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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12796, 30 September 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)

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A little salt rubbed on earthenware pud-ding-dishes will take away brown spots. To clean decanters crush an eggshell into small pieces, half fill the decanter water,- and shake it well. Paint or Tar in the Hands.—-First rub the spots well with lard or butter,. then wash the hands with soap and hot water. : A lemon cut in half and grease marks on kitchen tables, etc;,", will soon eradicate the stains. . : r:.- • Use a little parafin instead of moisten the whiting for cleaning tinware., The work is then done more easily. Soap and candles improve by keeping,; so buy them in fairly large quantities. • Cut; the soap, eider with a wire or a piece of string, while new, for it hardens with age'. The velvet collars of coats often :become soiled just where they touch the neck, while elsewhere they are quite good. To remedy this take a little parafin on a piece of cloth, and with it rub the soiled part. Pastry should be made as cold and as quickly as possible. Many people roll it on the marble slab in the larder to keep it cool. Always roll it from you each time.

An -umbrella should be allowed to drain with the handle downwards. When it .is not in use always unroll it, or yon will find very soon that-small holes will appear -m-the-creases where-it has been folded. A velvet blouse can be cleaned by , rubbing with a clean rag dipped in carbonate of magnesia. Turn the rag as it gets soiled, and shake the blouse well- occasionally to get rid of the soiled magnesia. Afterwards brush ! with a perfectly clean brush. . Washing Silver.—After using, silver should always be washed in two lots of lint suds'and. carefully dried as soon as taken, from the water with a white clean cloth. Silver that is exposed to the air tarnishes much more quickly than if kept in a drawer or cupboard. Plate baskets should be carefully covered with a c'.ean chamois leather.. Silver that has been allowed to get very discoloured can be cleaned by rubbing with a little prepared chalk, mixed to ..a. paste with sweet oil. To Polish Furniture. —A piece -of fnr-, niture that has stood for years in a place, where it constantly gets strong sunlight often often looks faded and full l of fine lines. To .remedy this, oil the surface with pure boiled linsead oil, rubbing it in -well. It will probably need to be done several" times at intervals of a few days. Afterwards polish with beeswax and turpentine, or with one-third 1 boiled linseed oil and two-thirds turpentine, shaken well to-, gether. -