HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8231, 7 September 1906, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Salt usfld in sweeping carpets will ikeep out moths. Salt and vinegar will remove stains from discoloured teacups. In packing bottles indiarubber ■bands slipped over them will present breakage. It is said that to keep a child's Aair fair it should be washed in ale twice a month fur a beginning, and afterwards ohco a mooth. To restore painted woodwork cleau with soapy warm water and Puller's earth. Wash off with oieau warm water and a leather. The 'iars of a grate often get a red tinge and will not blaoken. Paint them with a little lomun juice, let dry, and blaoklead in the usual way. When the nsbestaa in stoves and fireplaces becomes blackened it may be cleaned by sprinkling it with salt and allowing the gas to burn for a while. / To renovate obina matting shake 'lt to remove dost. Bub over with warm sail; and water and wipe dry with a cloth. This prevents the mats turning yellow. Camphor is very useful to freshen the air of a sick room. Put a piece •on an old sauuer, and on it lay the point ot a redhot poker. The fumes of the camphor will quickly fill the air. A mixture which will remove grease from the fiuesi fabric is made with one quart ot rainwater, two ounoes ot ammonia, one teaspoonful of saltpetre, and one ounce of shaving soap cut fine. To olean white sunshades which • have beoorne suiled sponge well with a lather of neap in which a Jittle pipe clay has been dissolved. This will be found to make them as -clean as when new. In using an orange stiok for the nails it is a good plan to wrap a •bit of cotton-wool about the tip of the Btick, as this retains the water, and the sticlf can be used for iflome time without dipping it in water. Dumplings for Soup:—Take four tablespoonsinl of flour, J£lt) beef suet, a little salt; mix with milk to •a stiff dough; roll into balls about the size of a large marble. These ■are delicious with pea soup. Laundry Glazing Secret:—The articles to be glazed are first Btarohed in cold starch, and then ironed damp. Next a pieoe of flannel is dipped in some Frenoh obalk and , rubbed smoothly on each article, after-which a piece of white curd soap is rubbed over tne chalk. Finally the articles are ironed on the right side only with a moderately hot iron, and when have all the appearance of white porcelain.