HINTS TO BE REMEMBERED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 91, 17 April 1929, Page 3

HINTS TO BE REMEMBERED

When aluminium fails in life purpose the fault is generally to be found with the cleaning. Washing soda has a reputation for removing stains and grease, but it should never be used on this metal. Soda not only blackens aluminium, but its continual use shortens the life of a saucepan as it discolours the thin film of aluminium. The best way to deal with this metal is to prepare a simple and cheap home rem'edy made from soap whiting, woodash and sand or fine grit. The woodash may be made at home by burning a few pieces of soft wood. Place lib. shredded soap into an iron saucepan with sufficient water to cover it, and melt it over a fire, which should be moderate. Now mix four tablespoons of wood-ash with 11b. of powered whiting and four tablespoons of fine grit, or sand. Remove the saucepan and pour in the powdered mixture. Add another pint of water, replace the saucepan on the fire, bring to the boil, stirring all the lime and crushing the lumps. Boil fast for 5 minutes, pour off into jars and allow to set for 12

hours. Keep the paste well covered in order that it may not go hard. A mixture of sawdust and glue will be found an excellent thing for filling up old nailholcs. Make it into a stiff paste and press into the hole, where it will become as hard as the wood itself. A painter’s brush will make dusting carved furniture a much easier Cayenne pepper or rags soaked in turpentine placed round their haunts will keep mice away. Bathbrick, and soft soap will clean rusty irons.