them, overnight and place them in ■ water.’-Next morning cut small holes ,iri a potato, and insert the flowerstems into \hem. Place potato and flowers in a tin or stout cardboard box, ;and carefully' pack with damp moss.