THINGS TO REMEMBER.

Otago Witness, Issue 1427, 29 March 1879, Page 23

THINGS TO REMEMBER.

Salt fish are quickest and best freshened by soaking in some milk. That cool rain water and soda will remove machine grease from washable fabrics. That fish may be scaled much easier by dipping into boiling water about a minute. Eve/y one of these receipts is unfailing. Cut out this .slip and place it in a book for reference. That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth ; also from the hands. That a teaspoonful of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will aid the whiten ing process That fresh meat after beginning to sour, will sweeten if placed out of doois in the cool over night. That fish may as well be scaled if desired before packing down in salt, though in that case do not scald them. That milk which is turned or changed may be sweetened and rendered fit for use again by B lining in a little soda That kerosene will soften -.boots or shoes which have been hardened by water and rendor them as pliable as ever. That boiled starch is much improved by the addition of a little sperm, or a little silt, or both, or a little gum arabic dissolved. That salt will curdle new milk ; hence in preparing milk porridge, gravies, &c, the salt should not be added until the dish ia prepared. That clear boiling water will remove tea stains and many fruit stains. Four the water through the stain and thus prevent its spreading over the fabiio. That kerosene will make tea kettles bright as new. Saturate a woollen rag and tub with it. It will also remove stains from the clean varnished furniture. That beeswax and salt will make your rusty flat irons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and keep it for that purpose When the irons are not, rub them first with, the wax rug, and then scour with a paper or cloth sprinkled with salt. The btsfc remedy for bleeding at the nose, as given by Dr Glesson in one of his lectures, is in the vigorous motion of the jaws, as in the act of mastication. In the case of a ohild a wsd of paper should be placed in its mouth, and the child sb/mld be instructed to chew it hard. It is the motion of the jaws that stops the flow of blood. Dr Erasmus Wilson says : " We all know that there is nothing more painful than a spraia of an ankle ; it will l»y a man up longer thsn the fracture of a bone, and he may recover with a very weakened joint. Accompanying a country medical man in his rounds, ho told me h* had made a great disc j very in the treatment of sprains. 'The way I cure a sprain,' he said, ' is this : I take some lard ; I warm it, and rub it into the sprain half or three-quarters of »n hour. I then take some cotton wool and wrap around the joint and put on a light band»ge. The sprain, which would have taken many months to get well, gets well in a few days — c-rtunly in a few weeks— without any ill effects or afcer consequences ' " Wilson adds: "I tried this treatment and found that it succeeded admirably."