HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 3228, 5 June 1924, Page 2

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To remove spots or stains from velvet, moisten a rag with eucalyptus oil and rub the article gently. The stain will gradually disappear. Plunge a beetroot into cold water when vou take it from the saucepan. The skin will then rub off quite easily. . . . . Allow any boiled pudding which has been tied down with a cloth to stand a few minutes before it is uncovered. Plaster bursts and statuettes may be cleaned by dipping them into thick liquid starch. When dry, brush off the starch, which will take the dii >, with it. To clean gold jewellery wash the articles in warm suds made of fine soap and add fifteen or twenty drops of ammonia. Rinse in clear water and dry with a linen cloth. Powdered boras and alum in equal quantities make an excellent insecticide. If sprinkled near their haunts it will destroy beetles ; and no garments which have been freely dusted with it will get motheaten. Rusty flat-irons can be made bright, by standing them in a dish of paraffin for a day or two. Afterwards wipe them with fine emery paper. Finally, polish with powdered bathbrick made hot in the oven. If irons not in use are rubbed over with an oily rag and wrapped up in an old piece of flannel they will not become r-'siy. To sour milk for cooking purposes add a teaspoonful of vinegar to each cupful of milk. Soap should be bought in large quantities and stored, as it lasts double the time if dried and hardened before using. Try cutting the rind of bacon with a pair of scissors instead of with a knife. It is easier and quicker, and there is less waste.