HOME HINTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12717, 12 August 1919, Page 7

HOME HINTS.

+ Vinegar and bath-brick ■will clean a burnt enamel saucepan. If you cannot get an edge on a knife with a steel, try a brick with a smooth surface as substitute. . Vinegar, water and a few drops of liquid ammonia will cleanse a slimy sponge. Scatter salt on a carpet when sweeping. _ Not only has it a cleansing effect, but it also keeps away moths.' Liquid ammonia is invaluable for washing silver, softening bath water, and producing a good lather when washing woollens. A homely but quick and effective knife-cleaning method is to tread a bit of soil firm and run the blades up and down in it. IVhen a saucepan smells after cooking fish, onions, or cabbage, burn a bit of brown paper in the fire and tu.rn the saucepan over this. The fumes from the burning paper will cleanse the saucepan in a few seconds. If no suet is at hand, and a little is required for puddings, chop some dripping finely and use; it will answer the purpose just as well. vinegar and salt are excellent for cleaning brass. Allow two tablespoonfuls of salt to half a pint of vmegar. IVhen boiling a pudding in a cloth, put plenty of orange peelings in the water. They collect the grease, and the doth will bo easier to wadi. A very high polish that will not finger-mark can. be given to furniture if—before the polish is put on—it is wiped over with a cloth wrung out of hot water. The best wav to dislodge any grease or clogging of pipes is with kitchen salt. Put a good handful on the trap and let it dissolve slowly and so remove dirt and grease. Allow dirty gold jewellery,to lie in a saucer of paraffin for a minute or two. Shake gently and you will see the dirt , rolling off it. Take out, dry carefully and polish with a chamois leather, i Mildew stains are sometimes difficult jto remove. Tim marks should first he ! well soaped, then sprinkled with dry ! French chalk and placed out in the sun Ito bleach. The process may hare to bo reapeated several times