HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 11 June 1924, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Rub the forehead with lemon juice; it will relieve a headache. Milk will remove ink stains from clotii if it is applied immediately. Salad oil added to putty prevents it from hardening and cracking. Perspiration stains can be removed from garments by rubbing with ammonia and water. Ahnegar water will remove the shine lrom serge. Use a tablespoonful of vinegar to a tumberful of water. Before driving a nail into the wall, dip it into hot water, and it will not crack the plaster. To whiten collars which have become yellow put a generous tablespoon ful of borax in the copper when the articles arc boiling. Grease spots on leather should be nibbed with a cloth which has been dipped in ammonia. The dullest scissors can be sharpened by snipping gently at the neck of a small glass bottle, as if you were trying to cut it off. Suet should be wrapped in greaseproof paper, put into a Jinen bag, and Kept in a dry cool place. If tfiis is done, it will Keep for twelve months. To make neglected leather straps pliable again, soak them for an hour in warm soapy water. Hang them up to dry, and afterwards polish with brown boot polish.

■Stove Stains.—Grease stains on a stove'; shoulfi be wiped off immediately with newspaper. 1 Before cleaning the stove rub with a cloth dipped in uirpenlino. ■ 'Jo remove oil stains on carpets, dip a rag in- petrol and begin by rubbing round .the -outside edge of the stain. AVork round and round the centre. As soon as one portion of the rag becomes dirty change to a clean part. After taking adhesive plaster off flesh there is a certain amount of plaster left. To remove this, saturate a small piece of rag with kerosene and rub in for a few seconds until every trace of marks has disappeared. To clean an enamelled bath or sink apply coarse salt with a paraffin-soak-ed cloth. Rinse with hot water. To remove smell of paraffin, fill the bath with cold water and leave for an hour or two.

To Polish the Stove —AVhile warm take a piece of flannel dipped into equal quantities of. turpentine and vinegar; Then, apply blucklead. A small block of wood covered with a piece of old carpet is excellent to rub off, and also a very good poisher. To Relieve Bed Sores. —If the skin is broken beat thoroughly white ot egg. and apply to sore. If the skin is unbroken apply methylated spirits. When the white of egg has been applied to- a bed sore, it is a good thing to rub methylated spirit around the outside'* of sore, where skin is unbroken, to harden skin. The white ot egg is’ 'most, comforting. A AVrinklo for Bab;. —Fasten a doorhook to the back of the baby’s high chair, and a screw-eye to the wall. Hock the chair to the wall when not in use at table, and baby will be saved many falls when he climbs into his chair. . ’