Hints and' Suggestions.

Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 60

Hints and' Suggestions.

A basin of water put into the oven with cakes or pastry will keep them from burning. When you have crusts or broken pieces of bread, put them in a tin, brown- in the oven, grate them fine, and put in a closelycovered jar. ~ You will find them invaluable for croquets, sauces, etc. To Clean Steel. — Make a paste of powdered bath brick and sweet oil. Rub the steel well with this till all stains are removed, rub dry with a soft cloth, and polish with chamois leather and dry whiting. To remove grease from zinc baths, pails, etc., saturate a flannel well with paraffin oil and rub briskly, afterwards washing with soda water. It will remove " dirt and grease quickly, making the article look like new. To Remove Mildew. — Lemon juice, mixed with an equal weight 'of salt, powdered starch, and soft soap. Rub on thickly, and lay on the grass in the hot sun,~ renewing the application two or three times a day, until the spot fades and comes out. If a cellar has a damp smell, and connot be thoroughly ventilated, a few trays of charcoal set on the floor, shelves, and Jedges will make the air pure and sweet. If a large basketful of charcoal be placed dn a damp cellar where milk is kept, there will be no danger of the milk becoming tainted. To refit handles to knives and forks, nearly fill the handles with finely -powdered tresin and bath brick in the proportion ot three-parts resin to one of bath brick. •Make the steel that goes into the handle red hot, anu then gradually work it into the> handle. By this means the handles will be as firm as when new. To Renovate -White -Straw Hats. — Dis-. isolve a pennyworth of oxalic acid in tepid: water. " Brush the mixture thoroughly over the straw with a soft brush ; dry ir» the open air (sun, if possible, as it makes the hat- a better colour). A pennyworth: is sufficient to clean one large hat or two sailoi hats. The acid is easily procured at any chemist's..