HOUSEWIFE'S FRIEND: THE VINEGAR BOTTLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 159, 8 July 1939, Page 3

HOUSEWIFE'S FRIEND: THE VINEGAR BOTTLE

j Even those who are blessed with i soft water often have in their possession old jugs, bottles, or vases which j have acquired dry and rough surfaces lowing to the action of chalky water. [£ filled with malt vinegar and left for a couple of hours all marks can ‘hen be removed with a mop. If very obstinate they snould first be scraped , with a piece of wood. I Ink stains can be removed from i carpets and other woollen goods ov pouring on vinegar, allowing it l< soak well in, and then absorbing with clean rags or pieces of blotting paper, which should be changed frequently as the ink comes out. For ink stains that are old the process will have to be repeated at least twice. To restore the glo.->s and colour to marble, besides cleansing it thorougnly, wash with a bucketful of not water into which two tablespoons oi vinegar have been stirred. If there are obstinate stains these should first be rubbed with lemon and s.-Jt and left lor half an hour. Vinegar and water will cleanse a slimy sponge, also a. tablespoon addea ’o the soaking water will keep new coloured articles from running in the first wash. When a rusty screw will not come out, apply a little vinegar, leave it i’oi a few minutes, and then use your screwdriver. If a room —more especially a sickroom —is stuffy, put a few red-hot tin-, decs or coals on a shovel and pour a little vinegar over them. A pleasant and refreshing odour will result. At those times of year when potatoes are apt to turn black in the boii;ing, put a dessertspoon of vinegar in 11he water in which they are to be boiled, and they will stay white.