Household Hints.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 17, 4 March 1913, Page 7

Household Hints.

When boiling a cabbage or cauliflower, tie up a crust of bread in a muslin bag! and place it in the saucepan. This will prevent the snull of cooking greens from pervading the house. To prevent brass from tarnishing, clean it in the usual way, and th u rub on a little methylated spirits. Next apply ' some powdered chalk,, rubbing at on with, a dry rag. This preserves the brass and makes it nice and bright.

If you have any difficulty in giving children powders, take a banana and cut it in half lengthways. - SccoV some’ of the fruit out, making a hollow in the middle. \ Put the powder into it, and place together again and give to the child to eat.

To mend a small hole in an umbrella, take a small piece of blacii sticking-plaster, andi soak it inti; quite soft. Place this carefully undei the hole inside aud let it' dry. Thif is better than darning, as it close! the hole neatly without stitches.

If you want your bedroom candles to last half as long again as usual, try the. following plan Take each candle by the wick and give it a good coating of white varnish. Then, put the candles away for a day Or two to harden. The varnish m-events the grease from running down, and sp preserves the life of the candle.

For burns and scalds there is nothing more soothing than the white of an egg, which may be poured over the ’ wound. It is softer as a varnish for a bum than collodion, and, being always at hand, can be applied immediately. It is also more cooling than the "sweet oil and cotton’’ which was formerly supposed to he the best application to allay the smarting pain.

When poison of any kind is brought into the house it is a .good plan to immediately run two common pins through the cork, opposite each other, with the pin points extending about an eighth of an dnch past the heads on each side. The prick of the pins, gives warning by day or night the instant the cork is touched, and proves an efficient safeguard against mishaps.

Sometimes an ordinary water-tap drips and causes much annoyance, No matter how much pressure is put to bear on the tap by the band, it will not turn pi! completely, A good thing to do is to take an ordinary clothes-peg, and place this horizontally upon the top, so that the tap fits into the open part of the peg. Tie the peg securely with a piece of string, and an effective handle will be made which will turn off the water quite easily.