The Ladies Chain

NZ Truth, Issue 1030, 22 August 1925, Page 18

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

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When turning 1 out a hot pudding, wrap a cold, wet cloth round the basin or mould and the pudding will not break. But if the pudding is a cold one, wrap a hot cloth around the basin.

To clean white feathers, make a nice wad of white wadding/well filled with thoroughly dry plaster r of Paris, and with it rub the feathers briskly, from quill to tip. Keep / on rubbing till perfectly dean. * * . , '# Onions when cut, quickly absorb impurities m the air,- and therefore they act as disinfectants. But — and this should be remembered — the impurities they take up- make them' unfit for food, so a cut onion should be used at once or thrown away. « # >? .Starch cannot be used: to;. stiffen dark materials as it would streak them. Ta.ke instead one ounce of gum arabic and dissolve it m cold water. Then pour a quart of boiling water upon' it, stirring all the time. Use this preparation while it is hot.

To lid cupboards of mice and rats stop the holes up with a cork dipped m carbolic acid and scrub the floor and shelves with diluted carbolic acid. Use one tablespoon to a bucket of hot ■water and be sure the carbolic acid is well mixed with the water, for carbolic acid is a corrosive and care must be taken m handling it. This method has been successful when cayenne has failed. Another way to get rid of mice and rats is, to sprinkle oil of peppermint about their haunts. Mice, have a great antipathy to this smell and It usually keeps them away.

The expressed juice .of garlic, is a, lasting cement for .broken china, k glass, j etc. The "pieces .should be joined as 1 soon as possible after they., are broken so that the join will not be perceptible if the edges are neatly joined. ;*,* * . . " A teaspoonful of glycerine m a wineglass of water should be taken after every meal to cure indigestion. Unless the case is very obstinate perfect relief should be felt after a few days. ..' # ' « # Honey is excellent £or chapped hands. The hands should be washed iii warm, soapy water and then the honey l-übbed m while the hands are still wet. Pat the hands dry after a little while. : Fame may be a bubble, but a lot of people like to blow their own.