HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 330, 14 July 1914, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To cut hard-boiled eggs in smooth slioes, dip the knife in water.

Always store soap in a dry place be fere using, if you wish ft to last well.

To relieve neuralgia, apply horseradish to the temples. It is an excellent remedy.

Coarse salt sprinkled on the floor occasionally before, sweeping is said to be a good preventive to moths.

''Fur" comes off the inside of a kettle quite easily if vinegar has been boiled in it for two or three hours.

Equal parts of linseed-oil and limewater make a soothing mixture for burns.

Bhek stockings will always keep a good color if, after washing, they are rinsed through blue-water.

When washing lettuce add a pinch of powdered borax instead of salt. This makes the leaves crisp and firm.

When beating chairs or sofas, cover first with a damp cloth, and the dust will adhere to the cloth, and not rise in the room.

To stop bleeding of a cut apply fine-ly-powdered lice or flour to the wound. If soft soap is to be had, it will ease the pain of a burn at once.

Coffee is a fairly good air-purifier, and a little burnt on hot coals will purify a sick room and abolish bad smells.

When driving a nail through a plaster wall, dip it in hot water first, This will prevent it from breaking away the wall.

Before laying oilcloth, put a layer of sawdust on the floor, and it will give a soft tread to the feet, as well as preserving the oilcloth.

To keep suet in hot weather, put the* suet in a basin and place in the oven till melted. Then pour into jars, and it will keep almost any length of time.

It will be economy to finish "your sheets with the same width hem at each end. By so doing they can be used either side up, and gain much wear.

Charcoal is a capital disinfectant. Keep a dish of it in the larder, and the food kept there will not quickly taint.

Shabby oilcloth can be easily renovated by washing, in warm, soapy water, and when dry applying a good clear varnish.

To keep cut flowers fresh cut the stalks, and stand in vases filled with water to which a pinch of carbonate of soda has been added.

When cooking liver and bacon gei a sour apple, slice it very finely, and add it to the gravy. This will impart a delicious flavour, which is a great improvement,

During hot weather smmll bags of muslin filled with charcoal should be hung in the pantry on either side of the meat. This will keep iu fresh in the hottest weather.

To keep bread-bo;; Is ' a beautiful colour, rub them well with half a lemon; then wash them, in cold water, and stand them in the wind or in the sun to dry.

For cleaning all Idnds of teapots, pot lids, insides of J»ots ntid pans, also enamelled goods, nothing can equal wet emery cloth. It is splendid also for polishing tins or zinc basins.

A cut lemon may be kept fresh for a long time by laying it on a piece of waxed paper, with the cut sido downwards, and folding the paper over it ill such a way as to exclude the air.

When washing colored or patterned materials in which the colors may run, one teaspoonful of bluc-lj'lack ink added to the tub of water will* set the colors once and for all.

To stone cherries quickly hold the cherries with the stalks towards you and push the handle of an ordinary wooden penholder through, the centre. The stones will come out without tearing the fruit.

To soften hard water, into four gallons and a half of water stir one ounce of quicklime. Let it sottlo, and then pour <off the quick solution, which will be enough to add to two barrels of hard water.

"When a long-handled broom is worn out, instead of throwing it away, tie a piece of felt or flannel around the head and make a floor polisher. It will make work much easier, and keep linoleum in good condition. Footmarks can be rubbed off at any time without stooping.

Do not throw away squeezed lemons; use them for cleaning brasses and dish covers. Put a pinch of whiting on the article to be cleaned, and rub it well in, using the lemon as a sponge. Xpu will be surprised to see how much dirt you can remove in a very short time and with little trouble. Brasses cleaned in this way keep longer than when done with ordinary polish.