Things Worth Knowing.

Otago Witness, Volume 15, Issue 1562, 15 October 1881, Page 27

Things Worth Knowing.

The lußtre of morocco leather is restored by varnishing with white of egg. Old wall paper may be very much Improved by simply rubbing it well with a flannel cloth dipped in oatmeal. The best dußter with which to clean carved furniture iB a new paint brush ; you can remove absolutely all the dust with it. An economical housewife will always buy her soap in large quantities, out each bar in square pieces, and otore in a dry place. It lasts better after shrinking. Mix a little carbonate of soda with the water in which flowers are Immersed, and it will preserve them for a fortnight. Common saltpetre is also a very good preservative. The yellow stain made by the oil used on sewing machines oan be removed if, before washing in soapsuds, the spots be rubbed carefully with a bit of oloth wet with ammonia.

Files are said soon to disappear from a room containing the following mixture : — Half a teaspoonf ul of black pepper In powder, one of brown sugar, and one of cream mixed together. Take one ounce of spermaceti, and one ounce of white wax, melt and run into a thin cake on a plate. A piece the size of a shilling added to a quart of "prepared starch gives a beautiful lustre to the clothes, and prevents the iron sticking. When baking cake in a long tin line the sides and ends as well as, the bottom with stiff white paper ; you oan then lift the cake out without breaking it, and can also be perfectly sure to bake it thoroughly in the middle without burning it anywhere else.