HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17192, 8 November 1923, Page 9

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Powdered bathbrick will remove ■ stains on china. A brine of salt and water is an excellent thing to clean stained decanters. When boiling potatoes add a pinch of salt and sugar. This makes them dry , and floury-looking when cooked. Green vegetables should be boiled fast with a pinch of carbonate of soda, ; and with the lid off the saucepan. Stuff the legs of old stockings with bits of cloth, and.use as pads for floor , polishing. | When enamelling a bath, work with the tin of enamel standing in hot I water. Don’t thin it with turpentine. Suet Hint. If suet be melted in the oven and put into jars, it will keep any 1 length of time. This saves much of j the labour of mincing, as the suet is easier to chop up if treated this way. , Puddings will keep better if made with suet that has been melted in the oven. Washing a Velvet Blouse.- -Make a lather of warm water and soap and j soak the blouse well in it. Rub the 1 lather all over it with the hand flat until every part of it is clean. Then rinse * well in three good warm waters and | do not wring it. but hang it up in a j warm room and allow it to drip until ! dry. To '.‘lean Lineleum.—Beeswax and i turpentine polish for linoleum is hard ! to beat as far as its appearance is con- | cerned, but it causes a slipperiness which may be very dangerous. A polish which has no such objection I made of equal parts of linseed oil and vinegar. The surface beneath mats j and rugs should never be polished. j Stains on Mahogany. -If mahogany ! has been badly stained, rub in a little ; olive oil. taking care to get it well into ! the wood before applying a small drop : of spirits of wine over the exact spot j where the mark is. Do not allow the j spirits of wine, to spread beyond the ' oiled portion. Rub in with a soft clean ! cloth. A good furniture polish should j be used to restore the wood after the mark has been removed. I *