Household Hints.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 19, 11 March 1913, Page 2

Household Hints.

In a mixture of two ounces of anlfc to a pint of water good eggs will be found to sink, indifferent ones will always float. ; To take out a scorch from a shirt-front, or any other article, lay it where the sunshine will fall on it. -It will leave it clean and white. Canned fruit should be opened an hour or two before it is used. It* becomes richer after the oxygen of, the air has been restored to it. Next time you make a custard, mix it with milk instead of water, and you will find that it will not. become dry, but will keep fresh until it is used up. The seats of cane chairs should be scrubbed with soap and water, and then . soaked with very hot water and dried out of doors, as this will stiffen them.

By immersing an ink-stained handkerchief in milk immediately after it has been stained, and allowing it to soak, the ink will invariably disappear. To keep yolk of egg fresh, if only the white is needed, cover the yolk gently with a little cold water so v as not to break it, and it will keep fresh several days. Never allow silver to stand overnight without washing. If impossible to “do the dishes,” take enough time to wash the silver in warm water, wipe it dry, and put it away carefully. ; If new enamelled saucepans are placed in a pan of warm water and allowed to come to the boil, they will last much longer without cracking or burning than if they are used straight away. Salt-water stains may be removed from black serge by soaking the garment in clean soft water, slightly blued, for ten minutes. Hang on line to dry with hem down. If creased, press well on the inside. All housekeepers know the inconvenience of hot spluttering fat whea, frying eggs, potatoes, and the like. This may be remedied by sifting a bit of flour into the fat before dropping the things into the pan. When making marmalade or jam, cut rounds of tissue paper the size of the jars. Soak each separately in vinegar and lay close over the j top of the preserve. Then cover in the usual way. This will prevent it from going mouldy.

Great care should be taken, when washing coloured stockings, to prevent ’ the dye from running. First i of all prepare a strong lather of i good soap and warm, soft water. 1 Add a pinch of salt to the water, and after washing wring stockings as dry as possible and bang them out to dry. ’ j The bread-pan should be washed out weekly,, dried, and thoroughly aired by keeping the lid a little, way open. Thus the bread will never get a nasty musty taste. To keep it from becoming too ftry place a well-washed potato in the pan. Moisture is given off by the j potato, but not enough to cause mildew.

The best way to clean a carpet to to dust and remove such articles as can be carried from the room. Then wring a flannel mop out of very hot water and "Wipe the carpet with it, wringing out the mop in clean water as often as it becomes soiled. Open windows and doors, or have a fire in the room to dry the carpet. In the last water used put a tahlespoonful. or two of ammonia. Those who have not tried this method may be sceptical about its merits, but a trial will convince the most seeptical.