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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19800, 18 November 1919, Page 9

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— 4y Old boot lops cub into shape and lined make excellent iron-holders, and tho leather keeps the heat from the hand effectually. Mice are said to detest the smell of black pepper, so that a good sprinkling of this about their haunts will often drive them away. . Ink stains that are a, good old ago need careful management. A small quantity of nitre, applied with a camelhair brush will be found efficacious. Six drops of nitre to n teaspoonful of mater is sufficient: apply it until the ink has disappeared. Then rub the place with a damp cloth, and polish with a soft duster. lo clean a felt hat, take some citrate oi magnesia, crush it to a. powder, and add to it the same amount of bicarbonate oi soda. Hub this well into tbo ■stain in the felt, and leave it lor a, day. Then brush it out. AA itti a. little trouble the kitchen sink can be. kept as clean and white as a, piece of china : a, liberal use of a scrubbing brush and hob water is needed. When it becomes black a. little paraffin scrubbed on will remove all stains. When the lire won’t burn and the, oven won’t bake it is a, sign that the chimney is clinked with soot, and full oven boat cannot lie obtained, oven, though the range i.s properly cleaned out. The most convenient way is to use a soot destroyer,'procurable at any stores, which will clean the fine in live minutes, and also extinguish chimney fires. To Frost a, Window.—Hero arc three methods by moans of which a plain glass window can lie "frosted” quite effectively. (1.) Get a, piece of glazier's putty and dab tho glass window all over with tins regularly and carefully. This is an excellent imitation of ground glass and resists the .weather. ‘ (2) Alike some ordinary (lour paste, and daii it on the window very lightlv with (he point of a, paint brush. It rnn-t lift only done inside the window, while (he putty can he used outside. (b) Got a pretty (lowered transparent muslin, and cut it exactly tho size o( your window. Then paste it on and leave it, to drv. This looks very dainty and nice like stained glass.