HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 2

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Paint may be removed fron? windows with hot vinegar.

Oniqns will fry nSbre readily if dipped in milk after slicing. H

,Fpr flushing use boiling strongly-salted; water.

Medicine stains can 6e removed from linen with strong ammonia.

Tooth-brushes should be dried in the open air, and the sun should shine on them.

Vinegar' and honey mixed in equal parts is a great relief for a cough.

A bit of vaseline will remove mildew or stains from any kind of leather.

To keep the sink drainpipe fresh, put a lump ■of kitchen salt over the pipe, and allow it to dissolve slowly.

A little milk added to the water in which old potatoes are boiled will make tnem a good color.

If the edges of the saucepan are well buttered, the contents will not

boil over,

When the contents of a saucepan boil over on the stove, sprinkle a little salt, and there will be no smell.

To prevent grease splashing- on the stove when cooking-, sprinkle a little salt at the bottom of the pan.

When whisking- an egg, be sure the basin and knife are perfectly dry. There will then be no difficulty in getting it to foam up quickly.

Do not throw away odd scraps of tissue paper, They are excellent when rolled into balls for cleaning wallpaper.

When boiling fowls or fish, add to the water in which they are boiled the juice of half a lemon. This will make them beautifully white.

When making horseradish sauce use condensed milk instead of cream,' and when the vinegar has been added the difference will not be noticeable.

Sal-ammoniac will clean a furred kettle. Fill the kettle with cold water, add a little sal-ammoniac to it, and boil. All the fur will dissolve. Well rinse the kettle afterwards. Fruit stains . are quite easily removed from linen if the cloth is held over a basin of hot water made milky with good soap poured through the stain. Cayenne pepper is excellent to rid cupboards of (mice. The floor should be gone over carefully, and each hole stopped up with a piece of rag dipped in water and then in cayenne pepper. When making a pie, the juice from the fruit very often soaks through* the undercrust and spoils the appearance of it. This can be prevented by brushing the under-crust over with the whito

of an egg,

To render house shoes noiseless, cut a piece of dark felt or thick cloth to the shape of the heel of the shoe, rub a little seccotirie on the heel and press the felt to it. This is better than a rubber heel for house wear.

Rubber hot-water bottles should be constantly washed with soap and water to keep them white as when new. If very dirty, a very little crystal soap may be added, but this must be used with great care.

To preserve the shape of a knitted coat before wearing, stitch a length of tape from the top of the sleeve to the bottom of the collar, drawing it tightly along the shoulder strap. This prevents the coat from falling over the shoulders.

After making- up washing- materials, remember to save all the larg-e pieces left from cutting out. When it is necessary to wash the articles, wash the pieces also; they will then be all the same colour. This renders a patch less noticeable.

Picture mounts become dirty, even though they have glass to protect them, but the following will be found a good method for cleaning them. Take the picture out of its frame and rub with breadcrumbs. If well rubbed with bread, it will look much fresher.

To clean flat irons, rub them when hot in a damp rag that has been rubbed over with soap. This is much better than using powders. Before ironing starched things, rub the iron on a soapy cloth, and this will prevent it sticking. Electric and box-irons "nay both be treated in the same way.

A secure way of . fastening- shoe laces is to tie them, and then before one has finished making the second loop, to pass it through the middle circle, and then pull them tight. Vtfrien undoing the laces, al] that has' t<£ be done is simply to Jake both ends and pull them in opposite directions.

To wash brushes and combs, put a teaspoonful of ammonia in a basin of hot water, and dip the brush up and down in it, letting: the comb remain m the. water for a few minutes. Tn this way all the grease will disappear, -and after rinsing in cold water both brushes, and combs will be perfectly . deuu "■•.. ; ... ;,<>:;j •■ 7. -,:,... :■."■■■• .. ;