HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3584, 21 November 1922, Page 57

HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS.

Plunge beetroot into cold water when you take it from the saucepan. The skin will then rub off quite easily. A few drops of glycerine in the proportion of a teaspoonful to a pound of flour makes a cake light and feathery. Grease the top of your milk saucepan with butter each time you use it and the milk will not boil over. A brass bedstead or* kerb should be cleaned with furniture cream and afterwards polished with a soft duster. Mix a little ammonia with the beeswax and turpentine used for floor polishing. The wax will then dissolve quickly. When the steel fittings of a stove become brown through heat rub them with a rag dipped in vinegar before cleaning in the usual way. Shabby leather bag 3 may be improved in appearance by being rubbed over with the well-beaten white of an egg' and then with a polish of beeswax and turpentine, the final rubbing being given with a soft, clean cloth. Before cleaning copper kettles fill them with boiling water. They will be found to polish more quickly. If when ironing starched things the iron get:, sticky, it is probable because too much starch has been used. This stickiness can be prevented if each time the iron is taken from the fire it is rubbed over quickly with a cloth moistened with paraffin.' Painted walls can be cleaned by letting a kettle of water boil in a tightly closed loom until it creates a moisture all over the walls, then dip a sponge or soft cloth into a pail of hot suds containing a tablespoonful of ammonia, and wash the paint in the usual way. Soak new blankets for some hours in cold water to which two or three handfuls of salt have been added, wring well, then wash in the usual wav.