About the House.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1811, 11 July 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

About the House.

Cake and bread covers are not only ornamental, but extremely uaeful. A washing material is best, either edged with lace or frayed out to form a fringe, an overwhipping thread keeping the fringe from further fraying. Apy slight embroidery pattern is suitable, washing. silk or Harris's flax thread being best. Linen is to be recommended because it is light. Those who wish for a more elaborate artiole oan increase the needlework by powdering it all over with floral Bprays. I have just seen one embroidered all over with infinitessimal ladybirds in white flourishing thread effeotive. • Satin stitch is preferrable where a great deal of work ia not an objection. Persons who have had new windows to w&ah will be sure to recollect the trouble caused by the streaks of putty oil and drops of paint. More than half the labor of removing these may be saved by taking a wet cloth, dipping it into ordinary baking soda, and rubbing the pasta thus made thinly over the glass. After this has been suffered to remain abont fifteen minutes, it oan be easily removed by washing in warm, soft water, without soap, bringing oil and stains with it. ■ If the glass is then rubbed dry, and afterwards polished with dry whiting and chamois skin, the most fastidious eye can discover no blemish. Plain black silks may be renovated, in making ovex old dresses, in various wajß. A very simple way is to lay the silk flat on the tabie ; wipe the surface with a woollen cloth to remove the dust ; then boil a pair of old black gloves in a quart of water, let it cool, and with the liquid wash the silk by OBing a soft sponge ; while etill wet turn the silk over, first spreading an ironing cloth underneath, and with a flat-iron as hot as can be used without soorching, iron it on the wrong side. Not all the tonics you oan buy at the hair* dreeeers will do your hair half the good, if it manifests a tendency towards falling out, that a daily bath of strong salt und water will. Salt also cures the toothache sometimes. A little girl who was told to put some in an aching tooth says bo. " 1 just put in a little salt," she said, " and in a few minutes I felt the naughty aohing nerve ourl right down and go to sleep." If you h&ve bat one window for plants and that one of the ordinary size, you cannot accommodate more than six average sized plants without crowding them, and plants should never be mflßßed together in such a way that each one loses its individuality. When the eyesight begins to fail, it is wrong to put off the wearing of glasses. I knew one lady who was troubled with severe headaches ; at la 3& someone suggested that she try wearing glasses. She did so, and her headaches were cured.