HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 336, 31 July 1914, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A cut lemon rubbed on the forehead will cure a severe headache.

Gold embroidery may be cleaned when it tarnishes with a brush dipped in burned and pulverised rock alum.

The best liniment for rheumatism is made by mixing one part of turps and two of olive oil. L is also good for neuralgia. -

When buying apples pick the heaviest;'also test the fruit by seeing if, when pressed with the thumb, it yields with a slight cracking sound.

To remove the mark of a scorch, wet whatever is scorched with cold water and place it in flic sun. When dry, the mark will have disappeared.

Brown boots and shoos should bo rubbed over with a slice of raw potato before tho polish is applied. This cleans and removes the stains quite easily.

Films on starch can be avoided by making starch in the usual way, adding half a teaspoonful of salt, and covering with a thick cloth to prevent steam escaping.

Tho creaking of a door may bo instantly stopped by imbuing tho bingo with a, piece of soap. It does not spoil the look of tho paint as when oil is used.

■ Brown leather travelling-bags, or any other brown leather goods, may be beautifully polished by rubbing them well with the inside of a banana skin, and then polishing with a soft dry cloth.'

Bootlace-tags sometimes come off quite good Laces. In this case they may be replaced with impromptu tags of sealing-wax. Cut the tag, smear it over with sealing-wax, then press it :o a point while the wax is still warm.

To make beautiful salt, take four tablespoonfuls of common salt and one ieaspooni'ul of cornflour; pound together until very smooth, and if. is ready for use. II ho salt cannot cake, and will nob blacken silver salt-cellars.

If a lump of soda dissolved in a little hot water is added to the bluewater on wash day, it will prevent the blue from settling' in the clothes and make them perfectly wlr.te. This is especially useful when the water is very hard.

Tho bars of a grate often have a burned and ugiy appearance, which prevents their taking a good polish. This difficulty is soon overcome. Before applying titg blaeklead, rub 'the bars with a piece of lemon, and they will be quite easy tq polish afterwards.

Very frequently when separating the whites from the yolks of eggs the yolks become broken and falls into the white. Dip a cloth in warm water, wring- it dry, and touch the yolk with a corner of it, and the yolk will adhere to the cloth and may easily be removed.

Jewellery can be successfully cleaned by washing in hot soapsuds to which a few drops of ammonia have been added. Then shake off the water, rinse in alcohol, and drop into a box of jeweller’s sawdust. This method leaves neither mark nor scratches, and gives great brilliance to jewels, gold, and silver.

If the marble of tho washstand is stained try rubbing the marks off with fine table-salt. Another method is to mix lemon juice and whiting to a paste and apply this to the marble, leaving it on for twenty-four hours. Wash off then with clean water. Do not use soap or any gritty powder in cleaning marble.

Copper cooking vessels can be kept in burnished condition if, after each time of use, they are lightly rubbed with half a lemon dipped in silver sand. Tho lemon will last for a long time, but it is not necessary to cut one specially foi; cleaning purposes, as the lemon from which the juice has been squeezed for cooking purposes answers just as well. Failing a lemon, tho best substitute is a linen rug, soaked in vinegar and dipped in silver sand. Cafe must be taken to dry the vessels thoroughly after they have been rinsed, and also to have the insides re-tinned when the original lining is burnt or worn away.

Some houses have such tlim, crumbling walls that it is impossible to put in a nail, for hanging a picture, without its breaking away and leaving a gap in tho wall. To prevent this happening, get a little plaster of Paris. Drivo the nail in the desired position, and when tho piaster of the wall begins to crumble fill in tho hole round the nail with the plaster of Paris. Leave for a few hours, when tl.e plaster will have set as hard as iron, holding the nail in its centre with absolute security. Even a heavy picture may then bo safely hung upon tlic nail, and there is no danger of a collapse. If the plaster of Paris is very noticeable, a fresh little bit of wallpaper, of which you are sure to have some pieces over, may he torn (not cut) to fit tlie gap, and pasted down over it,