USEFUL HINTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17862, 2 June 1926, Page 11

USEFUL HINTS.

Flies will not settle on windows that have. been cleaned with paraffin. Damp a clean cloth in paraffin, and thoroughly rub each pane; return to the first pane and polish with a clean, dry leather or duster. Economise in coal by wrapping tea leaves, vegetable parings, and orange peel in a sheet of old newspaper, and using them for banking up a fire together with small coal. Ammonia should be used to soften the water in which woollens and knitted garments are washed. Only a little is needed. Beetroots will retain their colour if a small pinch of bicarbonate ot’ soda is added to the water in which they are bbiled. This will not impair the A teaspoonful of vinegar put into the water in which eggs are poached sets the white and helps to keep the eggs a good shape. Patent leather shoes should never be put near a fire, and should always be kept on trees. They benefit from having a little French chalk dusted over them occasionally. It is not generally known that eggs covered with boiling water and allowed to stand for five minutes are more nourishing and more easily digested than eggs placed in boiling water and allowed to boil furiously for three and a half minutes. Window sashes frequently get stiff in damp weather and are difficult to move. Rub a little soap at the sides of the window frame and oil the sashcord rollers to cure this.