Domestic Hints

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 10

Domestic Hints

C EWING machine needles can be reJ pointed by machining over about two inches of fine sand-paper, and holding the point for a minute over | a lighted match. i Tar Stains. Tar stains on the hands are easily refnoved by rubbing with a flit tie dripping and then wishing in hot water. Tar on a dog’s foot or edit can also be removed in this way. Cleaning Straw Hats. Straw hats can be cleaned at ftonVe: quite Successfully. b’emdVo the ribbons or Other trimmings and brush | the straw with u clean, stiff nailbrush until all dust is removed. Then with another clean, stiff brush vigorously brush over the hut with thei white of egg. This will thoroughly clean the hat and give it a new stiffness and a little gloss. The sambi treatment will do for light and dark straw hats. Keeping Handkerchiefs White. Handkerchiefs and sftmll white lingerie articles ivill keep their color 1 better if they are soaked after washing in a solution of cream of tartar to the proportion of 1 teaspoonful to a quart of cold wafer. Leave for -4 hours, then dry'and iron them. Cake Tins. Cake tins Should be greased evenly and carefully. If the grease is rubbed' on in luinps with a piece of paper the cake is liable to rise, unevenly. The) best way is to keep a little cup of lard i'oi; the purpose, befit it until liquid fihil uSe with a small brush. Paper used fpr lining cake tins should be pro--piu'ed in the same way. Decoration Tor Cakes. Mfhen there are children to be catered for it will be found, economical to Tjfly fi jppiind or two of desiccated coconut, and obior it at home with a few

drops (rf bright Vegetable coloring. This is simple to do, and the coconut can be stored away ready for decorating cakes and puddings. Children ljke coconut, and it is a cheap way of obtaining a -pretty decoration. A number of sweets can be daintily finkhed off with h touch of green, coconut, in place of pistachio nuta.