HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 325, 23 June 1914, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To remove finger-marks from doors and painted walls, rub with a flannel dipped in very hot water.-

When washing chamois leather, rinse in slightly soapy water, to prevent it becoming hard and stiff.

To remove the odor of paint, slice a few onions and place them in a pail of water in the centre of the room, and leave it for several hours, or plunge a handful of hay into a pail of water.

If your new shoes bid fair to rub a blister on your heel, put a piece of adhesive plaster over the sensitive spot. In a few days it will be well, and the shoe will have softened in the meantime.

Children should be taught to drink milk in sips, and never to gulp it down in a big draught, as then it often forms large lumps of firm curd in the stomach, which cause pain and indigestion.

Warts are very disfiguring to the hands. They will sometimes yield to the touch of a lump of soda, which must be moistened at one end and rubbed on the wart damp. The soda treatment must be repeated day by day.

. To remove rite label from a jar or bottle is often rather difficult. This method is always successful: Wet the label thoroughly, and then hold it near a fire for a moment. The steam thus generated immediately acts on the paste or gum.

Bad cuts and burns sometimes happen in the kitchen, so it is well to know of handy remedies. To stop the bleeding of a bad cut, apply finely powdered rice or flour to the wound. If soft soap- is to be had, it will ease the pain of a burn at once.

The best way to warm up a joint is to wrap it in thickly greased paper, and keep it covered while in the oven. By having it covered thus the steam vill prevent the meat from becoming hard and dry, and the joint will get hot through in less time.

To clean deeply carved furniture, use a soft sponge, squeeze as dry as possible out of tepid water, to which a little turpentine has been added, and go over the carving. It will take up all dust. Rub dry with a soft cloth, and you will be delighted with the result.

When mixing plaster of Paris for mending cracks in plaster, use vinegar instead of water. It should be of the consistency of putty, and when the cracks are filled with it the top should be smoothed over with a knife. The mixture will not harden for about half an hour.

Perspiration is caused by parts of the fluid of the blood being- • driven out through the pores of the skin when the body is heated. It always contains a certain amount of waste matter, which should always be got rid of by washing or dry rubbing, so that it may not be re-absorbed into the blood

When storing blankets it is an excellent plan to put a few pieces of dry yellow soap amongst the folds. Hie soap keeps away moths. Then if vou shake the blankets from time to time in the sun they will keep in perfect condition when they are required for use.

Water of every kind, except rainwater, will speedily cover the inside of a tea-kettle with an unpleasant crust. This may be easily guarded against by placing a clean oyster-shell in the tea-kettle, which it will always keep in good order by attracting the particles of earth or stone. s

When cream is only slightly sour it may be made delicious to serve with puddings, &c., in the following way: —Put it into a basin with the juice of a lepon and a tablcspoonful of sugar, and whip until quite stiff. This treatment makes it excellent, and increases the quantity at the same time.

To take fresh ink-stains out of carpets, soak up all that is possible with a piece of blotting-paper. Then wash with a sponge and two waters, or milk and water. Change the rinsing water as fast as it becomes dirty, and continue until the stain has almost disappeared. Then apply a paste of cold milk and calcined magnesia, and, when dry, brush with a clean nailbrush.

This is a very simple remedy, and very inexpensive, for indigestion. Mix a teaspoonful of glycerine with a wineglasssful of water, and take it with or directly after each meal, until the enemy is outed, which in an ordinary case will be only a few days, and in a very obstinate case about a fortnight. The same treatment should be repeated if the indigestion manifests itself again.

When eggs are abundant, and they can easily be obtained very fresh, if you put them for two minutes in boiling water, and then in closely shutting boxes, they will keep fresh for months. All the empty space in the box should be filled with ashes or bran. When you want a 'fresh egg in the winter, take it out of the box, and place it in cold water on the fire. Immediately the water begins to boil, the egg is ready to be served. An egg laid the samfe day could not be better-